Day 2
Your mind has been engaged and caught up in the outside world all the time. Your eyes have been open and you have been caught up in all that you have been seeing. Similarly, you have been caught up in all that you smell, hear, touch, taste, etc.
And when you are awake, you are constantly engaged in the activities of the senses. Otherwise, you go back to sleep and dream. Then, you are completely shut off. During sleep and dream, the same memories come but you are never calm and quiet.
When you unite all the loose ends of your existence, you become the object of your perception. When simple people or children watch a movie, they become totally involved in it. At that time nothing else exist - just the movie.
If you have a backache or a pain in your legs or back, it'll seem more intense if you are idle. But when you are engaged in watching a movie then you don't feel the pain or anything else.
You don't feel your body at all. You are not even aware that you are sitting. That's the deep interest the movie has aroused in you. Your consciousness has assumed the form of that movie, of that Vritti.
Once, the people were watching a movie in village. They saw that the hero was being tortured by the villain. The audience actually rushed towards the screen with sticks and stones, saying that they would hit the villain.
A great reformist of India was watching a drama, and the villain acted very well. This gentleman actually threw his shoe at him because he was so mad at him. He asked the villain how he could be so bad. The actor took it all as a compliment.
He said that his acting was so good and he could captivate him so much with it that he actually threw his shoe at him. Our consciousness assumes the form. The whole purpose of Yoga is to be unto one Self - to bring integrity in you and to make you whole.
You may be looking at me. Then, become aware of eyes which are looking at me. And become aware of the mind that is lookin at me through those eyes. Now for a moment close your eyes. Just squeeze them.
Feel your eyes and take your attention from the eyes to the mind that is all over your head. now, become aware of your whole body, your heart, and the very core of your existence - the "I" that is you. Rest and relax there, right there.
Then, you are not interested in seeing anything, smelling anything, hearing anything, or tasting anything, or feeling, or touching anything. Retrieve your mind from all five senses to the core of your heart or your existence. Abiding there in the form of seer is Yoga.
Abiding in that form in the nature of seer is Yoga. You are abiding in that form and the nature of seer, knowingly or unknowingly, whenever you experience joy, ecstasy, bliss, or happiness in life.
Otherwise, at other times , you are involved in and attached to the different activities of your mind.
Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji
PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS
