“Let’s enter into the fourteenth sutra of patanjali yoga sutras.”

Let’s enter into the fourteenth sutra of patanjali yoga sutras. Sa tu deergha kala nairantarya satkarasevito dridha bhumihi. Translation: Committed an intense practice of unclutching makes one firmly established in a higher state of awareness. This book, each aphorism, each sutra, can create a religion. Each sutra is independently intelligent to lead a person to enlightenment.

# In Bhagavad Gita, each chapter is one yoga

Please understand, the word yoga means uniting, uniting with the Ultimate. In Bhagavad Gita each chapter is called as yogam. Means, each chapter can independently lead you to enlightenment. So, he talks about eighteen different paths. When Krishna delivered Bhagavad Gita, whatever major paths were available for enlightenment, he has compiled everything and presented it in one book. Eighteen major paths for enlightenment he describes and leads people to enlightenment through various ways. That is why each chapter is called one yoga.

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# In Patanjali’s yoga sutra, each sutra is one yoga

Here, Patanjali, the amazing intellect, happened in the inner science. Each sutra is independently intelligent to lead you to enlightenment. Each sutra is independently intelligent to lead you to enlightenment. I can say each sutra is a yoga in this, Patanjali’s work. Let me repeat the sutra: Sa tu deergha kala nairantarya satkarasevitaa, satkarasevito, drudha bhumihi, dridha bhumihi. Sa tu deergha (kakala??) kala, nairantarya satkarasevito, drudha bhoomihi. Committed an intense practice of unclutching makes one firmly established in a higher state of awareness.

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# Masters keep talking and creating religions only to make you turn inside, to make you practice. You are so busy looking out…

There are so many different kinds of religions, spiritual philosophies, spiritual groups happened on the planet Earth. Different kinds of teachings have been shared on the planet Earth. Different kinds of spiritual literatures has been created. Millions and millions of books. Sometimes when I go and see the Barnes & Noble or Landmark?? book shop, I feel, oh god, why should I add a little more confusion? Why should I add a little more to the existing confusion? So much, so much of spiritual literature. Because of website, internet, you can see how much is available in one place.

So much is available, and from the time immemorial, all the masters, they go on and on and on and on and on, talking, talking, talking, talking, talking and producing spiritual literatures. Not only the masters of the past, even the present masters. Even all of us, continuously we are talking. We are producing spiritual material.

If I honestly look inside and see why I am talking. See, if I find out the reason why I am continuously talking everyday and sharing, I can easily tell the reason why Buddha was talking for forty years. Buddha was teaching and preaching for forty years every day. Every day he was talking and preaching for forty years.

And all our masters happened. Shankara, he was writing, writing, writing, writing, writing. Within the age of thirty-two, he was finished establishing strong four monasteries and maybe writing two hundred volumes.

If I look inside and find out the reason why I am talking and writing, then I can very clearly tell you why the masters go on writing and talking. The only reason I can find, is constantly make you practice. Please understand, the spiritual path is such, Krishna says beautifully in Gita, by the nature senses are created looking towards the outside, looking in the outer world direction. So turning you in, turning you towards the enlightenment, turning you to your source is not that easy. Every moment, you are again out. If you listen to some book, the spiritual discourse, satsang, or read; few minutes, you turn inside. By the time the satsang is over, you are already out. By the time the ideas leave your mind, you are already out.

Constantly, you need to be inspired to turn in, to go inside. That is why the masters they go on and on and on, talking and writing. Last six years, I have spoken more than five thousand hours. More than five hundred volumes are already transcribed. And my archives department says only seventeen percent they have transcribed, only one seven percent of what I have spoken, I’ve delivered, is transcribed and out in the form of books. Only twenty percent is edited and published, and still I am adding material every day.

Sometime I wonder, “Why?” Then I realize, continuously human being need to be told look in, look in, look in, look in, look in. Turn in, turn in, turn in, turn in. With various words, with various techniques, with various jokes, with various stories, in different forms, constantly human being need to be reminded. Human beings need to be told, look in, turn in, live enlightenment.

That is the reason all, the spiritual masters and leaders, they go on and on and on. The largest spiritual literature in the planet Earth exists in Sanskrit language. I don’t know how many libraries you can fit in if everything is collected. I don’t know how many libraries you can make out of those collections. It’s nothing but continuous expressions and discourses of the living masters. The masters who lived in the body, who were teaching to the world.

This sutra gives the reason why masters are continuously talking, why spiritual literatures are continuously produced. This sutra is all about constantly inspiring you, constantly practicing. See, if I have to give the essence of all the spiritual literatures - sometime if you read Buddha’s teachings, even Bhagavad Gita, Shiva Sutras, you would feel many ideas are repeated, many ideas are repeated.

Even in my discourse, people come and tell me sometime, “Swamiji, you are saying the same idea.” I am telling the same, because you are not listening. Understand, I have to tell the same thing, because you are not listening. Somebody asked Buddha, “You are talking the same thing for the last forty years.” He says, “If you would have heard, I would never have spoken it again.”

# All masters repeat. Patanjali tells us why things should be repeated and then trusts our intelligence and doesn’t repeat any more

The truth is only one thing. But constantly it is told again and again and again and again, through different ways, through different methods, in different languages, with different understanding. If I had to give the essence of everything — what Buddha taught, what Shankara taught, what Krishna taught, what Jesus taught, what Mohammed taught, what Zarathustra taught — what all these great masters taught, the essence. The essence of everything, why they have to continuously repeat again and again and again. The essence, the reason, for the continuous repetition is this one sutra.

