March 12 2009
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Imagination: PYS 04 - Paramahamsa Nithyananda speaks
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From the works of living enlightened master Paramahamsa Nithyananda, talks from Patanjali Yoga Sutras on Imagination.
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How to find a right guru: PYS 04 - Paramahamsa Nithyananda
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From the works of living enlightened master Paramahamsa Nithyananda, talks from Patanjali Yoga Sutras on how to find the right Guru.
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Right knowledge PYS 04: Patanjali Yoga Sutra - Paramahamsa Nithyananda
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From the works of living enlightened master Paramahamsa Nithyananda, talks from Patanjali Yoga Sutras on right knowledge.
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Title:
Even Wrong Knowledge Can Create Joy || Part 1 || Patanjali Yoga Sutras || 12 March 2009
Description:
Even Wrong Knowledge Can Create Joy
Session on - Patanjali Yoga Sutras Part 1
Venue - Vancouver, BC, Canada
Date - 12 March 2009
This video is an excerpt from the Patanjali Yoga Sutras conducted on 12 March 2009 in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Here Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism Jagatguru Mahasannidhanam HDH Bhagavan #Nithyananda #Paramashivam expands on Patanjali's 5 modifications; right knowledge, wrong knowledge, imagination, sleep, and memory. He says these five can be the reasons for your pleasure or pain, peace or restlessness, anguish or joy. Thus, even right knowledge in the wrong hands can create difficulties. Then He dives into imagination. HDH further explains imagination can be used to liberate you or create more bondage, because of mind, the conditioning through misuse and misinterpretation. These great truths should be heard directly from an Enlightened Master.
The Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism Jagatguru Mahasannidhanam His Divine Holiness Nithyananda Paramashivam (HDH) is the reviver of #KAILASA - the ancient enlightened civilization and the great cosmic borderless Hindu nation. Revered as the incarnation of Paramashiva - the primordial Hindu Divinity, HDH has a following of 2 billion Hindus worldwide with de facto spiritual embassies in over 150 countries. He has worked untiringly for over 26 years for the revival of Kailasa, for global peace and to give super conscious breakthrough to humanity. He has survived the worst persecution of multiple assassination attempts on person and on character by anti-Hindu elements. He is collecting, organising, preserving, time capsuling, decoding, spreading and reviving 20 Million source books of Hinduism and the 64 sacred arts & sciences like Ayurveda, music, dance, sculpting, astrology, vastu and much more. Close to 20,000 hours of HDH’s timeless talks have been recorded till date (Sep 2020), which are a treasure trove of powerful cognitions to solve individual and global problems of any kind.
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Achieve Samadhi Through Sleep || Part 2 || Patanjali Yoga Sutras || 12 March 2009
Description:
Achieve Samadhi Through Sleep
Session on - Patanjali Yoga Sutras Part 2
Venue - Vancouver, BC, Canada
Date - 12 March 2009
This video is an excerpt from the Ananda Spurana program conducted on 12 March 2009 in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism Jagatguru Mahasannidhanam HDH Bhagavan #Nithyananda Paramashivam expands on Patanjali's 5 modifications; right knowledge, wrong knowledge, imagination, sleep, and unmemory. Here HDH goes deeper into Patanjalis modification of imagination and sleep. HDH explains imagination can be used to liberate you or create more bondage, because of mind, the conditioning through misuse and misinterpretation. These great truths should be heard directly from an #enlightened master. HDH then delegates the technique for converting sleep into samadhi and go into the deepest states of sleep. There is a technique called the Yoga Nidra which is falling into the deep sleep state in awareness. HDH says if you fall into the samadhi state, the deep sleep state, and come out, you will eternally respond to the old through joy and bliss.
The Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism Jagatguru Mahasannidhanam His Divine Holiness Nithyananda Paramashivam (HDH) is the reviver of #KAILASA - the ancient enlightened civilization and the great cosmic borderless Hindu nation. Revered as the incarnation of Paramashiva - the primordial Hindu Divinity, HDH has a following of 2 billion Hindus worldwide with de facto spiritual embassies in over 150 countries. He has worked untiringly for over 26 years for the revival of Kailasa, for global peace and to give super conscious breakthrough to humanity. He has survived the worst persecution of multiple assassination attempts on person and on character by anti-Hindu elements. He is collecting, organising, preserving, time capsuling, decoding, spreading and reviving 20 Million source books of Hinduism and the 64 sacred arts & sciences like Ayurveda, music, dance, sculpting, astrology, vastu and much more. Close to 20,000 hours of HDH’s timeless talks have been recorded till date (Sep 2020), which are a treasure trove of powerful cognitions to solve individual and global problems of any kind.
