“Tada drushtuhu swaroope vastaanam||”

I welcome you all with my love and respects. Let’s enter into today’s patanjali yoga sutras, today’s aphorisms. Yesterday we stopped with the third sutra:

Tada drushtuhu swaroope vastaanam||

# **When you are able to take responsibility for your mind and abel to operate it when you want, that is the real liberation!**

It means when withdrawal from mental patterns happens, when you take the responsibility for your mind remembering, ‘You are thinking; thinking is your action; 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 an 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 swaroope vastaanam, means establishing in your own nature.

# What is really meant by ‘our nature’

Please understand: we need to understand the word, nature. It is an important understanding. Usually what we call as nature is the state which is confused, deluded and depressed. We start calling this as our nature. When Patnajali says swaroope, nature, means complete settled pure consciousness. He doesn’t say our deluded state as nature.

Usually when we talk or think or anyway, anytime, when we use the word 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 with 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 are no thoughts. When chitta vritti nirodaha happens, that is what our state is.

Superficially when you look at these sutras, Patanjali looks like a scientist, straight. He is not lost in poetry. You can see there are 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 a deep 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 first step, he is very clear about what is our nature.

# Patanjali first tries to give the click to the first 33% who are waiting for it

One more beautiful thing: first he gives the truth as I was telling yesterday for the first 33% waiting for the click. Just express the truth, they will have the connection. The second 33% needs 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 that click, straight click to the first 33% 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 completes. Whatever he is going to tell, the essence of everything, he completes in these three sutras.

# Mind is not a thing, it is an action, you can stop it! – this is enough for first 33% of people. But since you have questions, Patanjali moves to explain further to second and third 33% of people

All you need to understand is to understand 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 down, topsy turvy and all kinds of things, people do. But he is straightaway telling in one word: mind is not a thing, it is an action. Just stop, you are a yogi.’

So when you have all these questions, any one of these questions, you are second 33%. You are second 33%. Now Patanjali is talking to you. The next step, he is taking. He has started using the regular words of a teacher, a lecturer. First three sutras are 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 words. I can say, he is little compassionate. He is not ready to leave us.

After some time, after this chapter, he is handling the third category. You should see the tremendous patience, amazing patience, explaining every inch, inch … Actually when I first 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! Straightaway he is talking like angry husband and not a single extra word. Nothing! Straight! He is saying, 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, ‘Ataha yogaanusaasanam’, who are ready, who are in this moment to receive yoga, who are ready for yoga, who are ready to explode. 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 is straightaway delivering for them.

Once he is finished with them, then he goes to the 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, very tempting using all the words, methods, techniques to give extraordinary powers, to give all possible bonuses. He has big sale boards, ‘Sale. Sale 60%’. He has all kinds of boards when he works with the third 33%.

Let’s enter into the next level sutras. He says, ‘when the chitta vritti nirodha, when cessation of mind happens, it results into relaxation of one’s own true nature of limitlessness and total understanding.’

# Shocking intelligence of the Bharatn civilization – DK Hari’s reports…reason is, when you are in your nature, there is limitless understanding! Downloading of knowledge happens…

The other day, I had the opportunity to sit with a great research scholar who is doing research in the ancient civilization which existed in Bharat. I can say Bharatn civilization is the oldest living civilization. It is the oldest and still living. His research is… 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, 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 were built. The amazing understanding, clarity experienced and expressed… something like 42 varieties of aircrafts 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 dive 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. Things will be waiting to reveal itself to you. Things will be waiting to reveal its mysteries to you. All you need is to 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 and secrets, mysteries. It is just like downloading.

If you are yogi, if you are in a thoughtless zone, anything just bring your awareness, the restful awareness, that is what Patanjali calls, samyama, restful awareness. If you direct your restful awareness towards that direction, you know it.

# BIOGRAPHY – how a yogi deciphered an electronic mechanism so easily! They just know…

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’s a mp3 player. Neither he knows English, nor has he handled these electronic equipment. If he knows English, you 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, 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.’

# BIOGRAPHY - How Raghupati yogi played with sound energy

It is very difficult for us to understand. It is very difficult for us to understand. I have seen yogis playing with the power of the mind, with the power of energy. See they can just create sound waves and do what they want. One yogi, Raghupati yogi, who taught me yoga… anything he wants to do, he just only created 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 an exact sound and the sound wave will be so powerful, it will reach the tree and the fruit will fall. If we want to break a stone, he will take the stone in the hand and create a sound wave as if it is hit by a hammer. That sound wave will be so strong that the stone will break into pieces. Sometime he will create a sound wave like a dog, all 40-50 dogs in that area, some two-three kilometers, 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, swaroope vastaanam.

Let us enter into today’s sutra.

Vriddhi saarubhyam itaratraha

# Waiting for you to ‘reach the state’ is nothing but waiting for you to say yes to master…

Let me give 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 twenty years. I am practicing ten years. I am practicing thirty five years.’

Understand: if your practice is an 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 the deeper truths.

Till that state is reached, 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 click has happened. You don’t need anything further. Live that truth. That’s all.

If you have that click, now all these things are just entertainment. ‘Oh, 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 that first click, alright at least join the second group. At least join the second group.

