“These are the questions answered yesterday.”

These are the questions answered yesterday. Let's see these few questions related to yesterday's discourse, and then we'll enter into the sutras. It would be very helpful to chant each Shiva sutra in Sanskrit before discussion, also please recommend a text book on Shiva Sutras with original sutras in Sanskrit and translations and commentary in English?

I think I already prescribed this. Lakshman Jhoo's translation and transliteration is available even the transliteration is done and translation and commentary I can say that book is one of the authentic wonderful book. Surely I’ll chant from tomorrow the original Sanskrit sutra also, along with the translation.

Before becoming enlightened, do we have to be vegetarian? Please advice! Only before you become enlightened you need, not after that. The idea of vegetarianism or non-vegetarianism, both disappears. This is supposed to be the spiritual practice. I felt bad to kill the insects like mouse, ants in our house. I choose to believe that I gave them a chance to reincarnate to a better life instead of believing they’ll create karma.

Be very clear, do not hide yourself with these words, hiding yourself with these words is surely not going to change or help. Either have that courage to live with them or be very clear you are killing them. Don’t try to have your way, your own way and trying to create more words for, trying to create your own interpretation.

Can an enlightened person do… sorry I’m not able to read. Maybe this questioner can read the question now. There are two words I’m not able to read.

Can an enlightened person be evil or damage things?

No he cannot do. Anything comes out of him is a lie. Anything comes out of him is auspiciousness, mangalatattwa., shivattwa. Anything happens inside and outside an enlightened being will naturally be only be an auspicious thing, auspicious energy so there cannot be any adharma, any evil. There is a beautiful story in Zen tradition. One Zen master was bringing up a small boy to be a successor from the young age. That guy had a very deep, loving connection with the Master but very naughty guy. He will try to do the same kind of acts, he'll try to imitate and make fun of Master, standing behind him. Master had a habit of always showing the thumb, whenever he wants to emphasize a particular point - he'll show the thumb. This guy also will stand behind him and do the same thing. Do the same to make fun of the Master. One day the Master got so annoyed, or angry he just took his knife, Zen masters always carry sword. He just took the knife and cut the thumb. Understand the story says very beautifully – the trust and feeling connection is so deep, the disciple, the boy did not even think once for a moment that something wrong is done to him. He felt very clearly if he does it, it must be good for me. That deep trust even during intense pain, just the unclutching has happened. Understand when you have the trust happens only when you are aware. If the awareness happens during the intense pain, you will see suddenly your body and mind are unclutched – the unclutching happens. The story says he became enlightened at that moment. Later on the monks took him to the hospital, whatever medical first aid they want to do, they did all the medical help.

One disciple asked him Yes, Master he became enlightened that is true he lost a finger, is it not too much? He had to go through the pain. Then Master says beautifully, a people loose life after lives for enlightenment, one finger is O.k. good bargain.

Understand, even if the so called bad things comes out of an Enlightened beings, it will never be a bad, it’ll always be auspicious, it’ll always be mangala and even if it looks to be auspicious and mangala but comes out of inner space which is filled with anger, fear and desire – you will see he end result will always be fear, anger desire and greed. Based on your inner space, only the result of your action will be decided. This moment what you carry, only that can give birth to the next moment. Your inner space that decides what is going to be the result of your action, not your action itself. Many times the inner space plays a major role, in the end result.

What does it mean to be Enlightened? Does an Enlightened person have fears, pain, suffering?

Two things – first thing – not only enlightened Masters do not have fears, pain and suffering. Whatever you understand as the movement, does not happen in them as you understand, maybe this example will be able to help you, guide you. If you have 10 acre space, 10 acre land as your mind, all that 10 acre is filled with thoughts anger, desire, fear and irritation everything. With Enlightened being it’s like he has got 10 million acre inner space and one corner, 10 acre he has allowed out of his voluntary acceptance, maybe a thread of mind or a thread of thoughts, words to exist, so that he can relate to you in the same language. You see there’s a beautiful example by another one Buddhist Master.

When you say “I” the word ‘I’ when you utter the word “I” you have a strong idea about it but when you say God or Divine, or the spiritual experience, the ultimate – you don’t have a idea, strong idea about it, you have only a vague few words which you read here and there, which you heard from here and there, just few words you are carrying, not more than that. Just few words, which you heard or read. But for a living Master, an enlightened person a divine person the divine carries a strong meaning, the word divine carries a very strong meaning and experience, just like for you how the word ‘I’ carries a strong meaning and experience for the living Masters the word Divine, God, Super consciousness all these carry a very strong meaning and experience. But when I utter the word ‘I’, it just comes from the throat- there is no deep meaning behind it. There is nobody who is standing behind that word. There is no energy support, energy added to that word. Whenever I utter the word ‘I’ it is for the sake of the language, pure emptiness, from that words moving and rolling. This is the answer for this question. Now I have answer for the questioner – I think your question, na? This is your question –no, you only because both questions are from the same paper. Your question, you forgot, you only, you stood up, you only stood up and clarified the last question. Can enlightened person do evil things? You only wrote the question, na. The second question also, you only wrote. That’s what I am saying that this is the answer for you. This question has not come from your person, your being, If it has come from youe being long before I answered this question. Just wanted to tell that be intensely aware what you are listening because the same subject I have been talking for last two days. I wanted you to be just little aware of what you are listening.

I have been practicing yoga, chanting and meditation since 1984, I’ve had numerous spiritual experiences yet I’m still not enlightened. What do I need to do to obtain the final enlightenment?

Nice, I think a question from professional seekers. Seeking is a profession for them. Seeking is a life. Understand the urge should become urgent. These spiritual experiences gives you a sort of idea, I think now it’s enough, we are really doing well. The traditions which teach us the gradual enlightenment, they contributed really lot. It can be really inspiring way for starting for new seekers. But these gradual paths have a danger; they will not give you the ultimate break, the ultimate opening. There are two major traditions. I can say all major spiritual traditions can be classified into these two. One is the traditions which gives gradual progress, slowly, slowly there will be clear cut defined path – Yama, Niyama, Asana, Prayanama, Pratyaghraha – it will appeal for the normal mind. You can start and slowly progress, progress, progress, progress and continue to progress. Easy to start, difficult to end. But there are some other traditions, especially this Vigynana Bhairava tantra, or the Shiva sutras, this book is all about techniques which give you straightaway enlightenment. But starting will be little difficult, because logically you cannot feel connected. Very simple things, Mahadeva says very clearly can lead you to enlightenment – especially yesterday’s sutra. Yesterdays sutra says, be intensely aware when the sneezing happens to you, you will become enlightened. Practically he says just a sneezing can lead you to enlightenment. How can you believe? Logically you can’t be convinced, logically you can’t understand. You can go on listening and you can go on sneezing; you may catch cold, not enlightenment! There are some methods, some techniques which give you sudden enlightenment like Shiva Sutras, but one important thing you need with these sudden enlightenment technique is the courage and feeling connected. With the professional seekers, one big problem is whenever professional seekers come, I speak everything related to society but never anything related to spirituality because unfortunately they lost the respect for Master’s words. The professional seekers, they’ll be checking me also out. I always take care that I am politically correct with them, receiving, taking care and the whole thing and all the discussions about society but never about spirituality. They lost the sensitivity for Enlightened being’s words. Too many Gurus and too many words when you hear actually. One great advantage with too many Guru System is constantly the inspiration is kept alive but one disadvantage is people don’t stay with one Master and go till the end, go till the end. Whenever people come and ask me, Swamiji can I go to this master, can I learn from that master, I always tell them, go to all the gardens and pluck the best flowers and make a garland for you. It is a teaching given to the people who are just starting, the initial level, and no other way. But with this kind of a lifestyle you will become a professional seeker. You will have some experience, here, some experience there, wonderful, o.k. But the final break, or final opening, no other way, it has to be only from one being or one Master. That final opening needs a very strong commitment, it’s practically like Master and disciple work with each other; it’s literally a spiritual surgery, removing the ego. If Master starts doing that job, these guys will start looking into the other windows, into the other directions.

