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PRANAHUTI – ITS RELEVANCE IN SADHANA
implement them, identify things which are not conducive in achieving that goal and then discard them. Without these two things, usually we do not achieve anything. We cannot achieve also because diversions will be there.
Here we are talking about Rajayoga. We want to achieve some thing in this. The purpose of life and the purpose of yoga cannot be different. The purpose of life is happiness. The purpose of yoga also shall be happiness. It cannot be anything different from that and we cannot be happy so long as there is a conflicting situation. It is therefore essential that we develop certain characteristics, essentially that of friendship if not love as it is not always possible. Once we start our sadhana, any person, with pranahuti or without pranahuti, we are confronted with certain situations where we find that we are not allowed to continue with our task because of certain disturbances, some of them are related basically to the external environment. As we meditate, there will be some children in our house making noise, some body playing around in the road, some noise of the cars. In order to just avoid these situations, people tended to go to the forests or dwell in some place where there is lot of solitude. There is no
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