Sutra 2.53

Sutra 53. So what is the consequence of the awareness practicing, tracing the subtle patterns of the movements of the life force and the breath. So as we track those movements, those retentions, those inhales, those exhales, those movements in and out, those cyclical frequencies. All of those things do with the life force. What happens? Of the manners The manner switch is that part of our awareness that links the input of the Indra of the SENSE powers and the action powers, with the internal instruments of our awareness, the Anta Karina, that becomes fit for concentration.

This word, concentration from, in Italian, from the baton to be with the center. So the manas becomes fit to stand in its true play. So maybe let me say that better. The manners is able to sit in and execute its true office So let's look at the tatfus sheet once once more, the yellow tatfus sheet. And if we look at this sheet, we'll see where is manners Manus is right above the 10 in Riaha, and it's part of the those internal instruments. So Munness is on the border.

Munness is that part of our awareness that serves to link everything that we experience from the outside with our internal awareness. And here potentially says that when we work with those pranamma practices, when our awareness follows the movements of the life force, When it's as if they suspend, everything becomes super subtle, then it's much easier for the manners to be truly centered and be the bridge between the external and the internal. Now if we're not feeling particularly centered and the manas is the bridge, there's all of this stuff coming from the outside. And we don't feel very settled inside. And the manners can be this, realm or plain or interface of a commotion and disturbance.

And whirling conafusion. The idea here when we start to attune to the deeper rhythms of our own being, and we bring ourselves into rhythm with the cosmos, with life. When we work with the movements of the life force, that can be the means to train not just our mind, not just our breath, but to train the whole system in the ways of concentration. To be centered, to be balanced, to be integrated. So we see here the beautiful what's the right word to say this?

The beautiful interplay of the different limbs, how they're so complimentary So yamaniyaman, these are ways that help us behave and enact principles that cultivate steadiness. Arsenal, reaffirming deepening that sustainable, easefulness, and steadiness, pranayama, then the life force becomes that much more subtle. And then when we're able to actually navigate this whirling wonder of life, in a subtle, from a subtle robustly steady center, then We can actually experience the richness of life from a concentrated place. Now, think of that word concentration, where there is a concentration of energy, a lot more can happen. When there is a concentration of color, it can catch our eye.

When there is a concentration of awareness, How will we likely feel there? We're much more like to feel wholly satisfied when the awareness is concentrated. When the awareness is scattered here and there, we're never really feeling whole. And so the primacy of concentration of being centered, balanced, integrated in the yogic method. And so as we work with Yamani Yama, Usna Plana, remember when potentially introduced the date lims, he said, by the constant steady cultivation of the ungers, the limbs of yoga, then our awareness can become more and more discerning, and we can reach through to that.

We can access that state in which our awareness is able to actually experience with clarity, discernment. The depth of reality that we're part of. So here, this emphasis on when we're working with a yoga technique, what are we working for? Pranayama, we could get carried away with, oh, now I can hold my breath for 5 minutes, or now I can just take you know, I can inhale 1 minute, and exhale 1 minute, and inhale 70 seconds, and exhale 70 seconds. Very impressive.

But is it actually making me more centered? More integrated. Same with arsenal. Oh, maybe I can do a 1 finger hand stamp with a foot wrap behind the head, and the other hand in some fancy Boag Mudra. Well and good, but is my yoga arsenal practice helping my whole being be more centered. Recently, people like the word embodiment has become much more frequently heard in yogic parlance.

But I would suggest that yoga is not just about embodying a state of Tiras will come. It means we want to be enacting it in all our actions. We want to be ensold. We want to be inspired. We want all these different aspects of our awareness to be centered and congruent and cohesive.

And I think this is really what the sutra's saying. When the monnus becomes sentient, When the life force is coursing through cycling through pulsating through the field of our being in a way. And when we are attuned to that, then the lens of our awareness can actually become clearer and open us up to experience more of what's really available right here and right now.