“subject : ‘Unclutch from the mind-ness, de-stress instantly’**”

subject : ‘Unclutch from the mind-ness, de-stress instantly’**

Today’s subject is, unclutch from the mind-ness, de-stress instantly. I’ll be speaking on the 8th Sutra of Patanjali. Patanjali has given a beautiful 199 sutras, describing the whole science of yoga, uniting the individual consciousness with the universal consciousness, making yourself falling in tune with the Ultimate.

# PATANJALI’S WORK IS SO CONCISE!

Today, we will enter into the 8th Sutra. Unclutching science is explained in this one sutra. That is why title we gave , ‘Unclutch from the mind -ness, de-stress instantly. This one sutra can completely turn the way in which you think, the way in which you act, the way in which you live. This one sutra can awaken new consciousness, new energy inside your being. Sometimes people tell me, for each sutra you say the same thing, how to take it Swami. I tell them, it is true for each sutra, for each sutra it is same. Patanjali, such a great master, I know for sure he would have worked with millions of disciples, otherwise you cannot write such a great, highly mystical, just unimaginable work.

I read a story, Bernard Shaw wrote a hundred page book. Somebody went and asked him, ‘what happened, you didn’t have time, you wrote only hundred page book?’ He said, ‘No, if I had time it would have become only forty page, if I had time I would have written only forty page’. Means to write little and convey what needs to be conveyed needs more energy and time and intelligence.

Here, Patanjali is so sure, he is making everything into just two; three words, just few words. He’s putting everything together. Even to read this sutra, it’s such a wonderful experience. I’ll read the sutra ‘vipariyaye ….(5:46…) Let me give this sutra for the purpose of recording. You don’t understand English its ok, I’ll give the translation. Interpreting based on past conditioning leads to misconception or wrong understanding. Let me repeat the translation. Interpreting based on past conditioning leads to misconception or wrong understanding.

# STOPPING THE MISUNDERSTANDING OF ANCIENT TRUTHS IS REAL MEDITATION

The Upanishads, Zen koans, Sufi mystics poems, everything expressed by enlightened Masters, again and again repeating, what is, is reality. Isha vasham itam survam whatever is, is God. Again and again, even the Zen Masters, they say, before enlightenment, mountain is a mountain, tree is a tree, river is a river. After enlightenment, mountain is a mountain, tree is a tree, river is a river. Then what in hell are we doing? Sorry, what in heaven are we doing! Working for enlightenment. Again and again, Masters say, what is. Buddha says beautifully, tataiga, the word needs to be understood, is-ness. Then what is the problem, where problem starts. Problem starts with our wrong understanding. As Patanjali puts it here, vipariyaya, please understand, its an important word, I can say the key. Just today morning in the press meet one of the journalists asked me, ‘Swamiji, how do you ask us to meditate. What are we supposed to do. You speak about meditation, should we close our eyes and sit and meditate, what we should do’. I replied him, ‘In the initial level only you need a technique, you may need to close your eyes and sit for half an hour or forty five minutes, do something. But actually, the real essence of spiritual life is not even meditation. This one sutra, complete understanding, completely understanding, stopping the misunderstanding is real meditation.

# MEDITATION IS A QUALITY OF LIFE. LIFE IS A RIVER.

Understand, meditation is not just an activity you do for some ten minutes or fifteen minutes, half an hour or forty five minutes per day, then you leave it. No! It’s a quality of life. In the initial level maybe it is necessary for you to create a concentration and centre yourself, so half an hour sitting with closed eyes, okay. But that is not the end. Techniques are like boat. But this teaching what Patanjali is giving in this sutra is like a river. Boats are okay, at initial level but boat is not life, that is not life. Life is river.

# ONE SUTRA A DAY YOU SHOULD READ

Here, Patanjali is giving a very beautiful technique, amazing technique. You can say the essence of spiritual life, when I read each sutra I feel like this is enough, nothing more is required. You don’t need anything else. Any single sutra, if you take up one sutra and contemplate, contemplate, contemplate on it, that’s enough, nothing else is required. Nothing else needs to be done. One sutra if you can internalize that seed is enough, it will bear its fruit, that fruit will be your enlightenment.

Sometimes I feel we should not read more than one sutra per day, because if you read too many sutras, you will just, your mind will skip from here to there, here to there, here to there, here to there and you will not internalize, you will not meditate on them. But if you read only one sutra, your whole mind will be working on it or that sutra will be working on your consciousness. Your whole being will be filled with that one sutra, you will see that sutra will start expressing itself inside you, it starts expressing itself inside you.

# INTERPRETING THE MOMENT BASED ON PAST CONDITIONING LEADS TO WRONG UNDERSTANDING. LOOK INTO THE MOMENT WITH COMPASSION, NEW DOORS WILL OPEN!

Interpreting based on past conditioning leads to misconception or wrong understanding. The whole thing, whatever problem you have can be solved with this one key. Because your whole thing, whatever problem you have, everything is just because of one reason, that interpreting based on past conditioning leads to misconception or wrong understanding. Please understand, all your fear, all your greed, all the things which you think as your identity, all your worries, whatever you think as disturbance, misfortune in your life can be sorted out with this one understanding. If you look with a little sympathy, little compassion, little sympathy and compassion towards this moment, will completely open a new door. You will have a new understanding.

When you don’t have compassion to this moment, you always judge this moment with your past experience. Please understand, I am giving you a new key: have compassion towards this moment, have compassion towards present moment. We never have compassion towards present moment, we are always violent with the present moment that is why we kill it with the past. We kill the present moment with the past. We are constantly waiting for present moment to come so that you can kill it with your past. You can destroy it with your past, you can abuse it with your past.

