Meditation styles and Yoga practice

Guru Patanjali Preaching in Sadhana Yoga

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Part 7
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Pleasure feeling is succeeded by affection and emotional attachment.

Pleasure experiences ignite desire for affection and close connection to attachments. Affection and love dwells upon pleasure, enjoyment, delight and sweetness in things and living beings of matter world. When a living being or thing or any subject experience is wrongly evaluated as a pleasure, enjoyment and delight, it means that the evaluator has attachment or affection for that object or subject of experience. It is because of a person’s mental coloring that objects or subjects or experiences look attractive and eye-catching. There is deep connection of enjoyment, pleasure, and delight with attachment, affection and longing for it with greed and with desire. Attachment and affection to pleasure giving things and living beings falls within the realm of lack of spiritual knowledge and false thoughts.

Attachment and affection is the cause of distress provoking memory. The memory and thought of already enjoyed sensate pleasures create a desire and craving for their repeated enjoyment. The thoughts of already enjoyed sensate pleasures also refresh there gone by memories. Greediness/lust for pleasure leads to craze for affection and attachment. Affection and pleasure are closely related and attainment of one brings the others. The cause of lust and craze for affection and attachment to pleasure is self-ego. It is also lack of spiritual knowledge. It is on account of lust and craze for pleasure that the thoughts of unconscious mind keep on revolving around and is affected and attached to issues pertaining to wealth, offspring’s and power positions and worldly honors. These thoughts keep on regarding these issues as sources of pleasures, thereby deluding the unconscious mind for affection and attachment to the related subjects or objects.

Really the thought of affection and attachment does not carry within it any pleasure, enjoyment, and happiness, delight that is permanent. On the contrary, it produces pain, unease or sorrow at the end. Affection or attachment is a kind of would be apprehensive trouble for pain , unease and sorrows. It is on account of the vibrations of a person’s pious past lingering subliminal karma impressions that attachment and lust come into human being. The result is that the unconscious mind does not get contented even amidst worldly pleasures enjoyment, happiness, and delight. Rather it becomes the more discontented by cultivating longings and cravings for greater pleasures, enjoyment, and happiness, delight.

This is the distress produced by pleasure feeling by harboring attachments and affections in the unconscious mind. It is only on the elimination of self-ego and on the attainment of spiritual knowledge about lack of spiritual knowledge that the pure conscious mind becomes static in its form of a spectator and mere witnessing. It is the unconscious mind, which considers the enjoyment of worldly pleasures according to the lingering past subliminal impressions karma as pleasures. However conscious mind regards the pleasures as meaningless. Conscious mind gets contented in the enjoyment of these available pleasures and have no affection and attachment for any worldly things and human beings.

A sage, who renounces the pleasure, enjoyment, happiness, delight giving thoughts from amongst the enjoyment of sensate pleasure of karma and also renounces the craving for worldly pleasures, enjoyment, happiness, delight, is called a great renounced or an ascetic. By renouncing the pleasure, enjoyment, happiness, delight, producing thoughts, the pain, unease and sorrow provoking thoughts automatically get renounced. Really by renouncing attachment and affection, liking and affection of material world, both pleasure and pain automatically get renounced. And retaining affection and attachments to worldly things and living being, suffering, unease and sorrow fruits cannot be escaped.

Yoga Tip: - Select any one spiritual form & remain above any blind worship or superstition attached to it. Meditate on it with devotion regularly and consciously. Here is offered spiritual image of Rahubali [ also called Bahubali] . Dating from 981 CE, this gigantic image (57 ft. tall, located in Mysore, India) is the largest freestanding statue in the world, and commemorates the Jain saint who first achieved spiritual liberation. The colossus stands nude and in the heavenly pose, a yogic position where the body is under complete control needing no sustenance nor performing any bodily functions. It symbolizes complete detachment from the world. It expresses perfectly the concept of successful withdrawal from a world of desire and suffering, weakness and worry, and from the inevitability of birth and death. His serene smile radiates the successful achievement of total peace through the conquest of the inner turmoil. Janis believes that all of nature, including stones, is vividly alive, and so practice non-injury toward all life forms. This Rahubali [ also called Bahubali] is a Green Man deity totally absorbed in oneness with subtlest nature essence, his own sacred sexuality intertwined with sprouting vegetation as he radiates a message of peace and calm, serenity and tranquility. Every 12 years his spiritual sculpture is inundated with 1,008 pots of milk and curds that is a symbolic bath of sperm and emphasizing Bahubali's potency in promoting spiritual bliss and tranquility.