There is a beautiful story between Mahavira and Buddha, both of them have tremendous respect for the other person. Buddha will never stretch the leg towards the direction where Mahavira is traveling and Mahavira will always do namaskar everyday morning towards the direction where Buddha is traveling. But both of them will be criticizing about each other publicly. One day somebody asked Buddha, you don’t even stretch your leg towards the direction where Mahavira is traveling, but why do you constantly criticize? Beautifully Buddha says because the disciples on whom I’m working they will run there if I acknowledge him. They live neither learn from here or there. The moment I acknowledge him they’ll run away. The same crowd which is there, the so called dis-satisfied crowd, they will jump and come here. The professional seeking brings some difficulties; maybe you must be having few qualities of professional seeking, constantly judging, analyzing and applying the Master’s words only as much as your logic accepts. I always tell people whenever you leave your shoes there, please leave whatever you learnt, about these words, not spiritual, whatever you learnt about spirituality would have become part of you, it would have become juice in you, that you don’t have to leave and you can’t leave, but the words which you are carrying in your head if you leave it and come inside. If I utter the same words you will give the meaning which I am giving for those words, not the meaning which you are carrying for those same words. You are supposed to use my dictionary for the words which I am uttering, not your dictionary for the words which I am uttering. So maybe, some quality of professional seeking when it happens in you, you will not see the final opening happening, the final experience happening. Relax from that professional seeking, relax from that judging the Master’s words and choosing from the Master’s words and following it. Then you will see the final enlightenment, happens to you.

Today’s sutra: The purity of other teachings is impurity to us; in reality know nothing as pure or impure. Very strong sutra, understand: The purity of other teachings is impurity to us; in reality know nothing as pure or impure. In Vedic tradition we don’t have baptism, we don’t teach some set of philosophies, ideas or dogmas to kids. When the kids grow around the age of 7 all they receive is the Gayatri mantra. The meaning of that mantra is, let me meditate on the superconscious intelligence which will awaken the same intelligence in me, let the intelligence help me to meditate on it – that’s all. Understand, no where you’ll see any theory, any idea, any concept is inserted into their head. No! All they receive is a torch. With the torch they can start the seeking. All different paths, so many different paths are available, so many different things are available, they can start exploring on their own. Understand, anything taught to you as a conditioning, or anything put in your head as a belief will not be part of you. Only the religion which you discovered will add music to your heart, only the tradition which you discovered will add juice to your being.

Mahadeva is saying beautifully, the purity of other teachings is an impurity to us. Whatever is taught to you from the young age is impurity. There is a beautiful technique in the next step. Mahadeva is saying, whatever you heard or saying including Master’s words keep them away from your inner space. It’s a very strong teaching. Only the Vedic Masters’ have so much courage to say, go beyond us. But you need to understand one important thing, when Mahadeva says ‘drop even the Master’s form, that should be the last thing to be dropped, not the first thing. That should be the last thing to be dropped, drop everything else, then you’ll see you’ll be ready to drop the Master’s form. There a very beautiful example given by Ramana Maharishi. He says, in Bharat to burn the dead bodies, they use the bamboo. They’ll use the long bamboo, once the body is almost burnt, they’ll throw the same stick, they’ll throw the stick in the same fire, they'll throw the stick also in the fire. Masters form is like the bamboo stick, it should be used to burn all the attachments you have for all the other forms. When the attachments for all the other forms are burnt, use this form also, put this form also into the same fire. Mahadeva says the same thing in this sutra. The purity of other teachings is an impurity to us. Whatever you heard about you, about the world and about God – Jeeva, Eshwara and Jagat, about these three whatever concepts taught to you, whatever you heard and whatever was told to you keep them away from your inner space. Understand, throwing everything out for few minutes a day is worthy. It is really worthy. I’m not saying the whole day keep everything out, of course even if I tell, you’ll not do that is the reason I’m not telling. Trying to be practical. But at least few minutes, try to put everything out, whatever you know. I can tell you, things which is beyond your knowledge will happen in your inner space. Things beyond your logic can suddenly happen in your inner space. Veda means when you enter into that silence, when you are completely unclutched, in the deep silence if the strong truth or clear visualization, if it is revealed to you, that knowledge is what we call Vedas.

