Day 15 21 Days of Yoga Sutras Study
with Yogi Charu
Contemplation on the Light Within or the Mind of a Great Person.
Day 15 Module
Develop Inner Tranquility by Contemplating Your higher Self or the Mind of a Great Person.
Philosophy Exploration
Meditation Practice
Day 15 Summary
Your mind can get free from all the obstacles by concentrating on the supreme, ever blissful light within.
Here Patanjali makes a reference to a point which is made by all the other vedas: That each and every one of us is a divine spiritual being and as spiritual beings, we are glowing, spreading prana, our life force from the heart space. This body is only illuminated because I, the spiritual being, am within it. By concentration on that supreme ever blissful light within which illuminates this body we connect with its true state: Sat-Cit-Ananda or Eternal, Full of Wisdom, Pure Bliss.
Inner peace can come by concentrating on a great soul’s mind, someone who is free from attachments to sense objects.
The yoga culture teaches that association is fundamental to our psychic conditioning. If you meet a lawyer and you ask to see his friends you’ll see many of them are lawyers. When we come to the spiritual journey, Patanjali indicates that if you find someone whose mind is free from the pullings of senses and you meditate on such a person, the realization that such a person has will influence you. Through the association, your mind becomes more peaceful.
In yoga culture, such a person is referred to as a spiritual guru and is free from the pullings of the mind and senses or at least on that journey. The more you meditate on those persons, the more your frequency starts to connect with theirs. Contemplating your spiritual gurus in your mind will help you develop inner tranquility.
We should all be beautiful examples of teachers to our students.
We are all teachers in some respect, whether to kids, friends, our families, or communities. The only way you will be inspiring is if you are not pulled by the senses. The less and less the senses pull you, the more and more you can teach and share. We don’t need to try to be spiritual, we’re already spiritual.We just need to return our consciousness to that self. In doing so, we help each other.
And how do the lower senses lose their pullings?
We must mutate the senses to a higher taste. As you replace the lower tastes with something higher, then you can give up your previous conditionings. When Patanjali says to meditate on someone whose mind is free from the pullings of the senses, it means their senses are attached to a higher frequency. The great teachers have replaced their material desires with spiritual desires and use their senses in moderation and only through compassion and love.
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