Vrtti Sarupyam Itaratra

VRTTI SARUPYAM ITARATRA. Vritti= Modifications of the mind-stuff; sarupyam=assumes the forms; itaratra= at other times. At other times (the Self appears to) assume the forms of the mental modifications.You seem to have lost your original identity and have identified with your thoughts and body. Suppose I ask you who you are if you don't identify with anything whatsoever. If you say "I am a man", you have identified yourself with a masculine body. If you say "I am a professor", you are identifying with the ideas gathered in your brain. If you say, "I am a millionaire", you are identifying with your bank account; if "a mother", with a child; "a husband", with a wife. " I am tall; I am short; I am black or white" shows your identification with the color and shape of the body. But without any identifications, who are you? Have you ever thought about it? When you really understand that, you will see we are all the same. If you detach yourself completely from all the things you have identified yourself with, you realize yourself as the pure "I", In that pure "I" there is no difference between you and me. ...... Book one Samadhi pada. Yoga sutras. Patanjali.

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This sutra is a great one to analyse ourselves. With the detachment of the idea of identification the ego is vanish when we truly live the bliss of Ahimsa.