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'''Abhyāsa''', in [[Hinduism]], is a spiritual practice which is regularly and constantly practised over a long period of time. It has been prescribed by the great sage [[Patanjali]] in his [[Yoga Sutras]], and by [[Krishna]] in the [[Bhagavad Gita]] as an essential means to control the mind, together with [[Vairāgya]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/society/faith/Abhyasa-and-Vairagya/article16801277.ece|title=Abhyasa and Vairagya|date=2016-12-13|work=The Hindu|access-date=2020-01-11|language=en-IN|issn=0971-751X}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.thehindu.com/society/faith/abhyasa-yoga/article20390249.ece|title=Abhyasa yoga|date=2017-11-13|work=The Hindu|access-date=2020-01-11|language=en-IN|issn=0971-751X}}</ref>
Sutra 1:12 "Both practice (abhyāsa) and non-reaction ([[vairāgya]]) are required to still the patterning of consciousness."<ref name="blurbwire">{{cite web|title=Abhyasa|url=http://www.blurbwire.com/topics/abhyasa|publisher=Blurbwire|accessdate=26 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141025112315/http://www.blurbwire.com/topics/abhyasa|archive-date=2014-10-25|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Sutra 1:13 "Practice is the sustained effort to rest in that stillness."—as translated by Chip Hartranft in his work ''The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali''.<ref name="blurbwire" /> According to [[Krishnananda Saraswati|Swami Krishnananda]] sutra 1:13 means "Abhyasa or practice is the effort to fix one's own self in a given attitude." Prolonged periods of practice within a given attitude to align ourselves with our soul's freedom, this is practice. Our attitude is fixing series of mistakes by ourselves such that we "tend to greater and greater stages of freedom of the soul, and a lessening and decreasing of the intensity of bondage."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Maharaj |first1=Swami Krishnananda |title=The Study and Practice of Yoga - Swami Krishnananda |url=https://www.swami-krishnananda.org/patanjali/raja_28.html |website=www.swami-krishnananda.org |accessdate=28 June 2019}}</ref>
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