He says, ‘Till that state is reached, there is clutching and identification with thought patterns.’ I can see a biiiiiig sigh on Patanjali’s face. I can see very clearly what he would have felt when he uttered this fourth sutra. When he is entering into the fourth sutra, ‘Alright! These guys are not understanding. Let me talk to them in their language.’ That is what he means when he says, ‘till that state is reached.’

Actually there is no such thing as state and all. It is simple straight clarity. When you are not interested in coming with the master, when he is holding your hand and taking you, if you are not interested, ‘No, no, no, no, no. That and all is not for me, it is for you’, when you create all kinds of reasons, when you throw tantrum, then Patanjali says, ‘Alright, I will wait for you.’ He says, ‘Alright, I will wait for you.’ That is what he means when he uses the word, ‘Till that state is reached, there is clutching and identification with thought patterns.’

We again and again come back to our old thought patterns. Sometimes when I see people clutched to thought patterns I feel so bad. Unnecessary suffering for no reason!

# There is nothing like suffering, there is nothing like healing… ‘abusive childhood’ is just nonsense

See, all the ideas you carry from the young age: if you have suppressed something you have to release; if you are abused you have to heal that wound, all these things are non-sensible ideas.

Please understand. There is nothing like suffering. There is nothing like healing. There is no such thing as wounds. When I say this, people say, ‘No, no, no.’ Then I tell, ‘Alright! It is there.’ What to do? Somewhere either you have to come to my level or I have to come to your level.

Please understand there is no such thing as abusive childhood. Everybody bothers about that. ‘No, no, no, I have such a difficult mind because I had abusive childhood. I had a very bad teenage. I had a single parent. I had this, I had that.’

# You simply create a problem and talk about it…

If you have no problem, you try to build. Even if you did not have any problem, you say, ‘I did not have any problem. How can this be?’ So create some problem, creating a problem with the idea that I did not have any problem.

I have seen… See: any mental disorder, psychiatric disease, just create symptom and advertise. You will find patients. No! True. Because the moment you see the symptoms, you verify, ‘I think I have those symptoms. Did I not? No I had.’ You verify with those symptoms. And the symptoms are also written in very technical way. ‘You might have had irritation at least three times a week for last six months.’ Who is sitting and noting a diary? So if you had once or twice, you sit and remember, ‘Yes, yes, yes. I remember I had outburst more than three times in last six months.’

So you come up with an idea. The moment you start believing you had one symptom, then you start connecting with all other symptoms, ‘Yes, yes, yes, I had this symptom also. I had that symptom also. The third symptom, I may not have had it. I think I am yet to have. I am going to have that.’ And you have created a disorder. That’s all. That’s all is happening.

# Having a wound, requiring healing, past life regression everything is nonsense…

So please understand: I am not condescending. I am not arrogant when I say, ‘There is no such thing as wound, there is no such thing as healing needed, nothing is required,’ please understand I am stating simple truth straightaway, simple truth straightaway. There is no such thing as you carrying some suppressed desires and you need to release them, you need to go to the past life regression, all kinds of non-senses.

No, I am seeing all possible non-senses created out of your past. You don’t understand, it does not have any role over your inner space. It has no say over your inner space but you are constantly made to believe, ‘No, no, it has a very strong say. It has a very strong connection with your present.’ You are constantly taught the idea that you are carrying unconscious. All those things are completely non-sensical ideas.

# There is nothing called ‘unconscious’, trust me… psychiatrists are just talking nonsense.

In those days, priests used to exploit the civilization through guilt saying, you have done sin, you have done sin, you have to confess, you have to do this, you have to do that. After sometime, psychiatrists have started exploiting the society by saying you have unconscious. It is just a game. Understand: it is just a game. At least with the priest, whatever money raised will go for public charitable activities.

It is a pure game. There is no such thing as unconscious, all these things. When you take one wrong stand, whatever you built is wrong. Whatever you built on that is wrong. But we are very strongly made to believe, the society, the politics, the education, the universities, everything is believing, ‘you have unconscious, you have subconscious, you have dash, dash conscious.’ I don’t know what all you have. Even you don’t know, only they know what all you have. That is the worst part of the whole game. Even you don’t know what all you have, only they know.

A small story:

In a small Bharatn village hospital, a doctor was diagnosing a patient and he says, ‘This guy is dead.’ And the patient wakes up and says, ‘No, no, no, I am not dead. I am alive.’

Doctor says, ‘Sshhhhh! I have studied spending lakhs of rupees and did MBBS and became a doctor. Do I know or you know?’

Same way, they have studied spending so much money. So they naturally claim, do I know about your mind or do you know about your mind? They might have studied spending millions of dollars but that does not mean they will know what you carry. They may know what they carry or they might have read about many theories, assumptions.

# Mind is an action, you can stop it if you wish to. All ‘past life wounds’ is nonsense.

Please understand this one truth. Mind is not a thing, it is an action. You can stop the moment you want. Over! Anything else taught to you is a lie. When I say anything else, I mean anything else. Any idea taught to you … ‘No, no, no. you carry this much of engraved memories, that much of engraved memories, this karma, that karma, this sin, that sin, this past, wound, that past, wound.’