Please understand, Patanjali is the one, only master, who is not repeating the same ideas again and again, because in this one sutra he says very clearly why things should be repeated. Very clearly he explains why things should to be repeated. After that he says, “Now I respect your intelligence, I am not going to repeat any more.”

The reason for repetition is we forget, we forget. Why, again and again, all the masters go on and on and on repeating the same thing. This one sutra, if this one sutra is understood, you will understand why the masters are repeating the same thing again and again, sometimes the same words again and again without feeling bored. That is the greatness of them, that is the greatness.

I have conducted two hundred ASP’s and more than two hundred NSP’s, our Life Bliss Program first level and second level. First level program and second level programs hundreds of times. You see the audio recording or video recording, it will be almost literally repeating.

People ask me, “How are you able to repeat the same thing day in and day out, Swamiji? Are you not feeling bored?” I tell them, “Every time I repeat, there is a new crowd in front of me. And not only that, even if the old people are sitting, they have forgotten.” If they know that what I am talking is repetition, only then I feel a little reluctant or bored. Either they have not heard, or even if they’ve heard they’ve forgotten.

# Deerga kaalaha… readiness to practice forever… will make your mind have no goal, and you will fall back into yourself and awaken that very moment!

Patanjali gives the essence, why again and again and again these truths are repeated. Committed an intense practice of unclutching makes one firmly established in a higher state of awareness. Committed. That’s a beautiful word—deergha kalaha nairantariya. Deerga kalaha, the literal translation is “long time”. But, Patanjali doesn’t mean to say that you should go on and on and on practicing. Sometimes people come and ask me, “The word “long time practice” almost seems to be like a word used to cheat us. It’s like you give a technique and tell him practice forever, it can be like cheating. I’ll be blowing my nose everyday for thirty-five years, by the time I come back and ask you, you will not be there.” People ask me, “Is it not like cheating?”

Please understand, here Patanjali is not interested in cheating you. No. When he uses the word “long time”, he wants you just to be mentally strong, that’s all. Even if it is long time, I am ready to do, that strength. Actually once you have an idea, “I am going to do it for a long time.” Suddenly you will see that intensity awakens you this moment.

Beautiful story, every day, day in and day out, Buddha was meditating for more than twelve years. Morning he will sit til late night. Next day morning again he will sit til late night. Day in and day out, nothing was happening. The story says, one day he decided: 20:39 ittam assanam sushate sariram….. Let the body disappear, evaporate, in this posture. How many days, I don’t know. How long, I don’t know. I am going to sit til I achieve enlightenment. I am not going to be bothered about the time. I am ready to sit deerga kalaha. Please understand that word deerga kalaha means not just “long time”, deciding, forever. Buddha decides, “I am going to sit forever.”

Understand, time is after all psychological. Time is after all psychological. The story says, the moment he decided he will sit forever, that moment, he just became enlightened. Because all he needs, all he needed, was that intensity. Usually, when you sit in meditation having an idea, “I will get up after two hours”, your mind will be just waiting for the two hours to end, that’s all. You will not be meditating. You will not be in the present moment. If you have an idea, “I will sit til tomorrow morning”, your mind will be waiting for next day morning. It’ll not be in the present moment.

When Buddha decided that I am going to sit forever, he decided, I am not going to get up. So mind has no goal to go, mind has no goal. When it has no goal, it just fell back to the present moment and he became enlightened.

Here, when Patanjali says deergha kalaha—“long time”—that is what he means, decide, I am going to do it forever. Then suddenly you will see, you fall into the present moment. Time is, after all, psychological. Patanjali knows our mind. How our mind thinks. How our mind functions. I’ve seen, people when they sit for the meditation, that half an hour will look almost like ten days for them. No really!

# **Concept of kshana…. Time is psychological… our time versus divine being’s time…**

In Vedic tradition the time is calculated as gap between one thought and the other thought. That is the kshana, one unit. In our tradition we don’t have the physical time. In the Vedic tradition the more importance was given to the psychological time, not to the chronological time. So even the unit of time, one unit is not one second, one kshana. The kshana is defined as, gap between one thought and the other thought.

If you are a meditator, person living in high awareness, high frequency, one kshana can be even one hour, or two hour, or one day for you. If you are living restless, agitated, irritated (usual mood), one kshana can be micro-millisecond for you. It depends on person. Please understand, it depends on your awareness, frequency.

There is a story. I have a story for you.

One woman goes to the doctor.

Doctor says, “You have only six months to live.” She was shocked, “Oh God. Can anything be done?”

He says, “Alright, marry an accountant.”

She asks, “Will that cure me? Will I become alright?”

“No, don’t worry, but six months will seem too longer.”

Time is psychological. You can see in your life, if you are sitting with somebody whom you feel connected, love, reverence, you don’t know how time flies. Suddenly after a few hours you realize, a few hours have gone. If you are sitting with somebody boring, irritated, every two or three minutes you’ll see a watch. What, time is not moving. Time is psychological.

If you are in high frequency, one year will look like one day. Not because you are forgetting the things. Understand, if you start forgetting things also, one year, not one year, ten year will look like one day. I’m not talking about the people who forget things. That is lower level of consciousness. I’m talking about the people who are in a heightened level of awareness. For them our one year will be just one day, because the gap between one thought and the other thought is more.

