Yoga s

56 YOGA SŪTRAS
15. Note well, that the lack of interest in one’s own ideas and
emotions is achieved only by one who has mastery over
his psychological nature. Such a person would not crave
things mundane which are perceived by his own senses or
which is heard of by his own ears.
16. Please realize that the required lack of interest is exhibited
when one attains a resistance to urges which usually
compel one to fulfill mundane desires. That lack of interest
results in the development of a thorough awareness of the
spiritual self.
17. At first, after you develop that lack of interest, you will
notice that your attention becomes linked to higher
psychological states, but there will still be some analysis,
reflection, inner joy and focus on self-consciousness.
18. Periodically and with good luck, you will experience the
transcendence in which the memory of things mundane
seems not to exist at all.
19. That will give you a glimpse of the status of the released
souls, who are diffused into the subtle material nature
requiring no gross existence and those divine beings who
exist without a subtle or super subtle material body. Their
mind and emotion does not comprise of subtle energies of
material nature.
20. Since you have neither the diffused status nor the divine
one, and since you still have a fixation with the memory of
things mundane, your success in cultivating the required
lack of interest hinges on confidence in what Sri Patanjali
recommends. You would be required to have stamina. You
should train yourself to retain any transcendental
experiences, even the slightest. You should study this text
so as to recognize the characteristics of samadhi which is
continuous and spontaneous contact between your
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attention and someone or some energy which is beyond
your normal range of perception. By this, a profound
insight will develop in your psyche.
Know with certainty that those of you who practice
forcefully in a very intense way, will be masterful yogis in
the near future.
22. But not everyone can apply themselves with intensity. One
person might be mediocre. Another might practice
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infrequently.
There is a special method to be mentioned. That is the
profound religious meditation upon the Supreme Lord.