Raja Yoga Selection Number 85, for Sunday, June 3, 2012

[from Discourse II: "Sadhana Pada- On Spiritual Disciplines"]
II.26. VIVEKA-KHYATIR AVIPLAVA HANOPAYAH
'The means of destroying avidya is unbroken discrimination'.

Commentary:
The word 'viveka' is translated as discriminative cognition,
awareness of the distinction between the Self and non-Self, and awareness
of Reality. So the remedy for ignorance is the constant unwavering
awareness that the individual is but Brahman itself. This can only be
achieved through many years of conditioning the mind to turn to divine
thoughts each time worldly thoughts enter. This is the purpose of
meditation and other forms of 'sadhana'.

* More Patanjali Yoga Sutra verses with
commentary by Swami Vishnu-devananda
available at:
http://www.sivananda.org/publications/quotes/rajayoga_quote.html