Answers by

PROF. HR NAGENDRA,
Vice Chancellor,
SVYASA, Bangalore, India

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The mirror that we have is full of dirt. So we are not able to see. Hardly 1% of your face you can see or almost 0%. What do we do? We clean it up. You clean up, clean up, clean up. Therefore the mirror becomes completely original thing without dirt. Similarly tremendous potential that we have is all covered, covered at several levels, layers after layers we have been putting there through our samskaras, through our vasanas and which have percolated in the physical frame. And these are all the different Kosas, the Vignanmaya Kosa, the Manomaya Kosa, Pranamaya Kosa, the Annamaya Kosa. We have started identifying with the lower and lower adjuncts and therefore we have forgotten our original source to such an extent that think we only are this body are the possession on earth, that is called Abhinaveshava Patanjali. So what is to be done. You have to go back. The going back, the cleansing process is called Pratiprasava. The process of cleansing, the process of purification starts with the body level. Start cleansing the body, various Kriyas are given, so start cleaning not only the outside of the body but also the inside of the body as well. Then start harmonizing the Prana in the Pranamaya Kosa. And how is it done, by slowing down the breath and bringing balance between the two nostrils and developing inner awareness and the higher sensitivity, Pranayama dimension. Then go to the Manomaya Kosa, gaining mastery over the mind is the Raja Yoga-Dharana, Dhyana, Samadhi. If we cannot that, Yamanemasana Pranayama Pratyahara, we have to build into our lives if we start doing these things. By such you will be able to get mastery over the mind through Dharana, Dhyana, Samadhi, the purification starts furthering. Then emotional level which are also there in the Manomaya Kosa, strong likes and dislikes are the ones that bind us more and more. Can you overcome these likes and dislikes? Can you grow higher in our cultural emotional upliftment to show love, affection, magnanimity, selflessness and more and more to other more and more to others, Prema Bhava. Can you bring it to our lives? That is the purification. Then at the intellectual level we have ignorance. Our knowledge is too limited and that knowledge has to be expanded. The expansion of the knowledge is the one that helps us to grow to the higher level. For that we have the Jnana Yoga. Proper understanding, proper counseling, the lectures. All this help us to understand things properly and thereby grow. Question & Answers, Interactions, all these things help. And therefore you purify at all levels to bring about the transformation. And thereby we grow day by day. So what is the bottom line. Abhyasa, Vairagya, regular practice, proper understanding. By these two things we start flying up through the two wings that we have.