There is a beautiful description about Rishis in the tradition not the person who heard the mantra – it says mantra-drashta, person who sees the mantra, who has seen the mantra. Means when you unclutch from your inner chattering, strong visualizations beyond your logic will descend on you, will get downloaded into your inner space; strong visualizations which get downloaded into your inner space beyond your logic or inner chattering is Veda. That is knowledge for you, that is the knowledge, that is the truth which will guide your life. Here, all Mahadeva is trying to tell us is keep all the words which you heard from outer world away so that you will listen to the truth from the inner space. First you will have the clarity coming out of the silence, that is what is called Sat, then you’ll have the tremendous awareness about the past, present, and future that is what is called chit, then you’ll have a very strong, intense, ecstatic experience which is called ananda. The Sat, Chit and Ananda all three can come out of your inner space when you relax into that silence by unclutching from the body, mind. When the unclutching happens suddenly you’ll see very strong experience happens to you in this three dimensions of sat, chit, ananda. This technique directly leads us to that space. The purity of other teachings is an impurity to us; whatever is taught to you, whether it is in the name of secular education or spiritual education, whatever you know in the name of religion or spirituality or society or things needed to run your life or anything which you heard; you see your whole mind is made out of the aahara which you took inside. Aahara does not mean just food, aahara means through all the five senses. Whatever you took inside, out of that your mind is made and whatever you took inside even through the TV is nothing but teaching. The moment your inner space is listened or heard or created a record you already heard. You already took that as a teaching. One big problem is we always think very strongly, we have a clear logic system, which does not allow all the things to get recorded, no you are not that intelligent. Understand, whatever is told directly gets recorded or it influences your thinking; that is why, traditionally, we believe that satsangs are right company is very important. We think that, no,no, no I'm very intelligent. Many times we think, no,no,Swamiji I;m an intelligent guy, I can manage that type of company and come out untouched. No, no,never, ever think you can come out untouched. You will see naturally, directly or indirectly those ideas will be going inside your head and it will influence, it will work on your system. Any teaching, because your mind does not have such a strong logical sensor mechanism as you believe, your mind does not have a strong sensor mechanism as you believe. Maybe you can constantly make others believe that you have a strong sensor mechanism, but if you look little deep inside, no!, you don’t have strong sensor mechanism, you are really vulnerable and your inner space is still innocent. It is good in some way, it is bad in some other way. If you can relax from whatever you heard and go into that innocent space again, the innocence which you are having inside you has helped you. One more thing, the innocence which you carry also we can’t say whether it is good or bad. How you are using it, that only is going to decide whether it is good or bad. Sometime when the same innocence is used by somebody else, it is dangerous, if it is used by you, it is innocence. If your innocence is used by you for you to raise yourself as Krishna says in the Gita:

Uttaray atma atmanam, atmanam mama sadhaye

If you help yourself, if you raise yourself by yourself, then the innocence which you carry is really wonderful, it’s great, good thing for you. But if the innocence is used by somebody else to put the ideas into your head, naturally it is bad. The purity of other teachings is an impurity to us. Understand, whatever you learnt here after taking the body is Agamya – collected. Whatever you brought with you when you created your body is Prarabdha and you have not brought your whole bank balance. Your bank balance which is lying in the cosmic bank is Sanjita. What you brought with you is the Prarabdha and whatever you heard and collected in the form of teaching, life style, concept, theory everything is Agamya. Here Mahadeva is saying keep the Agamya out, I’m saying at least for a few minutes a day. Of course, Mahadeva is not saying at least for a few minutes, I’m adding that word so that you will start. Because the moment I say whatever is accumulated here keep them away, you’ll say No, No, No who will pay my bills, who will run my life, who will take care of my needs. I tell you, your Prarabdha has independent intelligence to run your life without you interfering or without you being needed to exist. To tell you honestly it is a very powerful shock to your ego. All I’m saying, if I have to put it in a very blunt, straight words – you are not needed for your life to run happily. You are not needed for your life, whatever you think as your life, you are not directly needed. Your prarabdha has enough of independent intelligence. The prarabdha with which you landed, you created your body has enough independent intelligence to run the show.

Their’s a beautiful story by Buddha: Somebody asked Buddha, if you say you are in the state of nirvana, how are you eating? You going out and begging and eating, even these things are actions, you have are karma. How can you say you are in nirvana? Buddha very beautifully says, when the hunger arises in me I’m witnessing, when the hunger spreads all over my body, I’m witnessing, when the hunger decides to move the body, I’m witnessing, when the hunger decides to move the body and ask for bhiksha, I’m witnessing, when the bhiksha is received and the hunger decides to take the food inside, I’m witnessing, when the food dissolves into the system and the hunger disappears, I’m witnessing. From the moment hunger started till the moment hunger disappears, I’m witnessing. The hunger has it’s own intelligence to do, to fulfill itself. Every step; the big problem is we are constantly taught without fear or greed we cannot function. We are constantly told, without fear or greed we cannot function by the religions which are created only for marketing purpose. Understand, the society needs to be told the things in their language. The religions created for marketing purpose are fear or greed based. But the Vedic tradition has done a deep research and development beyond the fear and greed based. They have done a very deep research and development. They have done a deep study, I can say if at all we can call some tradition as a religion or the religious part, essence of all the traditions, it is from the roots of the Vedic tradition. Because Vedic tradition is not just viddhi-nisheda, not just do’s and don’ts. It is a very deep,powerful, intense, research and development done by the Vedic Masters inside their inner space. It is a deep research and development. Constantly they were working, they were diving deep into their inner space and bringing the truths out and presenting it properly, creating formulas to reproduce the same experience in others too.

Purity of other teachings is an impurity to us, in reality know nothing as pure or impure. Actually, Mahadeva is saying keep anything which you heard as words, outside you. And the moment you start keeping things outside you, you will see the silence which grows in you will become will become the real Master, which can be constantly revealed with strong realizations; you’ll become a mantra-drashta. You can keep only one teaching in your heart – that is keep all the teachings outside your heart. Keep all the teachings outside, is the only teaching worthy teaching of keeping inside the heart.

Vivekananda says beautifully, till your inner guide is awakened, outer guides will not be help, once your inner guide is awakened outer guides have no use.

All you need is one teaching of keeping all the teaching outside is what you need to keep inside. Here Mahadeva is giving a very strong truth, a very strong line – not just a spiritual teaching, keep everything out, at least for few moments a day. I tell you, even for your so called normal life keeping everything out for few moments, few seconds will give you tremendous fresh, new, empty inner space. You will have the intense energy, you will have the open inner space where you can start playing totally different games, different kind of creativity can start happening in you.

