“Patanjali's yoga sutras.”

Patanjali's yoga sutras. Patanjali is the father of yoga, all the yoga systems and greatest master with largest following in the planet earth. The other day I was reading an article, there are different masters who touch different levels of human beings. Somebody touches only the emotional balancing, means they give life solutions, people try to practice, some people touch just the physical dimension, there are some masters who touch the mental level, there are some master who touch the conscious growth. But Patanjali is a master who touches you in all levels. Physical, mental, spiritual and social. Greatest master who is the founder of all the yoga systems. I can say he is unique, because he is the first master who made enlightenment as a science, who brought life and logic to the whole spiritual world. Till Patanjali, enlightenment was more or less like an accident, you should be continuously be doing something suddenly it may happen. But with Patanjali, he made the whole thing as system. Enlightenment or Athma gynana is not an accident. He makes the whole thing as a system and step by step he guides us, beautiful 8 steps which he calls Ashtanga Yoga through that he guides seekers. His words are universal. When he starts talking about his teachings, he uses a beautiful word,SRAVA BAUMIYA VRATHAHA, means the universal truths, universal vows. so what he talks universally applicable to all human beings. Today I am going to speak on 16th sutra. He beautifully describes what is yoga, and how to achieve that state of yoga step by step. First thing I want all of you to know that Yoga is not just physical posture, it has more sanctity to it. It is something beyond body. It helps you to have health and mental well being. But it is not just replacing your anacin and metacin, we have idea that yoga is just for health, Physical health. No. yoga can give, Physical health is side effect of yoga, yoga by itself is more sacred. It has its own sanctity. Patanjali exactly describes what is yoga and leads us to that yoga state, that yogi state by different sutras, by different verses. In these verses which I am going to speak now, he is talking about Vairagya. Its a very beautiful word, Vairagya. i can say the ideas that Patanjali is sharing with us now, with this sutra Viaragya, this is the vedic solution for the economy crisis, he is giving us vedic solution. If this one word is understood, this one concept, this vairagya is understood properly, we will not have the problems of extreme materialism and the problems created by the extreme materialism and many problems created inside us by this so called spiritual ideas. This understanding of this word Vairagya is necessary for the people who live in the world and people who work towards the spiritual enlightenment. In both levels we need to understand this word, a very powerful word, can say most misunderstood idea in the spiritual world is vairagya and this word is translated in to english always as detachment. No its not detachment, in sanskrit we have 3 words, raga means attachment, aragha means detachment, Veeragha means beyond attachment and detachment. So the word Vairagya has to be translated as beyond attachment and detachment. Its like a transcending, the word Vairagya has to translated as transcending the attachment not detachment. This one confusion, this one word has created too much of confusion in the spiritual world. Because it is not understood properly, the concept was never practiced. The moment you use the word detachment, people are afraid they don't want to listen to what you are talking, they don't want to listen to what you are talking. I have seen the very word detachment or renunciation is enough, either they get up and walk or mentally they are shut. If they don't have that much of confidence or that much of courage to get up and walk, if they have some other work, they sit, but mentally they are closed. Patanjali gives us universal solution. Understanding of this one word can create cognitive shift in us, the way in which we observe things the way in which we think, the way in which we express. Our understanding in our life as action. Its a very powerful sutra, is describing about vairagya in 2 sutras-15th sutra and 16th sutra. Now lets us enter in to today's sutra, the16th sutra. If any of you wanted to know about the last sutras, whatever I have spoken, the 15th sutras ,it is available in youtube, if you find time please go through. It will really help you understanding about the earlier sutras. Now i will enter in to the 16th Sutra, the today's sutra. I'll read the sutra, then give you the translation, then enter in to the commentary. "Thath param purushakyathe, Guna Vaithisrhinyam" Let me repeat the sutra again, " Thath param purushak-kyathe, Guna Vaithishrinyam." There are many translations. The beauty of sanskrit language is each word, if you break will give you different, different meanings. The sutrakaras, the acharyas who write sutras, they play with sanskrit. If read as one line, it gives you one meaning. If you break it as words it gives you different meaning. If you study word by word, it gives you different different meaning, all meanings are what they mean. Thats the beauty of sanskrit, all meanings are what they mean. They have kept all the secret keys, the spiritual keys in the sutras. So who ever reads,who ever listens, who ever internalizes, they understand as according to their maturity. A initial level seeker if he opens up this book, he will have inspiration to work on this sutra, a seeker who was working on this ideas for few years, if he opens up the book and re reads, he will have inspiration to go to the next level, a seeker who is almost done with everything who is on the verge of enlightenment if he reads he will have the last push, the final jump. You can understand the sutra in many ways. I will try to give the translations, two, three translations and try to share what i need to share about this sutra from my own understanding and from my own experience. The translations of this sutra, it's from Swami Vivekanandanda. I have 12 sutras,12 