People ask me, ‘Swamiji, how can I heal my past life wounds?’ I tell them, ‘Oh god!’ Now I don’t know how to help these people. If you talk at least this life’s wounds, I can somehow manage and tell you, ‘No, no, it got healed. I have already healed you.’ I can tell all these things. And these guys have started talking about past life wounds. I have to go into past life regression, ten-twelve lives and release those karmas, release those wounds. Oh God! Now the madness has gone to the extreme. Nothing can be done.

# How the three 33% categories of people react to Patanjali’s simple ‘mind is an action’ click

Now what to do! If I talk in my own language, then the disconnection happens. I can’t help them. Then I have to come down. That is what Patanjali is doing. First he says, ‘Arey, your mind is an action, subtle action, which you are doing. If you want, you can stop. Just relax.’ Actually he wants to complete with this and get up and go. He says, ‘Yoga Sutras are over. You also enjoy, let me also have a vacation.’

But these guys are not able to relate. The second 33% is sitting, looking like this. The third thirty three is making fun, ‘See. I told you guys, don’t go there. He doesn’t know anything. The moment I saw his photograph looking so young, I know he doesn’t know much. And you are going there and sitting in front of him, wasting your time.’ The third thirty three is making fun. The second thirty three is not making fun but unable to connect, sitting.

# Masters will never let the connection with the disciple get disturbed… so Patanjali compromises to the level of the second and third 33% categories of people and explains

Now Patanjali comes down and says, ‘Alright, anyhow at least the connection not be disconnected.’ Let the connection not be disturbed.

See, that is the ultimate thing a man can have, feeling connected to a living master. Anything can be sacrificed for that but for no reason, that should be sacrificed. Anything can be sacrificed to have that feeling connection with the master but for no reason that feeling connection should be sacrificed.

I have seen … I always tell people. Actually I am an uncompromising master. I don’t compromise. Any decision I take or any stand I take, I don’t compromise. There is only one spot where you can bend me. That is when you send me a feel, that if I stand on my own stand, the feeling connection may lost, then I slowly say, ‘Alright, its ok.’ I bend. Otherwise nothing else can bend me. People who live around me, they know. Nothing can bend me. For nothing, I bend or compromise or alter my decision. Only when I see, the poor guy may lose the connection, then I bend. If you want to bend the masters, this is the only thing you can bend. You can’t use anything else. This is the only point where you can blackmail them.

If you send a feel, ‘if you are standing like that, I think I am going to lose the connection with you; I am not going to feel connected anymore’, then they come down, alright, what to do.

So Patanjali is here bending, ‘Alright, what to do.’ Till that state is reached, he makes a statement. I can say, he has compromised. He has compromised because there is no such thing as, ‘Till that state is reached.’ The word, ‘till that state is reached’ is a lie. It is a pure lie. There is no such thing. You are in that state now. Please understand, ‘you are in that state now.’ Nothing else is required.’

The moment he says, ‘till that state is reached,’ he is talking to the second thirty three; he is talking to the second thirty three. Now the second thirty three feels very comfortable, ‘yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.’

# Patanjali is a pure master, but compromises here…otherwise the world made of the second and third 33% would not have known him

Yesterday I was telling you a story. One guy was going on a donkey, with a goat. Three thieves came. One said, ‘I will steal the goat’. Other said, ‘I will steal the donkey’. The third said, ‘I will steal the very clothes he is wearing.’

Patanjali is the third level thief. He will steal the very things which you think you have. He will go to the core and leave you in nirvana, means the ultimate freedom. He is not an ordinary teacher.

See, the thief who is stealing the goat, he is teaching you renunciation. He is just taking away your property. The thief who is taking away your donkey, he is just taking away your prestige, your power and position. He is taking away your ego, ahankaar, the outside ego. The thief who can steal your clothes, only he is taking away your mamakar, very root of your ego. Patanjali is that kind of a teacher. He is the third kind of thief who can take away your very clothes, who can take away anything, any ignorance you have.

But now he is slowly compromising. He says, ‘When you are not ready to come to that level, let me talk to you from your level.’ He says, ‘till that state is reached.’

I can say … I am just seeing the word, itaratra, till that state is reached. If he had not uttered this word, till that state is reached, he would have been a pure master but never known to the world because the second thirty three and the third thirty three, only they consist of the world. The first thirty three will be in silence. They will have the click. For them to have the click, even the first statement is not required. They are waiting. Just seeing the master is enough, something will happen inside them. They know they are in yoga. They know the yoga has happened. But he has to talk to people. So he is talking to the second thirty three and third thirty three percent.

Till that state is reached, there is clutching and identification with thought patterns. He is agreeing to you. In the first three statements, he is straightaway telling the truth. In the fourth sutra, he says, ‘Alright, as you say, till the state is reached, there is clutching to the thoughts, identification and thought patterns. Now let us start, how to clean that state; how to remove the clutching with your thought patterns; how to remove the identification with your thought patterns.’

He is talking in the second thirty three, in the next language. Now starts all the theories, philosophies or different different ideas.

The sutra five: Vriddhya panchtaya klishta klishtaha

It’s a wonderful sutra. Vriddhyaha panchatayya klishta klishtaha.

Let me translate. The modifications of your mind are five. They can be source of anguish or of non-anguish. They can be source of suffering or joy. He says. Now he is coming to theories.

He says, ‘The mental pattern is five fold. The modifications of the mind are five. The five fold thought patterns result in the alteration of anguish or of non-anguish, suffering or peace.’

