Notes on two egos

 Two types of egos - man-made ego vs natural ego

Human process of ego

1. reactive and recursive, 

- feeding into or storing +

- recovering or processing residues. 

Like "object" in computer science - both data and behaviour (saṁskāras and vaasanaas) are stored

Natural process of ego

2. forward, real-time only sans local storage 

CPU without memory, 

without emotional memory 

Undammed flow. Laminar.

Instant empathy and compassion. Synchronising and acting in shorter and shorter time.

Human ego overlies natural ego

Man-made process over natural process.

Man-made flow over natural flow.

Notes on pratyāhāra

 pratyāhāra as turning inward

Examples

- from outer Master to inner Master

- from a moorthi   

      to its energy entity/being

      (both outside me), 

      to its inner presence 

      in my heart

- from outer sensations 

     to inner thought layers 

     to inner ideas

     to mental quiescence

- From sensations 

     to body sensors 

     to nerve signals 

     to brain processes 

     to non-physical processes 

     to silent vibrations

- from aakaar to niraakaar

- from aakaar to nirguNa

- from nirguNa 

     to na-sat+na-asat

     (nasadeeya sooktha)

 pratyāhāra as intake/eating of only one thing

Subtler meaning of concentration, but effort-less-ly, 

without anxiety or force:

- resting attention on something lightly and clearly

pratyāhāra also means 

mental training of attention 

on only one thing at a time 

in a subtle yet natural way:

- moving attention without stickiness from something

- attention both 

     resting lightly and 

     lifting lightly

- surround sounds/sensations technique 

- - first encountered in Bihar School of Yoga yoga nidrā book

- - applies tantra principle:

- -- "accept, then transcend or relinquish"

Also related, 

  across a larger timescale, 

  to saṁskāras

- emotional residues

     or stickiness to past events

So non-stickiness here as well.