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Mind and Thoughts

Yoga is controlling of thoughts arising pain. This way there are ten types of
in the mind. When thoughts are controlled thoughts.Patanjali in his Yogasutra
or prevented through practice, the seer further describes - each of these ten
or practitioner(yogi) rests in his true types of thoughts may further be divided
self or soul(atman). Either you remain in into five types based on proof(pramana),
true self or control thoughts, the other opposite(viparyay), alternative(vikalpa),
will result automatically. In true self sleep(nidra) or memory(smriti)(I.6). So
one shall not see or hear anything. in all there are fifty types of
Bcause there is none other than the self. thoughts.Thoughts based on proof are
When there is anything other than the percieved directly through senses or
self, one shall see or hear something. through mind. Senses perceive the outside
When everything has merged in the pure worldly objects and mind realises the
consciousness of the true self, when true self. So there should not be doubt
there is none other than the self, what regarding there presence. Existence of
is to see or hear?Everybody has this sun or moon is a proven thought. If a
experience in deep sleep. In the waking blind believes that sun or moon does not
and dreaming states everybody sees or exist, he is in opposite thought or
hear something. But when one enters into opinion. If a man believes that he has no
deep sleep nothing is seen or heard of. self or soul or soul is inferior to
This is because the mind and senses are someone called God, he is in opposite
immersed in the pure consciousness of an thought or dualism. The Upanishads
individual. With the mind and senses all declare that soul is Brahman, the
objects, all worlds, all desires are ultimate Reality. When people cannot
immersed in pure consciousness. For this perceive a thing directly and remain in
one feels the bliss after a sound sleep. opposite thoughts, they depend upon
This bliss is very less in comparision to alternative or imaginary thoughts. People
the bliss one may feel by resting in true cannot perceive God direcly and for that
self consciously or knowingly.A they make statues of Gods and Goddesses
practitioner(yogi) does not always remain and compose mythology and believe in
in true self. In the other state or when them. Thoughts categorised as sleep lack
he is not in a yogic state, he remains in all kinds of sound knowledge or
his thoughts(I.4). As a being navigates consciousness. People remain in perpetual
between waking, dreaming and deep sleep darkness of ignorance. Mindless and
states, so a Yogi either remains in true irrational social and religious practices
self or remains in thoughts and actions. are nothing but ignorance. Such ignorance
In that state self, mind and thought is stored up in the mind as memory. It
become one. For this a yogi achieves hides the truth and one fails to
whatever he desires, because soul is all understand the importance of proven
powerful. He knows how to put his self in thoughts. Spiritual and yogic upliftment
his thought or action.Patanjali describes is possible only when one accepts the
that there are five types of thoughts and proven thoghts.Author Mr Premansu
each thought may either be of pleasure or Chand,40, is an Indian and working as
of pain(I.5). Thoghts are of five types Govt. servent. He takes pleasure in
because we have five sense organs. The spiritual books and practices Yoga. He
thought related to each sense organ may has published a book "quest for truth:
either be of pleasure or of pain. The the spiritual and yogic way" recently.
sight of chieldren playing is of pleasure Author tries to tell spiritualism and
whereas the sight of a dead body is of yoga in its purest form.




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