So, our chronological time does not match with them. That is why in the Vedic tradition the god’s calendar is different from human beings calendar. For us one year is one day for them. That is they say the temple created by Patanjali, this great master created a temple in south Bharat - the dancing Shiva’s temple. Of course in Seattle we have dancing Shiva in our Vedic temple, Nataraja. In the temple they do only six worship per year. Only six times service, because the temple follows the god’s calendar. It was created by a being who is in high frequency, high consciousness. They follow their calendar. The temple follows their calendar. Only six times the sacred bath is done, because our one year is one day for them.

In other temples every day six services are done, sacred bath is done. The temples which are run as per the human calendar. This temple is run as per the god’s calendar. So, once a year, only six times, the sacred bath is given.

# **Mind survives only because of the idea of ‘future’. When you practice deerga kalaha, there is only eternity…**

This shows actually the time-space in which Patanjali was living. He says here deergha kalaha. Please understand this the key of this sutra. This is the key of this sutra. Many time people ask me, “Swamiji, what is the beginning of a spiritual practice? What is the end of the spiritual practice?” I tell them, “There is no such thing as beginning or end. Beginning and end are same, now. All you need to have is intensity.”

See, if the intensity happens, eternally this is going to be my life. Suddenly you will see, you will not bother about the end. You’ll be in the end now. You’ll be in the present moment. See meditation is all about penetrating the mind and going beyond mind.

As long as you have an idea about future, your mind will continue to survive, continue to be alive. If you decide, “Next twelve years I will meditate”, be very clear, your mind will be waiting just for the twelve years to pass. So you’ll never meditate. You’ll be waiting for the twelve years, that’s all.

Afterwards you may boast, you may just brag around, “Twelve years I’m waiting. Twelve years I’m meditating. Do you know? I am a seeker for last thirty-five years.” Actually there is nothing to brag about it in that. It’s a shame.

People come and tell me many time, these great intellectuals, well read, filled with knowledge, they come to me and say, “My experience is your age.” I just ask them, “What were you doing so many years?”

It is not pride. Please understand, this is the way your mind cheats. As long as you sit with a particular technique you think you will do for so many days, so many hours, til some time. There is an end. There is a boundary. Be very clear, til there is a boundary you are bound.

Your mind will not come back to the present moment. It’ll be just waiting. “Alright, twelve years I’ll practice, then I’ll question you. Twelve years I’ll see, I’ll do it, then I’ll see whether anything has happened or not.” It is like, just because of your own mind you do not allow that to happen. You do not allow that to happen.

You can see even in your day-to-day meditation, when you sit and start the Nithya Dhyan, the chaotic breathing, you’ll be just waiting when the guru puja will start. I’ve seen, the moment they start the chaotic breathing, after two or three times, “When the guru puja mantra will start?”

Understand, as long as your mind knows there is going to be end for this activity, it’ll continue to survive, survive, survive and cheat you. It’ll continue to postpone, play the game with you. It’ll continuously play the game. It’ll postpone. It’ll cheat. It’ll play all possible games.

So, when Patanjali says deergha kalaha, long time. Even “long time” word should not be understood chronologically. See, long time, immediately you understand one hundred years, two hundred years. No.

Deergha kalaha - it should not be understood in a horizontal way, in a vertical way. See, as long as you measure time horizontally, twenty years, thirty years, fifty years, sixty years, your mind will continue to survive. It’ll have that hope, “After twenty years let me see. After thirty years of doing pranayam what happens, let me see. After twenty-five years of meditation, what happens, let me see.”

It’ll be waiting. It’ll survive just with this one idea “long time”. Very beautifully Shankara says, “Kalpakala parientum.” He says, “Even for ages, if you are doing idol worship, just following some rituals and techniques, without understanding the true spirit, without understanding the true purpose, without understanding the truth behind, you’ll be just stuck.”

# Buddha’s 12-year struggle before the click happened

Understand, any technique, any technique without understanding, if you are doing for ages and ages and ages, you will be the same. Just like Buddha was struggling. See a person like Buddha, strong being like a Buddha. It is not ordinary thing to renounce your wife and kids, especially good wife who is really taking care of you, and a kingdom who is under your control. The whole kingdom is under his control.

It is not that people are rebelling. He has a lot of problems. He was not able to administer. No. The whole thing was completely under his control. Best things. His father took care that he should not even know that leaves on the tree withers away, because all the fallen leaves will be collected in the night and cleaned.

His father took care that Buddha should never hear about old age, disease, and death. Because the father was told by astrologers, family astrologers, that this boy will become a sannyasi, monk. He will renounce the world.

Father was frightened. Only one child. What will happen to kingdom? So, he took care that this guy should never think about future. This guy should never think about things of the world.

He never allowed Buddha to see the fallen leaf, or old dried flower, nothing. All that leaves, and the fallen flowers would be collected and cleaned in the garden in the night time. Buddha is sleeping.

All the best things of the world is available. It’s not that easy to renounce the palace and the comfort, luxury, wife and kids, child, one son. It’s not that easy.

It is very easy to talk, talk, talk, talk and think. People ask me, “Swamiji can I be here, can I be in the house and get enlightened?” What to do I have to console them. I cannot tell straight away, “It will be too rough.” I cannot say, “No, leave everything, give up everything, go to Himalaya.” No, it will be too… Usually, when I say, “Drop smoking,” they drop me. So I have to compromise a little bit.

