{"id":32777,"date":"2014-03-04T15:05:12","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T15:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.in.yoga\/?p=32777"},"modified":"2023-07-28T20:19:54","modified_gmt":"2023-07-28T20:19:54","slug":"some-more-words-about-vairagya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.in.yoga\/en\/some-more-words-about-vairagya\/","title":{"rendered":"Some More Words About Vairagya"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was the very same period the year before that I was in Varanasi and in this blog of mine I was blissfully and deliberately reflecting upon Vairagya as one of the fundamental methods of yoga. Yet the recent situation in my country\u00a0[Ukraine,\u00a0Dec.2013-March, 2014 \u2013\u00a0transl.note]<\/em>\u00a0not only encourages me to get back to this subject\u00a0\u2013 this time\u00a0in some other states\u00a0–\u00a0but it also gives an immense scope of new experience and food for thought.<\/p>\n

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As\u00a0we\u00a0might\u00a0remember,\u00a0in\u00a0his\u00a0sutra\u00a01.15\u00a0Patanjaligives\u00a0the following definition of\u00a0vairagya:<\/p>\n

1.15\u00a0the\u00a0disengagement\u00a0from\u00a0emotions [related to] the seen and heard objects is the sign of mastery in\u00a0vairagya.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I had to spend this last week in Germany from where I had access to both Russian TV channels and Ukrainian internet. The difference between the coverage of one and the same events made by different states is incredible!!! And the methods of involving people into one\u2019s own point of view are extremely well considered and arranged. One can find here both moaning \u201cold mothers\u201d[1] as well as that very \u201cgirl with a kitten\u201d (see \u201cWag the Dog\u201d); the representatives of one and the same church within the scope of different ideas make their appeals to different presidents; they show some beatees, pin labels and so on. And for those people who erroneously reckon themselves among \u201cintellectuals\u201d there come the\u201cresearch opinions\u201d and \u201cretrospective journeys\u201d into the history, political analogies and so on. It is impossible for one to stay apathetic. Anyhow, subject to that many replications, this or that viewpoint will stir you – even if it does not come out as a strong desire to go the barricades yet in some \u201cslight\u201d revision of one\u2019s affective evaluations, points of view or even one\u2019s mood only. Shutting yourself off and pretending this to be not the concern of yours is impossible. Mere repression of the problem will simply result in emergence of new symptoms, additional anxiety or something else of the kind. And the whole of this informational foam made me think that it is not for nothing that Patanjali has put Abhyasa and Vairagya into line and it is for a reason that he has linked Vairagya with Samprajnya.\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Vairagya does not come as a once only achieved state of \u201cindifference\u201d. This is a continuous process, an exercise (abhyasa), an even more painstaking structuring of one\u2019s psyche, is adaptation to yet more complex and sophisticated involving factors.\u00a0<\/strong>One can escape his involvement into manipulation only in case of total awareness about the methods of this manipulation and subject to having rather well-developed chakras that can “digest\u201c corresponding energies.<\/p>\n

For instance, metaphors and labels cease operating when you can easily operate with metaphors of the corresponding mythological level; the tricks related to Anahata no longer work in case you reject your own\u00a0<\/strong>emotional stereotypes; the \u201cAjna-based\u201d verifications come to naught when you see the defects of\u00a0your<\/strong>\u00a0own thinking that become the soft spots\u00a0of your intellectual fortress.\u00a0And here just the fact of understanding that you are manipulated does not change anything and does not protect you from anything\u00a0[2].\u00a0It\u00a0is\u00a0only\u00a0total\u00a0Samprajnya,\u00a0i.e.\u00a0the exhaustive comprehension of the manipulation method and instrument,\u00a0that gives the soundness. And from this point the situation\u00a0now is\u00a0understood as a truly training one that tempers the mind and enables making one\u2019s intelligence even more sharp by means of practicing\u00a0Vairagya.\u00a0The\u00a0method\u00a0is\u00a0very\u00a0simple.\u00a0If you are aware that after all you have been \u201cgot to\u201d it means that you have some topical omission in respect of some chakra. And the only way to eliminate the\u00a0vritti\u00a0that you\u2019ve been absorbed by is by finding and refining this aspect, and not by switching off the TV and trying to forget the things said.<\/p>\n

We have been talking about manipulations in respect of the upper chakras, but the same refers to the lower ones. For instance, we have become scared least the war starts. The mass-media are good in playing up the topic. We wish it didn\u2019t start. One may say \u201cno, everything will be OK\u201d. Or go pray for it (no smiles from me here \u2013 someone might think I thus offend their religious feelings). Or try to repress this fear. Yetthe fear will not go. It exists because you understand that you have not prepared for this scenario: inmaterial, emotional and intellectual\u00a0aspects.<\/p>\n

You have not decided how and where to you will run, how you will hide your valuables, you don\u2019t keep stashes thatare valid in critical situations; you have no action plans, you don\u2019t know how to maintain contacts with your relatives (without mobile connection); you are not able to survive without potable water and power supply and you don\u2019t know how to give yourself first medical aid in case you are wounded or raped (yes, I mean this). Maybe you don\u2019t even have a travelling passport so that you could leave abroad in a normal way (and in advance). Hence comes the anxiety. And the anxiety shall not leave until you do everything in order to prepare yourself to such a scenario. Because the ill-preparedness destroys one not only when the situation has already occurred. It is always destructive due to its being a point of tenderness that they can ground upon when eventually manipulating you. This refers to every chakra.<\/p>\n

That is why I suggest that we use this situation forthe purpose that it has been actually given us for \u2013 forinner consolidation, for better understanding of one\u2019s individual faults and omissions. So that the formation of comfortable (genuinely comfortable!!) existing in the occurred situation will show that the spiritual practice makes a good progress.<\/p>\n

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[1]\u00a0For\u00a0those\u00a0who\u00a0don\u2019t\u00a0know\u00a0\u2013\u00a0this\u00a0is\u00a0a\u00a0quotation\u00a0from\u00a0V. Pelevin\u2019s\u00a0\u201cHermit\u00a0and\u00a0Sixfinger\u201d<\/p>\n

[2]\u00a0Even\u00a0on\u00a0the\u00a0contrary –\u00a0it\u00a0sometimes\u00a0compounds the matters, like it happens to different conspiracy theorists who \u201cunderstand\u201d that they are \u201cmanaged\u201d by someone but it gives them nothing but despair and paranoia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was the very same period the year before that I was in Varanasi and in this blog of mine I was blissfully and deliberately reflecting upon Vairagya as one of the fundamental methods of yoga. Yet the recent situation in my country\u00a0[Ukraine,\u00a0Dec.2013-March, 2014 \u2013\u00a0transl.note]\u00a0not only encourages me to get back to this subject\u00a0\u2013 this… Continue reading Some More Words About Vairagya<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[200],"tags":[237],"class_list":["post-32777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yoga-sutra-en","tag-vairagya-en","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.in.yoga\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.in.yoga\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.in.yoga\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.in.yoga\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.in.yoga\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.in.yoga\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.in.yoga\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.in.yoga\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.in.yoga\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}