April 08 2009

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The Power of Practice - The Alpha of Bliss - Patanjali Yoga Sutras 14

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Sadashiva Smarambam Shankracharya Madhyamam Asmadhacharya Paryantam Vande Guru Paramparam

Understand when Patanjali says, he says, “for a long time without interval, without interruption, practice, so that you can firmly be grounded.” He doesn't mean, actually, when he says this long time, he is not depressing you. People come and ask me. This long time word is misunderstood and responsible for all the confusions which is there in the yoga world. Almost every interpretation, has given a meaning, different or wrong meaning to this word. The moment you say long time, they say twelve years, nine years, seven years, ten years. But, I am not asking you to practice for long time means ten years, seven years, six years. No.

Decide you will live, you are going to practice eternally, you will achieve it now!! You will achieve it now. Ability to convince your inner space, you are going to do this forever, is what you need to learn through this sutra. Let me give you the translation again -

Committed and intense practice of Unclutching, makes one firmly established in a higher state of awareness.

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Deerghakala and Nairantarya means long time and unbroken. Mind is a great accountant. It can play all accounts game with you, and Patanjali is aware of that. That is why he wants you with the right words. He wants you with a, he is warning you with right words. Please understand any practice you do, decide with this one attitude. People ask me, this is a FAQ, again and again people ask me, “How many years should I unclutch to get Enlightened?” “How many years I should unclutch to get Enlightened”.

Unclutching is the ultimate technique for Enlightenment. Whenever I say continue to unclutch, continue to unclutch, continue to unclutch, they ask me, “Swamiji is it one year or two year, or three year; how many years I should unclutch to become enlightened”. Understand, decide, you are going to be Unclutching forever. The moment you decide you are going to be Unclutching forever, you will be unclutched this moment. Because your mind knows this is going to be its routine. See, your mind thrives with changes or hope for a change. If your mind knows for sure, I am going to be Unclutching as long as I am alive, it will decide better let me die now. If it has a hope after twelve years of Unclutching, you don't need to practice Unclutching, then it knows, ‘oh after twelve years there is a change’; because it thrives on change. It thrives on different things. That is why so much of desire for entertainment. So much of desire for entertainment. Even Enlightenment you think it’s a change. That is why you want it.

So much of desire for entertainment. People go on try to find some entertainment; because it's a change. Even inside entertainment different, different, different, different, different. Every three minutes you change the channel. In fifteen minutes you go one full round and come back; because mind thrives on change, mind thrives on change. When you know there is no possibility for change, suddenly you will see it just dies, it disappears, it leaves. When you are, when you decide there is not going to be any change, suddenly in an unexpected way, mind is killed. If you decide strongly, you are going to unclutch forever, this moment you will be unclutched, this moment you will be unclutched. In a very unexpected way mind will disappear.

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I have a story for you. A man goes into a bar and admires the stuffed lion's head mounted on the wall. “What a great trophy”, says the man to the bartender. That guy says, “I would not call it great, the damn lion killed my wife.” This guy asked, oh is it so, you were on a safari in Africa, or you were on a safari somewhere or hunting in the forest.” Bartender says “no, no, it fell on her head.”

Understand, many times death comes in an unexpected way. If you decide, that you are going to be Unclutching forever, the death to the mind comes unexpected way this moment… and suddenly mind settles all the accounts. See, if it knows it is going to be here forever, it continues to use the credit card and using the credit card is the best way to be here. The moment it knows, no, it is not going to be here, it suddenly settles all the accounts. It starts Unclutching, relaxing, settling.

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Committed and intense practice of Unclutching makes one firmly established in higher state of awareness. I can say, in the world there are different kinds of knowledge.

There are some kinds, just by listening to that knowledge you will have benefit of it.

There are some kind of knowledge, if you have access to it whenever you need, you will have benefit out of it.

Some knowledge just by listening once, understanding you will have benefit.

Some you need to again and again work with it, you need access to that knowledge to have benefit.

There are some knowledge only when you practice, you will have benefit.