translations. Maybe i will read two sample, so that you can understand, the same sutra how it can be viewed by different acharyas in different ways. Vivekananda's translation: Thath param purushakyathe, Guna vaithishrinyam." This is the sutra. Vivekananda translates it as,-that is extreme non attachment which gives up even the thirst for the gunas. The guna word has no english word, it's not,you cant translate the word GUNA as character. Guna means the moods which you carry. Sometime, suddenly you will see for no reason you are in low mood Sometime for no reason, you are in restless mood, irritated, agitated, sometime for no reason you are in that restful awareness mood, these are the 3 major gunas we live with, that dullness or depression, we call in sanskrit tamas, inertness, agitated, irritated restless, we call that RAJAS. Rajo-Guna, restful awareness, very peaceful and completely aware of what's happening inside and outside, this we call it sattva guna. Swami Vivekananda says, when he translates this sutras, that is extreme non attachment, which gives up even the thirst for gunas, even the thirst for these moods. and which comes from the knowledge the real nature of purusha. He says, even the thirst for these three gunas should be renounced, which can happen only when we understand the supreme self. this is the Vivekananda's translation. Here I will read Jnaneshwara's, translation,Sant Jnaneshwara, " indifference to the subtlest elements, constituent principles are qualities themselves achieved through knowledge consciousness of nature of pure consciousness is called supreme non-attachment. We can see how 2 different masters view this sutra, different level. I'll try to give my translation, how i am translating and try to add whatever I want to add. Many sanskrit words, the moment we try to translate to one english word, you will reduce the quality of the depth, depth of that word. So I am using four, five words to translate every single word. With drawing from the desires through the conscious visualization of one's inner space is the higher state of awareness. Thath param Purushakyathe, Guna Vaithri-shinyam. Now lets enter in to the subject, the today's subject what Patanjali wants to convey through this sutra. Understanding of this one sutra, can completely change the way in which we look at the world, the way in which we experience the world, the way in which we feel our life. The whole thing can be transformed just by this one sloka. The last sutra, Patanjali spoke about the renunciation of the outer world things. In this sloka, Patanjali speaks about the Vairagya related to the inner world. I can say Vairagya related to the inner world is more important need to be understood than the Vairagya related to the outer world. As I was explaining the word Vairagya, it is neither attachment nor detachment, beyond attachment and detachment. If I have to give you an example see, at the age of 5, we were playing with toys, car, bus, so many different toys. And now at the age of 40 or 50, you are not detached from the toys, you have transcended the attachment form the toys. You don't say," oh, you don't know how difficult it is to renounce these toys." Its not that you have a hangover, its not that you are constantly thinking about it and forcibly you renounced. No, you just transcended, and you don't need it. You are just beyond. This is what I call Vairagya., just elevating your consciousness to that level where you don't feel all those things are attached, attached to your being or you are detached from it. Please understand, this idea needs to be understood in a very deeper way from all the angles. I have seen people, in Bharat I lived 9 years by walking, visiting different spiritual places, different temples, and staying there. Because of my travel, I have seen, different Swamis, Sadhus, vairagis, people who renounce. When you understand the word, literally, the word renunciation, vairagya in your own way, that can lead to too many complications. I have seen these people. They will leave their house, wealth, everything and escape, go to Haridwar or Rishikesh or somewhere. They will sit outside some temple for their food, begging and eating. But slowly they get attached to the place where they are sitting, and they will not allow anyone else to sit in that place. I have seen... means, the understanding about vairagya did not happen properly. One more thing, the moment they read these kind of some of the ideas, see, the people are usually attached to the outer world, listening to, I want this, I want this, I want this, I want this. Suddenly, somewhere, if they read or listen these material things only give too much of problem, then immediately they start choosing poverty. If some..choosing is suffering. Not what you choose. Choosing is suffering. If you choose wealth or choose poverty. Choice is suffering. The ultimate lies, choicelessnes is bliss, choice is suffering. Even if you choose poverty, continuously you will be forcing yourself to live in that. I have seen, some of the so called the social leaders who try to live in poverty. These guys will put up all the shows, that I travel only in the third class compartment, and I only live like this, live like that, they put up a show and see. The big problem is, these guys to maintain their poverty, society has to spend so much money on them. No really, these guys will not travel in the first class compartment, they will travel only in third class. Because he is a big guy, the moment he wants to go in the third class compartment, the whole compartment has to be cleaned and re-organized and arranged equal to the, like the first class. Better he goes in the first class, taking the one ticket, less money for the railway department, less expense for the railway department. I have seen, one Swami who drinks only milk, the big problem is, the whole, his whole battalion including the cow has to go with him. I think its much better if you drink some where here and there. Sometime, for poverty too much money is spent. If you choose poverty, indirectly you choose many sufferings,understand here, when Patanjali