“Let’s enter into today's patanjali Sutras, today's aphorisms.”

Let’s enter into today's patanjali Sutras, today's aphorisms. Yesterday we stopped with the third Sutra: Tada drastuh svarupe vasthanam. Means, when withdrawal from mental patterns happens, when you take the responsibility for your mind remembering you are thinking. Thinking is your action. It is not... Mind is not an object or it is not a thing. It is your very action. The moment you take the responsibility, the moment you start remembering that mind is a action, suddenly you will see you are able to stop when you don't want; you are able to operate when you want. Having that freedom, having that liberation is what Patanjali calls Svarupe vasthanam means establishing in your own nature.

Please understand. You need to understand the word nature. It’s an important understanding. Usually what we call as nature is the state which is confused, deluded, depressed. We start calling this as our nature but Patanjali says Svarupe. Nature means complete settled, pure Consciousness. He doesn't say the deluded state as nature. Usually when we talk or think or anyway, anytime, when we use the word ‘our nature,’ we start using the meaning of our nature. What we call or what we think as our nature. That is the big problem. Sigmund Freud's specimen is not normal because he is working on all patients. He is working with abnormal people and creating a standard. Naturally it will not be normal. What idea we have about normalcy is our nature but that is not the true nature. Here, Patanjali says nature means in the state where there is no thoughts. When the Chitta vritti nirodhah, when Chitta vritti nirodha happens, that is what is our state.

Superficially when you look at these Sutras, Patanjali looks like a scientist straight. He is not lost in poetry. You can see, there is no poetical words here. There is no poetry. Being an Enlightened Master, talking in a simple, straight prose is very difficult because in Enlightenment, you are lost in ecstasy. You are lost in ecstasy and talking in a simple prose words seems to be abnormal, seems to be too rude, too violent but here, if you look little deep, you will understand the tremendous compassion of Patanjali, the Patanjali’s compassion, the very stand He takes. He is not interested in agreeing with what you call as nature, with what you call as standard. From the very step, He is very clear about what is our nature.

One more beautiful thing: First He gives the truth. As I was telling yesterday that three 33%. The first 33% waiting for the click. Just express the truth, they will have the connection. The second 33% needs little conviction, little convincing, little one or two techniques. The third 33, very difficult to handle. He is slowly touching one by one through these first three sutras. He is trying to give the click, straight click to that first 33% who are waiting, who are waiting for the truth, who are just waiting for the click to happen. He is giving them chance. So in these three sutras, the whole thing He completes. Whatever He is going to tell, the essence of everything He completes in these three sutras.

All you need to understand is understanding this one thing: Mind is not a thing, it is your action. Just like you can stop walking, standing, sitting, you can stop the mind because it is an action. This one understanding is enough. Nothing else is needed. You are a yogi now! You are a yogi. When you don't understand, when you think, “No, no, no. It is not that easy. I think this Swami doesn't know much. He is trying to pacify us. He is trying to cover up His ignorance by telling something. Yoga cannot be that simple. Then why did He have such a big book in front of Him? And why people study so many years? So many hours they bend this way, that way, stand upside head, topsy turvy and all kinds of things people do but He is straight away telling in one word- mind is not a thing, it is a action. Just stop. You are a yogi.”

So, when you have all these questions, any one of these questions, now you are second 33%. You are second 33%. Now Patanjali is talking to you. The next step He is taking. He started using the regular, the words of a teacher, a lecturer. First three sutras is like a Master, straight, Zen Master. Now He is going to the second tone. He starts explaining one by one. This is what, this is what, this is what. He is using more word. I can say, He is little compassionate. He is not ready to leave us. After sometime, after this chapter, He is handling the third category. You should see the tremendous patience, tremendous patience, amazing patience explaining every inch, inch, inch, inch, inch.

Actually, first when I read the Yoga Sutras, I thought, ‘How can an Enlightened Master be so dry?’ Because He is not making any jokes, stories or poetry, nothing. Straight away He is talking like angry husband and not a single extra word, nothing. Straight He is showing tak, tak, tak, tak. Now I understand, first He is trying to deal with the people who are waiting for the click, who have experienced that ‘now’. ‘Atha Yoga Anushasanam.’ Who are ready, who are in this moment to receive yoga, who are ready for yoga, who are ready to explore, so he is trying to handle them. They are waiting. He can't delay the process. He can't make them wait more and more. So He straight away delivering for them.