Spiritual knowledge is the third type. You need to practice, live, practice, no other way. People come and ask me, “Is there any short cut Swamiji? I tell them “the one and only short cut is Practice, Practice, Practice.” The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. The shortest way is being straight. Practice nothing else. If you want the transformation, practice is the only way. How much ever you hear, how much ever you talk, how much ever you discuss, nothing can be done. Only one way – Practice, and clearly telling your mind you are going to practice eternally. With Unclutching, as long as you have a hope you can stop Unclutching at certain point, your mind will continue to exist, waiting for that point. The moment you decide ‘no, no, I am going to unclutch forever, forever’, suddenly your mind disappears, it loses its power over you.

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I have one more story. Two accountants are in a bar when armed robbers burst in. The robbers line the customers up against the wall and proceed to take their wallets, watches etc. The first accountant slips something into the second accountant's hand and whispers “Here is the fifty dollars I owe you.” When you know it is going to be taken away, you settle the accounts by yourself!!

Your mind is also the first accountant. When it knows nothing can be done, it has lost all his grounds, it just settles all the accounts. As long as it has a hope it can flow, it flows. When there is no hope it just settles. So, all you need to understand is this one Truth, only this one Truth. Today I don't want to add too many ideas, I want you to understand this one Truth, Dheergkala, Narantarya means eternal, unbroken. Decide today eternally, forever I am going to practice Unclutching. There is not going to be any gap. Whether I am walking or talking or sitting or whatever I may be doing, I am going to unclutch from whatever is happening inside me; whether I am walking or talking or sitting or sleeping or dreaming or day dreaming.

These are the five modifications of the mind - Right knowledge, Wrong knowledge and Imagination, Sleep, Memory. These are the five modifications constantly happening in you. Whatever modification may happen inside me I am going to unclutch. That clarity, that clarity, that understanding if you bring it, suddenly you will see all your negativity will lose its power over you. See your depression has a power over you, as long as you believe it can come again and again to you. If you are very strong, “let the depression come, how many times let it come, I am going to unclutch.” Suddenly it loses its grip over you, it loses its grip over you. If the depression knows, it can really put you in depression, it again and again repeats. If it knows you are going to unclutch again and again, how many time it tries, it struggles, you are going to unclutch, suddenly it will stop trying. Nobody wants to fight losing war, including your depression.

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Your whole life is nothing but a war between you and your mind. It's a war between you and your mind. So the moment you know, the moment you are aware, the moment you are awakened to this one Truth, understand, please understand this one Truth. Decide - whatever may happen I am going to unclutch. I tell you that moment is what I call Enlightenment. If you decide that this moment ‘whatever, whatever may happen in my life I am going to be continuously practicing Unclutching’, suddenly you know, ‘then, whatever is going to happen I am going to practice Unclutching. Then why should I have fear, why should I bother about anything else, why should I have any fear or any idea about anything.’ You will see mind just unclutches. Mind just unclutches.

So I want you to fill with this one idea, I want to fill you with this one idea, I want you to be filled with this one idea, decide today ‘from this moment whatever may happen I'll continue to unclutch. I am going to have the constant intense practice - Dheergkala, Nairantarya, committed and intense practice of Unclutching.’ This very decision will unclutch you. After, practicing is secondary. This very decision will unclutch you, will solve everything. The moment you take this decision, your mind will start moving saying ‘no, no, no, if that depression comes you can't unclutch, if this fear comes you can't unclutch, if this desire comes you won't be able to unclutch,’; it will tease you. You say ‘no, I am going to be Unclutching constantly. Whatever may come, I am going to be Unclutching.’ Then it will create the fear of death, what will happen if you die, you think you will unclutch. Who will pay your bills, who will pay your insurance, who will pay your this, who will pay that. If you take a strong understanding, if you bring firm understanding, ‘no, whatever it may be I am going to unclutch.’ That one strong will, suddenly mind unclutches.

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Patanjali explains beautifully in the next sutra, a deeper method, a deeper layer of this same understanding. Next sutra is about Vairagya, the conscious withdrawal. He beautifully describes, the deeper layer of this technique. The conscious withdrawal from the objects of the senses of the body, mind and spirit. He explains about the conscious withdrawal, for this eternal Unclutching. We will see about this idea tomorrow, go to the deeper layers of this idea tomorrow. Let you be filled with this one understanding, that decide, decide, that committed and intense practice of Unclutching, makes one firmly established in a higher state of Consciousness. Only that makes you, established in a higher state of Consciousness.

