Page 467 - Complete Works of Dr. KCV Volume 1

It is quite all right to have mentioned that the foregoing is the nutshell of this system of Rajayoga. Thought primal is to be connected with the thought in its gross presence in the human being or the individual, this is the technique of yoga, which would bring about the eradication and extinguishment of the wavering and worrying thought-flow within each and every individual. The attempt to bring about the cessation of thought processes by conscious suppression or repression or even by bhoga or anubhava have produced tensions of all sorts. The patient became worse rather than better. The vyavasayatmaka buddhi through continuous abhyasa also had proved of no avail generally. It is a path full of artificial restraints and long drawn out tiresome exercises. The method of controlling the mental modifications by giving them alternative foods so to speak has also not proved successful: man reverts to his original animal nature or falls precipitously into a deeper depression than ever imagined. One's own efforts at concentration or one-pointed direction towards an object or a goal even has not helped the transformation of mind into the primary original nature as luminous, sovereign, equilibrium and free. This is the natural condition of the Manas to which it has to revert.
It is obvious that Manas in its original purity is beyond this latest modification or truncation of it nor has this manas the ability to go back with unaided efforts of its cognition or conation or affective exuberance. As it was stated thinking hard will not precipitate intuition or help it to jump over its own shadows; nor would willing hard nor feeling hard produce that heat (tapas) which would make it unite itself with that primal condition. As the ancients had pointed out, there had developed centres or points which verily demarcated level from level, even as solids and liquids and gases demarcated and the passage from one state to another involves condensation and expansion laws. Enormous amounts of energy are involved in these processes of degradation of Manas and consequently there are bound to be enormous unknown forces released in the process of reversion to its original condition.
Therefore this process of reversion to the original condition is almost impossible with one's efforts, though what is requisite is the interest to get back to that condition of equipoise which is natural to the original Manas. Nor is it possible to get the original Manas to do this without the grace of