July 18 2010
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Nithyananda on Yoga Sutras: Patanjali Gives Immediate Solutions first, then Ultimate Enlightenment
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In this discourse taken from latest Patanjali Yoga Sutras, Paramahamsa Nithyananda talks about how people forget their immediate problems and aim to solve ultimate problems. Patanjali is a master who gives immediate solutions which leads to the ultimate solution - enlightenment.
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Nithyananda on Yoga Sutras: Patanjali Gives Immediate Solutions first, then Ultimate Enlightenment
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Nithyananda on Yoga Sutras: Practice, Psychological & Physiological Mutation, Surrender and More
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In this powerful exposition on Patanjali Yoga Sutras, Paramhamsa Nithyananda describes the first sutra (aphorism ) of Sadhana Pada (Chapter on Practice). He describes Tapas (penance) is great detail in terms of psychological and physiological mutations. He further talks about surrender in greater detail and narrates a beautiful story of Tirunavakkarasu (one of the 63 Shaivite enlightened saints) and his depth of surrender.
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Nithyananda on Yoga Sutras: Practice, Psychological & Physiological Mutation, Surrender and More
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Sunday, July 18, 2010
Today we are entering into the sutras of Patanjali which describes Saadhana Paata. The word Saadhana needs to be understood deeply and very strongly. I can say the whole world is in Saadhana. Only difference is without knowing what for they are in. Whole world is doing saadhana even inhaling and exhaling breathing. Everthing we do is saadhana. Only problem is, we do not know what for we are doing saadhana. Morning we are doing saadhana for one thing, evening for totally diff thing. And it gets nullified by night and the place of destruction is the body. Every breath is saadhana. The very flow of life and consciousness is saadhana. All you need to do is understanding the purpose and making all efforts and saadhana in tune with that understanding. Nothing else. It si not that some ppl do more and others do less. NO. every human being does enuf saadhana. The problem is sometimes morning you are doing saadhana for one purpose by evening for diff sadhana and naturally the pull and push you end up in big mess. It is very diff to achieve anything and go forward in any direction. Here patanjali tells an imp. Sutra clarifying this to every being and giving exactly what we need. Pl understand patanjali is the most compassionate Guru with highest possible intellect. Usually Gurus have one of these. If a disciple come and cries for something, Guru may say we will do seomthing else. Buddha, ocean of compassion – when a lady goes to him with dead body of her son, Buddha also cries with her – full of compassion. But he has to give her consolation , so diverts her attention and says get sesame seeds. I am not under estimating Buddha. But patanjali wud not have said this. He has not only compassion but also the intelleigence to customize solutions to every need. For the last time, I can say, he is a master who has given techniques for whatever you want to achieve. Any problem, he has solution. Anything you ask, he has solution. He knows saadhana , solution for every problem. He is not sitting with same Pizza base and offering it for diff. tastes. NO. he is sitting with diff products. If you go to Ramana, Buddha, Shankara, they will have same product . go to Ramana with any problem, he will ask “who is asking” he will divert to main question “who am I” Pl understand I am not degrading them, I am only telling how patanjali is totally diff. If you go and ask him I want this, this, this, he will not tell you, drop all that….do this. If you don’t have enuf products, you will sell only that. It is like if you go to a shop and ask for a particular doll, he does not have, the shop fellow will promote doll that he has. I am very clear, guy like patanjali who can give a workable solution, result for anything you ask, when he says, beautifully he gives 100s of diff samyamas….samyama means technique to experience anything you ask. After all this he says all is not worth. Please go for the ultimate. Therefore I am ready to believe. If Buddha gives solution to that mother and then tells all this is not it and gives ultimate technique then I can accept. I can accept becos I know Buddha has achieved the ultimate. But an ordinary common man may say – maybe Buddha does not have the intelligence – maybe he is only diverting. Ppl tell me – swamiji why do ppl do these dirty things like