Patanjali Yoga Sutras: Altered State of Awareness Part 3 - Patanjali Yoga Sutra 119

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Altered State of Awareness Part 3: Patanjali Yoga Sutra 119

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Friday, February 18, 2011 Prayer. Welcome. Today’s subject is Altered states of awareness! I am continuing the same 119th Patanjali Yoga Sutras, 3rd chapter 13th verse - Etena bhoota indriyeshu dharma lakshana avastha parinaama vyakhyataha! Parinaama avastha – today we will expand on the deeper truths. Let me explain the basic concept what Patanjali is trying to express through this sutra. When you broaden your understanding the strategy planning and the technical decisions you make about life drastically changes. That change cognitive shift brings the highest possible liberation in you which expresses as the extraordinary Ishwaratva – Leadership qualities in you. In the Ashta maha siddhis – Ishwaratva is one siddhi it is always translated & interpreted as becoming powerful. I would like to translate this word as becoming leader. It is no way related to being powerful or forceful. NO. just realizing by innate nature you are a leader and the extraordinary qualities of leader. I want to give you the example of Sharada Devi, wife of Ramakrishna. Till the last moment she lived such a simple humble life. Ordinary way of living. But she was the leader practically of the largest Hindu missionary organization – Ramakrishna mission. Till the end all the major strategic planning & decisions were taken to her. Only with her consent all major strategic decisions were made. I can neither define her as powerful or forceful but just because of her leadership qualities, a non-controversial acceptance of her decisions happened in the organization. Ishwaratva means becoming leader. When you expand your understanding, when you broaden your understanding in any area, suddenly you become Ishwara – you become leader in that space. Patanjali is trying to give us understanding in 5 fields – how to become Ishwara means a lord, a leader – liberated. When everything is under your control, you are liberated from it. For example, your body is under your control, you are liberated from it. Only if you are liberated from body, body will be under control. Same with mind, emotions. In every field how to become leader, bhow to become liberated. When you have the broad understanding, your strategy, cognition, your experiences change – that liberates you! One example Patanjali says here – Indriyeshu – senses. When you have complete understanding about senses, suddenly all your desire, greed for the sensual pleasures and your fear what will happen if I don’t have sensual pleasures disappears. You will have different understanding about sense and sensual pleasures. I am not saying you will throw away or indulge in sensual pleasures. Neither suppression, no expression happens. an extraord understanding, a cognitive shift will happen. Let me enter into the understanding about senses. When you are having a very narrow understanding about the senses, a little bit of excitement which happens in your eyes when you see a person you are addicted to it, a little bit of excitement which happens in your eyes when you listen to something, you are addicted it, a kind of excitement which you exp on the tongue when you exp it, you are addicted to it. I know people travel from country to country just to eat! I cannot understand. One person who met me in my satsang in Paris told me he drives all the way to Italy just to eat a particular food. I said I cannot understand it. He said – even I cannot understand why you travel place to place just to eat ☺ People travel country to country just to eat, just to hear music shows. Same way particular person’s touch wihen it excites you, you are addicted to it. When you have a very narrow understanding about senses, you are having different kind of greed or fear to that senses. Please understand, I am making an imp statement. A narrow understanding about senses drastically reduces the kundalini awakening in your bio memory in turn reduces the mitochondria energy level, …your deep violent ….depression in your life. Narrow understanding is what I call as caught in the sense pleasures! Vedic tradition again & again tells through 100s of stories, incidents suppression is not the way of life. But they go on insisting on vairagya – liberation. It is a big conflict. How can I not suppress but be liberated? Again & again Krishna is worshipped as a Jagat Guru – liberated soul. 1000s of women around him – Vasudeva sudham devam kamsa chanoora mardhanan.. Bhagavatam sings his glory as Jagat Guru – master of the universe! How a man like Krishna 16000 mistresses! Really I cannot understand. Of course he must be not just Jagat Guru if he can handle so many women! Then how he can be a liberated being? Because he had a broad complete understanding of the senses. I want to make it clear I am not promoting 16K women. NO. I am only telling you have broad understanding like Krishna. Let me give you the definition – narrow understanding means thinking when certain object come in contact with that sense, you experience excitement. The broad or right understanding is the awareness which is alive in you being sucked to that sense particularly intensely when those objects come in contact with that sense! Please understand, it is because of your awareness rushing towards that sense intensely, you experience the excitement, not because of the object coming in contact with that sense. I tell you the life awareness which you experience in you in Ananda Gandha if it rushes intensely to any one sense, you will have excitement in that sense for whatever may be the reason. If you know this truth suddenly you will have a broad understanding of the senses. Then just the object coming in contact may not be an immd or necessary for me to have a pleasure. With this understanding many of your greeds and fear will disappear. When you have a greed for certain man or woman in your life you will have a fear that he or she may not be in your life forever. After some time you will have fear he may be there in your life forever☺ at one point the may not be will be the fear after some time the may be will bet he fear. In either ways the fear will be there as long as the understanding isn arrow. Understanding is too shallow.