# TOUCHING THE PRESENT MOMENT IS THE ONLY WAY TO CONNECT TO ETERNITY

Abusing the present with the past is what I call hell. Continuously we torture, we disturb the existence by killing the present moment. Please understand, the eternity comes in front of you, presents itself to you in the present moment. You can touch the eternity only by touching the present moment. You can see very clearly, you cant touch the past, you cant touch the future, you can touch the eternity by touching the present moment. The present moment is the only way you can connect with eternity. But when you don’t connect with the present moment, if you are constantly torturing it with your past you are creating misconception, wrong understanding. Sometimes your (….) (14:16) with the wrong understanding, with the wrong concepts. That is why Patanjali gives a very beautiful, actually just before this sutra he has given wonderful concept. I wanted you to know that sutra also, you will understand the eighth sutra if you know the seventh sutra. Actually both of them are in a way interconnected.

# THREE WAYS TO GAIN RIGHT KNOWLEDGE

He says, he describes about knowledge pratyaksha hanumana agama. These three are right knowledge. In the eighth sutra he speaks about wrong knowledge, in the seventh sutra he speaks about wrong knowledge. Both are interconnected that’s why I wanted you to understand the seventh sutra. If you understand the seventh aphorism, seventh sutra you will understand eighth sutra in much better way. In eighth sutra he says what should not be done, in seventh sutra he says what should be done, what should be done.

Please understand, he says, pratyaksha hanumana agama pramanani, means perception through senses, conclusion arrived at through cognition and the words of an enlightened master are the three ways to gain correct knowledge. That are the three things which gives you the right knowledge.

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# ALL JUDGEMENTS ARE BECAUSE OF WRONG KNOWLEDGE, BIAS

In eighth sutra he says about the wrong knowledge. Wrong knowledge means interpreting based on past conditioning leads to misconception or wrong understanding.

For example, if you are hurt in the past by somebody who is wearing a white dress, whenever you see a man with white dress you will always have that fear, that sankata, means discomfort. You will always carry that. That man and this man is in no way related, they are no way connected, no way even know each other but you carry that. You pass a judgment, you carry your past, with that past you try to constantly judge the present. With the past conditioning when you try to judge that leads to misconception. Please understand, that leads to misconception.

The judgments you are passing about a particular race, the judgments you are passing about a particular religion, the judgment we are passing about a particular state, the prejudice, bias we carry all are related to this wrong knowledge. We have our own prejudice about a particular race. Many times people come and tell me, especially when they come to Bharat and see, ‘Swamiji we thought the whole Bharat will be always meditating we don’t think, we don’t see you like that. They think Bharatns will constantly sitting with closed eyes, silently and politely meditating.

The other day I read an article, yoga became very popular in Mumbai because Madonna practiced it. Really, Power yoga has become very popular because Madonna practiced it. Please understand, do not carry concepts, do not carry assumptions. We pass judgements, for example, if you meet one person, based on your experience with him you judge that whole country, you judge that whole race, you judge that whole religion. Poor religion what it will do, poor man what he can do. No! you cannot pass judgment like that, you cannot just create ideas.

# YOUR OWN UNWANTED CASUAL COMMENTS AND WORDS WILL CAUSE YOU AND OTHERS HARM

Please understand, creating these kind of ideas and adding, sometime we think, ‘yes, this guy’s misbehaved with me. I know, its not that all the people from his religion or his country will misbehave with me but even then I can have a casual opinion, what is wrong, nothing wrong.’ So when you casually chat with your friends you just pass a comment, ‘you know that guy, he is very egoistic, their whole country is arrogant’. You make a comment, you think what is the harm in this simple comment, nothing wrong. After all I am not going to believe this, you yourself think inside – no, no, no, it is not true, I’m passing a judgment against one race, or against this country, how can I pass a comment, its not true.’ One side of your mind you will say. Other side you will say, ‘No, no, no, its not wrong after all its okay.’

Don’t think, if you repeat some words again and again, you will start believing it, so be aware of the words you are repeating, please understand.

The other day I was reading Autobiography of a Yogi, Paramahamsa Yogananda’s autobiography. He says very beautifully, ‘The power of words, the first chapters, he describes a few incidents where he uses particular words with a strong concentration, just the words come true. He says he was having a conversation with his sister. Suddenly for some reason he said, his sister was trying to apply some medicine on her body. Yogananda commented, ‘that medicine will not work, you will have that boil twice tomorrow,’ she was trying to apply the medicine for a boil. He said ‘you will have the boil two size, double size tomorrow and he says, ‘I will also have a boil in my hand.’ His sister says, ‘what are you talking, why will you have, you don’t have any problem, why do you say these words.’ And he just makes this statement, ‘tomorrow it is there, you will have the boil double size.’ He says, ‘I was shocked, just the mere word, the power of mere word.’

Please understand, never utter words like ‘they are wrong’, ‘this race is wrong’, ‘that country is wrong’, ‘this religion is wrong.’ The more and more you utter, you will start believing the same words, you will start strongly feeling the same words.

One more important thing. The world is too small. Don’t think, ‘Oh, if I make a comment about that country its okay, even if I think that country is bad, its okay. I am not going to go to that country. Don’t think, you may not physically go to that country but any news you hear about that country will start kindling different emotions in you. I have seen many people suffering with unnecessary lust, unnecessary anger. I always tell people, ‘Keep the lust which you need for your day to day life, keep the anger which you need for your day to day life, that is okay.’ But we suffer with unnecessary lust, unnecessary anger, unnecessary anger means, the anger which is no way going to help you or the anger which you can no way exhibit.

For example, you read some news about some country’s President. In some country you say, ‘these guys are killing their citizens. You carry a strong anger. ‘This fellow is doing all these things,’ you carry a strong anger. Will you be able to do anything against him? No! You can’t. You can’t directly interfere in his life. You have neither right, nor power, nothing. You cant do anything in his life. What you will be doing, you’ll be just sitting with that anger whenever you hear that guy is suffering through some news you think, ‘Ah, this guy needs. You feel your anger is fulfilled. Your violence is getting fulfilled. You go on cursing.

Please understand, this is what I call excess anger, carrying the anger which is in no way directly related to your life. You have so many opinions, so many ideas, so many concepts you carry, and you suffer joy or pain based on those concepts.