Anyhow, here Buddha is a guy who will not compromise with the truth. He was all out. He knows this has to be achieved, this has to be done, and he left everything. That is his, not only his first priority, that is the only priority.

See, if the enlightenment is the first priority, you can have second priorities, third priorities, but with Buddha that is the only priority. Then naturally nothing else, it just disappears. Even a man like Buddha, twelve years he wasted. If he would have understood this one sutra I don’t think there is a need to waste twelve years.

Understand, masters go on and on and on, teaching and writing, because you don’t understand this one sutra. If this one sutra is understood, neither they need to waste their time by constantly talking and writing, nor you need to waste your time by constantly listening and reading.

Deergha kalaha – this one sutra, one word, one key from Patanjali needs to be understood. When Patanjali says deergha kalaha means, literally if you translate comes “long time”. It is not even “long time” in this horizontal way. You need to understand the vertical way.

See, when he says “long time” don’t think he’s asking you to practice for twelve years, twenty years, thirty years. Just decide you are going to practice forever. Suddenly you’ll fall into the present moment, because your mind will not be waiting, “When will the time end? Then I can relax from practicing.”

Because your mind always wants some change. As long as there is some hope for change your mind will continue to survive. For example, if you decide, “Next twelve years, morning seven o’clock I’ll sit in Nithya Dhyan.” Your mind will wait for the twelve years to get completed.

It’ll say, “Oh, twelve years. Then after that twelve years I can relax. I’ll be enlightened or I’ll be whatever, eh. I can relax.” It’ll wait, wait. Every day it will push, “Oh, one day over. One day over. One day over. Now only seven more years. Now only six more years. Now only five more years.”

It’ll continue to survive with this one hope, “If I do it for twelve years I’ll have this or I’ll have that. I’ll enjoy that. Then I don’t need to do this.” But if you decide, “Forever, as long as I’m alive, morning seven o’clock I am going to do this meditation.” Suddenly you will see mind has no other goal. It will just fall into the present moment.

It knows, “Anyhow, every day morning I have to meditate. Then better let us do it now intensely.” That is what happened for Buddha. As long as he was thinking, “Til tomorrow morning I’ll meditate. Morning I’ll relax for some time”, the mind is waiting for that relaxation period. It knows there is a change. There is going to be a change. There is going to be hope.

As long as there is a hope for change your mind will continue to survive. It’ll be alive. Just that very hope keeps it alive. (41:50)

One day Buddha understood this. The click has happened.

# Biography related… Deergha kaalaha click happened in me in Varanasi… psychological death happened

This click has happened for me in Varanasi. Let me describe how it happened in me, this deergha kalaha.

Buddha suddenly realized, “What am I missing? Day in and day out I am sitting, sitting, sitting, sitting, sitting. Meditating. What am I missing?” Actually if you are a professional seeker you can understand what I am saying. This sutra is for the highly evolved seekers. You can understand what I am saying.

Buddha started looking inside, “What is going on? I am meditating whole day. How my mind is still alive? How is it surviving?” Suddenly he realized, just that one idea, “Til late night I’ll meditate, then I can relax. Morning I’ll go for a walk, come back and sit and meditate again.”

He realized that idea there is a hope, there can be a change. That is what keeping him. That is what keeping his mind alive and active. Mind is a great accountant. Please understand, it’s a great accountant. This guy knows all maths and all plays, all games. When, what need to be told to your mind or told to you. How to play with you. He knows all the games.

Buddha understood this one idea, that is responsible for my continuous struggle. He decides, “No more. No more change. This pressure of the practice is going to be on me forever. This is going to be my life.” That is where the deerhga kala happened.

Please understand, long time. He decided, “No question of long time. I am going to do this forever.” The moment you decide forever the hope, “After this I don’t have to do this. After this many years I don’t have to practice”, that is not there. Your mind knows, “Oh god”, and especially a person like Buddha. When he decides he decides. If he decides, he means. He’s not going to play games. He means.

Mind got completely frightened, “Oh god, what happened? Now he says forever. So, he’s going to do forever.” So there is no hope, there is no change. There is no possibility for the future. “This pressure of a technique, pressure of meditation is going to be there on me forever.” So, naturally it just, it came back to the present moment, because there is nothing to search in the future. It just came back to the present moment and practice ended, practice ended.

Anybody wants to end your spiritual practice, all you need to do is decide strongly you’re going to practice forever, that’s all. It looks very paradoxical. Decide you are going to do it forever. There is no change. There is no gap. There is no getting up. There is no break. This is going to be your life. Suddenly practice will end. It’ll end.

This is the one and only way if you want to end your practice. Til you decide you are going to be doing this practice forever, you can never end the practice.

I was traveling, continuously all over Bharat, meditating, meditating, meditating. Usually I’ll stay in the burial grounds and sit and meditate. People ask me, “Why do you stay in burial grounds?” Because I don’t need to reserve. There is no need for reservation and nobody will come there. Bharatn burial grounds are not like this country. (Swamiji starts and stops his sentences here several times) You should… don’t have to imagine… like this country. It is an open place… anybody… It’s not protected or maintained. So, nobody will come and disturb you. I can just quietly sitting and meditating.

People ask me, “Swamiji, have you never been disturbed by ghosts or spirits?” I tell them, “Dead people never disturb others. Only living human beings disturb others.” I never had any disturbance from the dead people. (47:51) (Can’t understand him here) There they’re happy and they’re happy.