Shankara very beautifully explains he initiation with a powerful example called pramara geeta nyaaya – be logic. Pramara geeta means when a bee wants to expand its family it goes and picks up a few worms and makes a small mud shell and keeps the worm inside, sits in the entry point goes on creating intense sound – that sound is m antra deeksha. In that sound the worms will become bee! Just using the sense of sound, the bee is able to reproduce! It does not need any organ for reproduction. All your 5 senses can do the job of all other 4 senses without the need of other 4 senses! Your eyes can hear, smell, experience the touch pleasure and taste without the use of ears, nose, tongue and touch. Please understand, I have seen yogis physically able to play the other roles of senses through one sense. I am not even asking to go to extreme of physical demo. Even if you have understanding, your understanding about fear & greed of the senses will expand and make you a leader. I have seen my own teacher Raghupati Yogi. He will take a thread and throw with the eyes. I saw another yogi who wrote a very big poetry on me. When he met me he was more than 107 years. Very strong, steady, stable. The funny part is just through the eyes not only he was able to blow the thread. Even the lamp he lit a lamp and blew it away thru the eyes. The ability to use any sense for any purpose. Any one of your sense can experience any other sense. All you pleasure is not because of the object coming in contact with the sense. But awareness coming in contact with the sense. I want all our kids to be trained in the science of awareness coming in contact with the sense and not the object coming in contact with the sense. Simple technique – close your whole body with Sambhavi mudra – when you close your eyes, nose, ears and cheek whole body will be closed. Cheek is the door for touch and it plays a major role in romance and lust. So when you close all of these and bring awareness to one center, you will see all 5 senses will have excitement. Even this roller coasters why do you think people enjoy because when your body is completely twisted, made to run thru all directions, suddenly your life energy explodes and gushes to all senses. That intense gushing causes a kind of pleasure. That is why people are addicted to adrenaline. Otherwise why will the theme parks become so popular? They are modern day teertha kshetras! Any country if you want to knwot he backbone of the country – find out where the largest number of people gather. India it is Tirupati, Varanasi. In the US it is theme parks – Disney land! When you bring the understanding, the joy and excitement in senses is not because of the object coming in contact with them but your attention and awareness coming in contact with them A dog trying to chew the dry bone so violently the dry bone pokes into the mouth of the dog, from his own mouth the blood is coming and the dog is drinking that blood thinking it is c oming from the bone! You jump so aggressively, violently ont eh object, the awareness fromt eh ananda gandha is giving you the pleasure not the object. If the object is the source of pleasure – for ex. – you eat 3 laddus. The 7th laddu you think no enuf. By the 12th one you will feel like escaping. If object is resp for pleasure why adding more & more is not adding joy? Same way listening. ½ hour you can listen to few songs. After some 3 hours the same thing is a torture. Any sense experience if object is resp for pleasure when more & more is added it is supposed to expand and continue. Then why it is not happening? Same way a scene after few minutes you feel like it is ok. Let me see something else. The constant change is required because object is not responsible for the pleasure. It is the subject gushing intot he indriyas into the senses which is resp for the joy. If you imbibe inculcate this understanding many of your greed, need fears related to your senses disappear and you are liberated from senses – indriya vimukta – you become the leader of senses. Actually when you imbibe this understanding and grind inside you so many openings and understandings will happen. A man whose senses are awakened his kundalini is awakened and his mitoch energy goes up. He become strong and he will have complete freedom to enjoy intensely or leave intsnsley. He can live or leave. If you have narrow understanding, you will have suppression – you will neither have enjoyment and you will have tremendious violent - it si called taitriya Vedas – vicious circle. When you imbibe this broad understanding your very thinking will be diff. it will not run towards superficial sense objects A nun is giving lessons to all the high school girsl who are leaving their school. In farewell speech she is saying – don’t spoil your life just for one hour pleasure. A long sermon was over. One last row girl raised her hand. The nun was happy the sermon was recvd well and she raised her hand for clarifying doubts as the girl was notorious. Nun thot the girl was transformed. The girl asked – how do we make it as long as one hour? If you are caught with the narrow understanding of senses, neither you will be able to make it long