Patience, perseverance, and forbearance

The state of the mind is very much being determined by the degrees of patience, perseverance and forbearance, as well as adaptability and accommodation (the mental stamina, strength, and flexibility).

Under a higher degrees of patience, perseverance and forbearance, the mind is not easily be disturbed/frustrated/irritated/annoyed by the inevitable process of waiting for getting, achieving, or experiencing something that the mind likes and desires, as well as the process of dealing with something that the mind dislikes, disagrees with, and doesn't desire.

The mind that is highly impatient, lack of perseverance, and reluctant to forbear even the slightest physical or mental discomfort, is easily be disturbed/frustrated/irritated/annoyed by the inevitable process of waiting for getting, achieving, or experiencing something that the mind likes and desires, as well as the process of dealing with something that the mind dislikes, disagrees with, and doesn't desire.

It doesn't mean that the minds that are more or less patient, persevere, or forbearing than some other minds are better or worst human beings than the others. It's merely about the state of mind of the minds that are still functioning under the veil of ignorance and egoism, is very much being determined and influenced by the degrees of patience, perseverance, and forbearance, where the state of mind is also affecting their everyday life affair, behavior, action, reaction, decision making, physical and mental performance, interaction and relationship with others.

The mind that is lack of patience, perseverance, or forbearance could be having strong awareness and self-control of not wanting to generate any hurtful action or reaction that would hurt oneself and others under the disturbed state of mind due to the lack of patience, perseverance, or forbearance, and vice versa.

Patience, perseverance, and forbearance are something limited and conditional.

They are limited, because one can be patient, be persevered, and be forbearing, up to a certain extend, where fatigue or burnout will kick in, just like there is particular limitation in the physical stamina, strength, and flexibility.

They are conditional, because just as the physical stamina, strength, and flexibility, the degrees of patience, perseverance, and forbearance can be developed and empowered, where the limitation can be extended up to another extend, or they can be declining as well.

Both physical and mental stamina, strength, and flexibility, are limited and conditional. They are not the goal of the yoga practice.

The means of the yoga practice is about developing correct understanding, or realizing the truth of selflessness and impermanence, by eradicating the veil of ignorance, the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness from the selfless impermanent modification of the mind.

The one that needs to be patient, be persevered, and be forbearing towards this or that, that is less or more disturbed by this or that, is the ego, or the idea of 'I' in the mind.

Under the presence of correct understanding, or under the absence of ignorance, the idea of 'I', egoism, impurities, and restlessness, the selfless liberated mind doesn't even need to be patient, be persevered, or be forbearing towards anything.

Under the absence of the idea of 'I and egoism of attachment, identification, desire of craving and aversion, comparison, judgment, and expectation, the selfless perceptive cognitive intellectual emotional thinking and acting mind is not being determined or disturbed by the presence and absence of all kinds of names and forms that appeared to be pleasant or unpleasant, agreeable or disagreeable, desirable or undesirable, enjoyable or non-enjoyable, as well as what the worldly passionate egoistic minds think, believe, judge and categorize as good or bad, right or wrong, appropriate or inappropriate, auspicious or inauspicious, positive or negative, joyful or sorrowful, meaningful or meaningless, selfishness or unselfishness, deserving or undeserving, strength or weakness, success or failure, achievement or non-achievement, contribution or non-contribution, and so on, based on the many worldly passionate egoistic ways of thinking, beliefs, ideas, values, desires, aspirations, actions, reactions, and practices.

The mind that knows what is non-attachment towards the actions/duties/responsibilities/practice/ties and relationships and the fruit or the outcome of all that, or the mind that is dispassionate, desireless and intentionless, is a liberated mind.

Before the mind is free, the practice and the development and empowerment of patience, perseverance, and forbearance is highly useful and important. As Swami Sivananda taught, "Forbearance is the highest sadhana."

Be free.

Inquire the truth of everything.