Every day I used to sit and meditate in the burial grounds. The Vedic tradition they say if you sit and meditate in burial grounds you’ll constantly remember and meditate on death and going through your own internal death is the way for enlightenment. That is the only way for enlightenment. Going through that psychological death is way for transformation and enlightenment. I was trying for years. Every time I sit I would sit with idea, “Alright, I’ll sit today whole night. Tomorrow morning I’ll go out for buy food, come back and sit.” It was the same thing I was doing.

One day when I was sitting in Varanasi, Manikarnika Ghat, the place where hundreds of dead bodies are burned every day and Bharatns believe dying in Varanasi leads you to enlightenment. So, all the people, the moment they retire from their responsibilities they’ll go and settle in Varanasi.

It is a retirement community. Filled with old people waiting to die. The whole city if you see. Bharat is a very young country. Majority of the Bharatns are between eighteen to forty. The youngest country in the world. Majority, more than fifty percent are between eighteen to forty, youngster. But this city, I can say eighty percent is above eighty. At least above seventy. Old people waiting to die.

And this is the place where all the dead bodies will be burned, Manikarnika Ghat. I was sitting there. I saw some dead bodies being burned. Suddenly the click, “God, this body is also going to be burned like that only.” Actually you will lose respect and fear about death if you see the bodies burned every time.

They don’t bring fire from the home. From one fire they lit the other fire. Whether it rains or shines it is an eternal fire. It’s called mahasmashana. The ultimate burial ground, ultimate cremation ground. It goes on and on and on. From one body they light the fire to the other body, continuously.

If you are a sincere seeker. Really want to know the secrets of death and life you should go to the Manikarnika Ghat in Varinasi and sit and meditate at least for few days. When I sat, suddenly the click has happened, “God, it is such a simple thing. Just like all these bodies are being burned, this body also will be burned one day. That’s all.”

There is nothing much big. No need to a big fuss about death, life and all those foolish things. It is just dust unto dust. Nothing else.

Then I thought, “Every day I am meditating on death, meditating in burial ground. But still why I’m not able to experience that internal psychological death.” I’m not talking about physical death. Physical death is different. The psychological death is different. If you experience psychological death, suddenly you will see you are enlightened.

I thought, “Why I’m not able to experience?” Then I decided, “Either this body should die and I should experience death or I should have death experience by meditation.” I decided to sit, decided to sit. I decided, “I’ll sit and meditate on death til I have the death experience. That internal death experience. If I’m not having that experience I’ll continue (then there is a skip several words in the recording, they must have been changing the tape).

…It knows all your games. It knows how many times you cheated. It knows how many times you came out of your own will. It knows how many times you changed, you altered, you corrected, you found the fine print. For your own will you have a fine print below and after two or three hours when you are tired of that will you read the fine print and say, “It’s OK I think I can…”

I did not believe me, but somehow that will was very strong. One day was over, second day also over. No food, no sleep, no one-two-three, nothing. Just sitting.

Third day. The whole body is practically frozen, because of pain. This body wants to move, but I said, “No, nothing doing! No question of moving.” If you don’t move, just sit like this, the whole body will feel like a frozen with pain.

Suddenly, my whole being realized I am serious about my will. I am really serious about my will. Suddenly my whole being realized I am going to do it. I, myself, got convinced about my will power. I, myself, realized, “I am going to sit.”

First when I sat my mind did not believe and said, “Alright, let’s see. Struggle how much you can. After all you are a good guy struggling for last ten years. Try once more, nothing wrong. There is nothing wrong in trying. 55:00 Chelo, try.”

Next day morning it felt a little sympathetic. “This fellow is really trying, struggling hard.” By third day noon it got completely convinced. The power which was resisting has lost its hold on the consciousness. The constant doubt which was there saying, “No, no, no, once he is tired he will come out. Once he’s hungry he will get up and go for food. Relax. Once this fellow is feeling the hunger everything will become alright.” That part is died.

Suddenly my own being felt so strongly convinced I am going to sit. Still I remember very clearly one thought, clear thought, “I am going to sit eternally.” Deergha kalaha, forever.

Understand, when the Patanjali uses the word deergha kalaha I don’t even want that word to be understood as “long time”. I wanted you to understand that word, “forever”. The moment I decided “forever” instead of the mind moving in a horizontal, linear way…

You see, if you say “long time” your mind will naturally move linearly. “‘Long time’ means how many years? Come on, tell me.”

The moment I say, “Alright let me sit for ten years” Then it will be waiting, “Alright, ten years I’ll sit. Let us sit. And after ten years I can come out.” So, just for that, just because that hope is there it will not fall into unconsciousness. It’ll continue to retain its identity, because it know after ten year it can come back and play its game. The hope is there, because the idea of time is created by mind. It’s nothing but it’s own…

You see, its like a, you create a track out of steel and create a train out of steel. The steel train moves on the steel track. So, mind, one part of mind is the time. So, the moment you created a time, now the mind can be alive forever. 57:48 It knows, “Hey, it’s my own track. Let me travel. Let me move. Let me be.”

But the moment I decided, “Eternally”, mind has lost its grip over time and it knows, “Oh god, I think this fellow really means, he really means what he is talking, or what he is thinking.”

# Mind thrives only when it knows the current activity is going to end. If you decided dheergha kaalaha, mind will get afraid and fall into the present moment

The moment you give that confidence to mind that, “I am going to be doing it eternally.” Suddenly it gets shaken. It gets frightened and it comes back to the present moment, because it knows, “I have to be doing this, forever.” You see your mind exists with only one idea. It tolerates anything if it knows it is going to end. It has the ability to tolerate anything and survive anything, if it knows that actually is going to end.