Once He is finished with them, then He goes to second 33% where He is little more relaxed. He is using extra words. He is not poetic but at least using extra words to convince. In the third, when He is touching the third 33%, there he is very poetic. He is very poetic, very tempting using all the words, methods, techniques to give extraordinary powers, to give all possible bonuses. He has big, big sale boards ‘Sale! Sale! 60%’. He has all kinds of boards when He works with the third 33%. Let us enter into the next level sutras. He says, when the Chitta vritti nirodha, when cessation of mind happens, it results in relaxation into one's own true nature of limitlessness and total understanding.

The other day, I had opportunity to sit with a great research scholar who is doing research in the ancient civilization which existed in Bharat. I can say, that is the…. Bharatn civilization is the oldest living civilization. It is oldest and still living. His researches, his name is D.K. Harry. I was shocked to see the way in which the intelligence has expressed in the Bharatn civilization, not just with Enlightenment science, the aircrafts, the houses, in the architecture, in the field of building dams, bridges, he is proving very clearly the Ganga river is man-made. Something like few thousands of years ago, man-made river was built and man-made bridges on the ocean was built.

The amazing understanding, clarity, experience expressed something like a forty two varieties of warcrafts have been built all thousands of years before. Something like eight to nine thousand years before. I was shocked. I thought how could they have so much of clarity, understanding and intelligence. In the meditation field, they did a big research and developed this science, science of Enlightenment. This I can understand but how could they do so much in the outer world? When I Myself dived deep into the yoga, into this Consciousness, I understood when there is no thought, when you are in your nature, you have limitless energy and true understanding about everything.

That is what here Patanjali says. Limitlessness and total understanding any direction you can direct your Consciousness, you will have clarity about that truth. You will have total understanding in that direction like, things will be waiting to reveal itself to you. Things will be waiting to reveal its mysteries to you. All you need- just look in. You will see, it reveals all its mysteries to you. You are able to connect with it and receive all the informations, secrets, mysteries. It is just like downloading. It is just like downloading. If you are a yogi, if you are thoughtless, in thoughtless zone, anything, just bring your awareness, that restful awareness. That is what Patanjali calls Samyama, restful awareness. If you direct your restful awareness towards that direction, you know it.

I have seen Bharatn yogis. I had the fortune of living at the feet of many Bharatn yogis. They just master anything. I have seen a yogi. One devotee brought him very complicated electronic mechanism. I think it is a MP3 player. Neither he knows English, nor he has handled this electronic equipments. If he knows English, we can say, he would have read the button 'play’, ‘fast forward’ and all those things. He knows nothing but I could see very clearly the moment he picked up the machine, picked up the item, he started handling perfectly as if he is living with it. I asked him, “What is this? How can this be Sir? How can this be Swami?” He said, “I may not know this machine but I know how the whole system works, how the whole thing is getting operated, how the whole thing functions.” It’s very difficult for us to understand. It’s very difficult for us to understand!

I have seen yogis playing with the power of the mind, with the power of energy. See, we can just create sound wave and do what they want. One yogi, Raghupati Yogi who taught Me yoga, anything you want to do, He will just only create a sound wave. I have seen the result happening. For example, if you want to throw a stone on a tree, He will just create a exact sound and that sound wave will be so powerful, it will reach the tree and the fruit will fall. He will tell, if you want to break a stone, He will take that stone in the hand and create a sound wave as if it is hit by a hammer. That sound wave will be so strong, the stone will break into pieces. Sometime He will create a sound wave like a dog. All 40-50 dogs in that area, some 2-3 kilometres will come running towards Him. These Yogis, they master different powers. They live in a different zone. They express different kinds of energy. So here, when you are in that restful awareness, then happens total understanding and limitlessness. Svarupe Vasthanam.

Let us enter into today's Sutra:

Vriddhi Saroopyam itarathraha

Let Me give you the translation. Till that state is reached, there is clutching and identification with thought patterns. Till you reach that state of yoga, see now He is talking to the second 33% who say, “No no, no, yoga is not that easy. You will talk all these things and go away after two days. We know how difficult it is. I am practicing 20 years. I am practicing 10 years. I am practicing 35 years.” Understand, if your practice is a income source for your teacher, how do you expect you to grow further? If your body is an income source for a doctor, how do you think you can get healed?

Same way, you need to understand, you need to understand the deeper truths. Till that state is reached, whenever when you say, “No, it is not that easy”, then Patanjali also says, “Alright, it is not that easy.” When Patanjali says, “It is easy,” if you stand up, “Yes, it is,” then you are done. The truth has happened. You don't need anything further to live the truth. That's all. If you had that click, now all these things are just entertainment, “How this Swami is there after all, let me know about this,” nothing wrong. If you are reading this further as an entertainment, it is perfectly alright but if you are reading this further with bondage, unable to connect, unable to have the first click, alright, at least join the second group. At least join the second group.