The four modes of action

 

Nigraha means control. 

Agraha means insistence. 

Satyagraha means steadfast determination. 

Duragraha means blind adamancy, reckless stubbornness. 


These four allow you to progress when practiced for just a limited period of time and will give limited results, positive or negative. But if practiced for a long period of time, they will eat away the potential of life. You have to transcend all four to attain peace. 


Freedom is when you transcend all four – control, insistence, determination and adamancy. They are inevitable to streamline life, but you need to transcend them to be free.