RATTLING OF THE APPLIED AND SUSTAINED THINKING BY THE TENDENCIES.

After subduing the distractive thinking in Anger, Desires, Lust, Ego and in Ignorance (Ideas and Opinions) plus in Neutral Thoughts, one applies a 'thought', to be with the 'Attention on the breathing', a 'thought about the breathing'. Then he continues to maintain the 'applied thought', thus avoiding all other thoughts he subdued.

This 'Applied and Sustained thought' about the breathing helps to keep the attention on the breathing, making the practitioner of the Bhavana to know the each and every 'in and out breathing' in two ways, when he detects the breathing by the Attention.

First, the Attention is payed to the breathing to Cognize the Breathing. Then the Cognization of the breathing is translated to the 'Applied and Sustained thought' of the Breathing, thus 'knowing' the breathing as thought as well, and the Attention 'knows' this 'thought' too. Hence, the attention 'knows' the breathing by cognization as well as it knows the breathing by subsequent 'Applied and Sustained thought'. 

One may find this 'Applied and Sustained thought' is getting rattled at the beginning.
That is, it is getting wavered, pulled to this side or to that side. This happens due to the 'tendencies' of the subdued thinking of Anger, Desires, Lust, Ego and in Ignorance (Ideas and Opinions) plus Neutral Thoughts. They are trying to manifest again. Once, the practitioner realizes the effect of these 'tendencies' of Anger, Desires, Lust, Ego and in Ignorance (Ideas and Opinions) plus Neutral Thoughts, which are trying to manifest, those 'tendencies' can be put way. Thus one comes to the 'Applied and Sustained thought' in honesty, wanting only to be with the 'Applied and Sustained thought', but not desiring to think anything else, in accordance with the tendencies. This means the Attention on the Breathing and the attention on the 'Applied and Sustained thought' are unified, and one comes to the First Jhanic Samadi.

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