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groups, species and varieties of "states of consciousness" (cittavrtti). However, this
destruction can not be obtained if you do not start to know, experimentally, so to speak,
the structure, origin and intensity of what was destined to destruction.
"Experimental knowledge" means here: method, technique, practice. Nothing is available
without action (kriya) and not practicing asceticism (tapas), here is a leitmotif of the
literature yogi. The books II and III of the Yoga-Sutra are more particularly devoted to
this activity yogi mind (purifications and bodily attitudes breathing techniques, etc.)..
That's why yoga practice is essential. Indeed, only after having received, through the
experience the first results of this technique, we can have faith (sraddha) on the
effectiveness of the method (Vyasa, ad YS, I 34). Yoga practice includes indeed a long
series of exercises to be carried out consecutively, without haste, without impatience,
without being driven by "individual desire" to get more rapi-mately the "conjunction"
(samadhi). Vyasa (ad YS, III, 6), reminds us in this regard that only recently after having
conquis ed by a certain "level" (bhumi) or after having tried
7 "Action" does not mean, however, agitation, all efforts to pre-cio. Misra Vacaspati
particularly insists on two points: a) the action (Kriyayoga) should not be exaggerated, so
that the physiological balance is not changed, b) should not be done with a view of the
"fruits" (ie : with "thirst" with "passion") of desire should not be "hu-mano" from the
satisfaction of the appetites and ambitions, but the wish-lime-mo-out of the "human" and
experimentally all forms of exercise a yogi (meditation, contemplation, etc..), it is
impossible to pass a piano above (except of course in the few cases where the yogi-ing
from certain inner-reading exercises thought per FOREIGN-sons, etc. .- concentrates his
thought on God, Isvara: "With regard to the nature of the immediate level below (above),
continues Vyasa Yoga practice can only revealing larnosla. ^ Why? Because it has been
said (in scripture): Yoga should be known by Yoga, the Yoga Yoga manifests, etc. "..
The negation of the reality of experience yogi or the criticism of some aspects by a man
for whom immediate know-ledge of the practice is strange is not accepted, as the yogis
states exceed the condition that when we criticize, we confined. "It'sa matter of women
striving to establish the superiority of truth through discursive arguments, but it is men
conquering the world through your own power," says a text (Tantratattva, I, 125) that,
while Late , ex-prisoner attitude characteristic of schools and tantric yogi. The term
abhyasa ( "practice, exercise, application") is often used in treaties hatha-yogis. "Through
the abhyasa gets the win, the practice makes a release. The perfect consciousness comes
with the act. The acting is obtained Yoga (abh-yasa) ... You can cheat death by the
abhyasa ... Through the practice is gained the force of prophecy (vak) and the power to
go anywhere for the simple act of vo-Glue... " (Shiva Samhita, IV, 9-11).
We may cite such texts indefinitely: all support the need for direct experience of
realization of the prac-tice. Patanjali, and after countless yogis and tantric master, known
to cittavrtti, the "whirlwinds of conscience" can not be con-trolled and finally abolished,
if previously not "experienced". In other words, we can free ourselves of existence
(samsara) unless we know life in concrete form. This explains the for-paradoxical
theology of creation which, according to the Samkhya and Yoga, first "strings" the
human soul, and the other of inciting li-sions. In fact, the human condition, though
dramatic, is not hopeless, as the experiences themselves tend to release the spirit
(particularly engendering disgust of samsara and the nostalgia of renunciation). But even
it is only through the experiences you get freedom. Also, the gods (videha,