Frenzy, Melancholy and Depression.
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अध्याय 6, श्लोक 19,
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यथा दीपो निवातस्थो नेङ्गते सोपमा स्मृता ।
योगिनो यतचित्तस्य युञ्जतो योगमात्मनः ॥
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(यथा दीपः निवातस्थः न इङ्गते सा उपमा स्मृता ।
योगिनः यतचित्तस्य युञ्जतः योगम्-आत्मनः ॥)
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जैसे वायु से सुरक्षित स्थान में दीपक की लौ अकम्पित रहती है, वह उपमा योगी के चित्तरूपी लौ के लिए उदाहरण की तरह स्मरणीय है, क्योंकि अभ्यासरत योगी का चित्त जब परमात्मा के ध्यान में रम जाता है तो इसी प्रकार से निश्चल होता है ।
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Chapter 6, śloka 19,
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yathā dīpo nivātastho
neṅgate sopamā smṛtā |
yogino yatacittasya
yuñjato yogamātmanaḥ ||
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(yathā dīpaḥ nivātasthaḥ
na iṅgate sā upamā smṛtā |
yoginaḥ yatacittasya
yuñjataḥ yogam-ātmanaḥ ||)
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Meaning :
Protected from the wind, the flame of a lamp does not flicker. This simile is quite appropriate and may be remembered to describe the state of the mind of a yogi, who practices yoga keeping his attention fixed on the Self.
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The pendulum in the wall-clock keeps ticking.
Once starts, doesn't come at the position of rest where-from it had started, though tries to do so in all and every effort. As if that position of rest but seems to be in dream only. Climbing up with heavy breath in frenzy, feverishly in excitement or thrill, goes up and higher, yet moving ever so restless. At the peak it stops for so short like a fraction of a moment, that it needs while reversing the direction of the movement. then it goes down descending helplessly, to attain that moment of dream where it had been for a timeless moment of rest, that looks like a dream now. In the beginning with slow pace but as it reaches the exact point it is only the sadness, a fraction of a moment that it remembers the rest but the moment soon turns into melancholy. So long a moment, yet so short, that it begins to climb up again on yet another steep path to another peak of Depression.The deep depression though sounds and feels like abyss of sorrow and misery only. Reaching the utter height of depression, it again stops for a fraction of a second that is needed to change the direction downwards.
From the point of rest -- Frenzy -- Melancholy -- Depression; -thus repeats the cycle.
The second-needle moves at the same speed. It takes exactly (?) 60 seconds to come again to the same point on the dial. The minute-pointer likewise moves at the same speed. It takes exactly (?) 60 minutes to come again to the same point on the dial. The hour pointer likewise moves at the same speed. It takes exactly (?) 12 hours to come again to the same point on the dial.
What about the time-distance (interval of time taken) by the needle in traversing a second, a minute or an hour or 12 hours? Is it a fixed measure of 'time'? What criteria could help us decide what lenght has this span of 'time'? Could it be decided and determined with Mathematical precision so that we can be 100% sure that this measure is strictly the same in every second, minute or hour?
Perhaps we can calibrate our wall-clock with setting it right with the help of yet another watch / clock; say an 'atomic-clock. But the doubt remains. That is; how long a second, a minute or an hour exactly is? Could any two seconds, minutes or hours are equal and really of the same measure ?
Time and Space are the (objective) entities that are inert and insentient and are perceived in a consciousness that is subjective and sentient. Presently let us take that these two objects (Objective Realities) exist irrespective of the (subjective) entity that is the mind or the consciousness. Thus the mind or consciousness tries to understand and study what exactly is Time and Space.
Is it ever possible for the mind or the consciousness to understand and study what exactly is Time and Space? There is a mind / consciousness unoccupied and uncluttered with 'thought'. Like the mind of a child or an animal or a bird that have not come across a language. A thought is essentially a formulation based upon a language. Could such a chaste, pristine, immaculate mind / consciousness indulge and think of what exactly is Time and Space? This means a mind not only occupied but obsessed with thought can hardly understand and study what exactly is Time and Space.
Nevertheless, The existence of such a chaste, pristine, immaculate mind / consciousness is its own evidence. This mind / consciousness, from the very beginning itself is empty of all thought and intellect, yet Intelligent in a way that it is a reflection of and in direct communion with the Essence of the Whole Existence.
A cluttered and occupied mind / consciousness however, can always pay attention to this Intelligence that is so effortless and yet authentic. It is waiting to be discovered, yet to be discovered by the mind that has seeped deep in thought and the knowledge thought claims to bring to us.
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About Time and Space :
In Atomic Physics, Heisenberg Discovered "The Uncertainty Principle". It tells us that the velocity and the time (taken by) of a moving particle could not be correctly measured (at the same time).
Simple, because the 'measured' time itself defies 'time'. Velocity / motion is an effort on the part of the moving object that tries to 'shorten' the Time and Space. As the Time and Space form a 'continuum' and are thus the "Time-Space"-continuum.
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Salvador Dali had a great sense of humor and this is so conspicuously depicted, is so evident in his art-work paintings of 'Clocks'.
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(The above is the English translation, done by myself, of my own Hindi post "निष्कम्प ज्योति" of yesterday, in this blog.)