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(00:17)
Imagination can either lead you to health or heaven. It's like a drug, LSD. Many people experience ecstasy, they take a drug. Many people experience suffocation, suffering also. If you are habituated for nightmares, if you take LSD you will have a suffocation feeling. Your LSD experience will be nightmarish. If you are habituated for sweet dreams, if you take LSD you will feel like you are in heaven, that's all. It is intensifying what you think, intensifying what you imagine. The drug experience is nothing but intensification of what you are imagining; your imagination. Your imagination can lead- either goes this direction or that direction.
(01:20)
I can give you thousands of examples, thousands of stories. Especially I am constantly working with people's imaginations. It's My life. Last 6 years I am working with imaginations of the people. Millions of people directly and millions indirectly. Either trying to remove their imagination, alter their imagination or redirect their imagination. Just today one of My disciple was telling Me, before she used to come regularly to the Ashram. Her daughter will always object, "Why are you going there? You are not attending us. You are not caring for us; the family pressure. Now she also, daughter also attended the program. Now she says, "How could you go come back? How could you be away from Him?"
(2:29)
"I am not able to- I am not able to be away from Him. Earlier how do you...how are you able come back, even after the being around Him." So imagination, when she had wrong imagination, she was not able to relate with the mother. She was fighting with her saying, "Why are you going?" Now when she has the right imagination, she is fighting with her, "Why did you come back?" It is a mind. It is imagination. Continuously I am working with imaginations of the people.
(03:12)
Many time the imagination becomes so strong. They can either completely move from the spiritual path, or completely get Enlightened. People sometime ask Me, "How can imagination lead to Enlightenment? After all, it is mental activity. How can that lead you to Enlightenment!" It's like somebody taking poison. Taking poison is an action, but that can lead them to death; beyond actions. Same way the right imagination is taken, the mind will disappear, you will be beyond the mind. You will be beyond mind. You will be experiencing the no mind state, or the ecstasy. The next thing sleep. Patanjali says sleep can lead you to joy or suffering; anguish or non-anguish.
(04:24)
Almost one-third of our life we spent in sleeping. So if you understand the right technique for sleeping, right technique for sleeping; one-third of your life you can spend in Samadhi. See the only difference between your sleep and Samadhi state; the ultimate Enlightened State is...Samadhi minus awareness is your sleep. Your sleep plus awareness is Samadhi. Enlightenment is nothing but being aware when you are asleep, that's all. When you are asleep there are no Samskaras, engrams active. There are no memories active. You are completely silent, relaxed, settled. In that state but only one thing, one difference you are not aware.
(05:30)
See in the deep sleep you are entering into the same space in which Buddha is living, in which Ramakrishna is living, in which Meera is dancing, in which Chaitanya is singing. You are entering into the same space, where they are all living. Only one difference, you are not aware. Patanjali is aware, Chaitanya is aware, Krishna is aware, Buddha is alive. In that space if you know how to be alive, if you learned how to be aware you have done everything. Nothing else needs to be done. All you need to do is how to be alive when you are asleep. How to be aware when you are asleep? Now our problem is how- forget about how to be aware when you are asleep, how to be aware when we are awake? How to be aware we are awake?
(06:45)
That is a big problem. That itself is a big problem. Today we will practice a technique to convert your sleep into Samadhi. Convert your sleep into Samadhi. Please understand, when I say being aware during your sleep I don't mean sleeplessness. I am not saying be sleepless, no! That is sleep disorder, that is a disease. I am not saying: be sleepless or sleep disorder. You are- you will be sleeping but your whole awareness will be alive; means, there are no engrams, there are no thoughts, there are no memories. But the pure "I" will be alive. That will be radiating. That will exist. It's a- there is a very powerful technique called Yoga Nidra; falling asleep Consciously. Falling into the deep sleep state with awareness.
(08:02)
I can say if you can drop into that state with awareness and come back; suddenly your whole system will be new. Your whole system will be different. Your system will respond to the world in a completely different way. If you fall asleep, if you sleep very deeply, if you have good sleep and come out, your system will be fresh. It will respond to the world in a very different way. If you are stuck in the dream state and come out, your system will be different and it will not respond properly to the life, to the day. If you fall into the Samadhi and come out. If you fall into that deeper state than the deep sleep and come out; you will eternally respond to this world only through joy, only through bliss.
(09:07)
That is why we call that state as eternal bliss. If you experience that state and come out, you will see you are radiating eternal bliss, eternal joy. Sleep is one of a fire modifications Patanjali speaks about. There is so much- we can talk about sleep. So much can be said about sleep. Maybe instead of saying, we will use a technique by the end of today's session. A very powerful technique: how to relax with awareness. How to go into deepest states of sleep with awareness.