I have seen people sitting in front of TV and crying for no reason, no way they are affected. The news which is stored, no way they are affected, either they cry or jump. Means excess anger, excess greed, unnecessary anger, unnecessary greed. All these things are based on this wrong knowledge. What Patanjali says, ‘the wrong knowledge, interpretations, interpreting based on past conditioning leads to misconception’.

I have seen this enough in the life, enough. Because I am travelling all over the world, I am seeing different races, different communities, different culture, different religion, different nationality, different background, different kind of people.

I can say in this one sutra of Patanjali, if this one teaching of Patanjali is propagated to all over the world there wont be any wars, there won’t be any wars. The world will become peaceful, blissful place. So much of peace will land on this world. The big problem is, we quickly pass judgments about a particular race based on one person, about a particular group based on one experience. One experience is enough you think, ‘yes, yes, yes, my friend also told me, those guys are very arrogant, see, I realize, he is arrogant, they are arrogant.’ You are just waiting, you are just waiting.

Each country has jokes, comments about particular race, particular religion. Each country they have jokes. In Bharat they have jokes especially about Sardarjis. There are so much of jokes and to tell you honestly, in my experience they are the most devoted, spiritual and intelligent people. So deeply devoted, so deeply committed, giving nature. I wandered length and breadth of Bharat I tell you, I wandered length and breadth of Bharat, I have seen so much, the giving nature of people. The big problem is you pass comments easily, you pass comments easily. Not only that after two or three times you pass the comment you start believing it, you start internalizing it.

We need to understand one important truth. We are not that intelligent not to believe the lies which we are promoting. In the initial you may start promoting some lies knowing that it is lies. After a few days you yourself will forget it is a lie. So be very clear, do not start a lie, do not start a rumor, you will be suffering with it, you will be suffering with it.

A small story :

I read somewhere in a book – One journalist who writes all tabloids based on … actually lies can be sold, rumors can be sold easily, negative news can be sold very easily. It sells like hot cake, negative news sells like hot cake. Just write some ten positive things, one enlightened Master came, he did so many good things and he is doing so much service. Who will read. No! But write some news about drugs, some news about some murder, some news about some criminal activities, paper will sell. Negative things can always be sold.

So this guy who lived his whole life by creating and maintaining rumors, creating and sustaining rumors. This guy dies and goes to the court for judgment, the upper court. There St. Peter is standing, he says, ‘Oh, tabloid journalist, no, no, no, no, we don’t let you inside heaven, let you go to hell.’ That guys says, ‘No, give me just one day, I’ll go around and come back, I just see the heaven only once.’ This guys says, ‘No, you have no work here, you have no business here, here no news come, all saints are happily sitting on the clouds singing Halleluiah. There is no news, everybody is completely settled. Here nothing happens, go to hell you will have lot of news. All famous people are there. You will have enough news.

This guys says, ‘no, no, no, no, I wanted to just see, one day.’ St. Peter says, ‘Its impossible, we cant allow you inside.’ Then this guy tempts St. Peter. He’s a very intelligent guy. He says, ‘Give me twenty four hours time, if I can convince any one of your journalists to go to hell, will you let me stay here.’ St. Peter says, ‘It is too much, how can you do that.’ He says, ‘That and all you don’t ask. If I can convince any one of your journalists to go to hell will you let me stay here’. He said, ‘alright I can try. Okay, come inside.’ This guy goes.

In heaven they had only ten journalists because nothing much happens. God comes and sits in the court in the morning and judgments are given. Evening He goes back, nothing much is happening. All the saints are there enjoying. What is there, the same routine. And they have only ten journalists. This guy goes to Heaven, goes around. By the end of the day, evening he comes back to the pearly gates. St. Peter says, ‘No, now you cannot go back. You have to be here.’ This guy says, ‘What happened? Now I have to go to hell.’ St. Peter asks, ‘Why, why do you want to go.’

What this guy did, this guy created a rumor that in hell they are starting a new magazine they want Editor. He spread the news and all the fellows fled, because how many days, especially journalists, you can’t be sitting without news. Its really going. Even in heaven you want some news and without news even heaven looks like hell or them. So they thought, let us go to hell. They all ran away to hell and this guy is also running, this guy who created the rumor, this guy is also running.

St. Peter stopped and said, ‘What happened, you only created the rumor, all of them are already in hell, now you are the only journalist we have. We can’t afford to lose you also. You have to be here.’ This guy says, ‘No, no, I only started the news that is true. If so many people are believing there must be some truth in it. If so many people are believing there must be some truth in it.’

So understand, don’t start rumors, don’t start rumors even in a jovial way, you will be caught by your own rumors. You will be caught by your own words. The words which you create, I have seen many times, people casually create simple words. The relationships, they very casually create simple words, he is bad, he is torturing me, very simple words, for no reason, very simple incidents but those words gets imbibed, engraved and you start thinking that’s the truth.

# WORDS DON’T ALLOW YOU TO TAKEN ON ANY SITUATION IN A FRESH WAY. THEY STOP YOUR CONSCIOUS FLOW.

Please understand words can just stop your thinking, words can just stop your perception, words can just stop your conscious flow.

For example, if you are in a particular situation, if you are open, fresh, alive, without the past conditioning words you can handle the situation directly, you can live that situation directly, you can experiment with that situation directly. You can experience it directly. You don’t do, you have some idea, you have some idea. You think, ‘no, I know, I know, this is what is going to happen, I know.’ See I was telling you the other day, this guy is like this only, your mind comes to a confirmation and you immediately jump and start taking actions.

Look into yourself, all your suffering, I can say, capital letter A-L-L, all your suffering is just with this one problem. Carrying, interpreting, based on the past conditioning leads to misconception or wrong understanding. Wrong understanding means, wrong decisions, suffering. You can see in your life. You don’t wait till the situation comes in front of you, you take your own decisions, your own ideas. Mind becomes chaos, mind becomes chaos, completely confused with the past engrams. You go on and on and on interpreting, create problems.

