Influence of Core-Self

The influence of the core-self is the question which yogis stammer about when they try to provide a truthful answer, as to how influential the core-self is and how much of its power is not its own but is the autonomy of the psychic adjuncts to which the core-self is harnessed, irrespective of whether the core-self desires to be enslaved or not.

In meditation a yogin is supposed to be free from the conventional mento-emotional operations. However this requirement of Patanjali Mahayogin is hard to comply with because as nature would have it the core-self discovered itself to be without that hoped-for autonomy, with itself being controlled by the adjuncts but in a control situation where it is entertained, and afflicted in various ways, which excite and keep it bewildered.

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What is your general state of mind when you sit to meditate?

Do you struggle to keep the conventional mento-emotional operations silent?

Do these cease of their own accord, when you sit to meditate, so that you are in a blank mental space where you are not influenced especially by the adjunct which creates thoughts and images, which collects and processes memories, which re-enacts pleasant and unpleasant feelings?

What is your influence in the forehead during meditation?

Can you stop all thoughts which arise as soon as you perceive them?