teleporting and miracles…I says – STOP, if you have the capacity to all that they do and you do not express them but only enlightenment then you have the right to criticize. If not no. anybody who goes to Shankara, will be given the ultimate solution. The poor guy has asked only a few 100 rupees to run his life and you will tell him aham bramhasmi, tatvamasi, etc, the what will he do. Once a poor lady with stomach pain came and asked for healing. I TOLD HER to come and attend Kalpataru next day as I can see her during darshan. She was crying..becos of the heavy subject discussed in Kalpataru! She had headache also along with stomach ache! I had to heal both. Sometimes ppl may not need ultimate solution..they may want simple solutions. Men by nature started living with cerebral layer. I have seen many ppl. Pl understand very sincerely. I ask them you want to tell me anything. They say everything is ok, everything is fine. Pl bless me with whatever you want. But woman will ask exactly what she wants. After going out, the husband asks wife what did you ask…and then next time he asks. I ask why did you not ask first time…he will then go thru his analysis loop and tell me how he did not ask for it first time. Pl understand all ultimate solutions will make you forget the immd. Solution. That is why Advaita sampradaya cater to men than woman. All Advaita sampradayas cater to men more than woman whether it is Buddhism, Jainism, etc. Men are confused and stuck with their cerebral layer and go all around for ultimate solution. But woman enjoy living with Krishna and enjoy life in the now. Unfortunately men finish their saadhana in the cerebral layer and think they are almost in the goal without even walking the path. I have seen 100s of men, just by reading solutions for probls, they think they have won over those problems. If you describe problems and make men read, they think they have won over them and only when they really face it they know it is just bookish knowledge. Patanjali is the only master who can handle feminine consciousness. He is the first master who can give solution to the problem. For all men, Buddha, shankara are the right masters. For direct solutions, patanjali is the master. See, I am not disrespecting buddha’;s solutions for that mother. But I will not completely go with it. If the mother comes to me, I will tell her clearly I do not have a solution to that problem. I will sympathize but not more than that. Maybe if you can ask, I will give ultimate solution. But patanjali, would have revived the child and then say, I have revived, and would also give a complete solution. The only diff and major diff I see between other masters and patanjali is that he is straight, humble and simple. He does not hypnotize ppl with a huge diamond. If a person wants a Kg brinjal, he will not show this dangling diamond….is this is not cheating. I really feel, if you cannot give a simple direct solution, it is cheating. Many times, I tell ppl, that I am good at this. I am not good at some things. And in those things, I will stand by you as a well wisher. That much only I can do. Many times, just my compassion, my love, I feel that ppl should be told very clearly the diff. between ultimate solutions and immd solutions. I had 2 great teachers in my life. I could trust them completely for the ultimate solutions b ecause in the immd solutions they were very clear about their abilities and in abilities. Many time when I tell in kalpataru, I will meditate for you, I will look into it, they will make me say strong words like it will happen. I tell them, in these immd solutions if I am clear, I can have your trust in me for ultimate solnj. Saadhana paada is powerful methods and techniques for every solutions. If you ask him for 10 kg brinjal, he will give you 10 kg brinjal. Not that he will say why 10 kg brinjal, I will give you this diamond. If you ask for that, he will say do this and that for 24 yrs, then I wil give. No. Patanjali understands you as you are. Ppl ask me I am bored and tired of saadhana swamiji. I ask are you bored and tired of making money. They say no. I say, then that is your right desire. There are clippings of U.Krishnamurthy. My fav. Enemy…maybe this is a wrong word…person whom I like to dislike. They sing bhajans..money is god, money is god…then I thot they are straight. They are working for what they want. If you are getting tired while doing sadhana, be very clear this is not your ultimate desire. Then you need your wife! I will write prescription – redirect to your wife! When you don’t have ultimate problem, and cerebrally you start working on the ultimate solutions, then you will be tired. Ultimate solutions do not work for ppl who do not have ultimate problems. Fortunately, I had a master who back – expressing