uses the word Vairagya, neither choosing wealth nor choosing poverty, bringing a deep understanding about your self. Please understand, if you come to the understanding of choicelessnes, suddenly you see, you radiate so much of energy, so much of awareness, continuously you will be attracting wealth towards you, but you will not be bound by it at all. Please understand this, from my own experience I tell you, I am working with millions of disciples around the world,so what ever truth I express, and they try to experiment and experience in their life, from my experience with them, I wanted you to understand an important fact, when you choose the choicelessnes, when you are in choicelessnes. Suddenly, the suffering,anxiety, fear, insecurity, everything disappears. When that disappears, your energy will always be in high mood. Naturally, you will be creative, you will be expressing, you will attract wealth around you, apart from that you will be in that peaceful restful awareness. In the last sutra, in the 15th sutra, Patanjali talks about the Vairagya related to the outer world,the few ideas which I expressed now. Now, he is taking us to the deeper level, deeper level of truths. Each sutra of Patanjali, can create a religion, each sutra of patanjali can create a religion. Please understand, many people come to me and ask Swamiji, why do we have so many different gods, so many different paths, so many different master, so many different techniques. I tell them please understand, they had so much of inner world freedom. I ask them, see in the west so much of outer world choices you have,wether variety of cars or ways of houses or luxury, all the comforts of the outer world, you have so much choice because they have freedom in the outer world, they went on exploring, exploring, exploring, they went on developing, developing, developing, so much of research and development in the outer world, when so much of research and development happens in the outer world you have variety. Same way in the east you have so much of freedom in the inner world and so much of research and development happened in the inner world, because so much of R\&D happened in the inner world we have variety. One more thing, hinduism is independently independent to lead you to enlightenment. Each master is self sufficient. That is why I call our hindu tradition as group of religions. They are actually a group of religions. Each tradition is independently intelligent, it can lead you to ultimate enlightenment. Each master is independently intelligent who can lead you to enlightenment. Each technique is independently intelligent, from scratch to ultimate it can lead you. Here, each sutra of Patanjali is independently intelligent, it can lead you to enlightenment. Each sutra of patanjali can create a religion. This sutra, Vaithishrinyam, that is the key word. I want you to understand that one word, GUN-VAITHRISRHINYAM, free from the qualities. How we are caught in the qualities, how we can liberate ourselves from the qualities. If you just look little deep, all our attachment are suffering is caused not just by the objects. The quality of mood which we experience through the object. Please understand, you want some objects, again and again in your life, if you believe some kind of mood is created by that object which is good for you. If you believe that object, a particular object creates a mood, which you dont like, which you dont want, you wanted to move away from the object. For example, we want money not just for the sake of money. Money expands your freedom, for example, without money, you have only one choice, you can lie down in your couch and worry, with money, you have choice of sufferings. Now you have more choice, you can lie down in Hawaii beach and worry, you can lie down in Miami beach and worry, or you can lie down in Bharat, Ooty, Kodaikanal, and worry. You have choice, that is the reason we go behind money, see anything, wether it is object or a person, the mood which they create in you, based on that, you decide wether you want to around that or away from that. So, ultimately, everything boils down to the Guna, to the quality which you experience in that. Patanjali is such great master, all the complications, difficulties, disorders, a modern man is going to go through, he has predicted 5000 years ago,and gave solution. Sometime, surprising, how could he predict what we could go through in the so called developed civilization. See all the modern day problems, he is giving us solution in this one sutra, 3 thing needs to be understood,. First thing the object, or a person, money you home, or car, your bank balance or son, father, mother all the object or person which is in the outer world, second thing, the experience which you go through because of that, because of that. If you are around object or person, which creates joy in you, that emotion, that quality which you experience in your inner space, that is the second thing. Third thing, the connection between these 2. All these 3 ned to be understood,1st the object,2nd the experience, 3rd the connection between the experience and the object, the connection between these two. In vedanta, we have a word called TRIPUTI., means, experienced-the object, experiencer-the subject, expereinece-what goes between these two. For example, a sweet, first that sweet, may create joy in you, so the experiencer, experiencer experiences the joy. After sometime, maybe after 4,5 sweet, the same sweet, may create different experience in the experiencer. Please understand here the object is also the same, the person who is experiencing is also the same, but the experience itself will be different, experience itself will be suddenly different. All we need to understand is, the experience and the experienced are independent, they cannot be logically connected. You can see in your life, when you are in love, how you feel connected, how you always wanted to spend time, around with that person, suddenly when that love disappears, the whole thing is topsy- turvey, the whole thing is different. Now you just want to escape from that person. the same