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The Process of Yoga: 5.7. - Swami Krishnananda.

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=================================================================================================== Friday 21, February 2025, 11:45. Yoga and Meditation The Process of Yoga: Swami Krishnananda Chapter 5: The Stages of Practice - 7. ================================================================================ Why are we afraid of detachment and vairagya? We fear them because we think that we lose all centres of pleasure. “If I became a virakta, if I do not enjoy pleasures, I am going to be the loser.” But you are not going to be a loser in the same way, again to give an analogy, as when you wake up into the consciousness of the world from a dream enjoyment of an emperorship, you are not a loser. Suppose you are a king in dream. You have mastery over a vast kingdom, and you wake up suddenly from your dream; do you think you are a loser? “Oh, I was a king. Why did I wake up to this small Mr. so-and-so? This small Mr. so-and-so in the waking state is a better condition than my kingship ...
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The Process of Yoga: 5.6. - Swami Krishnananda.

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  ================================================================================ Friday 07, February 2025, 05:30. Yoga and Meditation The Process of Yoga: Swami Krishnananda Chapter 5: The Stages of Practice - 6. ================================================================================ Various other emotions of your mind can be counteracted by a pratipaksha bhavana of a corresponding type. This is the method of substitution in psychoanalysis. We substitute one thing for another thing. If a child asks for a knife to play with, you give it a beautiful toy instead, and so on. The method of substitution, of replacing one emotion with another emotion, the vicious one with the virtuous one, the lower with the higher, is pratipaksha bhavana, a very effective method which is prescribed by Patanjali in his Yoga Sutras. The other method which you can adopt is to think of the consequences of the control of the senses. What result will follow by control of the senses? If you control t...
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The Process of Yoga: 5.5. - Swami Krishnananda.

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Swami Krishnananda ================================================================================ Wednesday 29, January 2025, 05:30. Yoga and Meditation The Process of Yoga: Swami Krishnananda Chapter 5: The Stages of Practice - 5. ================================================================================ There are certain disciplines which are obligatory, and you cannot escape them. So it is essential to be in a holy atmosphere at least for some period of your life – in a temple or it may be an ashram of monks or sadhaks where these disciplines are natural and spontaneous. And as I mentioned, the subtler aspects have to be made an object of your observation, and you should try to dissociate yourself from even contemplation of objects. While you are physically detached from the objects of your pleasure, you should not simultaneously be thinking of them. Karmendriyani samyama ya aste manasa smaran,  indriyarthan vimudhatma mithyacarah sa ucyate (Gita 3.6).  Failure is t...
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