Sense Organs

Just began reading the Spiritual Science of Kriya Yoga by Goswami Kriyanada.

Cool things so far:
We are more than mind.
The -anada suffix means "Bliss".
While most abstentions are important at the Intellectual, Verbal and Physical level, Verbal celibacy (refraining from crude sex jokes) is not necessary as long as everyone is laughing.

The sense organs create sense-memory constructs, but have no judgmental, evaluative or discriminatory faculties. It is the purpose of the intellect to figure out what is important holistically and what is merely for the titillation (the most appropriate word ever) of the sense organs.

The sense organs reach out and attach to things, causing the mind to desire them. The mind either gets these things and becomes fearful of loss, or does not and becomes distresed. Neither circumstance is beneficial.

Vish is the word for poison, vishaya is the word for sense organs.

Training the mind is like training the dog, the more it is rewarded by transgression the less progress will be made. The purpose of Yoga is to bring the consciousness mind into the subconscious. If the overweight person thinks about and suppresses thoughts of candy bars all day, they did not abstain, even if they ate no candy.

That which is taken from or denied you is actually converted into something you need more dearly.