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THE PROCESS OF EVOLUTION
is merely the spectator ; the anger, lust or pride is not his, it is the universal Mother's and she works it and stills it for her own purposes. When, however, the vritti is strong, mastering and unspent this attitude cannot be maintained in sincerity and to try to hold it intellectually without sincerely feeling it, is mithyachara, false discipline or hypocrisy. It is only when it is somewhat exhausted by repeated enjoyment and coercion that Prakriti or Nature at the command of the soul or Purusha can really deal with her own creation. She deals with it first by vairagya in its crudest form of disgust, but this is too violent a feeling to be permanent; yet it leaves its mark behind in a deepseated wish to be rid of its cause, which survives the return and temporary reign of the passion. Afterwards its return is viewed with impatience but without any acute feeling of intolerance. Finally supreme indifference or udasinata is gained and the final going out of the
