Yoga Sutra II- 26 - VIVEKAKHYATIR AVIPLAVA HANOPAYAH - Uniniterrupted discriminative discernment is the method for its removal.The word Viveka is used in this sutra. According to http://www.oaklandsyda.org/siddhayoga/glossary.html#vairagya - VIVEKA: (lit., discrimination; distinction) The faculty of discretion that enables a human being to distinguish between true and false, reality and illusion.
Swami Satchidananda begins the commentary on this sutra by describing it as viveka - (the Sanskrit for discrimination.) "You try to understand and see the permanent aspect in everything and ignore the impermanent aspect. The entire world has these two aspects: permanent and impermanent; or the never-changing and the ever-changing. The essence of everything is the same, but it appears in many forms and names." He goes on to tell us that on the level of form we are ever-changing. "Even a minute ago you were different." "According to the Yogic system, the entire body changes in a period of twelve years; in other words, you do not have even one cell that was there twelve years ago."
The discrimination spoken about in this sutra is discernment- the quality of being able to grasp and comprehend what is obscure. "The real discrimination is to tell the original basic Truth from the ever-changing names and forms It assumes." Swami Satchidananda tells us that if we could remember the basic Truth we would never be upset or disappointed over the changes of forms or names. Our minds would be steady and he reminds us of a prayer that states "Lead us from the unreal to real, from darkness to light, from death to immortality."
Finally, an analogy is given of the various changes a log of wood goes through being made into different products, ultimately the same basic substance remains. To remember this, uninterruptedly as the sutra states, we would never lose or gain anything and put an end to unhappiness.
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