Raja-Yoga

RAJA YOGA.
not perfectly, because if
they were, there would be no
modifications. If there is a modification which impels
the rnind to rush out through the senses, and the Yogi
tries to control that it, very control itself will be a
modification. One wave will be checked by another
wave, so it will not be real Samddhi, when all the waves
have subsided, as control itself will be a wave. Yet
this lower Samddhi is
very much nearer to the higher
Samddhi than when the mind comes bubbling out.
10. Its flow becomes steady by habit.
The flow of this continuous control of the mind be
comes steady when practised day after day and the
mind obtains the faculty of constant concentration.
11. Taking in all sorts of objects, and concentrating
upon one object, these two powers being de
stroyed and manifested respectively, the Chitta
gets the modification called Samadhi.
The mind is
taking up various objects, running into
all sorts of things and then there is a higher state of
the mind, when it takes up one object and excludes
all others. Samddhi is the result of that.
12. The one-pointedness of the Chitta is when it grasps
in one, the past and present.
How are we to know that the mind has become con
centrated ? Because time will vanish. The more
time vanishes the more concentrated we are. In com-