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sciously used, that the character of a man changes and devel-
ops from life to life or even in the bounds of a single lifetime. It
does not destroy things in their seed and the seed which is not
reduced to ashes by Yoga is always capable of sprouting again
and growing into the complete and mighty tree.
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Bhoga
The second method is to give bhoga or enjoyment to the
passion so as to get rid of it quickly. When it is satiated and
surfeited by excessive enjoyment, it becomes weak and spent
and a reaction ensues which establishes for a time the oppo-
site force, tendency or quality. If that moment is seized by the
Yogin for nigraha, the nigraha so repeated at every suitable op-
portunity becomes so far effective as to reduce the strength
and vitality of the vrtti sufficiently for the application of the
final saWyama. This method of enjoyment and reaction is also
a favourite and universal method of Nature, but it is never com-
plete in itself and, if applied to permanent forces or qualities,
tends to establish a see-saw of opposite tendencies, extremely
useful to the operations of Prakriti but from the point of view
of self-mastery useless and inconclusive. It is only when this
method is followed up by the use of saWyama that it becomes
effective.
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Vairagya and Udasinta
The Yogin regards the vrtti merely as a play of Nature with
which he is not concerned and of which he is merely the specta-
tor; the anger, lust or pride is not his, it is the universal Mother's
and she works it and stills it for her own purposes. When, how-
ever, the vrtti is strong, mastering and unspent, this attitude
cannot be maintained in sincerity and to try to hold it intel-
lectually without sincerely feeling it is mithyDcDra, false disci-
pline or hypocrisy. It is only when it is somewhat exhausted by

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