person, and same, the person who is experiencing is same, the person who gives experience is same, but suddenly the experience becomes different. Please understand, that is what Patanjali is trying to express here, all these 3 cannot be depended. All the 3 are constantly changing, but you go on believing that all these 3 are stagnant, all these 3 are eternal all these 3 are permanent. Please understand the very root, the very root, idea with which we function and the very reality and the gap between these two are responsible for all our sufferings, that is responsible for all our sufferings, in the outer world or in the spiritual practice. I can say, this sutra if it is understood, many seekers, if you are a seeker and having lot of difficulty in your spiritual practice, everything can be cleaned. Where ever I go, when ever I meet seekers, this is one question always asked, FAQ, this is frequently asked question, " Swamiji, how can I balance between my materialistic life and spiritual practice? How can I balance between this life and this life?" There is no such thing as two life, understand , there is no such thing as two life, because we have this foolish Idea that there is two life, especially these Bharatns, they think that spirituality is when we become old. No really, i have seen, in my programs, youngsters, they say, oh meditation, we can do it in the old age, leave it, it's ok. And old people, they say, all these things should have been done in the young age itself, now it is too late. This one understanding can solve the whole problem,completely, here and now, it can solve the problem. Any problem with this one understanding you can solve it, you can sort it out. One story, I have for you, jokes and stories for you., which i never miss. I will read it out, its a beautiful one liner, one story. The owner of a hardware store is dismayed, when a huge new hardware store opens up next door, erecting a large sign saying, BEST DEALS. He is even more horrified when a huge new hardware stores opens up on the other side of his door, putting up an even more larger sign saying, LOWER PRICES, the shop keeper is panicked, then his spontaneity works. He has a bright idea, he puts up a large sign over his own store saying MAIN ENTRANCE. Understand, one idea solved this whole problem, this one sutra can solve your whole problem. The problem that you have, with the experience and the experiencer, you also have two shops next to you, you also have two shops next to you, constantly bugging you,constantly nagging you. Many of our problems are, from the object. Object, not giving the quality of experience you wanted. That is one kind of problem,means you think money will do something for you, and that is not happening through the money. you think car will do something for you,that is not happening through the car, you think the house will do something for you, that is not happening through that object. Understand, car is useful to drive,home is useful to stay, refrigerator is useful to keep your food. But we have a wrong idea that all these things put together will give fulfillment to us. No, you can not have fulfillment through that,so when you have the wrong expectation, the experience is not given by that object, thats one kind of problem, it is a preliminary level, first level. Second level problem, the same object which was giving the same experience which you really enjoyed., suddenly disappears, even though you are having the same object around you. This is the second, subtle level problem. Third level problem, the same object not only not giving you the same joyful experience, giving you the negative experience that is the third level problem. Patanjali beautifully solves all these three problems, with this one sutra. Internalize this one sutra, meditate on this one sutra, change your understanding on this, based on this one sutra, the whole thing will be solved. Nothing needs to be bothered. GUNA VAITHIRISHINYAM, all you need to understand-you can see when you are in love, when your mind is supporting a particular person, suddenly you can see how your mind coins, even though you have some problems and complications, you go on arranging it, "no,no,no,no, he might have shouted at me yesterday, but he is very good at heart. No,no,no, no,he is not that kind of person, I think he was not in good mood yesterday." You go, your arguments, how you arrange your ideas inside and how you justify yourself inside, because you feel, some pleasure can be experienced through that person which you need. Very beautifully, one upanishad says, you attract people in your life in the same frequency in which you are staying. Please understand, many people come and tell me, "Swamiji I dont know, I always attract abusive people around me. " No look inside, you must be carrying , that self pity, you may be enjoying, subtly, unconsciously, somebody abusing you. When people abuse, suddenly you have self pity, you give attention to yourself. See the mental set up becomes such that society, gives you attention only if you are suffering. Just yesterday, I was reading a magazine in the flight, it says that 83% of women exaggerate their pain or symptoms and 76% of men exaggerate their pains and symptoms. Can you imagine, 83% means practically almost all the diseases and pains and sufferings are exaggeration. Because, society goes on creating a mental set up.,you are attended only if there is some repair otherwise not. So with this mental setup, your unconscious learns. It constantly creates the need for craving for attention, when you dont have attention from others, you create a self pity, sympathy only then you will, you give attention to yourself, otherwise you are constantly attending the t.v.,where is the time to attend yourself? So mind creates a self pity. Please understand this self pity mental set up, that is what I call hell. We have different kinds of hells, one is self pity, guilt., dont think hell is geographical, no its psychological, it is psychological, it is not geographical. We have different kinds of hells described in Garuda Purana. They say that, there will be big oil