The Tree of Life - 3.7 : Swami Krishnananda

======================================================================= ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 22/03/2020. Discourse 3: Severing the Root of this Tree of Life - 7. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. #Now we can imagine the extent to which we have to go in the control of the mind in order that it may be steadfast in the practice of yoga. If yoga is steadfastness of the mind in the Ultimate Reality of things, no thought, ordinarily speaking, can be regarded as a healthy thought in the light of the requirement of yoga. ##There is a morbidity attached to every thought, even if it be a so-called unconcerned thought. As the mind operates, it takes a form in the shape of the object; therefore, it is a vritti. When I see a wall, the mind is connected to that operation of the sight....