🌹PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS🌹
🌀CHAPTER - 5🌀
~Overcoming Obstacles ~
🌀DAY - 38🌀
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" वीतरागविषयं वा चित्तम् "
" Veetaraaga vishayam vaa chittam. "
Keep your mind engaged in the thoughts of the Enlightened. Your mind is like water. Your mind like water because, just as water assumes the shape of its container, your mind becomes like the thought you engage in. It develops all the qualities of whatever you put into it, namely, your thoughts.
So, in the next sutra Patanjali says वीतरागविषयं वा चित्तम् । Veetaraaga is one. If you think of a calm person, then your mind also begins to assume his qualities. It starts feeling that peace and that quietness. This is because mind is like air. It is energy and is all pervading. Air does not have a location. It is not just fixed anywhere. Veetraaga Chitta - Mind is all permeating. So it enters your system because it is also like ether. Your consciousness is ether and is all pervading.
वीतरागविषयं वा चित्तम् । But then you apply raaga and dwesha even here. That is why it is said that a Guru, or an enlightened person doesn't see one who is liberated from and is beyond cravings as a human being; as a person with likes and dislikes. Instead, they are seen as pure consciousness. वीतरागविषयं वा चित्तम् , as peace, as joy. Then, these radiances start. But, even if any thoughts come or likes and dislikes arise, we should not struggle with them, thinking that we should not have such thoughts. We should just let go and relax. वीतरागविषयं वा चित्तम्। It is very simple. When you do this, then immediately you will draw on that energy and will assume that form. You should try this on your own, you should experiment. Just think of somebody who is very nasty and you will begin to feel nasty emotions inside. If you think of somebody who is very jealous of you, then you will feel uncomfortable sensations. If you think of somebody who is into drugs and alcohol and who is very miserable, then you will feel all these knots coming up in your body and in your system. Think of somebody whom you love very much, and you will have nice feelings and sensations arise in you.
So वीतरागविषयं वा चित्तम् - If you think of the enlightened, your consciousness becomes more and more alive and filled with light. That is why Jesus had said that if anybody had to go to His father, he had to go through Him; that there was no other way.
You have to be enlightened through the Master, because the Master is liberated. To be enlightened, you have to pass through your mind; go through your mind. And what can help your mind? The doorway with those vibrations and sensations. And these vibrations and sensations manifest in that body where the chitta is veetaraaga - is blossoming fully or is fully blossomed, without any hindrances. वीतरागविषयं वा चित्तम्
Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji
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