Inner World of Yoga – Day 23
In Vedantic literature, vasanas are considered to be “survivors” from one life to the next, and when all our vasanas are pure or positive, we are liberated from rebirth on this planet. Following that line of thought, if we are here now in a corporeal body, than some of our vasanas are still impure or negative, although we always have the opportunity to release the impure vasanas and achieve in this lifetime the highest state of Samadhi or enlightenment in which the spiritual heart becomes permanently open, vasanas are extinguished and we are released from the cycle of birth and death. This is a highly desirable state – a state of ONE, “that liberates the self from all illusions of the senses and contradictions of reason,” as Sri Madhuji describes in the eighth stage of YOGA.
Your practice for today is to write down a list of patterns and habits in your life that you see as negatively impacting your life. Follow this with a list of positive patterns and habits that you see as beneficial in your life. Do not engage in any speculation as to “why” you have these habits, self-edit or analyze. Just write down what you see.
Join me tomorrow for a look at the second structural component of the mind, samskaras.
Namaste! Wendy
