The Process of Yoga: 5.6. - Swami Krishnananda.
================================================================================ 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...