He is coming down. He is expressing a little different theory. He says, ‘Mind consists of five fold thought patterns.’ Now he is agreeing to your level. But when you say, ‘no, no, no. This is there, that is there, that is there. Clean it.’…

# You have wrong ideas of suffering, sin, karma etc…So Patanjali tries to establish feeling of connection with you first, so you may lift out of all this someday or other…

Many time people come to me and say, ‘Swamiji, I have all these problems. Which meditation should I practice?’ I tell them, ‘You yourself have diagnosed or you want me to diagnose?’ Very rarely people surrender, ‘No, no Swamiji. You diagnose and tell me what should I do?’ Then I tell them, ‘You are on the right track.’

If you yourself have diagnosed, then nothing can be done. Even if I say this problem doesn’t exist, please just come out, this simple technique is enough… you say, ‘No, no, no, you don’t know. Only I know. Only I know.’ Big problem!

And they have a set of ideas. They say, ‘I have this problem; I have that problem; I have that problem … You don’t know. Few years ago, I used to have outbursts. Now it is not there regularly but once in a while I get.’ How they develop theories!

And very difficult! The most difficult thing in the path of enlightenment is making the person trust that he is qualified for enlightenment. Nothing else is so difficult. Making him renounce the wealth, renounce the name and face, renounce the power prestige, all these things are not big job at all because that gives so much of torture, naturally people renounce. Naturally people throw that. That is not a big problem at all.

All you need is making them understand. They renounce. They throw it away. Anything is very easy. The very difficult thing is making them understand they are qualified for experience. They are qualified for truth. That is the worst thing. Somehow you get into the mood, no way at least not in this life, at least not in this life.

We have weird ideas about sin, karma, wounds, engrams, very weird ideas, very primitive ideas about all these things. So with all that ideas, we continue to suffer. We create constant struggle. We create constant struggle. Now Patanjali says, ‘Alright. At least let me try to balance. At least let me try to take care of feeling connection doesn’t get disturbed, dropped. So if the feeling connection is there, I can lift that guy tomorrow. At least tomorrow, day after tomorrow he can be lifted. If the feeling connection is also missing, he can never be lifted.’

It is like a you throw a rope. If you don’t come up, at least I come down holding on the rope, waiting for you. So Patanjali is doing that job.

He agrees, ‘ Yes, the five fold thought patterns result in the alteration of the suffering or joy.’

Please understand: just because he is uttering these words, don’t think it is truth. He is just compromising. He is compromising. Even now if I am given a choice, if I am allowed to say, I will say, he is compromising. He is just telling you, ‘Ok, what can be done? At least listen to this. At least listen to this.’

I can say the second level teaching, the second level teaching.

# Mass is mediocre. So Patanjali compromises with second level teaching… giving more and more familiar words…

See the mass is always mediocre. They can’t straightaway catch the truth. They need more words, words, words, … beating around the bush. Then they think, ‘Oh! Yes, yes, yes.’

People, I have seen always. If the book is too big, they think it is very valuable. It is very valuable. Even in our own galleria, I have seen, the big book sells. The small books, straightaway I give you simple truths, people say, ‘No, no, no… Ah! This book yes, looks like message of Swamiji. I can read, read, read, reread for ever.’

When you have lot of material, your ego feels satisfied and you feel you achieved something, you achieved something and you got something worthy for your money. No really! That’s what you feel. That is what here Patanjali is trying to do. The five fold thought patterns, the modifications of the mind are five. They can either be a source of anguish or non-anguish.

There is a beautiful incident by Bernawd Shaw. He wrote a book of hundred pages. Somebody asked him, ‘What happened? Just hundred pages!’ He says, ‘I don’t have time. If I had time, I would have reduced it. I would have written only forty pages or thirty page. I don’t have time.’

Please understand the paradox. I don’t have time, that is why I wrote hundred page. If I had time, I would have written thirty pages. I would have reduced, reduced, reduced, refined.

Only when you don’t have that much of patience, time or energy, you go on elaborating, go on elaborating. I know Patanjali had intelligence, no doubt. But the disciples did not have intelligence. I know what would have been the scene when Patanjali says, ‘Mind is not a thing, it is an action. Just stop it.’ He would have been about to get up. Then disciple said, ‘No, no, no. That is not the thing. I have tried many years. I have been with some other gurus. Some other teachers, some other masters. I had been to this class, that class, this and that.’ Then Patanjali says, ‘Alright.’ He would have sat back, started the next session. The five fold thought patterns result in the alteration of suffering or joy. Then people, ‘Ah yes, now he talks. See. Now we are able to connect. Five different fold, five different things happening inside. They result in the alteration of suffering or joy.

He is trying to give you more words. Let me tell you an honest truth. All the answers are only diverting you from the question, never attending the question, including the answers I give. It’s only diverting your from the question because no question can be answered. There is no question that can be answered.

For example, you ask, ‘What is worry?’ I say, ‘The continuous thought which goes on inside you, the inner chatter is worry.’ What have you understood? At least I have not understood.

When you have more words, now you are tired to think further. You act, ‘Yes, yes. I understood. I understood. Relax, relax. Let’s go to the next subject.’ Otherwise what do you know about that continuous thoughts or inner chattering, which is disturbing. All these are different different different words.

