The Yoga of Patanjali

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