Actually many times you can say, by the time you create a whole problem in your imagination and be ready with all the weapons to attack the other person, he comes, when he starts talking to you, suddenly you realize, ‘O God, there’s no problem at all.’ He did not even think about it as a problem, here you are waiting with high BP, with all the weapons, ‘if he utters that word I will utter this word, if he talks that word, I will talk this word, if he says this word I will say that word, if he brings that argument I will bring this argument.’ You are ready with all the arguments, weapons. That guy makes the whole thing simple, suddenly you feel empty. Now you feel, ‘What is this. How can this be I prepared so much, all this preparation has become waste.’ You start the fight, because you don’t want to feel that you wasted so much time preparing for the fight. You can see this many times in your life. With your spouse you can see, you can see, by the time she comes back, if he or she comes back from the office you are ready with all your arguments. Sometimes you even start taking notes on the refrigerator. There will be white paper, this guy takes all the notes not to miss the points, you are ready with all the arguments. When the other person comes back he doesn’t even remember the whole fight, doesn’t even remember the subject. But what to do now its too much for you, you cannot leave what you prepared. Now whatever you prepared you have to express it. You start. That’s the way life goes on. Understand, our judgment based on generalization. You need to understand an important truth. We think in a generalized way, but we live in a localized way. Our day to day life of dealing with one person, one situation but your mind always generalizes, always generalizes.

# YOU ARE AFRAID TO GO TO THE ROOT AND SEE IT DISAPPEAR, SO YOU HOLD ON TO YOUR IDEAS STRONGLY

I see many times, people have their own weird ideas, weird opinions, weird concepts, this is impossible.

A small story : One guy goes to the Psychiatrist. Psychiatrist sees his behavior and says, ‘I will surely try to help you. I think you have a problem that you are thinking you are a dog.’ That guy says, ‘yes, yes, a small dog with black and brown patches, don’t you see me.’ Doctor says, ‘Don’t worry I’ll try to help you. Can you first lie down on that couch, I’ll see and try to find out the root cause of the problem.’ That guy says, ‘no I cannot do that.’ Doctor asks, ‘Why?’. He says, ‘No I am not allowed up on the furnitures.’

Understand, if you are convinced about something you are too strong. Instead of going to the roots of the problem you go on, hold on to the surface, you hold on to the surface. You know if you go to the root the problem may disappear, the problem is your companion. You may feel lonely, you don’t have anything to worry. Suddenly just think, suddenly if all the worry from you is just taken away what will happen to your life. You will feel empty. Alone, lonely. I think that will become a big worry. That will become a big worry. So you don’t want to look into the roots of the problem.

Here Patanjali is analyzing very beautifully, with this one sutra he describes all our problems. Just sit and contemplate on this one sutra. This one sutra can lead you to enlightenment. Nothing else is required. Nothing else is required, this one sutra can lead you to enlightenment.

# INCIDENT OFHOW A PRIEST THOUGHT A BRAHMACHARI WAS BRAHMIN BUT LATER REGRETTED WHEN HE FOUND OUT HE WAS NOT

One incident, really it happened, it happened. One of my Brahmachari, he is trained in all our traditional puja and all other spiritual practices. One program, they invited him to conduct a spiritual program in Bharat. This guy went and attended the program, he was pronouncing the Sanskrit mantras so beautifully, the local temple priests they thought he is a Brahmin. Local temple priests they thought he was a Brahmin, he is the upper class, priest class boy. So when they saw him when he sits, his body language is very graceful when he chants the mantras, they thought he was a Brahmin, they gave him all the respects and touched his feet and did the namaskar and everything. All the program was over they took him to the nearby temple gave him all the honor, he finished everything and went back. Somebody who went to the temple the next day told the priest that he was not a Brahmin. That’s all! Till yesterday evening his guy was honoring the brahmachari, feels blessed that he is able to receive him and touched the feet. Now suddenly this fellow is in depression. He is in depression, he is continuously taking bath for three days, three days he is taking bath. And three days he did not enter the temple and three days he has to do all the rites to clean himself.

I was shocked. If the inauspiciousness is supposed to come by touching that non-brahmin, it should have come when you touched, not when you heard, not when you hear the news. It should have come when you touched. When you touched you should dont have a problem. You felt blessed, auspicious, graceful, blissful, but when you hear the news that means what, the concepts, the past conditioning, the past conditioning.

That poor guy, he suffered so much. Just the conditioning, ‘I shouldn’t have touched the feet of a non-brahmin. Just that one conditioning. Many times we suffer with conditioning not with the situation, please understand. Ninety nine point nine percent of the sufferings are not related to situation, it is related to conditioning. The point zero one percent suffering is not a suffering at all.

# YOU SUFFER BECAUSE YOU ARE PROGRAMMED

All our sufferings are related to conditioning, not related to situation. You have an idea, your mind is programmed, your bio-computer is programmed from the young age. What is desire, what is joy, what is pain, what is fear. You are programmed. You live based on the programs. You take decisions, based on the programs. You walk, based on the programs. You talk, based on the programming. You do everything based on the programming.

# THE VERY INTAKE IS WRONG

This is what Patanjali calls wrong knowledge. He says ‘vipariyaye’. ‘Vipariyaye’ is the word, you cant translate into English. Wrong knowledge is also not a right word. ‘Vipariyaye’ means everything is wrong, wrong cognition, the very intake is wrong. The way in which you process the data is wrong. The way in which you output, deliver your result is wrong.

The word wrong knowledge does not give the right meaning of ‘vipariyaye’. ‘Vipariyaye’ means every step is wrong. How you receive the data, how you internalize the data and how you process it, how you take a decision. Whole thing is wrong.

Please understand, again and again Upanishads are declaring. Again and again, all enlightened Masters are declaring, whatever is, is Divine, God. If you see anything other than the divine, any other experience other than bliss in the life, you are having this problem, you have this problem. You need this sutra.