When familiar words are uttered to explain unfamiliar words, we understand that as an answer. That’s all. When I utter some familiar words which you think you know already as a response to question of unfamiliar words which you think you don’t know, you think I have answered your question. That’s all. Otherwise, there is no question that can be answered. There is no question, no answer. Both are games. You act as if you are asking. I am acting as if I am answering. Just both of us are enjoying our company. That’s all. Each other’s company… Nothing else! Then directly we can enjoy. Why this game? No, that is the truth. That is the real truth. Without knowing the truth, we are continuously playing the game. We are going on playing. When you know this game, you realize, you don’t need this game and start sitting in silence, just in the presence. Till then the game has to happen, happen, happen continuously. It has to go on and on and on. Asking questions, answers and different questions ….

Actually any answer will create further ten questions. Answering is a technique of creating a continuous job. See, understand. Whenever I answer a question, I am creating continuous questions so that I have job security. That’s what is happening. Any answer will create more questions in you. Nothing can be done. Nothing can be done. That is the nature of words. Whenever words are used, this the way it will happen. It will be happening.

So Patanjali starts the next level teaching. The five fold thought patterns result in the alteration of suffering and joy. Then immediately you accept, ‘You see. I have suffering and joy. He also agrees. I can listen to him. He is an intelligent guy.’

Now a bridge is created, a kind of bridge, feeling connection is created. He knows about my suffering. If he straightaway tells, ‘Mind is not a thing, it is an action. Stop it.’, you will say, ‘No, no, no, no. He doesn’t know about me.’ He doesn’t know about you. You think he is not sympathizing with you.

# We don’t want the best things. We want things we can relate with. That is why we don’t take to Master immediately.

See. We don’t want best things. We want things with which we can relate. That’s all. Please understand. Actually in our life, we don’t want best thing, whether it is relationship, things or anything. Don’t think you have desire for best things. No. You have desire only for things with which you can relate. That’s all. You want to be very comfortable with your mental setup. That’s all. It is not that you want only best things.

If you want only best things, naturally the moment you see the master, you will drop everything and go behind him. One side you have the desire, then you understand, ‘No, no, no, no. Let me have the things with which I can relate, I can fight or I can resist or I can love, I can fight, I can play. Master is too big thing. I know he is the ultimate thing to have in life but I cannot play with it. I cannot relate with it. I cannot fight with it. I cannot have it. So when I cannot possess it, why to go behind it?’

With the truth also, you have the same game. With the first three statements that Patanjali, if you had the connection, you know you are a seeker. I know you are a seeker. You want truth. But the click does not happen, when you are resisting, when you are interested to have that connection, now we want the things with which we can play the game. We can continue to manipulate. We can continue to play with. We can continue to have entertainment.

We don’t want solution, we want support. Here Patanjali is trying to give support. Its like diluting the medicine. In the young age I have seen, in the Bharatn villages, the mothers will give neem leaf. They will nicely grind the neem leaf and give as a ball. When the kids don’t want to take that, they will put a sugar coat on it. They feed.

So Patanjali is trying to do that, ‘Alright! Let me put sugarcoat on the truth and share with it. Lets see whether people are taking it or not. The five fold thought patterns result in the alteration of the suffering and joy.’ He is just using different words to give an idea as if what you feel also is true so that you feel he is sympathizing you. You can connect with him. This master can help you. This master can help you. He can take you beyond so that you continue to hold on to him, you continue to be connected to him, continue to having that feeling connection.

# Sixth sutra

Lets go to the next sutra. Here, the next sutra, the sixth sutra, Patanjali is explaining that five modifications of the mind.

Pramaana, viparyaya, vikalpa, nidra, smrutayaha.

The translation is: right knowledge, wrong knowledge, imagination, sleep and memory. These are the five modifications which may lead to suffering or joy, anguish or non-anguish. Please understand five mondications: right knowledge, wrong knowledge, imagination, sleep and memory.

# Patanjali is a real master!

Let us understand one by one. He is a real master. He is a real master. Even in the second level teaching, he is not losing his truth. He might have put the sugar coat but he is not reducing the strength of his medicine. That is the mastery you need. How much ever you compromise and try to relate with the disciple, the undercurrent what needs to be transmitted should continue to happen, should continue to happen.

# Right knowledge is also a modification of the mind, so go beyond it.

So here Patanjali is doing that job very beautifully. He says right knowledge. The first thing he says which can lead to suffering or joy, first thing is right knowledge. You may think. Right knowledge is also a binding. He says. Yes, it is binding. Many time, even though it is right knowledge, even then it is the mind. Even though it is the right knowledge, it is the mind. Going beyond right knowledge and wrong knowledge, that is enlightenment. Even the right knowledge is bondage.

There is a beautiful story by Ramakrishna. One guy was caught by three thieves in the forest. They robbed him completely. One thief said, ‘Let us kill him, why to leave him?’ The second guy says, ‘No, no, no. What is the need of killing, unnecessary? Let us tie him on the tree and go away.’ Third guy, he waits. After the other two guys leave, the third thief, he comes near and releases him and says, ‘Alright! I will show you the way. Go to the nearby village and escape.’

He leads him to the nearest highway, leaves him. Then the guy who got robbed, he asked the thief, ‘even though you are thief, you helped me. Why don’t you come to my house and have a cup of tea?’

