Surrendering all activities to Him, even passion, wrath and pride, etc., are to be employed in that (connection only).
The most effective way to become free of any bondage, whether that of passion (“woman's beauty”), or the wish to ridicule or revile (scurrilous literature), or wrath, indignation and violence (the doings of the enemies of Love), is to abstract the mind from such tendencies, and fix it upon something else. Listening to and talking of these things only implants seeds in the mind which may germinate.
Vitarka bādhane prati-paksha-bhāvanam.
“For expelling a doubtful subject (practise) pondering upon its opposite.”
Patañjali.
Verse 65 seems strange. Supposing a man to have passion, wrath and pride so strong that he cannot subdue them, then let him try to fix his passion in an intense devotion to God as the Beautiful and Perfect. If he has wrath, let him pour it out upon himself, upon his own shortcomings. If he has pride, let him be proud of his “friendship” with God, that God is his Lover. So in time these weaknesses become gradually transmuted.
The most effective way to become free of any bondage, whether that of passion (“woman's beauty”), or the wish to ridicule or revile (scurrilous literature), or wrath, indignation and violence (the doings of the enemies of Love), is to abstract the mind from such tendencies, and fix it upon something else. Listening to and talking of these things only implants seeds in the mind which may germinate.
Vitarka bādhane prati-paksha-bhāvanam.
“For expelling a doubtful subject (practise) pondering upon its opposite.”
Patañjali.
Verse 65 seems strange. Supposing a man to have passion, wrath and pride so strong that he cannot subdue them, then let him try to fix his passion in an intense devotion to God as the Beautiful and Perfect. If he has wrath, let him pour it out upon himself, upon his own shortcomings. If he has pride, let him be proud of his “friendship” with God, that God is his Lover. So in time these weaknesses become gradually transmuted.