(9:59)
Usually we don't sleep more than 20 to 25 minutes, then we come back, continue to dream, play in the dream world then again fall asleep. After 20-25 minutes come back and move in the dream state, have some dreams then again fall asleep. That is why early morning when we get up we don't feel we had a good rest. Because you never rested. You are continuously playing the game. Your body might be resting or your body might be relaxing, but you are not in a relaxed mood. You are not completely resting. You are not aware. You are not in peace.
(10:56)
Sleep can be used for suffering or joy. The state can be manipulated to reach Samadhi State or to be in suffering state. I have seen people using sleep to lead to suffering. Either they oversleep or they continue to suffer with- without sleepless, without sleep. Sleeplessness or oversleeping. If they don't sleep in the night time, the chronic fatigue will be there in their body. It will continue to disturb their creativity. Whole day they will be constantly disturbed. The creativity will not express. Or if they sleep whole day there is no time for creativity, there is no possibility for creativity. Sometime people wake up only- sun comes through the window. Sometime the back part of this whole thing is window is on the west side. Tired of taking rest. Human being is the only animal for tired of taking rest. Any other animal, morning if he wakes up he will be fresh, jump, act very alive. Human being is the only animal when he wakes up in the morning just rolls and pulls the blanket.
(12:51)
Especially that early morning sleep, with the blanket will be tired of taking rest. Sleep is the fourth item Patanjali says which can lead us to either suffering or joy.
(13:12)
Title
Memories Are Uninvited Guests || Part 3 || Patanjali Yoga Sutras || 12 March 2009
Description
Memories Are the Uninvited Guests
Session on - Patanjali Yoga Sutras Part 3
Venue - Vancouver, BC, Canada
Date - 12 March 2009
This video is an excerpt from the Ananda Spurana program conducted on 12 March 2009 in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Here Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism Jagatguru Mahasannidhanam HDH Bhagavan #Nithyananda Paramashivam expands on Patanjali's 5 modifications; right knowledge, wrong knowledge, imagination, sleep, and un-memory. HDH expands on Patanjalis five modification of memory. HDH says memories are the uninvited guest which can come up by itself and put you in pain and suffering, anguish or joy, #peace or restlessness. They are an independent intelligence. HDH further explains that all your wrong ideas about the past is responsible for the future.
The Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism Jagatguru Mahasannidhanam His Divine Holiness Nithyananda Paramashivam (HDH) is the reviver of #KAILASA - the ancient enlightened civilization and the great cosmic borderless Hindu nation. Revered as the incarnation of Paramashiva - the primordial Hindu Divinity, HDH has a following of 2 billion Hindus worldwide with de facto spiritual embassies in over 150 countries. He has worked untiringly for over 26 years for the revival of Kailasa, for global peace and to give super conscious breakthrough to humanity. He has survived the worst persecution of multiple assassination attempts on person and on character by anti-Hindu elements. He is collecting, organising, preserving, time capsuling, decoding, spreading and reviving 20 Million source books of Hinduism and the 64 sacred arts & sciences like Ayurveda, music, dance, sculpting, astrology, vastu and much more. Close to 20,000 hours of HDH’s timeless talks have been recorded till date (Sep 2020), which are a treasure trove of powerful cognitions to solve individual and global problems of any kind.
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(00:16)
The fifth item is memory. It's a very powerful thing. Please understand, memories what we- what I call ‘pain body’. Here with the right knowledge only with your action, connection with it, can create suffering or joy. With the wrong knowledge, only your response can create joy or pain. With imagination only as support, supporting to imagination only that can create joy or pain. With the sleep you are support your sleep, you are part also. If it is done only then you will have joy or pain. But with memory you don't need to do anything. They are independent. Suddenly they will come up, they will occupy your whole inner space, put you in suffering for no reason.
(01:19)
You can't say, "Why did you come?" They are uninvited guests. Memory is uninvited guest. Suddenly he will come and create so much of joy in your inner space and fill you with ecstasy. You can't ask, "How did you come? Why did you come? Who invited you?" No! Suddenly some memories will raise, you know you are in joy, you are in ecstasy. "Why that memory came. Why so strongly it came?" You can neither question nor understand. Suddenly you know the memory of Master is inside you, for last 10 minutes you are in ecstasy, you are in joy, just soaked in His memory, being in His presence.
