🌹Patanjali Yoga Sutras🌹
🌀CHAPTER - 1🌀
~ Discipline Of Yoga ~
🌀DAY - 4🌀
" विपयॅयो मिथ्याज्ञानमतद्रूपप्रतिष्ठम् "
Pramaana is the knowledge that the mind is constantly engaged in arguments, in proofs, in knowledge, in analysing, or in wrong knowledge, wrong understanding, etc.
You could be arguing and being logical. You could be looking for proof, or you will have wrong understanding. You will think that things are the way that they are not. Most of the time you impose your own views, ideas, and feelings on others. You think that this is how the things are.
This activity of mind is called Viparyaya.
You may have an inferiority complex and, thereby, consider someone's behavior very arrogant. Actually, they are not arrogant, and you are not being ill-treated by them. But, you feel that you are being ill-treated. You feel that you have not been respected. It is because you don't respect yourself enough that you think that the others do not respect you. This tendency of your mind is Viparyaya.
Others will be shocked by the change in your behavior. They will wonder what has happened to you.
A very good friend of your suddenly starts being very rude to you and you wonder what has happened to him. You wonder what is that you have done to cause this. You don't understand that they are imagining things about you in their minds. It is not becaue they are bad or anything. It is this activity of the Chitta, of the mind becoming predominant.
Suddenly,people may feel that they are not being loved. Many parents have this problem with their children. They go so perplexed. They don't know what to do and how to prove their love to their children. Proof is of no importance once Viparyaya dominates. The Pramaana doesn't survive, and logic fails because the mind is now more active on the second modulation, the second Vritti, that is, Viparyaya. Only incorrect information sticks on. The correct knowledge appears briefly somewhere in their minds but returns to the background again, and the wrong information sticks on.
मिथ्याज्ञानमतद्रूपप्रतिष्ठम् - This is Viparyaya.
🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