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the plate, sattvic thinking will cut new healthy grooves in the mind and brain, new sankaras will be formed. Then you will have concentration without much effort. If the senses (Indriyas) are withdrawn and the mind is stilled, there comes a stage where there is no touch with any sense object. It is the state of bliss and pure consciousness or Nirvikalpa Samadhi which burns all sanskaras that give rise to birth & death. Attachment is death. Where ever there is attachment, there is anger, fear & vasanas. Attachment leads to bondage. If we want to attain self realisation, we must get rid of all sorts of attachment. The first step in detachment is to be detached from the body with which you feel so much identified.
Through constant and intense practice of yoga and Jnan sadhana you can become waveless, thought free.
The name of waveless Jnanis such as Jad Bharat & Vamdev, are still remembered. They never published books, never made disciples, yet, these waveless Jnanis had produced tremendous influence on the mind of the geople. We can also attain Jnana only if we are free from sensuous derires & immoral mental status.
When a desire arises in the mind a worlds young people welcomes it and tries to fulfil it, but an aspirant
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