well, which will be boiling, you will be soaked inside, and a hot iron rod will be put inside your eyes. No all these things are, different mental depression you go through, I've studied thoroughly, I actually spent little time with Garuda Purana and studied that hell descriptions. Please understand, if you go through a guilt a deep guilt, in this region, the heart region, you will see something, heavy, very heavy, and if you go through a self pity, you will have every skin, every pore, you will have pain on every pore, same thing only they are describing there. I actually saw, for each sin, what punishment they described in Garuda Purana. Please understand, our masters are so clear, and their intelligence in to the human consciousness is so thorough, for example, if you have done something which really creates a deep guilt in you, what kind of physical pain you will go through, actually every emotion creates a particular kind of pain in your body, so usually, guilt creates a heaviness in this area, they give you the same, the, they describe the hell in a way, a big stone will be kept on your chest. The experience which you will go through, with that emotion is graphically described. I can say they have made a, cartoon, they made a cartoon, the graphic definition, the graphic expression of what you will go through is only the hell, that is what is hell. Maybe when you create, that deep self sympathy, you attract people constantly who abuse you. That is what Garuda Purana may be describing. All the demons will be around you, constantly poking at you. That is the hell you,that is the hell you will be put in if you create self pity. And its true, you will be creating that kind of hell around you. The first thing you need to understand, the first understanding,which we need to have, Triputi Bedha. In vedanta we have this beautiful word, Triputi, the object, experienced,and the subject, experiencer, and the experience happening between between the two, all the three are not logically connected. Please understand, they are not connected to any particular logic, they do not function with any particular logic. Today one person, may create particular emotion in you, tomorrow, the same person may create different emotion in you. You can see, it is just tipping only, this side you tip or that side you tip, thats all. sometime the same person you start saying, oh,he did not do anything wrong to me but somehow I did not like his energy at all. I don't understand, what do you mean by the word energy. We have our own words, one,another one big problem, the moment you coin some words about some person, you have created a prison for you, after that you will never be able to cross that word and have direct connection with him, that is a huge problem, that is a big problem. Everyday you will be facing in your life, the moment you create an idea about him, when you start creating the idea, it may be very casual, it may be very casual. Afterwards you will see, you yourself, will be bound by that idea, you yourself will be bound by that idea and you will go on, and on and on and on, building up that idea. We are all almost accounts in the life., first thing you make an account, account, what is the profit or loss of his presence in my life, then you, create an idea, after that you work with that idea, thats all. Please understand, once you come to the conclusion, right, even if he is wrong, even if the situation is changed, you go on working with the same idea, if you think it is wrong, even if that person is going to add something to your life, you are not interested in looking at it. Not being open, is the major problem we face in our life. Here Patanjali, solves, that one problem very beautifully. he says, do not be attached to the experience happens in your being by a particular person, or by particular object. We are all accountants of our life, the big problem is we calculate with very less data, very less data. First time you will be meeting that person, you have not even spent little time around him, you want to judge. I have seen, you just want to judge, you cant be, somehow the mind does not feel, relaxed settled, without passing a judgement. No that is a big problem, that is a very big problem we face. You cant be settled, without passing a judgement about somebody., wether it is positive or negative, you have to pass a judgement. You cant be just be aware, fresh, alive, aware, move around, no, no,no that is too much, that is too much, we want something to be done immediately, accountant mind, accountant mind. I have one more story for you. A company director is interviewing, candidates for an important position and decides to select the individual who can answer the question, how-how much is 2 plus 2. The first candidate, candidate is an engineer. He pulls out a slide rule and shows oh the answer is 4. The second candidate is a lawyer, he states that, in case of Jones pior, 2 plus 2 was proven to be 4, the final, so here is also 4. the final candidate is an accountant, when asked what is 2 plus 2, the accountant slips out of his chair, checks to see if anyone is listening at the door, the whispers, did you have a particular number in mind? Understand, we are all accountant, constantly trying to look inside, constantly, trying to pass judgement, and we don't live with the reality, we don't look in to the reality. That is what Patanjali says, GUNA VAIYDRISHINYAM. he says do not be attached, to the qualities created by you, created inside you by some object or person. If you are attached, please understand, you can look inside your life, the same person sometimes creates so much joy in you. And you feel, God, I am so fortunate to have this person in my life. And you go on, adding, adding, adding,adding, adding, all the positive things, about that person. You feel your whole life is heaven you are in heaven. Everything is green, rosy, beautiful, joyful, enjoying. Suddenly you see, when that love is lost, when that connection is lost, when that touch is lost, you start building your arguments this side, no how long can I be suffocating, enough is enough. And more