Any action, any idea, any meditation, any technique. If it knows there’s going to be end, it’ll survive. It will live through, it will live through. Because it knows there’s going to be end. Only when you give the clarity, “It is going to be deergha kalaha.”

# **Marriage or sannyas, dheergha kaalaha is the technique…**

That is why in Bharatn tradition, whether it is marriage or sanyas, for eternal. Once you take sanyas it is forever. Once you marry it is forever. Then mind will stop playing its games.

See, the moment you have the freedom, “Oh, I think anyhow I am going to divorce. Why tomorrow, let me do it today.” The moment you know you have a freedom, always you will think, “Why tomorrow? Why postpone? Let’s do now.”

But if you know, “No, this is going to be my life.” Then you know, “Anyhow I have to live, let me now work it out.”

So, your idea about future plays a major role on your life in the present. Your idea about future plays a major role in your action about the present. If you know that this is your life.

In the vedic tradition, during marriage, the vows you take, the vows says, “Til the fire is there in your stomach.” Means, til you are alive. These vows are taken. Means what? You know you have to live for til death. So naturally you adjust. Your mind starts getting adjusted. Your mind starts getting settled.

With this mental setup, from the beginning you know, “I cannot unnecessarily create confusions. I can’t afford it. I have to be careful. Even if there is something wrong I have to start connecting. I have to start healing. I have to be respectful. I have to be loving.”

# The idea which you carry about yourself is what is important

So, from the beginning the mental setup gets trained. Please understand, people ask me, “Swamiji, is the divorce not a big freedom?” See I am not judging whether divorce should be there or should not be there or it is a freedom or it is a right or wrong, and all those things. All I can say, the idea which you carry about yourself, your mind, your life, is very, very important. That is going to decide about your action.

I tell you the idea which you have about your body and your mind is the best friend or worst enemy for you. Best friend or worst enemy. If you have the right idea about your body and mind, that’s the best friend for you. If you have the worst idea about your body and mind, that is the worst enemy for you.

I’ve seen, I’ve seen all various types of cultures, civilizations. The kids who are given right understanding and idea about their body and mind, they not only live long, they live happily. Happiness, bliss, joy, health. All these things are nothing but an idea you carry about your body and mind from the young age.

I’ve seen your idea about future creating miracles inside the body, physical body. Even in the physical body it creates miracles. It does miracles.

The yogi with whom I learned this yoga and Patanjali. I’ve seen him displaying all kinds of extraordinary powers, because he’s very clear, til he achieves the powers he is going to be practicing.

# **Biography related… Varanasi death experience continued: Mind will drop when you practice *dheergha kaalaha***

So, what mind does? Your mind is intelligent, it can express any power. Mind immediately decides, “Oh god, this fellow is going to torture me with a practice, til I reveal that powers to him. Better let me give it now itself.”

It tries to play with you, without giving power and trying to break your practice. If you give a strong idea to your mind, no, you are going to practice until it gives you the power.

Suddenly it gets frightened and it says, “I know this fellow is going to torture me by doing everything. Let me better give the power now itself.”

That day, the moment I was able to convince myself, “I am going to sit.” My whole being was completely convinced. I could see very clearly, from the root of the spine the pain spreading all over the body. Excruciating pain requesting me, “Please move the body a little bit and adjust.”

I was sitting for two and a half days no food, and I did not even know two and a half days passed. Only later on I calculated. Later on I was able to calculate. I did not even know two and one half days passed. I just decided, “Who cares about time and everything. I am going to sit, that’s all.”

The backbone, the spine, is begging me, “Just adjust the legs little bit. Adjust so that the blood flow will become a little easy. At least adjust your hand. Let me check whether I’m alive or not.” It is literally begging me, but I could see very clearly my sankalpa, will saying, “I am going to sit. There is no question of moving.”

The moment this will, that strong will, it says clearly, “Deergha kalaha. I am going to sit, eternally.” When that conviction landed on my being I could see very clearly that pain which was there all over the body. Every joint I was able to feel. Every nerve I was able to feel, because sitting continuously, what will happen? The whole body just slowly started disappearing. The moment it learned, the practice is going to be eternal, deergha kalaha, eternal, the mind started withdrawing. It decided, “Now I cannot survive. Now I cannot survive. Now I cannot stand.”

See if you have some visualization for your mind. If you say, “After twelve years I’ll get up.” It will wait. It’ll survive for twelve years. “Anyhow I’m going to get up after twelve years. Let me push the time, push the time, push the time.” It’ll be sitting and altering your clock.

No really, you fall in love with somebody and you’re waiting to meet that person, next day morning. You can see late night you’ll be sitting and adjusting the clock, “When will the time become four o’clock, early morning? I can get up and get ready and go and wait in the park.” You’ll be just waiting. Mind is intelligent. It can push the clock. It can push the time, but when you say the word deergha kalaha – eternal, it going to be eternally this way only. Suddenly it gets adjusted, it gets adjusted and it came back to the present moment and said, “Alright, I cooperate with you.” And dissolved.

That strong, the internal death experience happened. Understand, when Patanjali says, he says, “for a long time, without interval, without interruption. Practice so that you firmly can be grounded.” He doesn’t mean…actually, when he says this “long time” he’s not depressing you. People come and ask me.