(02:14)
You can't say, "Why did this memory came?" You can't ask your mind, "How this memory came?" In same way, suddenly memories, which you don't want to cherish, some suffering will raise. You can't even ask, "Why did it come?" And your whole day is gone, your whole day is gone. Just one wrong memory, one wrong awakening, your whole day will be in depression, low mood. Memory is such a powerful thing. It can come up by itself and put you in joy or suffering, put you in anguish or peace, put you in bliss or suffering. It can lead you to anything on its own, by its own right. It doesn't need cooperation from your side. Right knowledge, wrong knowledge, imagination and sleep needs cooperation from your body and mind.
(03:26)
All other four things your body and mind needs to cooperate but with imagination with- sorry with memory you don't need to cooperate at all. It will just erupt and you don't know why it is there. You can't ask, "Why it is there?" You can't even question, "Why did you come?" But you are in suffering or joy. That is the power of memory. Memory means the ideas, thoughts, imaginations, visualizations collectected, which is still alive inside your system. One important thing, if your memory is complete it won't lead you to suffering, it will lead you to joy. But it is not complete. If your memory about your past, if it is complete you will have knowledge about your future. Please understand, I am not giving you false promise. I am stating simple, straight truth.
(04:46)
If your memory about past is clean and pure, complete, you will have a clear idea about your future. Because your future is nothing but the reproduction of the past in different dimension, that's all. Maybe the, some of the quantity will be different, but basic structure will be the reproduction of your past. Earlier you might of had one car in the past, in the future you may have few cars, but the future is going to be reproduction of the past. But the big problem is we don't even have the right idea about our past. We remember our past only after editing.
(05:42)
If you think your whole life is suffering, as we usually think, you will edit and connect only all the suffering incidence. And you will think your whole life past was suffering. That one idea is enough to feel, to imagine, to visualize, to think your whole life was suffering. The memory, it is not a right memory, it's a wrong memory. Same way if you think your whole life is joy, again you will edit, cut, fix, paste and see your whole life as joy. You will connect all the joyful incidents, memory and start seeing your whole life as joy. We never comprehend. We don't have the complete memory. We don't look at the past as it happened.
(06:46)
We don't smell the past as it happened, as it is. If you have a simple, straight idea about the memory, past, a simple straight clear idea; you will have simple, straight, clear idea about the future. Your miscomprehension, your wrong idea about the past is responsible for the wrong idea about the future. If you think you are not able to plan your future, be very clear you don't have vision about your past. Any incident happened in the past adds some juice to your being, understanding to your being, awareness to your being, knowledge to your being, experience to your being.
(07:42)
So if you are aware of all these memories, that knowledge, that essence which is added to your being will continue to guide you in the future; but when you forget those incidents, those memories. When memory loss happens, which is happening in all of us, that juice of that experience, knowledge of that experience, memory of that experience will not express itself in the future; so confusion, so confusion. Understand, right knowledge, wrong knowledge, imagination, sleep and memory. These are the five modifications leads you to suffering our anguish, suffering or anguish. So realize all these five can be either used or abused. Just this knowledge, this understanding, that it can be used or abused. It can lead to joy or suffering is enough, that is enough. You will start using them rightly.
(09:00)
Whenever all this file is leading you to suffering, you are abusing it, you are misusing it. Whenever it is leading you to joy, you are using it properly. So whenever you are in suffering understand, some one of this five is misused by you. So decide you will use that properly. Whenever you are in joy, understand this five, any one or all the five are used by you rightly.
(09:40)
Title
Catch The Right Guru For Liberation || Part 4 || Patanjali Yoga Sutras || 12 March 2009
Description
Catch The Right Guru You’ll be Liberated
Session on - Patanjali Yoga Sutras Part 4
Venue - Vancouver, BC, Canada
Date - 12 March 2009
This video is an excerpt from the Patanjali Yoga Sutras conducted on 12 March 2009 in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Here Patanjali talks about right knowledge. Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism Jagatguru Mahasannidhanam HDH Bhagavan #Nithyananda #Paramashivam expands on the Sutra and says right Guru gives right knowledge of 3 ways; direct persecution, inference, and competent evidence constitutes which right knowledge. HDH further explains it is important to catch the right Guru who teaches the right concepts that you are complete.
The Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism Jagatguru Mahasannidhanam His Divine Holiness Nithyananda Paramashivam (HDH) is the reviver of #KAILASA - the ancient enlightened civilization and the great cosmic borderless Hindu nation. Revered as the incarnation of Paramashiva - the primordial Hindu Divinity, HDH has a following of 2 billion Hindus worldwide with de facto spiritual embassies in over 150 countries. He has worked untiringly for over 26 years for the revival of Kailasa, for global peace and to give super conscious breakthrough to humanity. He has survived the worst persecution of multiple assassination attempts on person and on character by anti-Hindu elements. He is collecting, organising, preserving, time capsuling, decoding, spreading and reviving 20 Million source books of Hinduism and the 64 sacred arts & sciences like Ayurveda, music, dance, sculpting, astrology, vastu and much more. Close to 20,000 hours of HDH’s timeless talks have been recorded till date (Sep 2020), which are a treasure trove of powerful cognitions to solve individual and global problems of any kind.
