Basic yoga scriptures insist that is order to control the mind aspirants must practice the disciplines. Non-killing, truthfulness, non-stealing, continence, and non-receiving of gifts are called as yamas. Internal and external purification, contentment, mortification, study, and worship of god are the niyamas.
Obviously one who is not yet the master of his mind will fail to observe some of these precepts. Yet the idea of insisting on the practice of these virtues id to keep the ideal always bright before the practitioner, so that inner strength may grow through self-effort. Patanjali, the great teacher of yoga, says:
b) Compassion for the unhappy.
c) Delight in the good.
d) Indifference to the evil.
This aphorism requires explanation. The disposition of being happy at the happiness of others creates a very soothing mental climate in which wrong impulses like jealousy cannot thrive.
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