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something to which we are attached. Yoga views the process of leaving, the process of becoming detached, in the form of an attainment. It says that when you are climbing a ladder, then you are concentrating on the effort of attaining the next step, because if you miss that step there is a tendency to lose your balance and fall.
So, the entire awareness, the entire concentration is directed to the process of attainment, and the process of leaving happens naturally, unconsciously. You do not have to think about it consciously. When climbing the staircase we focus on the next step we are going to take and forget about the step we had taken before. It is the paranoia of an individual which makes him aware of leaving that which is already behind. Yoga emphasizes the process of attainment because it is through attainment that you can naturally and spontaneously overcome many of the insecurities which restrict your vision. This is the aim of yogic psychology.
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