over the big problem is we have, all these ready made words inside us. All you need is, just tip, this side, all these words are waiting, no really, I am so fortunate, people ask me, Swamiji how do you work so many hours. If you see, the website you can see, if you see our website you can see, everyday somewhere or the other, i am speaking or conducting programs. They ask me, how do you work so many hours Swamiji? You travel so much continuously, day in and day out. Per year at least 100,000 miles I fly and 100,000 miles I drive. They ask me how do you do? One, only one reason, I am so fortunate, to be born and brought up in Bharatn village where I have not been, taught all these big, big words. Too much is in my plate, I am swamped by work, I am stressed out. No, there is no difference between, your inner space and my inner space. The only one difference, I am born and brought up in Bharatn village, fortunately, all these words are not taught to me. No really, that is the only difference, of course the cities of Bharat, has gone that they are no more part of Bharat. See Bharat is not a geographical land, its a way of life, Bharath is a way of life, its not just the land. Somehow the cities have lost. Anyhow, that is the one only reason I can say, All these words are not there in my inner space. The soft ware I am carrying, please understand, the best thing human being can have on the planet earth is a yogis software. How a yogi feels about his body, and his mind that is the best thing a human being can have on the planet earth. How a yogi feels about himself,see, we all go on working about, working for, making money, making, getting car, house, bank balance, relationships and everything, everything. we work so much for all these things and social security everything, please understand, we forget an important thing, creating a right idea about about our body and mind. I can says that is the greatest gift I received, especially after I started traveling all over the world, only then I suddenly I realized the wonderful things i have it is all just because of the Bharatn village bringing up. The idea, you see, in the young age, I was brought up by a great yogi, and i had the fortune of living at his feet for a few years. It was not that I was in some ashram or monastery, i was with my family only, but used to stay in that village. I'll always used to go sit with him, play with him, all I know is he will give everyday candy and at the end of the day session. Whenever I am leaving him, he will give candy, just for that I will go sit with him. But somehow, his ideas, you see in the young age, whoever gives candy you pick up their ideas thats all. No whoever gives you candy they are, hero for you and naturally you will pick up their ideas, and the ideas which, he put inside my head, i can see still now, how it works, and how it supports my life and how free I am. Somehow in the young age, he taught me, you are a man, you can do anything. Just the idea about the body. I was only, surely less than 6, i went to the house, somehow the idea came in to my head, to see wether I am able to, tumble this cot in the house. In the village cots if you see, it is made out of teakwood, at least one tone weight. I just saw the cot, I decided, I am a man just as this swami told me, and I can do anything. Just a 5,6 year old boy, tumbled the cot. and logically even now I am not able to understand that, how could I do that. Just the idea, strongly goes inside, becomes a part of your bio memory Prarabtha, it just becomes a part of your bio memory. Actually when I tumbled the cot, the relative who is there, got frightened. He thought that cot is fallen on me due to some earth quake or some other reason. He did not understand that I only tumbled, and he was asking me, how are you, what happened, did it fall on you. I said no I only tumbled it. The idea, the other day I was reading in the newspaper, the advertisement about trekking, I asked one of my disciple, what is this, what is trekking classes, what do they teach. he said, swamiji, here they teach you how to climb hill, all these thing, this is what goes on in trekking class. I could not understand at all. I am a man, here is a hill, just climb thats all. and he says no, no, you cant do like that swamiji, you need lesson, just i couldn't understand. See a mental set up of a yogi, the mental set up of a yogi, I can say, how you feel about your body and how you feel about your mind, and the ideas you carry about you, that is ultimate thing, ultimate property of your life. I am not saying dont accumulate wealth, see, wealth is needed to run your life, all i am saying spend little time, to create right idea about you, and your body and your mind. Beautifully, Patanjali talks about this Aparigriha and Asteya. Please understand, when you understand these ideas like Vairagya, and start living, i am not saying give up what you have, dont have car, dont have house, dont have wealth, no I am not saying, if I say also people are going to give up me, not that, i know it. I am very practical, if i say give up this all, people are going to give up only me. Anyhow, I am not saying that, all i am saying, have, just know, that your body can do so much, your mind can do so much with out many of the things which you think are important to you. That freedom is what I call Guna Vaidrishinyam. Understand, I have never heard this idea, loneliness and all those thing,till i came to this country. No really, i lived in Bharatn villages, for 9 years, wandered length and breadth, sometimes i wonder, the ideas which we carry about ourself is the root cause of all sufferings. The first thing we need to understand that Thriputi does not have logical connection. The object and the experience, which is created in the experiencer all the three do not have any logical collection. Sometime, the same object which was giving you suffering, can suddenly create joy, sometime the same object which was giving joy can create suffering, sometime for no reason you can be joy, sometime for no reason you can be in suffering, sometime, the object and the experience, both may