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94 Lessons on The Yoga of Patanjaliwithin the circumference of his purview. Someone says “My daysare bad”. The same Sun rises in the same East and sets in selfsamewest. So there are only days to us, neither good nor bad.We make them bad or good by staining them with our ownimpressions. Same thing is true with obstacles. With the sameobstacles someone achieves success, while the other standsaghast. With the same 52 cards one plays a nice game of Bridge,while the other one gets defeated by not being able to gulf theBridge. He does not know that he can bridge the gulf. When youbegin to live with the Lord in you, you will know that there are noobstacles except the undesirable traits of your not-self. Patanjalilists out the obstacles that stand on the way of the Yoga-student.Unless one knows them he does not know that they are notobstacles. So Patanjali lists them out and suggests a way tosurmount them.The first item is “disease”. Indeed we have a niceexplanation to avoid that day’s Yoga routine. “I am not doingwell and I stopped Yoga practice. I had to stop it”. The secondobstacle is the idea to “discontinue”. “We have tried Yogafor about an year. Let us try the Rosicrucian Training for oneyear. Then let us try Freemasonry. Now there is Hatayoga.After that let us see what we get from the Ramakrishna Mission.After that let us meditate upon Sri Aurobindo. We tried Aurobindo(Poor fellow) for one year and let us try with the Christ, Himself”.Now the Christ is unfortunate. Trying to meditate upon everyfellow of a Master and leaving him to try a better one. Seehow crazy ones we are, yet we are not ashamed of calling this,spiritualism. After trying with many Masters, sometimes whenGod is not lucky we stop thinking of Him. Such an importantfellow as myself stopped thinking of God means that God isreally having His bad days. This is the second obstacle.The third one is “doubt”. After three or four years ofYoga practice, one begins to think “Is all this true, or is it the
Lesson - 5 95outcome of the brain of a mad man? What happen to us ifPatanjali might have scribbled something crazy out of his brain?Can’t it be true that Christ, Himself, was insane or hysteric, inallowing Himself to crucified?” So this is another real obstacle.These obstacles prove vacuum breaks because they can makeyou stop.The fourth obstacle is “mistake”. We do horrible thingsin the name of Yoga and sometimes we commit self-torture inthe name of purging. We conduct holy fastings and threatenGod by not taking even a drop of water during the fast. Someone stands on his head for two hours to find out that Kundalinislides down the backbone due to anti-gravitational pull. A thirdone practises placing his right ankle on his shoulders and standingon the left leg for three hours. You will find many such strangeones when you visit pligrim centres of India. Of course, nowadayswe find them in the west also since man has every incentive topurify himself. We commit many such mistakes and damagethe machine beyond repair. Afterwards if someone shows usthe real path it is too late, the machine cannot serve us to reachperfection. This is the greatest of all the obstacles because ittakes the vehicle away. We are left with ourselves before wecan find the Lord in us. So we are left alone in old age.The next obstacle enumerated by Patanjali is what weknow as “lethargy”. In childhood we see people doing Yoga.At sixteen we feel like doing it. Yes! let us do it after finishingour studies and settling somewhere. Then we are busy withour job. This job-hunting business does not permit us to doYoga. So we wait. So we march on like this postponing Yogawhile we advance straight to the grave. Even after we start wemay think “Can’t we do it from tomorrow?” This is the obstaclewhich Patanjali calls -“Alasya”.The next one is to believe that we are too busy. “See,my time is not permitting me to do Yoga. I am trying to do it but
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