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(00:15)
Let's enter into the next Sutra:
pratyaksha anumana agamanah...agamah pramanani pratyaksha anumana agamah pramanani
It's a beautiful Sutra. It means, here Patanjali is describing more detailed way on each topic. He is describing what is right knowledge, separately. What is wrong knowledge? What is imagination? What is sleep? What is memory? He is describing in a very deep way. Because people ask, "Yes Swamiji, we know all these five can lead to suffering or joy. How to use them to lead to joy? How to use them?" Here, Patanjali is giving you, a description about each and every item and how to use them towards joy, towards raising your energy.
(01:38)
Please understand, all these five, right knowledge, wrong knowledge, memory, imaginations, sleep can be- all these five can be used to increase your energy and reduce your energy. Either they can bring you miracle powers, extraordinary energies or they can make you more and more dull, dead, depressed, sober. Imagination can straight away be used. Now scientists are saying, if you constantly tell your kids, "You are dull, you are dull, you are dull." They will become dull. If you are constantly praising them, "You are bright, you are bright, you are bright." They will become bright.
(02:26)
One beautiful incident: in Ramakrishna's life, when His young disciple, Vivekananda, used to come to Him. Ramakrishna will constantly repeat, "You are Incarnation of Shiva and Vishnu. You are Incarnation of Naranarayana. You are Incarnation of God." Disciple used to asked him, the other disciples, "What is this? He is a young boy who is going to the college. You are saying, ‘He is Incarnation of God. How can it be?’" Ramakrishna says, "Don't bother about that. Just by my word He will become. He will achieve that state. He will start living that state." Whoever you strongly believe, whatever they say will mold your personality, will mold your personality. That is why I always tell people catch the right Guru.
(03:24)
He will constantly remind you, "You are the ultimate, you are God, you are living in the eternal energy." He will constantly remind you about your original state. There are two states in you, one is your original state, the Divine State, another one is the cloud which covers you. If you catch the right Guru, He will constantly tell you, ‘You are Divine.’ Because He is in the Divine State. If you catch the wrong Guru, He will constantly tell you, ‘You are covered by cloud’, because He is covered by cloud. He is in the state of cloudy state. So catch the right person. Catching the right Guru almost does 80% of your job. I can't say 80, I think 90%. No, not even 90, 100%.
(04:25)
If you catch the right Guru and He also catches you, work is done, that's all. Now nothing else is needed. You need only one thing- hammock and lie down. Swing in your hammock, you are on your way to Enlightenment. Swing your way to Enlightenment. If you catch the right Guru and He also catches you, work is done. Because He will constantly kindle your right imagination. He will constantly make you understand the right truth. Understand working on imagination and all you don't need separate time.
(05:11)
Sometimes people come and ask Me, especially the close devotees, "Swamiji, in other organizations more and more they get involved, they practice too many practices. They do lot of practice. They spend too much of time in spiritual practices. With us the more we get involved, we don't practice anything at all. Even one or two meditations we are doing, Nithya Dhyaan or anything, we stop. We don't practice. What is this?" Please understand, those Gurus do not know how to use the power of your imagination. I am rightly using your power- your imagination, because of that 24-hours you are in meditation.
(05:57)
Your right idea you carry about you is a 24-hour imagination. 24-hour that imagination gets strengthened in you. 24-hour you are meditating. 24-hour you are growing towards the higher Consciousness. There are two kinds of teachings: one, teaching you, ‘you are a beggar. Beg everyday, only then you can become millionaire.’ Then what you will do? Everyday you will do three Pranayam or three-hours Pranayam. Either three Pranayam or three-hours Pranayam. It's more or less like begging. But are you ever seen a person begging penny-by-penny, dollar-by-dollar becoming billionaire or millionaire, no! It can never happen because what he makes everyday he has to spend for his survival. So this is one kind of practice, Sadhana.
(06:59)
If you look at them they will- you will see that they are very serious. Whole day they will be closing their nose and blowing the nose; doing all kinds of practices, standing upside down, topsy-turvy. Doing all kinds of Asanas, Pranayam, this, that. They can't waste even 10-minutes. They won't waste even 10-minutes. Even when they talk they will use measured words. When they get some time they will close their eyes and sit. Even that few minutes they don't want to waste. They will close their eyes and sit. I have seen very foolish ideas being taught to people. I have seen one group teaches their disciples: the more you keep your eyes open, the more energy you will lose. No, really. And those poor guys whenever they get even two-three minutes break. When they don't have any...anything to do directly, they close their eyes and sit.
