The ability to perceive ones true self manifests further when the senses are controlled and the mind and consciousness reach purity. The practitioner becomes filled with joy.
And, such a habit of cleanliness also leads to the purification of the whole substance, peace and basic goodness of mind, one-pointedness, mastery over the senses, as also the ability (and the qualification) to attain self-knowledge .
Sadhana Pada 42
A deeper happiness in gained when the practitioner is content.
From contentment there flows the most excellent happiness and delight.
Sadhana Pada 43
Burning zeal and faith in practice removes impurities and enables the practitioner to gain the power necessary to control the senses.
The inner psychic fire destroys all impurities of the heart and mind, and brings about the health, sanity, wholeness or perfection of the physical and vital being (the inner senses).
Self study and reflection on a desired deity brings one into union.
By study (not necessarily nor exclusively) of scriptures, and of oneself the consciousness is united with the desired or loved divinity. This divinity may well be a "luminous" internal transmutation-experience or its externalized psychic manifestation, of Carl enlightened being".
Sadhana Pada 45
Absolute absorption in unity is accomplished though surrender to God.
Perfection in self-awareness instantly follows total, dynamic and intelligent surrender of the individual ego-sense (in the sense of the realization of its unreal nature) or the merging of it in the indwelling omnipresence (in the sense of the direct realization He falsity of the "me", the ego-sense, and therefore the sole reality of the indwelling omnipresence) .
Sadhana Pada 46
Happiness, steadiness and firmness must be felt in the sacred postures.
The posture of the body during the practice of contemplation and at other times, as also the posture of the mind (or attitude to life) Should be firm and pleasant.
Sadhana Pada 47
Passiveness is necessary for endurance when this infinite art of form is practiced.
Such a posture can be attained (1) by the abandonment of effort and the non-use of will, and (2) by the continuous awareness of the infinite eternal existence.
Sadhana Pada 48
Then conflictions and disturbances cease.
Then follows immunity from the onslaughts of the pairs of inseparable opposites - like pain and pleasure, heat and cold, success and failure, honor and dishonor.
Sadhana Pada 49
With this mastered one then begins vital breath exercise to control energy flow.
Retentions and motions of inhalations and exhalations are involved.
Simultaneously, the interruption find reversal (and therefore the balancing) of the flow of inhalation and exhalation, of the positive (life-promoting) energy and the negative (decay-promoting) energy, constitutes the regulation of the life-force which is then experienced as the totality of all its functional aspects previously and ignorantly viewed as the building up and the breaking down opposed to each other.
Sadhana Pada 50
The 3 parts: inhalation, exhalation and the retentions are observed, the time is measured, and carefully lengthened.
Different techniques involve holding the breath within (after inhalation), or without (after exhalation), or the suspension of the breath, with conscious effort. There are different types, too, some prolonged, some subtle (and short) - different also in regard to the place where the breath is held, the duration of the retention, and the number of times it is practiced.
Sadhana Pada 51
Breath becomes stable, rhythmic and natural.
There is a fourth type which is the spontaneous suspension of breath, while minutely observing something external or internal.
Sadhana Pada 52
Then that which covers the light is destroyed.
Then, the veil of psychic impurity and spiritual ignorance that covers the inner light is thinned and rent asunder.
Sadhana Pada 53
The mind becomes capable of concentration.
And, the mind attains the ability to concentrate, to focus its attention.
Sadhana Pada 54
One then draws inwards removing oneself from external and internal distractions. The senses will no longer obstruct one from the path.
There is psychological freedom when the senses function spontaneously in complete harmony with the inherent intelligence (without thought - or will-interference ) without being drawn into contact with their objects by cravings or false evaluations. This freedom is the fountain-source of energy since in it there is effortless (and therefore non-)movement of the energy.
Then the highest level of controlling the senses is achieved.
With such an abundance of energy it follows that there is complete mastery (in the sense of ever-vigilant understanding) over the senses, as all psychological conflicts and confused movements of thought and energy cease, and the senses function intelligently without disorder and disharmony, inhibitions and excitation.
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