The thief says, ‘No. After all I am thief. I can only help you this much. You go on your own. Now, I will go on my path.’

So this three thieves are the three characters. The first thief who said,’let us kill him’, that is the tamas, inertia energy, the depression energy. The second thief who told, ‘no, we don’t have to kill. Let us tie him’, that is the restlessness, rajas energy, restlessness, rajoguna. And the third thief who freed him and took him to the nearest highway, he is sattva, means intelligence, right knowledge. Even though right knowledge liberates you, he is a thief, it is a thief. That is why Patanjali puts even right knowledge as a modification of your mind.

He says these five modifications can lead to suffering or joy. Even if it leads to joy, it is not enlightenment. He says, only it can lead to suffering or joy. It cannot lead you to enlightenment. It can lead you to only suffering or joy.

One thing with the right knowledge, one good thing with the right knowledge is it can liberate you. It can take you to the space where you can be free once for all like the third thief. It takes you and shows you the way. It leaves you near the highway. IT says, ‘I cannot come any further. I am going on my way. You please go on your own way. He can be that much even without this. This is also compromising. So he says right knowledge.

# Anything based on liver function, pitta, hormone… is wrong knowledge

Second thing: wrong knowledge. Wrong knowledge, all of us know, whatever we have. Whatever we have! We don’t have to say, ‘No, no, no, no, no. This is not right knowledge. This is not right knowledge. This is not wrong knowledge.’ I am not saying to classify. Whatever you have! It is a simple straight statement. Whatever we have is nothing but wrong knowledge. Whatever name you may give it, it is wrong knowledge.

You can say: when you associate yourself with the mood swings of pitta, the liver function… See. Your mood swings are based on your liver function. That is why early morning when you are out of bed, your mood will be different. In the noon, your mood will be different. In the night your mood will be different. It means your thought patterns, your mood swings are based on your liver functions. Anything which is out of your liver function is wrong knowledge.

Please understand. Any mood you go through, any knowledge you gain through the mood swings is wrong knowledge. It is like a drunk. When somebody is drunk, whatever he sees is wrong knowledge.

A small story:

One guy is teaching his own son how to drink moderately. He thought, if I don’t teach his friends will teach him. If I teach, at least I can say where to stop. At least he will be in control.

So he continues the class. After sometime the son asks, ‘Father, when should I stop taking? When should I stop taking alcohol?’

The father says, ‘See on that opposite table. Four people are there. When you see them as eight people, you should stop taking.’

Son says, ‘Father, don’t you see there are only two?’

So anything based on your pitta, means liver function is wrong knowledge. That is why when you want the food, your idea about food is different. After you have finished eating, suddenly your idea, your mood about food is different. Same way with the lust. When you want the experience, your idea about the other person, your idea about the beauty, your idea about lust, everything is different. When you are finished, suddenly the idea about the other person, the idea about the lust, the idea about the act, everything is different.

So knowledge base d on your body hormones. Same way taste, food, or physical touch or anything, before having your ides is different. After having, idea is different. It just changes. So anything based on hormone, the pitta is wrong knowledge. It is wrong knowledge but people enjoy wrong knowledge.

# People enjoy wrong knowledge cos right knowledge goads you to enlightenment. That is why so much alcohol also...

Please understand. Really! They enjoy wrong knowledge. They don’t want to be in the right knowledge because right knowledge sometimes hurts you. Really. It is constantly reminding you get enlightened. It is like a constant nagging, ‘Get enlightened. Get enlightened. Get enlightened.’ You just want to switch it off.

That is why so much of alcohol… Understand, so much of alcohol in the humanity. Why you know? Right knowledge awakens spiritual seeking in you which is very costly. Your whole life will be different. You have to enter into a new zone, new space which is risky. You may, may not know about the new zone. So you want to be in your old cozy feel. You say, ‘no, no, no, no. Forget about it. This house is enough. This wife is enough; this car is enough; this office is enough. Let me run.’

# You are afraid to enter into seeking… because it is an internal tsunami!

You are afraid to enter into that zone of seeking because seeking is such that it will just take away your whole life. It is internal tsunami. It just changes you. Nothing else is required. You are new. You are washed. You are fresh. Whatever needs to be taken away from you leaves you. Only whatever needs to be left is left. It is a very powerful internal tsunami.

# Only two categories of people: 1. seekers 2. addicts (who want to be in wrong knowledge)

When you are afraid of that right knowledge, means reality always leads you to seeking. In the world, there are only two categories. One: seekers, another one: people who are addicted. That’s all. You can’t be between. Either you are a seeker or you have to be addicted because you have to escape from the right knowledge. You have to put that off. You have to switch it off. You have to divert yourself. You can’t be constantly in the right knowledge because right knowledge constantly asks you to seek further, seek further, seek further. It doesn’t let you rest. It doesn’t say, ‘No, no. Lie down. I will come tomorrow.’ No.

It is like credit card company, constantly calling you, constantly calling you. So seeking does not let you rest. That is why all over the world.. why do you think, all over the world, all cultures, alcohol is like a habit. Alcohol is next to food, consumed next to food because man wants to be in wrong knowledge. He wants to be in delusion. He wants to be deluded. He wants to be in imagination. He doesn’t want right knowledge. He doesn’t want to be in reality.