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अध्याय 6, श्लोक 19,
--
यथा दीपो निवातस्थो नेङ्गते सोपमा स्मृता ।
योगिनो यतचित्तस्य युञ्जतो योगमात्मनः ॥
--
(यथा दीपः निवातस्थः न इङ्गते सा उपमा स्मृता ।
योगिनः यतचित्तस्य युञ्जतः योगम्-आत्मनः ॥)
--
जैसे वायु से सुरक्षित स्थान में दीपक की लौ अकम्पित रहती है, वह उपमा योगी के चित्तरूपी लौ के लिए उदाहरण की तरह स्मरणीय है, क्योंकि अभ्यासरत योगी का चित्त जब परमात्मा के ध्यान में रम जाता है तो इसी प्रकार से निश्चल होता है ।
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Chapter 6, śloka 19,
--
yathā dīpo nivātastho
neṅgate sopamā smṛtā |
yogino yatacittasya
yuñjato yogamātmanaḥ ||
--
(yathā dīpaḥ nivātasthaḥ
na iṅgate sā upamā smṛtā |
yoginaḥ yatacittasya
yuñjataḥ yogam-ātmanaḥ ||)
--
Meaning :
Protected from the wind, the flame of a lamp does not flicker. This simile is quite appropriate and may be remembered to describe the state of the mind of a yogi, who practices yoga keeping his attention fixed on the Self.
--
The pendulum in the wall-clock keeps ticking.
Once starts, doesn't come at the position of rest where-from it had started, though tries to do so in all and every effort. As if that position of rest but seems to be in dream only. Climbing up with heavy breath in frenzy, feverishly in excitement or thrill, goes up and higher, yet moving ever so restless. At the peak it stops for so short like a fraction of a moment, that it needs while reversing the direction of the movement. then it goes down descending helplessly, to attain that moment of dream where it had been for a timeless moment of rest, that looks like a dream now. In the beginning with slow pace but as it reaches the exact point it is only the sadness, a fraction of a moment that it remembers the rest but the moment soon turns into melancholy. So long a moment, yet so short, that it begins to climb up again on yet another steep path to another peak of Depression.The deep depression though sounds and feels like abyss of sorrow and misery only. Reaching the utter height of depression, it again stops for a fraction of a second that is needed to change the direction downwards.
From the point of rest -- Frenzy -- Melancholy -- Depression; -thus repeats the cycle.
The second-needle moves at the same speed. It takes exactly (?) 60 seconds to come again to the same point on the dial. The minute-pointer likewise moves at the same speed. It takes exactly (?) 60 minutes to come again to the same point on the dial. The hour pointer likewise moves at the same speed. It takes exactly (?) 12 hours to come again to the same point on the dial.
What about the time-distance (interval of time taken) by the needle in traversing a second, a minute or an hour or 12 hours? Is it a fixed measure of 'time'? What criteria could help us decide what lenght has this span of 'time'? Could it be decided and determined with Mathematical precision so that we can be 100% sure that this measure is strictly the same in every second, minute or hour?
Perhaps we can calibrate our wall-clock with setting it right with the help of yet another watch / clock; say an 'atomic-clock. But the doubt remains. That is; how long a second, a minute or an hour exactly is? Could any two seconds, minutes or hours are equal and really of the same measure ?
Time and Space are the (objective) entities that are inert and insentient and are perceived in a consciousness that is subjective and sentient. Presently let us take that these two objects (Objective Realities) exist irrespective of the (subjective) entity that is the mind or the consciousness. Thus the mind or consciousness tries to understand and study what exactly is Time and Space.
Is it ever possible for the mind or the consciousness to understand and study what exactly is Time and Space? There is a mind / consciousness unoccupied and uncluttered with 'thought'. Like the mind of a child or an animal or a bird that have not come across a language. A thought is essentially a formulation based upon a language. Could such a chaste, pristine, immaculate mind / consciousness indulge and think of what exactly is Time and Space? This means a mind not only occupied but obsessed with thought can hardly understand and study what exactly is Time and Space.
Nevertheless, The existence of such a chaste, pristine, immaculate mind / consciousness is its own evidence. This mind / consciousness, from the very beginning itself is empty of all thought and intellect, yet Intelligent in a way that it is a reflection of and in direct communion with the Essence of the Whole Existence.
A cluttered and occupied mind / consciousness however, can always pay attention to this Intelligence that is so effortless and yet authentic. It is waiting to be discovered, yet to be discovered by the mind that has seeped deep in thought and the knowledge thought claims to bring to us.
--
About Time and Space :
In Atomic Physics, Heisenberg Discovered "The Uncertainty Principle". It tells us that the velocity and the time (taken by) of a moving particle could not be correctly measured (at the same time).
Simple, because the 'measured' time itself defies 'time'. Velocity / motion is an effort on the part of the moving object that tries to 'shorten' the Time and Space. As the Time and Space form a 'continuum' and are thus the "Time-Space"-continuum.
--
Salvador Dali had a great sense of humor and this is so conspicuously depicted, is so evident in his art-work paintings of 'Clocks'.
--
(The above is the English translation, done by myself, of my own Hindi post "निष्कम्प ज्योति" of yesterday, in this blog.)
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