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  ======================================================================================================== Monday 10, January 2025, 011:30. Yoga&Meditation Yoga as a Universal Science-10-3 Chapter 10: Brahmacharya – An Outlook of Consciousness-3.  Swami Krishnananda. =================================================================================== The Havoc Wrought by the Externalising Senses: In one of the sutras, Patanjali tells us that sensory contact with things is not the way of relieving tension caused by desires, because desires cannot be removed by any kind of sensory contact. Our desire is not for the contact. That is the whole point, though it appears that the senses tell us to come in contact with various things in the world for the relief of our tension. We are not asking for things. Nobody wants anything in this world finally. But, it appears as if we are wanting them, due to a mischievous interpretation given to these circumstances by our senses, by externa...