Let me narrate a beautiful story from the Patanjali’s life. The same word, the same sutra, Patanjali is describing in a different way. There’s a very beautiful traditional story how Patanjali expressed his experiences and created the spiritual literatures. Patanjali is supposed to be the reincarnation of Adishesha – 1000 headed snake, the snake with 1000 heads. And once Patanjali says to his disciples, more than 1000 disciples are staying and studying with him. He says I’m too tired of speaking the truth here and there little bit little bit,; I’m not able to express the whole truth as it is, so today we’ll decide whatever may happen I’ll express the truth completely, as it is. So all of you sit here and take notes. He says, I’ll speak through my thousand heads, 1000 tongues, but the problem is if all of you listen to all the words which are coming out of the 1000 heads, 1000 mouths you will be confused, so each one of you record the words and teaching which are coming out of one head. It’s a very beautiful arrangement. Maybe something like a headphone would have been there or connecting one disciple to one mouth. Anyhow, all the arrangements have been made and Patanjali says now I’ll enter into the ultimate superconscious state and express the whole thing through all the 1000 tongues. Please pen down the whole thing, note down the whole thing and after I relax I settle down, we’ll compile the whole thing and create an encyclopedia, or the complete volume to transmit this knowledge.

To tell you honestly, even Masters what they utter from that high ecstasy or the high experience, the truth what they uttered, they will not be able to utter the same thing when they are in a normal relative mood. When they are in the normal mood of relating in this plane of the material existence. That is why there’s a beautiful story, after Kurukshetra war, Arjuna asks Krishna, Krishna your Gita teachings were so inspiring, but you taught all those things in the war, in the field of war – Kurukshetra, I forgot everything, please can you repeat once more, I’ll take the notes. Then Krishna laughs and says, not only you, I also forgot, I also forgot. That was uttered in the high superconscious state, maybe I can tell you whatever little I can remember and he repeats whatever little he can remember in abridged form, that is what is called a small Gita – Anugita. There is a book called Anugita. After the Mahabharat war is over, a small little part which he remembers, maybe that is the same reason Patanjali says let me enter into the ecstasy and express the whole thing and later on we’ll sit and collect the whole thing. Maybe, if I add one of my personal experience, you’ll be able to understand what exactly Patanjali was trying to do.

People come and tell me many time, Swamiji in your photograph vibhooti came, in your photograph kumkum came, in your photograph honey came, they come and report to me. I tell my disciples, Oh God! I think I should also have my photograph in my room, if I want vibhooti I have to go to my restroom. If I want vibhooti, I’ve to go only to my room, my restroom only there vibhooti cup will be kept. If I need vibhooti I have to go to my cup but my disciples get it from my photograph.. They come and ask me are you not aware of this? Please understand, I’m very clear and very sure be very clear, not only I am not aware, I am not in control, I’m not even aware of these actions. I think I’m opening up the business secret – but it’s O.K., for the sake of truth, the business can be, these things can be opened.

Understand, the cosmic experience is like this kerchief and a small thread which is hanging in one corner is this body. With this whole memory and experience of the cosmic consciousness, this body cannot become active, it cannot move in a balanced way. Understand, the moment I am able to move the right hand or left hand, I should completely forget or bring myself little down from the cosmic consciousness which does not have right or left. The moment clear, co-ordinated movement is happening inside your body, you have to slowly bring yourself down from the cosmic memory, or the cosmic awareness, cosmic consciousness. If you try to stay in the cosmic consciousness, the movement in the body is not possible. The movement of the right or left and all these things are not possible, so actually, the person who is giving photograph vibhooti and kumkum is like the person who is the kerchief, the cosmic consciousness. When you pray automatic reply system is there, mechanism that just directly gives you, that responds to you based on your intense devotion or feeling connected. I always tell people, all I did is I vacated this body, because I vacated this body, whoever is praying intensely, is feeling connected the cosmic consciousness is using this form to bless them, over. At the most I can do one thing, I can download the same experience which happened to you at what time and give you the information – that’s all. Maybe I’ll be able to tell the information, in which address, which wall, where the photograph was and how much quantity vibhooti came. Maybe I’ll be able to tell the information, but act itself cannot be controlled, act itself cannot be controlled. It is not, it cannot be controlled by the logic now which is talking to you. Understand, the logic which is talking to you will not be able to control, does not have power over those incidents.

