Comments on: Vairāgyam http://www.yogzilla.com/2009/07/10/vairagyam/ Mon, 11 Apr 2011 09:25:32 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Sraddha http://www.yogzilla.com/2009/07/10/vairagyam/comment-page-1/#comment-581 Sraddha Sat, 11 Jul 2009 05:01:14 +0000 http://www.yogzilla.com/?p=312#comment-581 I read the idea of climbing a mountain in a different context. But, I thought it worked well to explain this sutra and vairagyam. I do like the river of mind too. I completely agree with you on Sri K. So far, I have not come across anyone so inspiring and so humble. I read the idea of climbing a mountain in a different context. But, I thought it worked well to explain this sutra and vairagyam. I do like the river of mind too.

I completely agree with you on Sri K. So far, I have not come across anyone so inspiring and so humble.

]]> By: Hanuman http://www.yogzilla.com/2009/07/10/vairagyam/comment-page-1/#comment-580 Hanuman Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:59:29 +0000 http://www.yogzilla.com/?p=312#comment-580 I really like the idea of climb a mountain; you have to be prepared even before you begin to climb (that's why yama and niyama come first, to prepare us for the journey). Some commentators (of course Vyāsa) use another simile to show us the relationship between abhyāsa and vairāgya; they say that the ‘river of mind’ (with all its whirls or vṛttis) flows both ways: to good (when it flows towards Kayvalya or liberation) and to evil (when it flows towards saṃsara or bondage/the world). By detachment, is dammed the current flowing towards ‘worldly’ objects (‘the bad guy’), and through practice (of viveka or discriminative knowledge), the virtuous current of discrimination is made to flow (the good one). But you need both of them; If you don’t practice but get detached, discrimination will not flow, and you will not know what to do with all this energy that you obtain from detachment. On the other hand, if you master your practice, but don’t get detached, then you will become one of this ego-maniac ‘so called’ yogin-s (or even guru-s, there are a lot of examples around), and you will get bound to the worldly stuff. By the way, at this point I have to say that this is why I found so inspiring to Sri Krishnamacharya: He really mastered all yoga dimensions; he was a real Yogācārya but he seems to be absolutely detached and humble. I really like the idea of climb a mountain; you have to be prepared even before you begin to climb (that’s why yama and niyama come first, to prepare us for the journey). Some commentators (of course Vyāsa) use another simile to show us the relationship between abhyāsa and vairāgya; they say that the ‘river of mind’ (with all its whirls or vṛttis) flows both ways: to good (when it flows towards Kayvalya or liberation) and to evil (when it flows towards saṃsara or bondage/the world). By detachment, is dammed the current flowing towards ‘worldly’ objects (‘the bad guy’), and through practice (of viveka or discriminative knowledge), the virtuous current of discrimination is made to flow (the good one). But you need both of them; If you don’t practice but get detached, discrimination will not flow, and you will not know what to do with all this energy that you obtain from detachment. On the other hand, if you master your practice, but don’t get detached, then you will become one of this ego-maniac ‘so called’ yogin-s (or even guru-s, there are a lot of examples around), and you will get bound to the worldly stuff.
By the way, at this point I have to say that this is why I found so inspiring to Sri Krishnamacharya: He really mastered all yoga dimensions; he was a real Yogācārya but he seems to be absolutely detached and humble.

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