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therefore has to be cured of its egoism, or individuation towards grossness, and has to be brought more and more into the original condition of subtleness, or at least linked up with that. The grossness, or the outer, gets impregnated with the inner subtle condition, and they become organic to one another instead of being divorced or divided and distinguished from each other.
The process of making this mind sublime, or subtle is achieved by restraining the outer gross processes and promoting the subtle processes. This is one way, and the Patanjali Sutra states that Yoga is just this restraint of the modifications of the citta or mind from engaging themselves in the remembrance and retention of outer impressions. As a matter of fact one who starts this process of restraint of mental modifications would clearly discern his mind itself to be the centre and seat or abode of all ideas - an aalaya of the vijnana or ideations of all levels,both conscious and unconscious. The yogi is advised to suppress these modifications as they arise or slay them by counter-will, till one attains the condition of an empty void - void of all vijnana or ideations and images.
This demands absolute self-conscious discernment or vigilance till the condition of a thoughtless mind becomes achieved. This is the bodhi of Buddha which is the attainment of nirvana - mindlessness. What it is can only be experienced in samadhi - a condition of supreme transcendence of all thought or thought processes; stilled-thought, when thought and reality become one or merge into each other. Perhaps it is this condition that is also equivalent to the merger or union of the individual ego with the Godhead, or perhaps it is a condition beyond all these individuations and generalisation.
This process of the Yogacara is undoubtedly a strenuous one. This conscious process is also counselled by Zen Buddhism (The Satori of the Zen Buddhist appears to be the S'atari - the enemy of the breath that brings about rebirth which was said to have been discovered by St. S'atari (S'atakopa) of S'ri Vaisnavism. This Zen was exported to Japan by a Monk of Kanci.) which has found that dhyana is the very condition when one traces the process of descent, or grossening or bondage to the gross with its particular experience and transient objects, as well as the ascent of the dhi