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86 Lessons on The Yoga of Patanjalithe resultant speed of all these movements is always uniformwith a high degree of unimaginable artistic perfection. The L.C. M. of all these speeds cannot be understood by any tinycreature that takes its abode on this earth, however, advancedhis brain is in the astronomical sciences. Poor creature, he is apart of the whole. How can a part understand the whole? Hencethe earth is stable to our ignorant mind. Ignorance is bestowedupon us by the earth only to give us the sense of security withoutwhich we cannot hope to live to marry, enjoy and beget children.When an aeroplane is crashing can you enjoy your lunch in theplane? The earth is the biggest and the most efficient jet planethat can be imagined ever and hence it takes every care to giveus the ignorance that causes the sense of security to make lifeenjoyable. Just as the speed of the plane is not only greaterthan the speed of the train, but also of a better manifestation,the speed of the earth is a still better manifestation. The intensityof effort that is to be applied by a Yogic student should be notonly greater than the speed of the crazy neurotic mind but alsoof an ideally better type. The difference is that the crazy fellowsuffers from his speed, while the Yogic student does not feel thespeed at all. He finds stability and fixation in his speed and doesthings with much greater speed than the crazy citizen just as thepassenger in the jet plane reaches Brussels much earlier thanthe passenger in the train. Consequently the train passenger feelsthe fatigue of his speed, while the jet-plane passenger feels thathe has not travelled at all.While starting the Yoga practice, take care you do notspeed up things immediately because you are obliged to stopsomewhere by you social, vocational or domestic encumbrancesif you do so. Don’t apply vacuum breaks to your day to dayrelationships with others. We see people retiring into retreats,stay in their rooms lonely, all the time chanting the name of theLord Saviour or His Mother, the Virgin. What happens? Theirbeards grow in the name of the Lord and after a time they feel
Lesson - 5 87like knowing once again how the Kingdom of God goes. Youwill find the pious beard finely shaved and the pilgrim is onceagain found on the busy streets of Geneva. At every step curiosityspoils the whole game. Curiosity gives the unnecessary andnon uniform speed to the mind. When the speed is not uniformthere will be many accelerations and retardations. Rugged isthe path and shockful is the journey. You will receive too manybumps before you see the platform of Geneva. This is whatPatanjali warns. He defines intensity as the uniform rate of increase.If you mind your work and proceed accordingly you will gainsuch a speed. “Slow and sure wins the race” is the advice ofthe tortoise. If there is no curiosity then the progress is uniformand uninterrupted. Do not imagine how the Kundalini beginsto unwind and make a hiss. Let it do, you are not concerned.Do not imagine how the three-petalled flower of Muladharaopens and how the trunk of the Elephant-God Ganesha roars.Do what Patanjali advises and be sure that everything isaccomplished.Then again there are three different modes of applyingthe Yogic awareness. 1) The soft application. 2) The Sharpapplication. 3) The Moderate type of application. This is anaspect which is quite different from the previous one. Whenthe Yogic-consciousness is felt without any motive, then theapplication is either soft or moderate. When you are not muchmindful of the progress it is soft. If you are ardent and dissatisfiedby nature then the type of application is sharp. When you areardent in the beginning you will begin to speak of Yoga onlywith any fellow that comes across on the street. Then you willbe ridiculed as a buffoon, within a short period you will knowthe effects of the modality of your application. You will feel theinconvenience of the ridicule. This is not what is meant by anintense application. The attitude should be in tact with theawareness described previously. When you are in tact of theawareness continuously, then the twenty four hours of your
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