In that cosmic consciousness only, there’s a tremendous inspiration to give out all these teachings out of compassion, but when this normal logic starts activating, playing; you will not be able to give the whole truth which you feel as it is. It’s like you are trying to pour million liter milk into through a small pipe, very small pipe. But you are trying to pour so much of milk through the pipe, what will happen? The pressure is too much, the pressure will be too much, so Patanjali is trying to bring all the truths revealed to him in that high consciousness, in that superconscioush state, through this small pipe, through this small logic. He is trying, maybe he may have thought with thousand tongues at a time repeating or expressing, that he will be able to bring a little more than normal teachers, Masters can bring into the world. It was a great experiment. He says let me bring that same intense energy, the same intense space to the ordinary world through the teachings. He says all thousand disciples try to connect and note down whatever comes out of one mouth. They are all ready, fully aware, sitting, but Patanjali warns them when I’m talking do not remove the screen. He creates a big, thick screen. He says that intense energy you may not be able to understand or catch, so do not remove the screen. I’ll be this side, you only hear the words and try to note down, try to pen down, do not try to enter into this energy field. And do not try to remove the screen. Anyhow, when the session started, Patanjali starts talking, he has entered into the cosmic state of consciousness, or cosmic consciousness and starts talking with the same intense energy. All the thousand heads are talking and all the thousand disciples are sitting and writing everything. And almost the downloading is about to end or the teaching is about to end. One disciple thought, what is this I’m not hearing something unique or special from him. As usual whatever I hear from one mouth, that only I hear now also, that only I’m listening now also, what does he mean that he’s going to download the whole thing through thousand mouths. He does not understand, he’s listening to one mouth only, other 999 people are listening to so many other things. He forgot, he thought his experience is complete, he used his simple logic to judge the Master’s action. He thought Oh! everyday what he talks today also the same thing he is talking, I don’t see any difference – then what he claims he is in high energy, high state. Maybe to add more importance to the words, he is talking all these things. Let me see really what he is doing behind the screen. And he pulls the screen, he just removes the screen. Story says, the intense energy, the whole group, whole crowd was burnt. The moment accident has happened, Patanjali realizes something is wrong, and settled down, came down to his one logic, one face, his one head and he realizes the mistake done by, committed by the disciple. One disciples foolishness the whole thing whatever was taught and all the disciples and record everything was burnt. Suddenly he sees, after he settled down, he sees one disciple coming back, he has gone somewhere out – maybe to the restroom. He has gone out with his record, with his record whatever he collected. When he comes back, Patanjali is neither able to feel happy nor able to feel bad. One side he is happy that at least one disciple’s record has survived, the other side he felt bad that guy when he went to the restroom, when he went away, he missed a part of the teaching. So he says in the 1000 branch, only one branch and that also only one percent is his Yoga Sutra and other few books attributed to Patanjali, other few books expressed by Patanjali.

In that he says I tried my best to open everything and offer, I think the Divine wants it to be handed over from Master to disciple, Master to disciple because through the words, through just the recorded teachings you cannot transmit the ultimate experience. You cannot transmit. No ordinary teacher will be courageous enough to tell. All the teachings including mine should be kept outside, including mine should be kept outside. Let you explore in the inner space in deep silence. This teaching has got some great positive thing and some dangerous thing. Many so called disciples have used this teaching and took U turn against their Master, without realizing one important thing, you need to drop the Master last, not first. These guys instead of understanding the teachings and the Master should be dropped last, they started dropping whenever they had inconvenience, whenever they had difficulty, whenever they had problem, whenever they felt Oh! It’s O.K. They used this, that is what. They’ll be quoting the Bible. This word is misunderstood, misquoted, misused and abused to miss the truth. It is a very powerful teaching, if we can understand and relax, this truth can lead us to enlightenment because this is the ultimate teaching. Keep everything out and relax into the silence. This is the ultimate teaching but it has to be given after a clear preparation, after a real change in the personality, after the disciple goes through the psychological revolution, this teaching has to be handed over to him, not before that. Before the disciple goes through the psychological revolution, in Sanskrit we call it ‘dwijaa’, next birth, second birth, rebirth. Before that happens if these teachings are handed over it can go against the person who taught. It is very powerful truth. It is a very powerful teaching. There is a beautiful word in Buddhism – ‘Kill the Buddha, when you see him on the path” Means the last form you need to drop, but the problem is we do not wait till we meet him in the path, we search and kill him first.