(08:04)
Morrows, long faced. Wrong imagination, using the imagination to create more and more bondage. But instead the other side. The right Guru, He teaches, ‘You are already Enlightened. Nothing else needs to be done.’ The moment this thought is strongly put inside a person, he starts behaving like that. He starts living like that. He starts exp...he starts experiencing that courage. He starts experiencing the confidence. Even when one or two hurdles which comes, he handles them with that confidence, with that courage, with that brightness, with that knowledge, with that energy, with that enthusiasm. And he lives Enlightened.
(09:02)
I am not interested in teaching you, first wrong concept that you are a beggar. Then second wrong concept: you have to beg only then you can become millionaire, no! Already you are millionaire. Not only millionaire, billionaire, trillionaire and what not. All you need is remember it, reclaim it. Live, remembering, reclaiming, living is all you need. So you are complete. That is why with our Sangha, with our group the more and more you are connected; the more and more you feel connected and more and more you come close, less and less Sadhana, less and less practices because, I am using your very imagination. Your 24-hours becomes a spiritual practice. You don't need separate practice.
(10:14)
Here Patanjali is expressing beautifully. First, He is talking about right knowledge. Understand, what is right knowledge? Pratyaksha anumana agamah, it's a beautiful word: pramanani Pratyaksha anumana agamah pramanani. Means perception through senses, conclusions arrived at through that cognition, the words of an Enlightened Master are the three ways to gain correct knowledge. Direct perception, inference and competent evidence, constitute, right knowledge. It's very difficult to translate these Sanskrit words like Agama, Pramana. That is why I am using, I am using a book which has twelve translations. And I have My own translation.
(11:33)
I am referring, it's a beautiful book. I wanted to give the credit and thank Mr. Salvatore Zambita, the author of this book. The book is: The Unadorned Thread of Yoga. It's a wonderful book. He has compiled different 12-translations. See each Master has translated this aphorism from His understanding. So he has compiled 12-translations, which can really give the complete or comprehensive idea about how these Sutras are perceived, understood. So I have My own translation. Apart from that I refer all these 12-translations. So that whichever suits or whichever is more close to the original Sutra, I am trying to use that translation.
(12:40)
Title
Straightway To Gain Correct Knowledge || Part 5 || Patanjali Yoga Sutras || 12 March 2009
Description
Straightway to Gain Correct Knowledge
Session on - Patanjali Yoga Sutras Part 5
Venue - Vancouver, BC, Canada
Date - 12 March 2009
This video is an excerpt from the Patanjali Yoga Sutras conducted on 12 March 2009 in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Here Patanjali talks about right knowledge. Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism Jagatguru Mahasannidhanam HDH Bhagavan #Nithyananda Paramashivam reveals 3 ways to measure whether something is right knowledge or not. First; senses, sensory perceptions, second; conclusions arrived at through the cognition through the senses, third; words of an enlightened master. HDH further reveals one important truth from the Sutra which can give you the correct knowledge and ultimately leads you to #enlightenment itself.
The Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism Jagatguru Mahasannidhanam His Divine Holiness Nithyananda Paramashivam (HDH) is the reviver of #KAILASA - the ancient enlightened civilization and the great cosmic borderless Hindu nation. Revered as the incarnation of Paramashiva - the primordial Hindu Divinity, HDH has a following of 2 billion Hindus worldwide with de facto spiritual embassies in over 150 countries. He has worked untiringly for over 26 years for the revival of Kailasa, for global peace and to give super conscious breakthrough to humanity. He has survived the worst persecution of multiple assassination attempts on person and on character by anti-Hindu elements. He is collecting, organising, preserving, time capsuling, decoding, spreading and reviving 20 Million source books of Hinduism and the 64 sacred arts & sciences like Ayurveda, music, dance, sculpting, astrology, vastu and much more. Close to 20,000 hours of HDH’s timeless talks have been recorded till date (Sep 2020), which are a treasure trove of powerful cognitions to solve individual and global problems of any kind.
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(00:16)
Perception through senses, conclusion arrived at through that cognition, words of an Enlightened Master are the three ways to gain correct knowledge. Perception through senses. Please understand, it means your senses should be pure and fresh. Not the perverted senses. If your senses are tired, overworked, overwhelmed it cannot give you the right perception. If your senses are tired, the moment somebody enters the room, you will feel he is going to fight with you. If you are tired you will always be expecting enemies. If you are alive, fresh, even your enemies will look like challenges for you.