Contemplate on this sutra. I am not saying you need to by-heart or you need to repeat. Internalize this idea. Sometimes people start repeating this sutra, ‘vipariyaye’, ‘vipariyaye’, ‘vipariyaye’. Finally they do the wrong thing. I’m not saying you need to repeat. I’m saying, internalize. Constantly contemplate on this sutra, on this idea. Interpreting based on past conditioning, leads to misconception or wrong understanding. Do this as an exercise, homework. Just sit for one hour in the house today. Write at least ten incidents, surely you can write ten incidents. I’m not even saying from your whole life, I’m saying from morning till today you can write ten incidents. Ten incidents where you did the same mistake of interpreting with the past conditioning, bringing wrong understanding because of past conditioning. Just write ten incidents. See how your mind is behaving, how your life is happening. You don’t even have to bother or struggle to correct yourself. The big problem is, before you even understand the depth of the problem you start correcting. That is where the problem starts. The problem never ends. Just understand the depth of the problem, that’s enough. Suddenly you will see the transformation. Depth of the problem, just today, sit, work for half an hour or one hour, write ten incidents where you came to the wrong conclusion because of the past conditioning and understood when you looked into the whole thing, with restful awareness.

# THERE ARE THREE DIFFERENT LEVELS OF KNOWLEDGE

This is the wrong knowledge. Beautifully Patanjali describes about right knowledge. Perception through senses, conclusions arrived at through the cognition, the words of an enlightened Master are the three ways to gain knowledge. Please understand, Patanjali is highly intelligent. He beautifully puts one by one, one by one.

First, first level of knowledge, second, second level of knowledge, third, next level of knowledge. He beautifully puts. Please understand, correct knowledge can never be at one level. Correct knowledge can never be at one level.

There is a beautiful story in Vivekananda’s life. When Ramakrishna gave the experience and the truth to Vivekananda that whatever is, is Brahman, is divine, it’s a right knowledge. Vivekananda started going and hitting his head on an iron rod to test whether that iron rod is also a Brahman, whether that iron rod is also Brahman. Please understand, the iron rod is a different level of knowledge, whatever is Brahman is a different level of knowledge. You need to understand different levels of knowledge.

There is another beautiful story by Ramakrishna. One day the Master was teaching in the monastery that whatever is, is God. So all the disciples heard the truth, they were in high ecstasy. They went to take bath. When they finished the bath in the river and came back, on the way one mad elephant was running here and there in the street, chasing people. So the mahout, the elephant trainer, that guy was shouting, ‘please run away, run away, run away, save yourself, this is a mad elephant.’ He was trying to control the elephant and he was shouting. All the disciples ran away except one guy, one guy was standing on the road and saying, ‘today morning only Master said ‘everything is divine, everything is God’. ‘This elephant is also God, let me stand.’ The elephant straightaway came and just looked at him, threw him to the corner and went away.

The poor elephant did not know this guy was a seeker, he is meditating, he just threw him to the corner and went away. Then all the disciples ran and brought him to the ashram. The Master asks, ‘what happened, why did you stand in the way of the mad elephant.’ This guy says, ‘you only said everything is Brahman, everything is God.’ Master says, ‘yes, that is true, the mahout, the elephant trainer, he is also Brahman, he was giving you instruction, ‘run, save yourself’. Why did you not listen to the mahout God, why did you think only elephant is God.’ Please understand this guy thought elephant is God, but he did not think mahout is also God, the elephant trainer is God. Here Patanjali beautifully describes the levels of knowledge. First level, perception through senses, what you perceive. This is the first level knowledge. Second level, conclusion arrived at through the cognition, means you start calculating, if this is this, then this two together must be this. Means, development of mathematics, science. Evolution of all, poetry, evolution of great things which you don’t perceive with the ordinary eyes but which can enrich your life. Those things starts evolving. That’s the second level of knowledge.

Please understand, science can never evolve. Just from the first level knowledge. First level knowledge is perception through senses, means what you see. What you see. The second level knowledge, the conclusions which you can come by calculating, by understanding, by analyzing. That is the second level knowledge.

Third, words of an enlightened Master. Third level knowledge.

First level knowledge is a primitive society, they don’t know anything except what they see with their eyes, very primitive, very primitive. They just live with the food. If they see their food they kill and eat, if they see they will become the food, they run and save themselves. That’s all, either they eat or are eaten. That kind of lifestyle. That is what is first level, perception through senses. If you are living with that level, even if you live with all the wealth, all the name and fame, power, prestige, everything, you will be depressed, because you are running through one channel. Its like you a TV you are running through one channel, what will happen to you, you’ll be bored to death. You will be bored to death. Only one channel you can see, you cannot go to the next channel. Either you see this channel or keep quiet. What will happen? You’ll be bored to death.

# STORY OF HOW THE DISCIPLE WANTED TO BECOME IMMORTAL

The other day I was reading a beautiful story, one guy, great king, practically conquered the whole world, he was searching for immortality. All the kings, always search for some medicine, something which can make them immortal. It’s a big problem. Almost all the kings, whoever has conquered the enemies, different countries, they think, now I should think of immortality. He goes to an enlightened Master and asks, ‘Tell me some way that I should become immortal’. That guy says, ‘Why do you want to become immortal, understand, this is the nature.’ This guy says, ‘I am not here to listen to you about your teachings. I am asking a solution, can you give or not.’ The master say, ‘I think your time is bad, what can I do.’ He says, ‘There is a stream in the cave, nearby cave, go inside and drink that water, you will become immortal.’

This guy didn’t even bother to ask that master, ‘If you know the technique why don’t you drink.’ No, he did not even bother to ask. He got the secret, he ran. Really he saw there was a stream and he was about to drink the water, one crow was sitting on the cave. He was shouting, ‘don’t drink, don’t drink, stop, stop, stop.’ This king said, ‘why are you stopping me. With my great effort I learnt this secret cave from that master, I am about to drink. Why are you stopping me.’ This guy says, ‘no, no, no, listen,’ that crow says, ‘without knowing I drank, I am sitting here for last three thousand years. I can neither die nor live. I have seen everything, whatever the world can offer, I have done everything. All the people whom I know are dead. All the things which I know are dead. I have done everything, I am utterly depressed I cant even commit suicide. I tried so many methods. I decided I will sit here and tell my story to everybody, whoever comes here to drink the water. Understand my story. Now if you want you drink’.

