YOGA AS PRACTICE
In dealing with the
third section of the subject, I drew your
attention to the
states of mind, and pointed out to you that,
according to the
Samskrit word vritti, those states of mind
should be regarded as
ways m which the mind exists, or, to use
the philosophical
phrase of the West, they are modes of mind,
modes of mental
existence. These are the states which are to be
inhibited, put an end
to, abolished, reduced into absolute
quiescence. The reason
for this inhibition is the production of a
state which allows the
higher mind to pour itself into the lower.
To put it in another
way: the lower mind, unruffled, waveless,
reflects the higher,
as a waveless lake reflects the stars. You
will remember the
phrase used in the Upanishad, which puts it
less technically and
scientifically, but more beautifully, and
declares that in the
quietude of the mind and the tranquility of
the senses, a man may
behold the majesty of the Self. The method
of producing this
quietude is what we have now to consider.
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