Managing the mind through Dhayana

A key question in today’s society is how the mind should be controlled.  It is a question that is easy to answer, but difficult to address because practices tend to fail.

Though there are several ways to control the mind, one of these methods is to employ yoga.  Our brain is divided into the pure and the impure state. The impure state consists of unwanted wishes and desires. The pure state of mind leads to happiness and glory.

Know your mind

Before practicing yoga, one should study the mind, or antahkarana in Sanskrit. The mind consists of four areas divided by function: the manas control actions and determination and lead to skepticism; buddhi takes over when a choice or conclusion needs to take place; the asmita refers to awareness of its own being; and the chita exists through the identification of past experience.

Yoga philosophy

Yoga philosophy recognizes five factors underlying mental activity.  They are called avidya, asmita, raga, dvesha, and abhinivesha. Our mind is constantly unstable.

Furthermore it is almost impossible to come out of the wavering of the mind, since the mind is essentially a blaze. When we feel our mind is devoid of instability it results in the state of Moksha.

If one wants to dislocate the impure state of mind one should follow the principles of yoga, namely Pranayama and Dhyana. When we go through the yoga principles we find Avidya which is false awareness or unawareness of one’s personality in relation to matter and understanding.

The self feeling represents Asmita. According to yoga principles, the soul is entirely disassociated from the body. Raga refers to a fondness for delightful experiences.

Dvesha is the reverse of this, meaning the aversion to hurt. Klesha refers to a wish to be alive, in other words an aversion and fear of death.

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