First time the King had a shock. ‘Yes, oh God! I’m gone! If I cant die at all what will happen. If I am going to be here forever I cant see any change, what will happen.’ He just did one big namaskar to the crow and he escaped from the cave. Just ran away from that cave. He thought, ‘the crow is right, that guy is right, what will happen to me. I would have done everything, I would have enjoyed everything, all my friends would have gone, everything would have gone. I would be depressed, but I cant even die, cant even die.’

Please understand, seeking immortality, trying to become immortal is also one more game, is also one more game. Even if you become immortal, if you are living just through the perception of senses, just through the perception of senses, please understand, you will be dead and depressed, you will be dead and depressed.

# LIKE THE GUY WHO WANTED TO BE IMMORTAL, LIFE WILL BECOME BORING IF ONLY ONE CHANNEL OR ONE LEVEL OF KNOWLEDGE IS AVAILABLE TO YOU

Its like you can only have one channel, you cant go to the next channel, life is like that only. If you have only one channel, means perception through the senses. However you may have wealth, relationships, cars, bungalows, whatever you want, you will be in depression. I have seen; I have seen the people living in depression, deep depression. They have everything but deep depression because they do not know how to open the second channel, how to open the next level of knowledge.

Understand, life is knowledge, expansion of knowledge is life. Unable to expand, after a certain level in the knowledge is depression, is death. When you are unable to expand further, it’s a depression, you are dead. There is nothing else to be done.

# COGNITION OF FIRST LEVEL KNOWLEDGE BECOMES SECOND LEVEL KNOWLEDGE

Many times, people who are very successful in the outer world life, they come to me and ask, ‘we don’t know what to do with our life Swamiji. It has become a big burden. We are just dragging. Neither we have the courage to die, nor we have energy to live, we are just dragging, dragging, dragging.’ Means, you have opened only one channel, perception through senses, that’s all, perception through senses. Very rarely people start the second channel, only they become scientists, artists. For example, if there is a stone, if you just perceive it through senses, you will see it as a stone, that’s all. But if you can start inferring, ‘if I remove this part, if I remove this part, if I remove this part, it can become a sculpture’. Inference, trying to come to the conclusions; through cognition. ‘If I put this line, if I put that line, if I put this line, it’s a painting.’ If you are able to infer, the second level knowledge.

There is a beautiful word, ‘pratyakshya hanumana.’ ‘Pratyakshya’ is first level knowledge. Many people stop with that. Please understand, I always tell people, try to spend little time with some little painting, intuition, whoever has entered into the second level of knowledge, only they become scientists, they become artists. Great artists, great creators, great sculptors, great poets, all of them have entered the second level. You can see science actually needs them. Every scientist he needs that, he has to think, he has to infer, ‘if this and that happens, this will be the thing, he has to come to the second level of knowledge, ‘hanumana’. Third level of knowledge, very rare, very intelligent civilizations only accept and experience, internalize the third level of knowledge, the words of the awakened ones, the words of the enlightened ones. Please understand, if you accept only the first level of knowledge, ‘pratyaksha’ , perceived through the senses, your first thirty-three years will be joyful. There are many countries, many civilizations, you can spend only first thirty-three years, they are not useful, they are not worthy for second thirty-three. Second thirty-three you will be bored, depressed, empty in that civilization. That has nothing to offer to you for second thirty-three. No, very rare civilizations, countries offer for second thirty-three, means, opportunities for science, opportunities for art, opportunities for creativity, exploring the inference dimension, ‘hanumana’ dimension.

# ONLY THE INTELLIGENT PEOPLE COME TO THIRD LEVEL OF KNOWLEDGE

Very rarely, very rarely, only few civilizations gives you the opportunity to experience the third level of knowledge, the ‘agama’, the knowledge, words of the awakened ones, words of the enlightened ones. Please understand, if the civilization evolves to the next, next, next level, the civilization in the very primitive level it accepts only ‘pratyaksha’, perception through senses, if it has evolved to the scientific level, it accepts ‘pramana’, it accepts ‘hanumana’ means inference. Only if it has evolved to the very subtle, very intelligent level, it accepts ‘agama’, means, words of an enlightened Master, words of an enlightened Master.

# ONLY SOME CIVILIZATIONS CAN OFFER ENTERTAINMENT YOU FOR YOUR WHOLE LIFE

There are some civilizations, primitive, they offer life only till thirty-three, even after you become thirty-three, you have to have the entertainments only for things which are designed only for below thirty-three people. You have to go to the same theme park which has been designed for kids, you have to enjoy the same thing which is created for kids.

Please understand, that civilization has nothing else to offer, it has nothing else for you. It has only below thirty-three. Some civilizations, artistic, scientific civilizations, they can offer material for you, entertainment for you till sixty-six. Two third, very rarely, I can say only Patanjali’s civilization, civilizations which produced great people like Patanjali, that civilization offers, when I say civilization I don’t mean geographical Bharat. Please understand, Bharat is not geographical, it is spiritual.

Wherever this science is practiced this spiritual knowledge is alive, all that place is Bharat, all that place is Bharat. Please understand, only a civilization which gave birth to great masters like Patanjali can offer entertainment, things for you till hundred, till hundred. Only that can entertain you for your whole life.