# Only spiritual seeking can stop alcoholism

How many laws… almost all countries have laws about alcohol but no country is able to stop. No country is able to stop. All countries, all cultures, all civilizations, all of them tried to ban alcohol. At least few times they have tried but the moment they ban through the law, more alcohol is consumed. IT becomes a big problem. IT becomes a big headache for the government, police, law enforcement departments. Then nothing can be done. They open it.

# The Bharatn civilization is created to encourage spiritual seeking

There is only one thing which can liberate human beings from alcohol, i.e. encouraging spiritual seeking. Just like we have so many insurance, we should create one more insurance. If you are doing spiritual seeking and leave something they are insured. If a civilization can ensure spiritual seeking, if a civilization can give you assurance, be a spiritual seeker, you will not lose anything. Our civilization, our society setup is created in that way. In Bharat they tried and the experiment was really successful.

# Biography… How Bharat encouraged my spiritual seeking

If you are a seeker, you will never lose anything in that society, anything in that society. In my case, I lived cream of my life, cream of my life is youth, between seventeen to twenty five, I neither studied nor worked for a society. If I was in any other country, I would have been put into a homeless asylum, homeless shelter or mad people asylum. They would have put me in all kinds of psychotherapy, psychiatrists, psychopathy, all kinds of pathys and therapies and deprogramming programs. They would have put all possible medicines and doses on me.

But the great civilization, society did not do that to me. When I was on my own, when I started seeking, it had sympathy; it had patience; it had compassion. Apart from that it gave me food, shelter, cloth, everything with respect. Understand. Not saying you are an unwanted guy, we to maintain what to do. No. Not with that feeling how the homeless people are served. The developed countries… how the homeless people are treated? They will give you food, ‘You are unwanted guy. What to do? We will give you what you need. At least don’t become a criminal. We will give you what you need. Just keep quiet.’ Not with that unwanted feeling. No. With encouraging, please do it. ‘You are right, you are right.’

Anywhere if I am given food without they touching my feet, I am not supposed to accept. And that is the way I lived. Understand. You can’t imagine giving food to a homeless guy and touching his feet with respect. Can you imagine? No. You can’t imagine in the developed countries, giving food and shelter and whatever needed to a homeless guy and fall at his feet and do namaskar, offer your respect, saying you are right, please, you are encouraged, please do what you are doing. No. But this civilization did it. This society did it.

When I go round all over the world, I understand, I am surprised this civilization was built for enlightenment. It is built to create enlightened beings. Many time people ask me, ‘Why only in Bharat, so many enlightened masters are there? Why they are not spread all over the world? They should have been spread. God should have sent here and there. Why they are completely concentrated in Bharat?’

Please understand. It is not an accident. It is an incident. The civilization itself is prepared, trained, created for enlightened masters. Same way, they have many things missing. They don’t have 911 as I told you yesterday. They don’t have many things which developed countries have but they have few things which no other civilization can produce. They have insurance for seekers. The whole society is insurance for seekers. The whole civilization is insurance for seekers.

Billions and billions of rupees are spent in creating infrastructures, basic needs for the seekers who wander all over the country. Billions of dollars is spent by philanthropists. The first philanthropy activity is not creating education infrastructure or medical infrastructure. Infrastructure for seekers, that is the first priority. In Bharat any rich man… See in the developed countries, any rich man, if he is fed up with the money, he wants to do charity. Only when he is fed up with the money, he will do charity. When he is fed up with the money, he wants to do charity in the developed countries, he may create a hospital or he may create a school. But in Bharat, if he is fed up with the money, and if he wants to do charity, first thing will be he will create a monastery or a temple, means, infrastructure for seekers. The whole civilization is directed towards enlightenment. Towards seeking!

# Only by encouraging spiritual seeking can you control alcoholism

So only if you give assurance and respect for seeking, only if a civilization gives assurance and respect for seeking, it can be liberated from alcohol. If any civilization needs liberation from addiction of alcohol, if it wants to save its citizens from alcohol, the one and only way is encourage seeking. Encourage right knowledge. Lead people towards enlightenment. Lead them towards the conscious growth. Lead them towards super consciousness. That is the one and only way to liberate from alcohol. Till then, the alcohol will continue to rule; the addictions will continue to be there; the drugs, the products which gives the kind of the illusory feeling will continue to exist, either directly or indirectly, legally or illegally, in the society or undercover. It will continue to exist.

Because man cannot live without right knowledge or wrong knowledge ... Right knowledge always leads to seeking. If that is not encouraged, accepted by society, if that is not the right track which you can take up, if he is not respected, taken care, if he takes up the right knowledge, naturally what he will do? He has no other option. He has to take the wrong knowledge. He has to take the other side.

So any civilization wants to save its citizens, its people from the addiction or products which creates delusions and illusions, the one and only way is to encourage right knowledge. Let that civilization encourage about seeking. Let that civilization support about seeking.

# Biography – How Bharat supports spiritual wandering

In Bharat, I have seen every thirty mile you have a place for resting and food, if you are seeker because I walked. I walked length and breadth of Bharat. Maximum, I can walk only thirty miles per day. So I had to rest. I have always found a temple or a monastery where I can rest, respected, supported just because I am a seeker. No other qualification. No ID card is required.

