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THE MYSTERIES OF MIND
etc. he should immediately begin kāyotsarga. He should simply watch what is happening in his mind. He should in no way attempt to supress his thinking process but on the other hand allow his thoughts to flow. But he should not indulge in them. That is the method of preksā.
Acarya and Hémacandra wrote a book entitled Yoga Šāstra. It has twelve chapters. In the first eleven chapters he has discussed the traditional forms of meditation. In the last chapter he discusses some of his personal experiences. He has suggested that the practitioner should not try to supress his thought processes. Suppressed thoughts, ideas and desires get embedded into the unconscious and produce dangerous consequences.
One may ask, “Shall we not suppress even evil thoughts ?" The fact is that religious minded people are not so much conscious of their own evil thoughts as they are of those of others. They are busy framing rules and regulations to save others from evil. It so appears that religion thrives on the regimentation of its followers. Regimentation is not the means of purifying the heart. It simply suppresses symptoms of disease. Naturopathy does not try to suppress the symptoms of disease; it tries to eradicate them. The Āyurvēdic system of medicine also tries to do so. Modern medical practice tries to suppress disease instead of curing the partient of it. That which is suppressed will again emerge but not that which has been eradicated. One who tries to suppress the deluding effects of karma may enter into a passionless state of mind but as he has not eradicated the gerns of deluding karma which lie embedded in the soul, they continue to exist and as soon as they get a favourable occasion, they will manifest themselves and will strike at the very roots of the passionless state of the mind.
Suppression is dangerous Administrators believe in suppressing agitations but they forget that suppressed aspirations are dangerous. The practitioner should allow evil tendencies to pass through his mind. What he is to do is to avoid being involved in them. Evil thoughts which enter into
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