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64 YOGA SŪTRAS
Non-violence: The avoidance of physical violence towards other
life forms, the avoidance of psychological violence towards other
spiritual entities, the practice of a calm, detached mood as
professed by Sri Krishna in the Bhagavad-gita, if one is duty
bound to discipline or apply violence to anyone.
Realism: The practice of studying the situations carefully before
acting or reacting to them. The practice of assessing the defects
of one’s intellect to gage its reliability in perceiving truth.
Relieving oneself of the need for a favorable or palatable truth.
Non-stealing: Curing oneself of the natural urge to steal by
carefully observing and monitoring the psychological mechanisms
of stealing which is innate to nature.
Sexual non-expressiveness which results in the perception of
spirituality (brahman): Becoming detached from expressive
sexuality and from normal exhibitions and demonstrations of
sexuality either as a male or female. Investing the energy usually
used in sexuality for the perception of spirituality.
Non-possessiveness: Carefully studying the sense of
possession. Suppressing it effectively while studying methods of
its eradication and spiritually supportive uses.
31. Even though one may be pressured to adjust the moral
restraints, one should strive to side-step those causes and
justifications for deviation. The pressures come on from
the status, the location, the time and the condition. Since
the moral restraints are applicable in all stages of yoga,
they are the great commitment for all yogis.
32. The recommended behaviors are as follows:
Purification: Psychic cleansing which is achieved by mastery of
kundalini yoga for purifying the subtle body and its energies.
Contentment: This is the practice of detachment from desire for
the mundane life. It means to find an effective way of changing
one’s nature to eradicate the desire for mundane experiences.
Austerity: This means to practice kriya yoga under the guidance
of a more advanced yogi. These austerities should suppress
unwanted desires to the point of eliminating them. Such desires
are those which cause extroversion and which discourage the
quest for liberation.
Profound meditation on the Supreme Lord: One can meditate
on the Person God, if one has a functional relationship with Him.
Over all, this is impractical for most practitioners since they either
have an imaginary relationship with their preferred deity or a very
meager connection. To be realistic one has to develop a
relationship with a person who is more advanced on this spiritual
path laid out by Sri Patañjali.