be right, but the experiencer will be in depression. You can see, and the experience, everything will be proper, suddenly the experiencer will say no to everything, and you will lock yourself in the room and say i will come out after one hour and you dont know why. You sit and try to analyze, why, why, why, why, by the time you finish analyzing the party is over. No really, many times you dont know how things take turn, see some time the object may be creating suffering, sometime the experience may be creating suffering, sometime the person, the experiencer himself may himself be creating suffering. Sometime, same way, I have seen, people thinking constantly, that experience, one thing I cannot go through, if you are afraid of particular disease, or the death of near and dear one, or some, some, where the disrespect, something you will constantly brooding over, that happens I cannot survive, If that happens I cannot survive, but suddenly you will see, when that happens you will just walk out. Just go through the whole thing in a simple way. Sufferings which you were constantly expecting, will be a big pain or a suffering will not be a suffering at all. Sufferings which you really think will not be a suffering, will not be a problem,may become too deep. So all you need to understand, understanding. This one understanding can liberate you this moment. This one understanding, there is no logical way the experiencer, experienced and experience is connected. This one understanding, with this one understanding many things, which you are thinking in your life will get re altered, re organized, you can see, I can give you hundreds, and hundreds of examples. If you apply, this one law, take this one law, Guna Vaidishrinyam, one idea from Patanjali, at least the next days work with this one idea, whenever whatever you go through, wether its is joy or suffering you go through, just have this one law with you, and read the whole incident with this one law. Understand the whole thing happening inside you. You will have so many new, new, understandings, clarity happening in you. You can apply this one truth in different levels, the experience, experience is not responsible for the experiencer and the experienced. Experienced is not responsible for the experience and the experiencer. Experiencer is not responsible for the experience and the experienced. All three are independent, irresponsible and unconnected and unclutched. All three if you try to create a logic, that logic is what i call maya, yama, iti maya. The logic does not exist, but, you constantly wanted to create a logic. You constantly think, oh i was so happy with this person, i d do not know why i am not happy now. No,no I should be happy, you force and after two three times you force, and fail, suddenly you think i think i am in depression, that is why even this person is not able to create joy in me. Now you complicated the whole complication. No really, this is the way the whole complications gets built inside the system, this is the way, we create more and more ideas. First thing, when we create a logic which does not exists, then naturally what you do, you try to force that logic, you try to see, that it becomes true. When it is not becoming true, the again more confusion, more problem. You try to find out, why it is not, why it is that way, why this way, why that way. Actually the more & more & more we question, why, why, why,why we get only weird answers and out of that weird answers we build more weird ideas, and out of that weird ideas we build we take more weird decision and out of that weird decisions if the life is happening, what is happening? what is happening. I have one more story about that. A man was telling his friend," my grand,grandfather predicted in advance the very year he was going to die." If you talk to your, if you are from Bharatn village, every village will have one or two couple who fix the time and died, the grandfather dies immediately the grandmother will die. Of course, its a great thing, of course here the story is not about that great thing. He predicted the year in which he was going to die, what is more he knew the exact month he was going to die. The precise day he was going to die, even the time of the day he was going to die, and he was right on every account. The friend say that is uncanny how did he know all that. (can you stop photography, it disturbs people.) How did he know all that? How did he know all that? This guy says, no the judge told him.

Understand many times our whys, whys,why, why, why, you create only, different, different,different kinds of answers,\&on that answers you build your life. Revise the whole thing with which you are building your life. Vivekananda says beautifully, Flood your whole being with the truth, what ever can be washed away, let it be washed away immediately,whatever remains let it remain. Please understand, this is the greatest service you will do to yourself and to the world,flooding yourself with the truth. Reclaiming the Bharatn yogi inner software. Many people come and ask me, Swamiji, I want to serve our tradition, especially in this country, I want to hold on to our tradition, I want to spread our dharma, I want to stand for our dharma. I tell them first thing, please understand, you drink the truth, you feel empowered by the truth, you feel filled by the truth. Just have the utility, the utility value, of the vedic inner software. Utility value of the vedic identity, you experience that utility value, that utility value,only then you will be able to serve, only then you will be able to serve, only then you will have courage to stand up for vedic truth, you will have energy to protect and serve. Otherwise I have seen these guys, they go on shouting, we'll protect dharma, we'll protect vedic dharma, we'll protect the hinduism, we'll protect dharma. they go on shouting and create politics among themselves that all. See when you don't have enemy to fight with others, what to do, fight with ourselves. I have seen, all the organizations which starts planning to protect dharma, without drinking the dharma, without living