See, the civilizations which have reached only till the second level they cant entertain you after sixty-six. That is why all over the world, so much of suicide after sixty-six, so much, the elders committing suicide. No media talks about it because they are they are not directly useful to society. If youngsters commit suicide it becomes a big news, but the elders committing suicide! All over the world it is happening, it’s a big problem. The other day I read in a newspaper, in a report the Swiss country is allowing, the Switzerland is allowing elders to have one assistant, the government will pay for the assistant. They’ll give everything for you, entertain you, but please don’t commit suicide, that’s all they are asking. Please understand, there are many civilizations which have nothing to offer if you are past sixty-six, you are finished, two third of your life. There are only two, ‘pratyaksha’ and ‘hanumana’, they don’t have ‘agama’. That is why after sixty-six you feel life is empty. First thirty-three, ‘pratyaksha’, enjoy, blood is hot, enjoy all the things. Then after thirty-three to sixty-six, ‘hanumana’ start creating the science and all those things, enjoying. That also you will be bored. Now you need ‘agama’, the words of an enlightened master, the third level knowledge. If you can go, next, to next, to next you are a complete human being, you will live as a fulfilled being. Its called gracefully ageing.

If the third part ‘agama’ has not happened in your life means feeling connected to the words of the enlightened ones, the third part of the knowledge, the higher level of the knowledge is not opened your consciousness, please be very clear, you will be in depression in the third part of your life. That is the worst thing can happen to a human being. Living in depression, the third part of your life, nothing can happen to your life.

# THE VEDIC CIVILIZATION NATURALLY ITSELF PREPARES AND ORIENTS YOU TO AGAMA

The Vedic civilization, they have done such a great good to humanity by awakening the third part in every human being. Vedic civilization is such, if you go through first part and second part, automatically the third part will be awakened in you. Because all their games, their play and below sixty-six, both are related to ‘agama’. The ‘pratyaksha’ and ‘hanumana’ both are related to ‘agama’ means, the words of the enlightened master. So you don’t have a problem.

By the time you cross sixty six you don’t have a problem sitting in meditation, you don’t have a problem sitting with enlightenment, you don’t have a problem in sitting and contemplating, because you are prepared in first part and second part of your life. The first level knowledge and second level knowledge, both are constantly guiding you in the third level knowledge.

So, you age gracefully, you live gracefully. If we have to avoid this serious problem of the elders committing suicide the one and only way is awaken the third channel, awakening the third channel is the greatest service you will do to yourself and to the world, you will do to yourself and to the world.

# WHEN YOU ARE BORED WITH PRATYAKSHA AND PRAMANA, AND YOU HAVE NOT YET AWAKENED TO AGAMA, YOU WILL BE IN DEPRESSION – LIVING HELL

Please understand, when the blood is hot when the ‘pratyaksha’ , perception through senses are happening, you will not bother, when the ‘pramana’ inference is happening you will not bother. Only when both are bored if you are bored of both, if you are tired of both, if you are completely depressed with these both, if you have not opened your third dimension, don’t think you will go to hell after death. No! You will go to hell if you are not able to touch the third dimension, if you are bored in these two dimensions, if you continue to live after the boredom, blessed are those who die in the young if they cant open the third dimension.

# PREPARE FOR AGAMA FIRST AND THEN PREPARE YOUR BODY TO LIVE LONG. REVERSE WONT WORK.

People come and ask me, please teach me some technique that I should keep healthy and live till hundred years. Please teach me how to keep the body fit for hundred years. Please understand, first prepare your mind to live for hundred years, awaken the third part, ‘agama’ means feeling connected to the knowledge of the enlightened ones. then prepare your body to live hundred years. If you prepare your body just to live hundred years and did not prepare your being for the third part of the knowledge, means feeling connected to the master’s words, ‘agama’, the third part will be the hell for your life.

Never do that mistake. It is better to die as early as possible with the nature without living in that hell. Anybody who is interested to live long, please prepare your mind first. Awaken the third channel first feel connected to ‘agama’ first, the third part of your knowledge, means the words of an enlightened master. Start living that first then prepare the body, then do yoga, exercise, run, do jogging, prepare your body to live long. To just prepare your body and not the mind you are creating hell for you. I have seen elders, they come and cry, ‘we can neither be useful to society, nor we are feeling completely happy and we are not dying also, we can’t commit suicide, we don’t have the courage for suicide,’ it goes on and on and on.

# CONENCTING TO AGAMA IS THE BEST RETIREMENT PLAN EVER

Please understand, the first thing you need to do for your future, I can say this is the best retirement plan. This is the ultimate retirement plan, feel connected to ‘agama’, means, the words of the enlightened master, enlightened masters. You have done the ultimate insurance plan. Relax! If you have not done that, whatever retirement plans you create, you may see that beautiful retirement feelings only in those photographs.

I am seeing in this country all the retirement advertisements. See how ten million people are traveling towards their safe retirement. I’ll see a photograph of a beach, beach home and an elderly couple just relaxing, talking with each other. Please understand, only in photographs it will be great. Only in photographs it will be great.

Unless you connect to that ‘agama’, means feeling connected to the words of enlightened ones, awakened ones. if you have not done that retirement plan, please understand, old age will be hell. Because you may have money, you may have food, you may have health, you may have relationships, but what will you do. You will have nothing to do. You will not have expansion. You are not entertained, you are not engaged. What will you do. Then you will start brooding the first thirty three. If you start brooding over your first thirty three, its all fantasy, your mind is ready but body cannot cooperate. What do you do!

And the second, the second thirty three, inference, its all intellectual jugglery, maths, science, art, everything but again even for that your body will not be ready. How long, how much you can do, your body will not be ready. If you open only the third dimension, the most subtle dimension, the subtlest dimension of your being you will have something to do. You will have something to do, you have ‘you’ for you.

Please understand, I can say, this is the ultimate retirement plan, ‘pratyaksha’, ‘hanumana’, ‘agamaha’, awaken the agama’ dimension, that is the right knowledge.

# BIOGRAPHY RELATED… ABOUT HOW GRANDFATHER WAS CONNECTED TO AGAMA WHILE GRANDMOTHER WAS NOT, SO SHE WAS STUCK…

In these two sutras, Patanjali gives a beautiful understanding about wrong knowledge and right knowledge. These two sutras I can say, is the essence of life. When you awake inside you really understand. I wanted to tell you, I have seen my own grandfather who lived very old and one of my grandmothers. She lived till a hundred and three. Fortunately my grandfather is awakened to the third dimension that feeling connected to the words of an enlightened one. He lived such a wonderful life. Unfortunately, this grandmother to whom I am referring, she was not awakened to the third dimension, she was stuck with the second. I have seen, her life was hell. She had so much wealth, all relations.

