4.1-4.3 Means of attaining experience Patanjali lists five ways of attaining enlightened experiences. The first three (through birth, herbs or mantra) are the most likely to fail, and the last two, through tapas and mediation are the most likely to succeed in continuous enlightenment. He explains that unlike the rest of the world which requires action and adding something to your life to learn. To achieve spiritual enlightenment, one must do less, or remove obstacles rather than add to your thoughts, you must remove them.
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4.4-4.6 Advanced use of mind
Though the mind does many things it is only one mind that produces all of them. When the mind is schooled in meditation it can focus on one thing at a time and control and let go of the monkey mind and all samskaras.
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4.7-4.8 Actions and karma
Patanjali explains that actions of one of three types for the majority of people. They are either black (bad, not useful or tamasic), grey (of mixed usefulness, rajasic) or white (good, useful, sattvic). These actions in turn create more impression of their type which must be worked off later. The enlightened yogini however has actions which no impressions, that transcend the gunas and kleishas. Swamji suggests that one can start along this path by forming new non-coloured habits/actions which will build over time.
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