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Basic Writings of Sri Ramchandra
including all feelings such as hunger, thirst, anger, sorrow and desires for wealth, fame, etc. The second, Moodha, includes tendencies, which promote sluggishness, indolence or sloth. The third, Vikshipta, pertains to the tendency, which drives the mind away from sacred thoughts and brings about the haunting of numerous irrelevant ideas at the time of meditation. The fourth, Ekagra-Vritti, is the tendency, which makes our attention fixed on one thing only. The last one Nirodh is the tendency, which brings the mind to a perfectly self - contained state free from complexities and disturbances. To achieve this last stage sages have generally advised the well-known Ashtanga Yoga (i.e. Yama, Niyama, Asana, Pranayama, Pratyahara, Dharana, Dhyana and Samadhi). Under the Sahaj Marg system of training we start from Dhyana, the seventh step of Yoga fixing our mind on the point in order to practise meditation. The previous steps are not taken up separately but they automatically come into practice as we proceed on with meditation. Thus, much of our time and labour is saved by this means.
In short, we start our practice from Sham, the first of the six Sampattis of the third Sadhana of the Vedantists and devote all our attention to the proper moulding and regulation of mind, which is easily accomplished by the help of the transmitted power of a worthy Master. Control of senses and Indriyas (or Dam) follows automatically when we fix our mind on one thing and one, alone which is the Reality, ignoring all others. Generally most of the
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