After some time doing advanced meditation which consists of the samyama process of Patanjali yoga, one may find that the sensual outreach does not occur with such rapidity as it did before.

Normally, the senses move for their objects with such rapidity as to be instantaneous, such that the coreSelf cannot control this, because the sensual procurement acts happen in an instant. By the time the core, realizes what happened, it is unable to do anything about it, because the decisions to procure objects, and then to assess their worth is such a rapid operation, that the core only gets the opportunity to consent to the selections.

In higher meditation however, a yogi may have an increase in the speed of sense activity, such that the rapidity of sensual grasping continues as before, but the yogi’s perception of it is so rapid, that he/she perceives the sensual movements in slow motion, where he/she can stop the actions, just as sometimes one observes that a running mouse is grasp by the paw of a cat. Even though the rodent runs rapidly as it would, the mouse’s fast movement appears to be slow to the cat’s vision ability and its super-rapid limb movement.

The action of the yogi in perceiving the sensual grasping, occurs in three phases of perception. These are listed.

·       converging to capture the sense object

·       effort to grasp and rearrange the said object, so that it provides maximum pleasure

·       realization that the psyche can or cannot capture the required object

The quest of the senses, to target, and acquire, or reject, particular objects, is ongoing It is nonstop. It is eternally transpiring. And yet, a yogi should make the effort to curb it.