Many people think they are professional seekers, they don't need to practice. I have seen, ‘no, no, no, I practiced all kinds of techniques for ten years, twenty years. Nowadays I don't practice anything, I just read and go around and listen to some things. Understand, just because you are senior, don't think without practice things can happen; maybe in the outer world it will happen. If you are a senior lawyer, you don't have to do anything, just have few junior lawyers they will do everything. You are senior accountant you don't have to do anything, just your juniors will do everything. It will work in the outer world not in the inner world.

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I have a story for you. An accountant goes into the pet store, I'll read it out for you. I don't want to miss a word. An accountant goes into a pet store to buy a parrot. The store owner shows him three identical parrots and a perch. “The parrot on the left costs 500 dollars” says the owner. “Why does the parrot cost so much?” asked the accountant. “It knows how to do complex audits”, says the store owner. The guy asked, “How much does the middle parrot cost?” asked the accountant. “That one costs 1000 dollar”, owner replies. He says “it can do everything the first one can, plus it knows how to prepare financial forecast.” Accountant asked about the third parrot, “It costs 4000 dollars.” Accountant asked “so what all that one can do.” The store owner says, “to be honest I have never seen him do anything, but the other two parrots call him as a senior partner.”!!!

May be in the outer world if you are senior, you don't need to do anything. But in the inner world practice, practice, practice. 21:53

Even in our mission I have seen, these guys the moment they become an organizer, or senior devotee or think that they have become senior devotee, they don't do any meditation. ‘Ahh its ok, now I have to only teach.’ Understand, the senior accountant works only in the outer world not in the inner world. So whoever you may be, practice has to become eternal. Actually when you decide the practice is eternal, suddenly the whole thing gets unclutched and practice ends there. When practice ends, there will be nobody to practice. As long as there is somebody inside you to practice, practice. As long as there is somebody inside, something going on inside, Unclutch. Only when there is nothing, then there is no Unclutching. WHEN THE UNCLUTCHER DISAPPEARS INTO UNCLUTCHING, UNCLUTCHING ENDS. Till then Unclutching continues, continues, continues.

So continue your Unclutching till the unclutcher disappears into Unclutching. Let you all achieve this Truth and live, radiate Living Enlightenment, Jeevan Mukti. Let you all achieve and radiate the eternal bliss. Nithyananda! Thank you!

