Raja-Yoga

YOGA APHORISMS. 11$
forces are throwing the mind, the lake, into various
waves. Renunciation is the power of battling against
these, and holding the mind in check. Renunciation
of these two motives is what we want. I am passing
through a street, and a man comes and takes my watch.
That is my own experience. I see it myself, and it
immediately throws my Chitta into a wave, taking the
form of anger. Allow not that to come. If you can
not prevent that, you are nothing; if you can, you
have Vairdgyam. Similarly, the experience of the
worldly-minded teaches us that sense enjoyments are
the highest ideal. These are tremendous temptations.
To deny them, and not allow the mind to come into a
wave form with regard to them, is renunciation; to
control the twofold motive powers arising from my
own experience, and from the experience of others,
and thus prevent the Chitta from being governed by
them, is Vairdgyam. These should be controlled by
me, and not I by them. This sort of mental strength
is called renunciation. This Vairdgyam is the only
way to freedom.
16. That extreme non-attachment, giving up even
the qualities, shows (the real nature of)
Purusa.
the
It is the highest manifestation of power when it
takes away even our attraction towards the qualities.
We have first to understand what the PuruSa, the Self,
is,
and what are the qualities. According to Yoga
philosophy the whole of nature consists of three quail-