Raja-Yoga

156 RAjA YOsA.
10. They, to-be rejected - by - opposite - modifications,
are fine.
How are these fine Samskdras to be controlled ? We
have to begin with the big waves, and come down and
down. For instance, when a big wave of anger has
come into the mind, how are we to control that ?
Just by raising a big opposing wave. Think of love.
Sometimes a mother is
very angry with her husband,
and while in that state the baby comes in, and she
kisses the baby; the old wave dies out, and a new
wave arises, love for the child. That suppresses the
other one. Love is opposite to anger. So we find
that by raising the opposite waves we can conquer
those which we want to reject. Then,
if we can raise
in our fine nature these fine opposing waves, they will
check the fine workings of anger beneath the conscious
surface. We have seen now that all these instinctive
actions first began as conscious actions, and became
finer and finer. So, if good waves in the conscious
Chitta be constantly raised, they will go down, become
subtle, and oppose the Samskdra forms of evil thoughts.
11. By meditation, their modifications are to be
rejected.
Meditation is one of the great means of controlling
the rising of these big waves. By meditation you can
make the mind subdue these waves, and, if you go on
practising meditation for days, and months, and years,
until it has become a habit, until it will come in spite