miracles – sometimes thot this as safety. Good side of this is ppl who have sincerity and depth come for immd problems and will want ultimate solutions..and other way round too is true. Fortunately I had a master whose everyday lifestyle was expressing miracles. One day he was explaining about samyama on korma naadi. If you have samyama on korma naadi you will see whole cosmos. I asked him if you meditate on just one naadi in your body, how can you see the whole cosmos? We were in a mandapa, he dragged me out of it and he pressed my korma naadi by the time we came out to the open. It was so sweet, so tasty and ecstatic that spot. Automatically, my attention fell on the korma naadi. He said look up. I could see very clearly at around 11 in the morning the sun, the moon and the whole stars. The moment he took his hands off, I saw simply the normal sky. I asked how it happened. He said nothing…when we put samyama on the korma naadi, the eye ball movement stops. All of us have subtle eye ball movements when we think. This subtle movement stops us from looking beyond the normal skyline. When this is arrested, you can look beyond. It is described in scriptures, for devataas, eye ball movement is not there. So he says, I made your samyama on korma naadi, your eye ball movement stopped. Then your vision penetrates the sky line and you could see beyond. See with this one incident, the deep unshakable vitarkaa happened with that master in me. Becos he immd showed me the solution. But he did not do this with all his disciples..he had 100 going to him and only with 2-3 he did this. All the techniques described by patanjali in his sadhana paada have immd results. This is unlike how you are told by the so called teachers. The immd solutions, straight things make you understand your immd problems and help you solve them. If I go on talking about ultimate solutions, you think your problems are ultimate problems and you land up in depression! I turst women seekers and their questions more than men especially men who are well read. Becos any advaita philosophy you need, it leads you to believe that ultimate problem is your problem and men believe that to land up in depression. Advaita makes men as liability for woman – one more problem. All I am trying to tell you is find your problem, solve your problem directly – directly. Meera’s experience is much more solid, truthful , honest for me than the silence of the so called advaita vedantees! To disturb their silence can be poked by just a glance. But meera’s ecstasy cannot be disturbed by even giving poison or by being put in prison. I was pondering upon who has the guts to go thru the religious persectution.
Thoughout history, only dvaitees have the courage to go thru a religious persecution not the advaitees. The guts to go thru religious persectution proves the depth of the person. I have seen. All the dvaitees have the guts. Advaitees don’t have the guts to even go into this…they come to an agreement in such situations very fast. But dvaitees, becos they have seen solutions to ttheir immd problems, the strength of their experience Thru out this whole scandal, woman who had the dvaitic experience, the strong bhakti strongly stood and went thru the whole acid test. Even men. But all the advaittees…advaitaananda..who were living in the cerebral layer…hanging out with the ultimate area, escaped..they dumped little more mud and escaped. I tell you, first know your immd problem. Let you have the immd solution. Then you will see when you have the ultimate problem, go for the ultimate solution. Patanjali is the ultimate master. He is for feminine consciousness. Sometimes ppl ask me, swamiji – many disciples have left you, don’t you miss them. I tell them I do miss ppl who really had the possibility and missed me. ..not those ppl who were around me for wrong reasons. They naturally were not fulfilled and use all the wrong reasons and words….i miss those ppl who missed me becos of these ppl. Not ppl who were around me for wrong reasons. If you want immd solution and ultimate solutions, patanjali is the only solution. The sadhana, the method of understanding your immd problem for going to an immd solution is described so thouroughly so beautifully in this whole chapter. I can say again and again I have to use the saem word…it can completely fulfill all possible problems of all human beings. Let me enter into the sutra. :Atah sadhana padaha: Now the chapter of spiritual practice. Tapah swaadyaaya eeshwara pranidanaani Kriya yogaaha. I will give you few translations. Swamy Vivekananda: Mortification, study and surrendering fruits of yoga to god is called kriya yoga Austerity, self st Swamy pranavananda: Austerity, study and the dedication of the fruits of ones work to god Dviveeti: prelimnary yoga….