This long time word is misunderstood and responsible for all the confusions which is there in the yoga world. Almost every interpretation has given the meaning different, or wrong meaning, to this word.

The moment you say “long time”, they say, “Twelve years, nine years, seven years, ten years.” But I’m not asking you to practice for “long time” means ten years, seven years, six years. No. Decide you will live…you are going to practice eternally. You will achieve it now, you will achieve it now.

1:10:17 The ability to convince your inner space you are going to do this forever, is what you need to learn through this sutra.

# Decide to unclutch forever

Let me give you the translation again. Committed an intense practice of unclutching makes one firmly established in a higher state of awareness.

Deergha kala and nairantarya, means long time and unbroken.

Mind is a great accountant. He can play all accounts games with you and Patanjali’s aware of that. That is why he wants you with the right words, he is wanting you with the right words. Please understand, any practice you do, decide with this one attitude.

People ask me, this is a FAQ, again and again people ask me, “How many years I should unclutch to get enlightened? How many years I should unclutch to get enlightened?”

Unclutching is the ultimate technique for enlightenment. Whenever I say, “Continue to unclutch, continue to unclutch, continue to unclutch.” They ask me, “Swamiji, is it one year, or two year, or three year? How many years I should unclutch to become enlightened?”

Understand decide you are going to be unclutching forever. The moment you decide you are going to be unclutching forever, you’ll be unclutched this moment. Because you mind knows this is going to be its routine.

See your mind thrives with changes or hope for a change. If your mind knows for sure, “I’m going to be unclutching as long as I am alive.” It will decide, “Better let me die now.”

If it has hope, “After twelve years of unclutching you don’t need to practice unclutching.” Then it knows, “Oh, after twelve years there is a change.” Because it thrives on change. It thrives on different things. That is why so much of desire for enlightenment, entertainment, sorry. So much of desire for entertainment.

Even enlightenment you think as a change. That is why you want it. So much of desire for entertainment. People go on trying to find some entertainment, because it’s a change. Even inside entertainment, different, different, different, different, different. Every three minutes you change the channel. In fifteen minutes you go one full round and come back. Because mind thrives on change, mind thrives on change.

When you know there’s no possibility for change, suddenly you will see, it just dies, it disappears, it leaves. When you’re…when you decide there’s not going to be any change, suddenly in an unexpected way, mind is killed.

If you decide strongly you are going to unclutch forever, this moment you will be unclutched, this moment you will be unclutched. In a very unexpected way mind will disappear.

I have a story for you:

A man goes into a bar and admires the stuffed lion’s head mounted on the wall.

“What a great trophy!” says the man to the bartender.

That guy says, “I would not call it great. The damn lion killed my wife.”

This guy asks, “Oh, is it so? You were on a safari in Africa or you were on a safari somewhere, or hunting in the forest?”

Bartender says, “No, no, it fell on her head.”

Understand, many time death comes in an unexpected way.

If you decide that you are going to be unclutching forever, the death of the mind comes unexpected way, this moment, and suddenly mind settles all the accounts. See, if it knows it is going to be here forever, it continues to use the credit card, and using the credit card is the best way to be here. The moment it knows, no, it’s not going to be here, it suddenly settles all the accounts. It starts unclutching, relaxing, settling.

Committed an intense practice of unclutching makes one firmly established in higher state of awareness.

# Practice is the shortest and best way…

I can say, in the world there are different kinds of knowledge. There are some kind, just by listening to that knowledge you will have benefit of it. There are some kind of knowledge, if you have access to it whenever you need, you will have benefit out of it.

Some knowledge just by listening once, understanding you will have benefit. Some you need to again and again work with it. You need access to that knowledge to have benefit. There is some knowledge, only when you practice you will have benefit. Spiritual knowledge is the third type.

You need to practice, live, practice, no other way. People come and ask me, “Is there any shortcut, Swamiji?” I tell them, “The one and only shortcut is practice, practice, practice.” The shortest distance between two points is a straight line. The shortest way is being straight. Practice, nothing else.

If you want the transformation, practice is the only way. How much ever you hear, how much ever you talk, how much ever you discuss, nothing can be done. Only one way, practice, and clearly telling your mind you are going to practice eternally.

With unclutching, as long as you have hope you can stop unclutching at certain point your mind will continue to exist, waiting for the point. The moment you decide, “No, no. I’m going to unclutch forever, forever.” Suddenly your mind disappears. It loses its power over you.

I have one more story.

Two accountants are in a bar when armed robbers burst in. The robbers line the customers up against a wall and proceed to take their wallets, watches, etc.

The first account slips something into the second accountant’s hand and whispers, “Here is the fifty dollars I owe you.”

When you know it is going to be taken away, you settle the accounts by yourself.

# Decide to Unclutch from any modification of the mind

Your mind is also the first accountant. When it knows nothing can be done, it has lost all its grounds, it just settles all the accounts.

1:20:09 As long as it has hope it can flow, it flows. When there’s no hope, it just settles. So, all you need to understand is this one truth, only this one truth. Today I don’t want to add too many ideas. I want you to understand this one truth - deergha kala nairantarya – means eternal, unbroken. Decide today, eternally, forever I am going to practice unclutching. There is not going to be any gap. Whether I am walking or talking or sitting or whatever I may be doing, I am going to unclutch from whatever is happening inside me.