In Bharat there is no social security number. Please understand. First of all there is no security, what about social security number. There is no social security number. There is no way to track. There is no way to find out information about you. Nothing exists. The only social security number is this color dress. That’s all.

You will be surprised, even in the train, government trains, the government officials who are supposed to take care whether… TTs, ticket checkers will not ask for ticket if you are wearing this cloth. I am giving you some tips to travel in Bharat. No I am telling you from my experience. If you are with this cloth and sitting, I have never seen any TT asking me any ticket. They will ask you only one thing, ‘Baba, have you eaten?’ Means, it is a very respectful word. Baba means father. Father, have you taken food? That’s all. I have wandered nine years. Nine years I did yatra, means pilgrimage. So length and breadth of Bharat!

Every thirty miles, there was a stoppage. You have food with respect. That is the main thing, with respect. They touch your feet; that is the first thing. They touch your feet and offer and they encourage what you are doing. The support what you are doing. They respect what you are doing.

# Any civilization which encourages spiritual seeking will liberate itself from wrong knowledge

So only a civilization which can support seeking, which can encourage seekers, this is one aspect of seeking I am saying. Even otherwise, even if you are living with your family, if the society knows you are a seeker, you have a different position; you have a different place; you have a different respect. That whole society is .. It is in their blood.

So any civilization encourages seeking, supports seekers will liberate itself from the wrong knowledge and the products which create delusion, the products which creates delusion.

In Bharat, so much of population, I don’t see so much of entertainment. Only recently, last fifty years only, so much of entertainment ideas have gathered. Otherwise there was no theme park; there was no TV; there was no movie. There was nothing much of entertainment.

Even their entertainment is connected to seeking. Going to temple, that is their entertainment. Sometime I have seen, especially in the west, people are surprised that people go to temples everyday because in many countries, they go to church only once in a week. It is a Sunday, holiday religion and that also rarely. Not everybody.

When I say people go to the temple regularly every day. People are surprised but that becomes their lifestyle, not so much entertainment. Even entertainment is this only. Here is entertainment. This is game. Everything is rooted at seeking, based at the search for enlightenment.

So civilization which encourages the right knowledge helps the citizens to go beyond the wrong knowledge, to go beyond addictions.

# Imagination – can lead you to joy or suffering

Right knowledge, wrong knowledge … The third pattern, third mental structure, third chitta vruti is imagination. This is another one big problem. This imagination can lead you to right knowledge or wrong knowledge. This can lead you to suffering and joy. If the imagination is used properly, rightly it can lead you to ecstasy, joy, spiritual ecstasy. It can lead you to ultimate. You will be in the heaven.

You can see in your own life, how you imagine about yourself plays a major role in your decisions. I have seen sometime, I work with the people. The moment they get an imaginiation, strong imagination, ‘No, no. I cannot continue this for whole life.’ they are gone.

How much I tell them, ‘No, it is your imagination. Just relax.’ Once you have an imagination, you can be with me forever. Now you are having other imaginiation, you can’t stay around me. You can’t bear. You can’t be. It is one more imagination.

Understand. Use your imagination rightly. ‘No, no, no.’ They think I am using all words to inspire them.

Imagination when it is used wrongly, when it is misunderstood or misuse is the worst thing. It can do worst thing to you. That is the worst thing can happen to you. Imagination when it is used rightly can straightaway lead you to write knowledge, can straightaway liberate you.

You have seen about the different modifications: right knowledge, wrong knowledge, imagination, sleep and memory. We understood deeply about right knowledge and wrong knowledge. Imagination, sleep and memory, these three are closely connected. We will explore, understand, what is imagination, what is sleep, what is memory, how they are interconnected, how they can lead us to right knowledge or wrong knowledge, suffering or joy. ‘How they can lead us, how it can be used,’ we will see tomorrow.

Let us gather for tomorrow. So with these great truths of Patanjali, let you all experience living enlightenment; let you all achieve and radiate the eternal bliss, Nithyananda

Nithyananda Deepika

Swaroope vastanam: when you take the responsibility for your mind remembering, ‘You are thinking; thinking is your action; 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 an 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 swaroope vastaanam, means establishing in your own nature.

Swaroope: swaroope, nature, means complete settled pure consciousness.

Nature: means in the state where there are no thoughts. When chitta vritti nirodaha happens, that is what our state is.

Samyama: If you are yogi, if you are in a thoughtless zone, anything just bring your awareness, the restful awareness, that is what Patanjali calls, samyama, restful awareness. If you direct your restful awareness towards that direction, you know it.

Ananda Sutras

See, that is the ultimate thing a man can have, feeling connected to a living master. Anything can be sacrificed for that but for no reason, that should be sacrificed. Anything can be sacrificed to have that feeling connection with the master but for no reason that feeling connection should be sacrificed.

when there is no thought, when you are in your nature you have limitless energy and true understanding about everything.

We don’t want best things. We want things with which we can relate

We don’t want solution, we want support.

seeking is such that it will just take away your whole life. It is internal tsunami. It just changes you. Nothing else is required. You are new. You are washed. You are fresh. Whatever needs to be taken away from you leaves you. Only whatever needs to be left is left. It is a very powerful internal tsunami.

So any civilization encourages seeking, supports seekers will liberate itself from the wrong knowledge and the products which create delusion, the products which creates delusion.