Tag Religion and Spirituality

Directing The Mind, Yoga Sutra 1.12

Explaining that the modifications of the Chithi,Yoga delves further into describing the tool that can make the Modifications extinct and enable the Individual to return to his original Self or His Natural Identity..

The modifications of the Chitha starts from and due to the Mind and its activities.

Can we control The Mind be controlled and make us do our bidding?

Yoga confirms we can.

But it is difficult.

We are aware how difficult it is to reign in the Mind.

The more one tries to control the Mind, more it would become uncontrollable and roam, than it would had we kept quiet.

This is not a disqualification for practicing Yoga nor is this unique to you, of us , the fickle minded.

Arjuna,who mastered the art of Concentration, for he was the one, when asked by his Guru to hit a bird,after felling it , said later, that he could see nothing else but the bird only, found it difficult to control the Mind and confesses to lord Krishna in The Bhagavad Gita.(6.34)

Sleep Stages, ‘Not Absence Of Thoughts’ Yoga Sutra 1.10

Sleep and Dreams, are the two states of which we know precious little.

Sigmund Freud, in his attempt to interpret the Dreams, has set up a system of Psychiatry, blames every one for their actions but themselves.

He had interpreted Dreams only as an expression of Sex and depressed desires.

Jung professed 'Freud conceived the unconscious solely as a repository of repressed emotions and desires. Jung agreed with Freud's model of the unconscious, what Jung called the "personal unconscious", but he also proposed the existence of a second, far deeper form of the unconscious underlying the personal one. This was the collective unconscious, where thearchetypes themselves resided, represented in mythology by a lake or other body of water, and in some cases a jug or other container. Freud had actually mentioned a collective level of psychic functioning but saw it primarily as an appendix to the rest of the psyche'

Then we have many Behavioral Psychologists.

These scholars saw Mind as a Blind seeing An Elephant" seeing a part and interpreting it to suit them.

Patanjali goes to the basics.

Since we do not remember anything in sleep, is Sleep 'Absence of Thoughts?'

He says NO.