Pre-concieved notions arise in the mind as
a result of past learning. These learning experiences reinforced, are
stored in the mind as emotions towards our attachments and aversions
regarding all things we have interacted with and gathered information
about through any of our five sense - taste, sight, touch, smell, and sound.
Savitarka Exercise
In Savitarka samapattih exercises, we meditate on an object or introspect on thoughts, feelings, and emotions
that we felt through the course of the day and reflect on how the object or feeling got its name (sabda),
what is its meaning (artha) to us in the context we experienced it, how and where did we the knowledge
about this object (jnana) we are reflecting upon and what the psyche(mind and body) imagines and feels
when thinking of this object (vikalpaih).
It is the word as name, that triggers a certain feeling and all the associated memories of it in our mind. Then according
to the experiences we had undergone at the hands of this particular named object, including people, emotions floods our being.
The first order of business for any Yogi is to isolate and understand all their thoughts, emotions, intentions, and reactions
associated with the attachments and aversions of their beliefs and prejudices. An accurate and complete cognitive map is needed
before the Yogi can advance further in the study of Yoga.
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