I do not want to translate this sutra with few words. I have my own unique way of translating. I want to use all the diff meanings of the word in this context. Tapaha: means the suffering..even the word suffering is too small. The happening in you, the churning in you, which you may or may not enjoy, but has to happen and you have to experience during your attunement to enlightenment. Pl understand, it is the churning which you need to go thru and experience What you want will be inside you as a seed and start expressing itself as reality in your physical bio memeory and in the world which you project from your physical bio memory. When the seed from the consciousness When psychological and physiological mutation cris crosses or clash with each other (means social conditioning and cosmic understanding clash with each other) – it results in chaos in your life When psychological mutation and physiological mutation try to fall in tune with each other – tapas happens in your life. (definition of tapas is both these mutations trying to fall in tune with each other) When they go hand in hand and completely fall in tune with each other – u become incarnation. Body in which both live very comfortably and beautifully and I call this body only as incarnation. Physiological mutation – when you grab an idea, digest it and make it fall in tune with your body without any hypocrisy and your physiological system does not resist…it just falls in tune with that idea it is called physiological mutation. Psychological mutation – for example ahimsa, non violence…the idea is conceived in your heart and slowly your heart cherishes it and that compassion fills your whole psychological system and then finally your whole psyche responds to any situation with compassion it is psych mutation. Physiological mutation
Swaadhyaaya: it is translated by many teachers as spiritual study. NO. I say it is receiving technical info to solve your immd and ultimate problems. Eeswara pranitaana : relaxing with deep and unshakable arrogance. Becos of lack of words I am using the word arrogance. When your understanding is established in restful awarenessof the divine, you have unshakable arrogance. Ramakrishna says ‘vidya ahankara’ unshakable arrogance. I can say confidence but neither can completely meaning to vidya ahankara. When you have surrendering to eeshwara, suddenly you have unshakable, untouchable, undisturbable awareness which even a king cannot shake. I was studying all the religious persecutions that happened in the last few 1000 years in India and around the world. I am looking into the psychology of the persectution , who does it, who undergoes it, what happens, before, during and after it. I really tell you, ppl who did it on us, did not know the history of the religious persecutions. Becos invariable in history all religious persectutions make the organizations more stong. I realized none of them lost their intensity or size or future or efficiency in contributing to society in any way after eligious persectutions. Becos religious personalities are not established in any solical or political set ups. Becos they are established in eeshwara pranitaanaani. In vidya ahankara..not avidya ahankaara. The vidya ahankaara knowingly or unknowingly is such a ‘cool ego’ it is such a cool understanding of the existence and you just simply know the after effects ofwhat you are going thru. I saw invariably all over the world, worst of persecutions ….they are nothing less than hitler in their vengeance and violence. The only thing is they did not have infra structure to create a holocaust. Unfortunately they did not understand the psychology of a religious personality. Avidya ahankara can shaken and abused brutally. Any blow given can shake them and their power will be lost. Becos the pillars on which they stand can be removed and they fall. But a religious personality, vidya ahankara hae such a cool ego, cool awareness, restful awareness and unshakable arrogance cannot be touched. Understand, a guy who is established in surrender to eeshwara can never be shaken. Whether eshwara is real or not does not matter only becos of the restful awareness he places on the concept of eshwara. When you completely relax into the restful awareness. When you experience the depth and power of surrender to divine, you just don’t need even the experience of the divine. You just don’t bother whether he exists or not. Becos this surrender experience itself is so strong, so straight, so overflowing, so deep then you will not be bothered about eshwara existing or not. The experience itself is so strong, so palapable, that you don’t even bother if he truly exists or not. There is a beautiful story of Tirunnavar karasar..another name Appar of TN. He was put in prison just becos of ideas he believes. The guys who put him in, also believe in diff. ideas. Unfortunately, those guys were not established in eshwara pranitaana. Here appar is established in eshwara pranidaana. He was just relaxed in it. The king who punished him expected that he will suffer, go thru psychological torture, drop his ideas and may get converted to the kings religion. But appar was established in surrendering to the divine. Even if the divine does not appear and perform miracles, the juice of the surrender is so strong that he does not even bother that the divine does not appear. So appar does not even bother or pray to shiva to come open and break the prison. He sits and sings a beautiful song….jsut a beautiful song from the veena, a pleasant breeze, a lovely sweet romantic season, where the bees drink the honey from lotus flowers and after drinking in that kick, creating a sound and flying around the pond….all those put together that is the pleasant feeling I am having now just contemplating on shiva. He is singing this sitting in prison. When you are in true surrender to the divine the vidya ahankara expresses itself . my ppl asked me we expected you to break jail. I said to express and show the power of eeshwara pranidaana, vidya ahankara I took this life. To come out of prison, you don’t need an incarnation for that..you need some thugs and rowdies…you don’t need an incarnation for that. To do some protests and throw some stones, you need few thugs. How to handle the whole thing silently with ahimsa you need an incarnation. Let me do that job. The tendency of human mind is to take revenge. I don’t want to assume human mind. Assuming human body is enuf. Just to show the power of eeshwara pranidannani spiritual leaders, masters, incarnations, go thru religious persectution. They go thru it just to show the strength and power of eeshwara pranidaanaani. Just add these 3 in your life – tapas, swaadyaaya and eeshwara pranidanaani in your life you will be doing kriya yoga. Just let the physiological and psychological mutation happen beautifully in you.
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