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Prayer. Welcome. As you are aware we are celebrating Chitrai Brahmotsavam marriage ceremony of Devi. This is the largest religious gathering in all the 5 states of southern India. The divine ceremony of the marriage of Meeankshi & Sundareshwara. All 10 days we will have different rituals like puja, homa and the devi’s marriage ceremony, coronation ceremony. Everyday Devi will grace devotees appearing in one one sacred vehicle. Today Meenakshi is on the sacred vehicle ‘swan.’ We call it Hamsa Vahana in Sanskrit. The significance of the swan is liberated consciousness. Whoever is liberated consciousness – paramahamsa devi resides in them. Sundareshwara literally means the lord of grace, beauty. He is gracing on the throne each day both of them will be gracing in diff sacred vehicles. To mark Meenakshi’s presence, these 10 days all paadukaas will give kumkum all over the world. let us work on Devi’s energy today. At least 5 places should have kumkum today – Ohio, San Jose, Oman, Seattle, Malaysia & Phoenix. All these places will have kumkum. San Jose will have Devi’s footprint on the floor today and at least one auspicious leela each day. Jasmine is Meenakshi’s favorite flower. So today in San Jose Jasmine flower will appear on Devi & Paadukaas. From Madhurai directly it will come there! Madhurai is famous for Jasmine flower. You will see that Madhurai Jasmine is a unique variety flower. Exactly that variety flower will come in San Jose. This will prove that the flower has directly come from Madhurai. It will come directly from the Garbha Mandir of Devi Madhura Meenakshi deity in Madhurai. That Jasmine Madhurai Malli flower will appear on San Jose Meenakshi to prove her presence in San Jose. Jasmine is not available in the U.S. so nobody can suspect that they bought it from a shop and put it. Let you all be blessed with Meenakshi’s presence – Sundareswara’s grace. Vedic Tradition celebrates life so much! One side we can celebrate Shiva’s marriage ceremony with Devi, other side we can celebrate Shiva being in Samadhi and as Dakshina Murthy – Suddha Sanyasi initiating people into enlightenment. Vedic tradition has vast space for everything! Life is celebrated, accepted as it is! Life with all its paradoxes is accepted as it is! I continue on the same sutra today - 145th Patanjali Yoga Sutras, 3rd chapter 39th verse Bandha karaana saitilyaath prachaara samvedanaascha chithasya para sareera aveshaha When the bondages are loosened, you have the freedom to unclutch from your body & enter into any other body which is living or dead or creating new body. A person who is able to unclutch casually from his body radiates intense presence. Practically even the levitation is nothing but part of me entering your body. that’s all. My presence when it penetrates your nervous system and awakens your inner potential energy that is what happens as inner potential energy, that is what happens as awakening of your inner kundalini energy, that is what happens as spiritual experience. When the presence is loosened in your body. when your presence is loosened in your body, you become omni-present. Omni-present the word needs to be understood. If you are caught inside one nervous system, your presence is limited just to what you feel as you that one small body. if you start the practice of loosening the ability to get in or get out of one system, 2 things happen to you – 1. You start becoming omni-present. 2nd you have the tremendous love and compassion because you start feeling your presence everywhere. You start feeling you happening everywhere, the tremendous love & compassion to the whole happens. 146th Patanjali Yoga Sutras, 3rd chapter 40th verse Udana Jayaath Jala Pankha Kantaka Aadishu asangha udkraanthischa Vivekananda: When he has conquered the current called Udana, the yogi does not sink in water or in swamps he can walk on thorns and so forth he can die at will Prabhavananda: By controlling the nerve currents that govern the will and upper parts of the body, the yogi can walk on swamps or thorns or similar objects and he can die at will Satchitananda: By mastery over the udana nerve current the upward vital air one, accomplishes levitation over water, swamps, thorns etc and can leave the body at will O: By mastering the current Udana, the yogi is able to levitate and pass without contact on water, myre and thorns. Udana is the keyword in this sutra. Patanjali is giving us one more samyama. Mainly this samyama is taught to us for the purpose of Iccha Mrityu – means you can leave the body at will. When you master this samyama, the 1st thing that happens to you is levitating on the water means ability to float on the water. But that is not the goal of the samyama. The goal of the samyama is to leave the body at will. Udana means the vital air energy which operates in your lungs in the upper direction. The energy which flows in the upper body filling your lungs and takes care of all the vital parts is called Udana. In yogic tradition praana is 5 – praana, vyaana, udaana, apaana, samaana. In Siddha Tradition it is 10. I will give you techniques based on yogic, siddha and hata yoga – all 3 for levitation and control on water and to decide the death at will. Decision to leave the body as you want and when you want. Today let me introduce this sutra. Then I will speak elaborately on the technique. 1st the sacred secret in this sutra is decision to leave the body at will should be mastered by all human beings. The science of leaving the body at will should be the basic lesson and this should be like a right to education. Just like how all Governments insist that every child has right for education, unfortunately the education does not focus on the basis that the child needs to live to its ultimate potential and its ultimate possibility. The right understanding about human beings does not exist properly so the purpose is confused and so the education system is confused and everything is confusion. In my education system for the new man I will say that the right education is that everyone should know the science of leaving the body at will because you happen in planet earth to exhaust certain amount of karma. If you can retain yoru Udana on your lungs till that karma exhausts, you will have the freedom to choose whether to go for one more body or not. So I can say this should be the right to education for every child happening on planet earth. Wherever my devotees, followers who trust what I am teaching, inspire your society, communities to make this as a mandatory thing for all human beings – all human beings should have the right to education to know the science of leaving the body at will. It is possible. It is clear practicable science available in hata yogic siddha practices. Every human being should have right to this education - The method to control and manage the Udana – the vital energy which functions in you and ability to leave the body when you want at your will. It is not suicide. Understand. It is the natural process but you will have the control over your praana and Udaana movements so that you can leave the body when you want and as you want by your will. I will give you techniques and detailed sacred secrets in this sutra in tomorrow’s satsang. Before we end the satsang, you can all watch the naishtika Brahmacharya ceremony and enjoy. There are some 32 steps to be precise in the sanyas initiation. This is one step before the naishtika Brahmacharya is given. Blessings!

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