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We are just a divided crowd. Yoga is the science of individuation. It is how to create the individual, how to crystallize this crowd into one, how to create a center which can be the master always, and how to put every slave in its place.
Then you will need a purification of your mind; you will need a catharsis -- a deep catharsis is needed then. You have to throw out all that is just contradictory; you have to create a harmony in your thoughts. And don't allow any thought to come in, because to allow it to be in is easy, but then to displace it from there is very difficult.
So the first thing is don't allow inside, thoughts which are not going to help create a harmony, and then go on searching for, and observing what contradictory thoughts you have. Be the chosen. Emphasize the thoughts which can create an inner peace and inner silence -- then you have a purified mental body. And with this body-transparent you can look beyond, and you can go to another body.
Beyond the mind-body is the fourth, the fourth body. The fourth body is known as the consciousness-body -- VIGYAN MAYKOS. It will be difficult, a bit difficult, to distinguish between the mental body and the conscious body, because we don't know any consciousness except the mind. But if the mind is purified, then you become simply aware that something else is still behind the mind, and the mind becomes a door. But we can understand....
You have thoughts -- that's one thing -- but you can be aware of your thoughts; and this awareness is not a thought at all. You have anger -- this is a thought, a thought process. You can be aware of it: "Now in me is running a thought process, a combination of thoughts which is known as anger, or jealousy, or love." You can be aware. You can stand out of it and be aware that this is anger. You can be aware, "This is a thought." This awareness that, "this is a thought," this observation, this possibility to observe the thought process, creates the fourth body. So everyone doesn't have the fourth body really developed, but only as a potentiality, only as a possibility.
When you become aware of your mind, only then you have the fourth body, and
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