nor you will be able to get out of the desire to make it long. It will lead to frustration. When you have broad understanding of the senses, first thing you are free from it, second, if you decide you can make it any longer. Because the source of joy is ananda gandha – eternal you wills ee you are there forever. Another thing with this understanding your kundalini will be awakened and your mitocho energy level will beincreased. You will be in intense joy whether the other person is there or not. You will neither bother to have nor bother to throw away when the person is there. You will just be! HAVING the broad understanding about the senses and because of the kundalini being awakened neither you feel the need and you have the extraord capacity to live this liberated leadership experience is a virtuous circle – this is what we call – urthva vedas Visious circle of neither having energy and having intense violent deiire is called visious circle – traitriya Vedas. Just understanding about sense liberates you of sense and makes you leader of senses. Same way time – lakshana. Here patanjali speaks about 5 aspects. I will deal at least 2 today. We dealt with indriya. Next is lakshana – time. Please udnerstna an imp truth about time. Living in present is impossible! We always have a big theory – live int eh present you wil be enlightnened. No. live in past, present, future and live all of it together. Understand, of course I made two statements – living in the present is impossible! Living in the present moment is the conspiracy created against humanity to control human beings. No. living in the present moment is impossible. The very idea present moment – one part is already swallowed by the past, one part is coming from future. It is like a child coming from womb and being swallowed. You are trying to live in the gap between these two – which does not even exist! Liberation menas living in all the 3 at a time. I am a present in my past, in my present, in my future – means all 3 have become part of me, from me. I am the womb from which all 3 are getting delivered. If you try to live in the present you will have the dent of the past and the future in that egg. Just look at this moment. Try to be in the present you will see that underlying sadness of past, fear of future is there in that egg. Egg of hen cannot hatch horse or tiger! Paramartha Guru once asked his disciples to get a baby elephant. The disciples who were fools went to the mahuth and asked for baby elephant. The m ahuth realizing that hey are fools told them to wait as elephant will hatch egg and then baby will come out of it. By evening elephant dropped its waste. Disciples thot that’s the egg. Carried it and kept it in the ashram. Sat around. Meditating, contemplating and everything. After 21 days, they saw few worms coming out of the elephant drops. They caught hold of the worms and started feeding them. They waited, waited, waited – in the end what they would have got – you know! The hen’s egg cannot give birth to tiger. At this moment when you try to live in present, when you have deep suffering of past and fear of future embedded in this egg, how can it lead to enlightenment? NO. enlightenment happens in you when you live in all three space – past, present and future. How can you do this? Just understand, time DOES NOT EXIST. Just think suddenly all the clocks and calendars disappear frm the planet earth. What is time then? What is this foolishness BC, AD? How do you know it is 2011? What is calculation of time? Ultimately time has no sense. The idea is brought to our life for the sake of simple understanding of day to day life smooth running. The greatest conspiracy called civilization has been forced on human beings by some unconscious idiots who expect us to wake up and be in some time. Even we – the mystery schools are caught in time. No 0other way, you guys are already programmed and I have to take you thru it and get you out. So what is time? Remove all the intellectual und and the day to day life pressure of time on you. I know a swami from Ramakrishna order who was a rare gem who managed to be enlightened inspite of being in an organization! He had 12 clocks in his room & 40 alarm pieces. Each one will show its own time. Someone asked why? He will say whenever I want whichever time, I will look at the time and relate to it! Time does not exist! What are the bases with which we measure time – earth is rotating itself and going around the sun! I want all of you to know it is a lie taught to you by limited visionaries. I am telling you very clearly Sun is going around the earth! Not only man the consciousness which is seeing all galaxies, the consciousness from which all galaxies are coming out and merging – sun is going round the earth! All movements are comparative. Just understand, imagine visualize that this is a ball – this is sun and this is plane tearth. This is supposed to be rotating and going around (shows 2 objects). I tell you they came to this understanding because they take the earth as the centre and from that part they are measuring the sun. and since they calculate thru only few billion years, they say earth goes around sun. but