Whether I am walking or talking or sitting or sleeping or dreaming or daydreaming These are the five modifications of the mind: right knowledge, wrong knowledge, and imagination, sleep, memory. These are the five modifications constantly happening in you. “Whatever modification may happen inside me, I am going to unclutch.” That clarity, that clarity, that understanding, if you bring it, suddenly you will see all your negativity will lose its power over you.

# Depression has no power of you if you unclutch

See, your depression has a power over you, as long as you believe it can come again and again to you. If you are very strong, “Let the depression come, how many times let it come, I am going to unclutch.” Suddenly it loses its grip over you. It loses its grip over you.

If the depression knows it can really put you in depression it again and again repeats. If it knows you are going to unclutch again and again, how many times it tries, it struggles you are going to unclutch. Suddenly it’ll stop trying. Nobody wants to fight losing war, including your depression.

Your whole life is nothing but a war between you and your mind. It’s a war between you and your mind. So, the moment you know, the moment you are aware, the moment you are awakened to this one truth.

Understand…please understand this one truth. Decide, “Whatever may happen I am going to unclutch.” I tell you, that moment is what I call enlightenment. If you decide that, “This moment whatever, whatever may happen in my life, I am going to be continuously practicing unclutching.” Suddenly you know, “Then whatever is going to happen I am going to practice unclutching. Then why should I have fear? Why should I bother about anything else? Why should I have any fear or any idea about anything?”

You will see, mind just unclutches, mind just unclutches. So, I want you to fill with this one idea. I want to fill you with this one idea. I want you to be filled with this one idea. Decide today, “From this moment, whatever may happen, I’ll continue to unclutch. I am going to have that constant intense practice.”

Deergha kala nairantarya – committed an intense practice of unclutching. This very decision will unclutch you. After, practicing is secondary. This very decision will unclutch you, will solve everything.

The moment you take this decision you mind will start moving, saying, “No, no, no. If that depression comes you can’t unclutch. If this fear comes you can’t unclutch. If this desire comes you won’t be able to unclutch.” It’ll tease you.

You say, “No! I am going to be unclutching constantly. Whatever may come, I am going to be unclutching.” Then it will create the fear of death, “What will happen if you die, do you think you’ll unclutch? Who will pay your bills? Who will pay your insurance? Who will pay your this, who will pay that?”

If you take a strong understanding, if you bring firm understanding, “No, hey whatever it may be, I am going to unclutch.” That one strong will, suddenly mind unclutches.

# Don’t think you don’t need to practice. Whoever you are, you have to practice in the inner world, maybe in outer world you need not practice if you are senior

Patanjali explains beautifully, in the next sutra a deeper method a deeper layer of this same understanding. Next sutra is about vairagiya, the conscious withdrawal. He beautifully describes the deeper layer of this technique, the conscious withdrawal from the objects of the senses of the body, mind and spirit.

1:26:14 He explains about the conscious withdrawal, for this eternal unclutching. We’ll see about this idea tomorrow. Go to the deeper layers of this idea, tomorrow. Let you be filled with this one understanding that decide, decide that committed an intense practice of unclutching makes one firmly established in a higher state of consciousness.

Only that makes you established in a higher state of consciousness. Many people think they’re professional seekers, they don’t need to practice. I have seen, “No, no, no. I’ve practiced all kinds of techniques for ten years, twenty years. Now days I don’t practice anything. I just read and go around and listen to some things.”

Understand, just because you are a senior, don’t think without practice things can happen. Maybe in the outer world it’ll happen. If you are a senior lawyer you don’t have to do anything just have a few juniors, they will do everything. If you’re a senior accountant you don’t have to do anything. Just your juniors will do everything. It will work in the out world, not in the inner world.

I have a story for you.

An accountant goes into the pet store…

I’ll read it out for you. I don’t want to miss a word.

An accountant goes into a pet store to buy a parrot. The store owner shows him three identical parrots on a perch.

“The parrot on the left costs five hundred dollar,” says the owner.

“Why does that parrot cost so much?” asks the accountant.

“It knows how to do complex audits,” says the store owner.

The guy asks, “How much does that middle parrot cost?” Asks the accountant.

“That one costs thousand dollar,” owner replies. He says, “It can do everything the first one can, plus it knows how to prepare financial forecasts.”

Accountant asks about the third parrot.

“It costs four thousand dollars.”

Accountant asks, “So what all that one can do?”

The store owner says, “To be honest I have never seen him do anything, but the other two parrots call him as a senior partner.”

Maybe in the outer world if you are a senior you don’t need to do anything, but in the inner world practice, practice, practice.

Even in our mission I have seen these guys, the moment they become an organizer or a senior devotee, or think they have become senior devotee, they don’t do any meditation. “Oh, it’s OK, now I have to only teach.”

Understand the senior accountant works only in the outer world, not in the inner world. So, whoever you may be, practice has to become eternal. Actually, when you decide the practice is eternal, suddenly the whole thing gets unclutched and practice ends there.

When practice ends, there will be nobody to practice. As there is somebody inside you to practice — practice. As long as there is somebody inside, something going inside, unclutch. Only if there is nothing, then there is no unclutching. When the unclutcher disappears into unlcutching, unclutching ends. Til then unclutching continues, continues, continues.

So, continue your unclutching til the unclutcher disappears into unclutching.

Let you all achieve this truth and live, radiate living enlightenment, jivan mukti. Let you all achieve and radiate the eternal bliss, nithyanandam. Thank you.