Understand, travel in your path dropping everything, when there is nothing else to be dropped, in the end, then drop the Buddha, then drop the teachings, then drop the ultimate Master or ultimate teachings. I tell you one important thing from my own experience when it comes to Buddha, ultimate teachings, Master’s form, you don’t even need to drop them. They will never be a hindrance to you. They are shining, overflowing with intelligence, they themselves will disappear when you don’t need their help. You don’t need to take any responsibility or you don’t need to take any steps to drop them. You do not need to take any steps to keep the ultimate teaching away from your inner space. They themselves are so powerful, they’ll disappear into the cosmic space when they are not needed for your growth.

The purity of other teachings is an impurity to us; in reality know nothing as pure or impure.

The last part is again is a very strong truth which normal human mind may not be able to feel connected or relate. He says ‘Know nothing as pure or impure’ means even the idea of bondage and liberation is just ideas. Idea of liberation should be constantly put in your head, so that the idea of bondage is forgotten. Actually both of them are not needed, when you don’t have both ideas only then you are liberated. The idea of purity or impurity, both needs to be dropped, both are ideas. Idea of divine or mundane. Both needs to disappear from your inner space. The whole thing whatever you heard, read keep everything out, if you keep everything out there cannot be any movement in your inner space. There can be only pure silence. But all we do is we keep all the spiritual things out, but the ideas put in our head in different ways, we keep coco-cola inside. All the ideas put in our head even through advertisements, even through media, even those things are nothing but teachings, understand even those things are teachings. Any idea, any word, any concept put in your head is a teaching; keep everything out, keep everything away from your inner space, you will see the truth, Shiva, causeless auspicious energy happens in your inner space.

Lets take few moments, lets try what Shiva means by keeping everything outside. Keep everything what you heard or see or read, everything out and see what happens to your inner space. If any thought comes out, just see this was put inside my head at some point, at some time by somebody, or it is a by product of some thoughts which came inside my inner space. Somebody has put some thoughts as a by product this is coming out, so look inside now. Keep everything out as Mahadeva says, all the teachings, all the ideas, all the concepts you heard, keep everything in the outer space. Let your inner space be just with you. For a few moments, let us try this method, you will catch a glimpse, you will catch the knack of how you can practice this method, how you can practice this technique. Once in a while, at least once in a day, try, try to keep everything out for just 10 min., you will see the tremendous peace and silence happening inside you as the by product of this method. Please close your eyes. Decide very clearly you will keep all the teachings, concepts, words just put in your head outside including this teaching, keep everything out. No word, no teaching, no concepts, no lies, no truths, no purity, no impurity. Let you be in that ultimate freedom, let you be relieved from the stress and the concepts put in your head. Anything put in your head, come back to that silence, come back to that emptiness.

If you are lost in some words, some teachings, come back.Come back to the present. Om shanti, shanti, shanti!

Mahadeva is taking us to the deeper level of same technique in the next sutra,we'll study the next sutra after a small break and then we'll continue th e deeper layer of same meditation from the next sutra. Pls. Have a small break, when we come back, we'll see the next sutra and deeper layer, level of same technique. Let's gather for next session. Thank you.