from cosmic consc I tell you the sun is going around the earth and it takes few more billion years. The very idea that the earth is going around the sun is a comparative reality. Today contemplate this one truth – sun is going round the earth! I want you to convince at least 5 people. Hope all of you understand what I am saying. Because we are staying in earth, we are able to see only few 1000 years imaginarily, we talk about the earth going round the sun. but from the source of all movement I am telling you earth is going round the sun, and the sun is also going around the earth in the picute of the whole cosmos. If you really want to measure the time, you should take sun going round the earth – in that way you can measure it many more years. Humans do not know the science of time. Sun is going round the earth should be the understanding and base for measuring time. Then you can measure more billions of years. That is why the vedic calendar is the only one which can calculate largest no. we look at time and measure it from behind the source of time – kala traya. We look at time from kaala trayateeta. Have broad understanding about time. You exist in past, present, future. Please understand, I will give you the example of present moment as egg. This has a trace of all yoru past and all your future and present. If you go on triing to be int eh present, avoiding the past and avoiding the future, how are you going to deliver enlightenment? No. it iwill be an aborted child. Just understand the past & future is part of you. sit on the egg – means remembering the past and future inclusion is present. So whenever a wave comes from the past, understand the wave from the past is also coming in present. So don’t hate saying that it is past – NO. understand, just because you arelredy experienced that it does not mena it has become past. It is happening in this moment! If you remember a exp which you had 2 years before, you think it is past. NO. the thot you have this moment about what happened 2 year before is not past. The tought is present. Your foolish ignoranct mind connects this with that and dumpsl this as past. Your idea of past is wrong, short and narrow. Your idea of future is wrong…that is why you constantly stugggle to be in present. Even if you are sitting and cheirshin all your glory in past you are in present because you are remembering it in present! Past is a dead screen to see it, you will have to have lifht of present moment – awareness. For ex, here is a projector where the light of awareness in the present shows you the images. You think it is past. N0. The awareness with which you are seeing the image of past is present. So awareness Is beyond time whether it makes you exp past, present or future. Whatever may be the exp you are having in yoru inner space the awareness is the present. That is why I am saying be inclusive all 3 you wil be enlightened. Nithya is not living in present . it is living in all 3. The broad understanding of kala, lakshana, time liberates you from time. Today we will dedicate whole day meditating on how to be in all 3 at a time. Now if you are having a thot abut something which happened 2 yrs before does not mean you are in past. You are in present knowing your past. If you are having something about future, you are in the present thinking of future. Carry this understanding in you as a fire. Set this fire to at least 5 people. Come back tomowwo either with fire and 5 more people with fire. All the blown away darkenss at least come back. So tomorrow bring either questions you had or answers you had when you transacted. Or you will have convinced 5 people. Bring back all the 3 to the satsang tomorrow. Big problem is we are just sitting, not interacting and doing it. It will all enter one ear and go thru the other ear. I want you to share your experience at [email protected]. if you work and share everyday, I enroll you in my mystery school in my inner space. Then naturally you will experience the eNeffect. Go and talk to people every day. You will see many ideas and understandings will happen in you which you did not get through me. if you don’t have people, go to a mall and stand there with a board – I have a scared secret to transform you. do you have depression? Contact me. Have courage. I tell you it will make you enlightened! Sit even if you think of your past or future, don’t worry. Oh I am thinking of my past, future, don’t worry drop your axe. Stop cutting. Just understand – I am sitting in past in my present, in future in present. My fears are inclusive in this present moment that I am experiencing. Just sit in present moment and you will experience the great sacred secret patanjali is revealing in this sutra. Today one understanding – get back to padmasana, vajrasana or sukha asana. Sit in samaana mudra we will start the eNexperience. Let you all become kaala traya teetaha. Close your eyes. Let the kundalini be intensely awakened in all of you. Have the intense awareness. Whether it is past or preestn or future you are experiencing in this moment all inclusive. Let the kundalini shakti be intensely awakened in you all. Let you all become kaala traya teetaha! Blessings!