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84 Lessons on The Yoga of Patanjaliis your question itself. The attitude of questioning keeps youdifferent from what you do, and hence the delay.The application of Yoga discipline is done passively bysome and intensely by some people. Yoga practice is activewith some people and passive with some people. In every walkof life, you will find these types of men. If you go to a collegeand observe the students, some are passive to education andsome are active in receiving it. Those who are passive toeducation, will be active in the other things. In this busy worldof occupation some are passive to their opportunities while theothers are active. Some people respond to the minimum numberof opportunities to success and they are contented. Some arevery active to catch every opportunity and they are highlysuccessful, occupying the higher positions. There is a third groupof humanity, which believes that they are active but in fact theyare crazy and restless about their opportunities. They are busyand not active. They fail miserably. In the world of occupationsyou will find these three types of people, passive, active andthe busy or crazy or neurotic. The really active ones can achievemuch and they receive the reward in the shape of money orhappiness.In the Yoga application also there are people who arepassive while some others are active. If you choose the activemethod, the duration will be short. It means you should applyyour energy with great intensity (not tension or pressure). Thenthe duration of the training will be shortened. Even then youcan have a uniform rate of increase in the effort. Intense activitydoes not mean a jerk or a shock. See, how the electric traindiffers from the steam-engine train. The electric train gains speedin no time, but the rate of increase in speed is uniform. Theresult is you do not get a jerk when the train gains speed. Yetthe speed is always greater than the steam-engine. The steamenginestarts by virtue of the pressure of the piston and hence
Lesson - 5 85there is the jerk or the jolt. Even then the resultant speed andthe duration are always low when compared. When you havegood shock-absorbers in the train, you do not feel any shockat all. The train takes instant speed but you may not be knowingit. Yoga practice requires such a speed, with uniform rate ofincrease (let the rate of increase be of any magnitude) and it isnecessary that you should have shock-absorbers in your progress.Shocks are due to our emotional nature and not due tothe presence or absence of progress. Shock-absorbers meanthe absorbers of your emotional nature. When the speed is notuniform, then there are shocks. When the speed is uniform,there are no shocks. See how the jet plane, after its takeoff,when it settles in the skies appears still, without any movement.You can demonstrate Sirshasana safely when the jet plane isgoing. Does that mean the plane has no speed? In a railwaytrain or in a bus you cannot do Sirshasana. Does that meanthat they are going at a higher speed than the jet plane? Certainlynot. It is the uniformity of the speed and the presence of idealshock-absorbers that makes you feel the plane stable. Rememberthat stability and poise are dynamic but not static.Our earth under our feet gives the best sense of securitysince it is stable to us. Is it a fact? Is the earth stable? It ismoving with a greater speed than the jet plane and at the sametime it is rotating on its own axis. Now there are two differentmovements to this earth. There is the third one, the annual tilt tothe south and the north. Now there are three movements to theearth. Then there is the fourth one which you call the precessionof the of the Equinoxes. Then there is the fifth one, the noddingof the north pole just as you nod your head when you are sleepy.It is called nutation. Of course, the earth is not sleeping since itis in continuous Yogic awareness of the Solar system.Seers say that there are seven simultaneous movementsto this earth. Yet the rate of movement is always uniform and
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