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So in the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Maharishi Patanjali says clearly, the purpose of yoga is to restrain the modulations of the mind, the vruttis. Restraining the vruttis.

And he says that any practice, the practice of yoga involves some many spiritual techniques. These techniques, for them to bear fruit, takes a sufficiently long time. Satudirga kaala, that's the word he uses, sufficiently long time.

What I've been noticing is that when somebody starts doing a spiritual practice, the instruction is to do the practice non-stop for 40 days. The reason for 40 days is that then the practice becomes natural and then you keep doing it. It's like a good habit takes 40 days to form.

40 days, however, is not sufficiently long time. Sufficiently long time is a really, really, really long time — if the practices are done *nairantarya*, without interruption. If the practices are not done without interruption, it becomes a really, really, really, really, really long time.