(01:16)
They won't look like enemies. They will...you will feel it's life, let's live. If you are tired, if you are feeling dull. Even your friend will look like enemy. When he enters, "Oh God, I have to talk to him. I have to entertain him. He will not leave me. He will be inquiring how am I. What am I doing? Oh, no, no, no. If somebody takes him away it will be very nice." If you are tired even your friend will look like a enemy. You will say, "Oh God, how to get rid of him?" With the fresh, alive, pure senses, whatever is grasped, that itself can be proof. The three things to measure whether something is truth- right knowledge or not. First, through senses, sensory perceptions. Second, conclusions arrived at through that cognition, through that senses.
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It's a very tricky thing. When you perceive through senses, you analyze the data inside you and come to the conclusion. That is what we call cognition, receiving the information, processing it, coming to conclusion, taking a decision. That cognition can be the scale whether what you have is the right knowledge or the wrong knowledge. That cognition can also be the scale for Pramana, proof of right knowledge. For example, if you are seeing Me here, seeing is one proof and receiving this information, internally coming to the conclusion. "Yes, I know Him, I have heard Him. I have experienced Him." That is also source of right knowledge. The third important thing, very powerful thing. I think this is an important point. He says, Patanjali says the words of an Enlightened Master is the third source of correct knowledge; means all the words of an Enlightened Master, whether you perceive it with your senses or not, whether you cognicise it through your mind or not it's a right knowledge.
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It's a very powerful Sutra or I can say very powerful truth. I can say the whole tradition of Guru-Shishya Parampara, the Master-disciple relationship is built on this one Sutra. It says the words of an Enlightened Master is the way to gain correct knowledge. The words which comes out of Him is a straight, complete correct knowledge. The modern day men, they can understand the perception through senses is right knowledge. They can understand the conclusion arrived at through that cognition is right knowledge. But they can't understand the words of an Enlightened Master is a source of right knowledge. They always demand proof, "He may say but we need proof."
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But, please understand, all the traditions which accepted words of an Enlightened Master is a source of the right knowledge, lived ecstatically, radiated Enlightenment. It's like a, let Me give you an example...what will happen, two-plus-two equal to four, now you know the result. After you work out the sum, now what your teacher assume is right. See, your Master says let us assume x is equal to two. So, he replaces two in the place of x. Now you know two-plus-two is four. The moment the conclusion is arrived, now you know what Master assumed is right? But you need to have patience till he concludes, till he proves. But instead the moment Master says, "Let us ah- assume x is equal to two," if you start talking, "Why not three? Why not one? Why should it be two?" You start fighting, who will be the loser? You, because He knows x is two. He has already come to the conclusion. He has experienced.
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He is trying to teach you in your language, the language in which you understand. So He has to say few things like, "Let's assume," in the initial level. And if you say, "No, no, no I cannot assume. Why should it be? Come on, prove. Only then I will let you go to the next step." Transfer of knowledge, transfer of truth can never happen if you don't have patience to bear till He comes to the conclusion, till He gives you the experience. Till experience, you need to have little patience, that patience is what we call faith. Not even belief, faith. Simple, wait, He is teaching you. But if you say, "No, I am not interested in all that. Every statement in this moment He has to prove. Only then He can go further."
(08:39)
Is there any possibility? In the second statement x is equal to two, let us assume x is equal to two is no way you can prove. There is no way He can prove that statement immediately. You need to have patience, till He comes to the third statement and fourth statement to reach the conclusion. So here, Patanjali says the words of an Enlightened Master is a way to gain correct knowledge; means He is saying relax. Till you experience, respect His words, go with it. It will become your experience. The only difference between atheists and theists are this word: perception through senses, conclusion arrived at through that cognition. These two both agree, atheist and theist. But the third statement, third source: the words of an Enlightened Master is accepted only by the people who are interested in experience in the truth.
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I have seen many people coming and asking Me, "Swamiji, tell me what to do. What should I do in my life?" I asked them, "What do you want to do?" They say, "No, no, no whatever you say we will do." The moment I give some suggestion they say, "No, no, no I have this problem. I have that problem." The other day one person was asking, "Swamiji, tell me what to do." I told that...I asked that person, "What do you want to do?" "Oh, I want to be Sannyasi with you." I said, "Then what is stopping you?" "No, no, no I want to be a samsari, grihasti also, householder also." Then I tell them, "At least take one decision. Only then I can support you." "No, no, no I feel like I should. I should become householder. But no, no, no, no I want to be around you."
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That kind of mood, situation if your heart believes this third statement: words of an Enlightened Master is the way for right knowledge, there is a possibility for you to be guided. There is a possibility for you to reach the truth. There is a possibility for you to experience the higher consciousness. But without that, if you believe only these two: the perception through senses and conclusion arrived at through that cognition, then you are in dilemma. Dilemma is the ultimate punishment given to people. No, whenever people are not interested in listening to Me, all I do is just give them freedom. That's the ultimate punishment. They will die just by dilemma, "What to do. What to do. What to do."
