The Effect of Dharana or Concentrating the Mind : 10.
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Many of the things that we thought as children may be lying deep-seated at the bottom, not having found an opportunity to express themselves. When we were small children, we must have thought very seriously about some things, and we could not fulfil those ideas for various reasons. Now we have become different people altogether due to the pressure of circumstances, etc. But those ideas have not gone – they are there. They may be in a mild form or an intense form, they may be in an interrupted form or they may be in an expressed form. Whatever the form is, they have to be brought to the surface of consciousness.
There should be a total awakening of the personality to the conscious level before one takes up yoga practice. There should be nothing hidden inside. If we start hiding things to our own selves, we are fools of the first water. We cannot hide things like that. Hence, the first thing that is required of a meditator is to bring every subconscious urge into the conscious level, and see them face to face – openly to their face – and try to find out what is to be done with them. They have to be dealt with in an appropriate manner, according to the circumstances of the case. Then we will find what methods we have to adopt in eliminating the undesirables and allowing in the desirables for the purpose of concentration.
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