Some people attain Yoga Siddi very fast.
It takes a long time for the others.
It might take even more than one Lifetime.
The inclination to practice Yoga due to one’s Vaasanas.
The success depends on one’s tireless efforts and following of the Yama and Niyama strictly.
Yet one would find that even those who follow these rules rigorously do not get results,
On the other hand there are some who seem to attain the State of Yoga relatively easy.
Why?
Patanjali would be explaining this in the next Sutra on the importance of Iswara Pranidhaana, complete surrender to God,(Iswara)
The fundamental of India philosophy is that one is totally responsible for one’s action,.
You can not shift the responsibility to God, hold Him responsible nor can you expect Him to atone your Sins, as it were, as in some other Religions.
In Indian Philosophy , Free Will Vs Determinism is dealt with exhaustively.
While it is true that , being a Part of Brahman, The Reality,our individual Self , is not affected by our actions,we are responsible for our action at the Empirical level when and if we do not perform an Action as a Non Action,if we are driven by only our senses.
Such actions beget results , the remnants of the Impressions or the Vaasanas linger and they condition our development.
As Krishna declares in the 14th Chapter of The Bhagavad Gita, Sathva Guna is the result of previous Vaasanas or Impressions, though,
‘There may be innumerable Forms and beings , living and non living;yet Prakriti, Nature is The Mother and I am The Father , The Seed”
(Bhagavad Gita Chapter 14.4)
This Sathva drives a Man for Yoga Sadhana.
As I have been mentioning on various occasions, Yoga is not an exercise that can be mastered in 30 days or following some lectures;it is life long spiritual practice.
It takes in most cases, more than a Life time.
If one were to die before attaining Yoga in that birth, he is born , in the next birth, in a Family of Devotional disposition which helps him to continue his attempts at Yoga, thus rendering the attainment of Yoga faster in the present Birth.
( for who question the theory of Rebirth, I shall be posting an Article on this)
Their fore,the dispositions must be there, , the continuous practice must be undertaken.
Then Yoga is achieved faster.
The next is a step less than this.
In some cases, every thing mentioned above might have been followed, yet the Siddhi does not materialize.
The reason is that the Yoga has not been practiced correctly and remnants of Impressions linger.
In such cases , the practitioner attains partial success as the Siddhas.
They have no doubt attained Yoga Siddhi, though of a Lower Order.
This the reason why some Yogis are reborn.
Please read my post” Why some Yogis are reborn?
This level is an average level (Madhyam)
The last is the level we belong to’,
We attempt and do not follow it up regularly.
Here the results will be very slow in forthcoming.
mridumadhyadhimatratvat tatopi visheshah
mridu = mild;
madhya = medium;
adhimatratvat = by intense;
totopi = further;
viseshah = differentiation;
The time necessary for success further depends on whether the practice is mild, medium or intense.
They again differ according as the means are mild, medium or supreme.
Yet, again, it is possible to see a distinction between mild, middling and intense zeal, energy and effort, although yoga (which is spontaneous realization of oneness) and effort (which implies duality) are contradiction in terms.
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- Necessity of God In Yoga,Sutra 21 22 23 (ramanan50.wordpress.com)
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