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See when you have freedom without maturity, without Enlightenment, that is the ultimate suffering. Because you do not know what to do. You will be oscillating, oscillating, oscillating. Either you will be postponing decision making or any decision you make you will be repenting. You know only two space: postponing or repenting. You will continue to postpone because of fear of taking decision. Or if you have taken decision you will continue to repent that you have taken wrong decision. Any decision it may be. This side or that side you will be repenting. So without Enlightenment, freedom is the ultimate punishment.
(12:45)
Very rarely, very few intelligent people have the respect for this third statement: the words of an Enlightened Master are the three ways to gain correct knowledge. Understand, remember this one truth: the words of an Enlightened Master is the way to gain the right knowledge. This one Sutra is enough, you will have straight, right knowledge about the purpose of your life, about your life, about everything. What to do? What needs to be done? What is the ultimate? Everything can be gained, just with this one truth: the words of an Enlightened Master. Perception through senses, conclusion arrived at through that cognition. And the words of an Enlightened Master are the three ways to the right knowledge.
(13:56)
Understand this one truth: respect for Enlightened Master's words will straightaway lead you to Enlightenment. Because constantly He is reminding you, you are Enlightened. In this Yogam souvenir, the center page it's a beautiful photograph. That is called ‘Tat Tvam Asi photograph’, you are that, you are that. Whenever you see that photograph, remember: one Enlightened Being is telling you you are Enlightened. His words can never be a lie. I have no reason to tell a lie. I don't have to. I have no reason to tell a lie. "If He says, it will be true". Please understand, either you must be correct or I must be correct. Who can be more correct? You know, who can be more correct.
(14:59)
So whenever you see that photograph remember, "Here is a guy, surely will be more correct than me. And He says, I am Enlightened then I must be Enlightened. I may not believe, I may not understand. It is not that all the things I believe are right. It is not that all the things I don't understand are wrong." I have seen in My experience, you know, many things which you believed are wrong. Many things, which you are not able to understand are right. So, whether you understand or not, whether you are able to believe or not, He is saying. Just with this one authority, again and again, remember, "If He says, it must be true. If He says, it must be true, let me remember. Let me live. Let me understand, let me internalize."
(15:56)
Hang that photograph wherever you can, and constantly remember, "If He says, it must be true. At least let me try to understand why He is telling that. At least let me try to understand why He is telling that." This can become a technique, to remind you constantly: you are Enlightened, to awaken your imagination constantly that you are Enlightened. And lead you to the right knowledge constantly that you are Enlightened; ultimately lead you to very Enlightenment itself. So, I bless you all to achieve and radiate the Enlightenment. We will enter into the technique to use your sleep as meditation. To use your sleep as Samadhi, to transform your sleep into Samadhi.
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Title
Move From Sleep To Samadhi || Part 6 || Patanjali Yoga Sutras || 12 March 2009
Description
Move From Sleep Into Superconscious Samadhi
Session on - Patanjali Yoga Sutras Part 6
Venue - Vancouver, BC, Canada
Date - 12 March 2009
This video is an excerpt from the Patanjali Yoga Sutras conducted on 12 March 2009 in Vancouver, BC, Canada. Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism Jagatguru Mahasannidhanam HDH Bhagavan #Nithyananda Paramashivam expands on the Patanjali Yoga Sutras. Here HDH Gives a powerful simple #technique from the tantra tradition to move from sleep the superconsciousness state.
The Supreme Pontiff of Hinduism Jagatguru Mahasannidhanam His Divine Holiness Nithyananda Paramashivam (HDH) is the reviver of #KAILASA - the ancient enlightened civilization and the great cosmic borderless Hindu nation. Revered as the incarnation of Paramashiva - the primordial Hindu Divinity, HDH has a following of 2 billion Hindus worldwide with de facto spiritual embassies in over 150 countries. He has worked untiringly for over 26 years for the revival of Kailasa, for global peace and to give super conscious breakthrough to humanity. He has survived the worst persecution of multiple assassination attempts on person and on character by anti-Hindu elements. He is collecting, organising, preserving, time capsuling, decoding, spreading and reviving 20 Million source books of Hinduism and the 64 sacred arts & sciences like Ayurveda, music, dance, sculpting, astrology, vastu and much more. Close to 20,000 hours of HDH’s timeless talks have been recorded till date (Sep 2020), which are a treasure trove of powerful cognitions to solve individual and global problems of any kind.
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