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 Thursday 17 September 2026

PREPARATORY STEPS IN YOGA

Swami Sivananda

Discipline of the mind is as necessary as food to the body. Repeated efforts should be made to collect the dissipated rays of the mind. A Yogi practises abstraction or withdrawal of senses, Pratyahara. Pratyahara is the highest form of restraint of the senses. Watch each sense or Indriya when it goes astray. Withdraw it. Practise abstraction again and again. Slay desire, craving and Sankalpa. You will realise everlasting peace, bliss and joy. Control the tongue. You will control all desires. You have not conquered your senses, if you have failed to conquer the sense of taste. When tongue or the sense of taste is conquered, all the senses are conquered. When the senses are withdrawn through Pratyahara, you get one-pointedness of the mind. Contd…


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