The 11th Sutra of the Sadhanpadah gives another technique of removal and destroying of the treshas. And the Sutra is very simple and very important.
ध्या॒नहे॒यास्तद्वृत्तयः ॥ २.११॥
Dhyāna heyastad vṛttayaḥ
Dhyāna heya tad vṛttayaḥ
That is the Sutra. Dhyāna heya tad vṛttayaḥ Dhyāna is Dhyāna. Meditation, commonly known. Heya is the possibility of being destroyed. Tat is there or its vṛttis is the as we have seen are the functional modifications of the citta. So the vṛttis of the kleśas, kleśa vṛttis that is kleśas, the vṛttis of the kleśas, that is the tat, tat vṛttis, vṛttis of the kleśas or kleśas themselves can be destroyed Heya and it can be done by dhyāna. So vṛttis of the kleśas can be destroyed by the practice of, the process of dhyāna. So dhyāna is another method for curving, destroying or abolishing, removing kleśas. Kleśa tanu karaṇārthaśca, we have seen the Sutra. And this kleśas can be removed, eliminated and here the process suggested, proposed, presented by Maharishi Patanjali is dhyāna.
We should remember that as the subtle practices become subtle like if there is dirt in the clothes, dirty clothes the outer dust on the clothes can be just removed by just shaking physically, but strong, deeper subtle, sūkṣma level dirt in the form of oil marks or any other stains, they can be removed only by a stain remover, more subtle practices. So the gross kleśas or gross vṛttis can be removed by gross practices like Kriya Yoga at the physical level, intellectual and at the emotional level. But if they are subtle and deeper it needs a deeper practice.
Dhyāna is like that. And for the deeper staining special means is to be used. In the same way, the surface mental processes arising from the stains they need a subtle practice.
So for sthūla we use the Kriya Yoga or we have to use easier removal techniques but for sūkṣma sūkṣma techniques and that is how Dhyāna is more sūkṣma, more deeper and more important in removing, destroying heyā of the kleśas. And that is how Dhyāna is presented here. And of course, Swami Vivekananda beautifully summarizes this particular aspect in his commentary on this sutra Swamiji, "meditation is one of the great means of controlling the rising of these big waves." Each kleśa is a wave. So meditation is one of the great means of controlling the rising of these big waves. By meditation you can make the mind subdue these waves. And if you go on practicing meditation for days, months, years until it has become a habit until, it will come in spite of yourself anger and hatred will be controlled and checked. So meditation has to become a habit, a nature. Then all these waves of citta vṛttis as Swami Vivekananda beautifully said wave after wave the turbulence in the ocean of citta that can be subdued by the practice of meditation, Dhyāna.
Here, we should remember and we should be careful when the word Dhyāna is used it is not just some simple, normal easily available meditation techniques. It's not that. This method is Dhyāna of course but the word Dhyāna is not to be understood by some meditation technique, some Dhyāna system like that but it is to be strictly understood as defined by Maharishi Patanjali. Of course, in the third pada in the Vibhuti pada, the second sutra deals with that. Pratyayaikatānatā, he calls it that Pratyayaikatānatā's method, system that is the Dhyāna which we shall see in later sutras.
Then alone these vṛttis become heyāḥ and it's not just a simple easy method of course because the practice and the technique both are very subtle. So the words which we have seen earlier in the Samadhi pada, in the fifth sutra that kliṣṭa and akliṣṭa that doesn't mean totally devoid of kleśas and the word kliṣṭa and akliṣṭa of the vṛttis comes from the same root kleśa so that is why here also the word vṛttis have come. Dhyāna heyās tad vṛttayaḥ So in this sense with the process of Dhyāna the vṛttis become gradually less and less kliṣṭa and ultimately akliṣṭa in the sense that they do not give any perceptible expressive in our practical life. That's why in most of the spiritual and yogic methods and techniques Dhyāna is very much preferred suggested and taken up as a practice but we should remember what Swami Vivekananda said that "meditation has to become a habit" then only the big waves of kleśa vṛttis will be subdued mastered and let us see the next sutra what Patanjali describes discusses about the kleśas.
Oṃ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ.
ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः||
To Be Continued.. ---------------------------------------- These are transcription of session delivered by Vice-President of Vivekananda Rock Memorial & Vivekananda Kendra, Sri M. Hanumantha Rao Ji. Audio Link - https://youtu.be/XkI4NZsCRTc?si=NhGuaDcDZ7vbZFWS
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