Bharat you know is one huge joint family. One grandmother will have at least twenty grand kids. One grandchild will have at least twenty grandmothers and grandfathers and sometimes you will not know the names, such a huge family. Even then she was in such deep depression. Please understand, Alzheimer’s happens because you don’t want to think anything. Constantly you give instruction to yourself, unconsciously, you don’t want to think anything, you don’t want to think anything, because whatever you think you are not able to live. If you are not open to the third dimension, if it is only the first and second what will you do. You don’t want to think anything, so you enter into the Alzheimer’s, it is a lot better, it is a lot better.

# SWAMIS DON’T DIE QUICKLY BECAUSE THEY AWAKEN THE AGAMA IN THEMSELVES

I have seen the people who are not open the third dimension, their old age, that’s a hell. I have seen in the same way, who is opened the third dimension, they live (…1:50:48) See all over the world the maximum suicide profession is psychiatric doctors and people who die very early are physical doctors, medical doctors.

Bharat, Swamis are the people who are doing both the jobs. Barely upto ninety, ninety five I have seen in many monasteries the youngsters will be waiting for the seat this fellow will not leave, will be sitting. He will be ninety five, hundred, he will not leave, not only will he not leave, he will be very happy. That’s another one problem. At least if you are not happy, depressed, you can say, ‘no, no, you are not able to maintain all the responsibilities of the monastery and ashram, please get down, we will sit’. These fellows will be very happy. Going around very happy for a morning, doing yoga and remembering every devotee whom they met at the age of thirty, twenty, twenty five and asking about them, talking to their parents, grand kids they will tell, ‘oh your grandfather is my devotee, that fellow has gone long before’ and this guy is sitting happily. I have seen.

Swamis don’t die quickly in Bharat. The thing is they open the third dimension, they are connected to the ‘agama’ part. Understand, this is the ultimate retirement plan you can do to yourself. How to judge whether your life is successful or not. You can judge your life only based on the last part of your life. If you are open to the ‘agama’ dimension, the connection to the words of an enlightened master, you have lived your life. Otherwise old age is hell.

Please understand, not only, you see we all save money for the old age, social security, enter the share market with this (1:17:48), that is different. Forget about the money part, prepare your being for the old age, prepare your being for the old age.

Sometimes I feel so connected to these great masters, I feel so grateful for them for creating this great Vedic civilization with such a strong spiritual vision, its such a strong spiritual vision. Anybody lives that Vedic civilization, lives that Vedic life in a very normal way. By the time they are sixty six, already the third dimension is awakened, they will not know any depression. They will just smoothly pass and they know they have something to do, they have something, they have a deep fulfillment and they feel deeply connected to something, the words of the great enlightened masters and their life is filled with joy, ecstasy. They live in heaven before they disappear into eternity.

If you have not prepared yourself, you live in hell before you enter into eternity or next birth. So prepare yourself. This is the ultimate retirement plan which you can do to yourself. Share this knowledge with your kids. This is the best ultimate retirement plan you will give to your kids. Preparing them consciously to the ‘agama’, means, feeling connected to the masters’ words.

# RECAP…

These are the three things for right knowledge. One is ‘pratyaksha’, direct perception through senses, second, inference, the decisions, conclusions you come through cognition, through analyzing. The third, the great masters’ words. The civilizations or societies which are not able to accept the great masters’ words, they always live and die in a deep depression. They spend so much of money to keep their elder out of depression, out of suicidal tendencies but they always fail.

In Bharat I have seen, whoever lives these three dimensions understood these three levels of knowledge, living in ecstasy and sharing the ecstasy. So please understand both sutras, right knowledge and wrong knowledge. Avoid, move away from wrong knowledge and experience right knowledge and prepare yourself for your whole life.

# WHAT PATANKALI IS TALKING ABOUT IN SUBSEQUENT SUTRAS

Next sutras, Patanjali beautifully speaks about ‘vrigulpa’ means, imagination. Tomorrow we will work on the sutra in which he is talking on imagination. The ‘vrigulpa’, then ‘nidra’, sleep. Patanjali is talking in these few sutras about different modifications of the mind. So the first modification is right knowledge, second modification is wrong knowledge, third is imagination, fourth is the ‘nidra’, means sleep. Fifth is memory. So, tomorrow we will see Patanjali’s ideas about imagination, next day on sleep.

Then after that, the next class we will see what he says about memory. Each day we will work on one subject. What Patanjali has to offer, what Patanjali teaches to us. So today, please understand the right knowledge and wrong knowledge. You have one homework, please don’t avoid, take it sincerely. Go back to your house, you don’t have time otherwise I will make you do here itself. You don’t have time. Go back to your house, sit for one hour, analyse the wrong knowledge, how many decisions, wrong decisions you made just because of your past conditionings. About people, about situations, about races, about countries, about different things and then you understood you made a wrong decision, because of wrong knowledge and realized, corrected yourself. Just ten incidents, write. You will internalize this truth. Next time when you take any wrong decision you will remember that you are doing it out of wrong knowledge. You will have remembrance, patience, intelligence to come back to right knowledge. People have all weird ideas. The other day I heard, one guy was telling, my kundalini is awakened, now I need two wives. God! If your kundalini is awakened, you may not need even one. Their own weird ideas, I was shocked when I heard. The other day I was reading an advertisement – Yoga for better sex. Oh God! If Patanjali hears what will happen… Last two minutes are lost…

Nithyananda Deepika

‘Vipariyaye’ means everything is wrong, wrong cognition, the very intake is wrong. The way in which you process the data is wrong. The way in which you output, deliver your result is wrong.

‘pratyakshya hanumana.’ ‘Pratyakshya’ is first level knowledge. Many people stop with that.

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