the dharma, ends up in politics, and killing themselves, killing them self. Beautifully Bhagvatam, describes the end of the Krishna's age, the whole Dwapra, that place where he was living, the whole thing was destroyed, & the whole thing went inside the ocean, \&all the gopas they all killed each other, there beautifully the bhagvatam describes, because these people did not drink the dharma of Krishna, they only tried to protect, when you only try to protect, you are only searching for the enemy, and when you dont find any enemy, you just start fighting amongst yourself. Please understand, first thing you need to do, flood your life with the truth, flood your life with understanding, let you experience the strength, joy, bliss created by this inner yogi software, by the inner vedic software. The idea which you carry about and your mind let that be refined deepened strengthened, suddenly you will see that you have so much of gratitude. Actually when that happens you will have so much of gratitude for dharma, whatever,even when you breathe you will be protecting the dharma, Even if you breathe you will be protecting the dharma, you will be protecting out tradition. You will protecting the great culture, without that whatever we may be doing, whatever we may be doing, we will end up doing only politics. Where ever I go this is a big problem, all the parents they ask me how to imbibe, this culture, this value to our kids. It is a big problem, I tell them just you live and show that this truth has enriched your life, this culture has enriched your life, that is the only way your kids are going to listen. The big problem is unfortunately your kids are more intelligent than you here, so they are not going to listen to our words, they are not going to listen to our verbal language, they are going to listen only to our body language. The other day, n NRI kid was brought to me by the mother, the mother was complaining, swamiji, please do something and tell him to listen to what i am saying. First I felt reluctant, anyhow she convinced me, she forced me then i called that guy and said, why don't you listen to your mother, even I am listening. This guy straight away told me, "Swamiji she herself is not happy if I listen to all her I will also become depressed like her only." No true, then I could not tell anything to him true. See sometime verbal languages does not help, verbal language will not help, show in your life that you are a yogi, the yogic understanding has made you more joyful, rich, energetic, alive, active, that will naturally inspire. That is the only way to inspire, that is the only way to inspire. We go on living what way we want and we hide everything, or we think we hide everything. Because you cant hide from them, you think you can hide everything? And we insist, even transmitting the tradition also, it does not happen in the fullest form. The parts that we like them to follow, or which has some of our own vested interest, then naturally they know, they are more intelligent, they are more intelligent. So be very clear, the one and only way, to hold, to keep the whole thing alive, let you be enriched. Take little time, it takes little time, no other way, you have to study little bit of our tradition. You have to study some yogic scriptures, you have to listen to some of the spiritual satsangs. And internalize, internalizing, taking, it takes little time, naturally when you internalize, your life will be enriched, that is the only way, that is the only solution. See just like for everything you need to do little work, for this also you need to do little work. So the word Guna Vaidrishinyam, this one understanding will enrich you. I can explain this one understanding from various angle, that is why i am giving you this as a sutra. Understand, the experience, the experiencer, experienced all three do not have a logical connection. Means the logical connection which you think they have. A particular, object is supposed to create particular emotion in the subject. Particular incident is supposed to create particular experience in a person. Please understand this logic does not exist, this logic does not exist. I am cutting the very root, I am cutting the very root. This is the real understanding of vairagya, the vairagya should not be translated, as detachment and it should not be practiced literally. When you practice detachment literally, it leads to more disturbances and suppression, and problems. It leads to more and more complications. I have one story for you, A woman was over weight,so her doctor put her on a diet. I want you to eat regularly for 2 days then skip a day, and repeat the procedure for 2 weeks. Understand this word he said, I want you to eat regularly for 2 days, then skip a day, and repeat the procedure for 2 weeks, next time i see you will have lost at least 5 pounds. But when the woman returned 2 weeks later she had lost 20 pounds. The doctor was amazed, did you follow my instruction? Yes she said, but I thought I was going to drop dead the 3rd day. This guy asked from hunger you mean? She said no, from skipping. When you literally follow you are skipping you are skipping, when you literally follow you are skipping. Detachment, if the Vairagya, word is understood as detachment and you start literally following, you create too many problems for you, not only for you, you became a wrong example that no body else wants to come and practice spirituality. I have seen all the problems created for vedic tradition is by people who have misunderstood and have started following just by skipping. Just like skipping. These guys go on skipping, the people who want to come here, they also think oh god if i go there I have to skip the whole day. And they just escape many time, many time, people are skipping, because someone else is skipping. we skip spirituality, because when we see people skip continuously. Especially among the youngsters, big problem, oh, if i go there i may become i may become swami, if I go to spirituality, I may become swami, If i go I may spend all my time there itself. No, please understand it is a wrong idea, wrong idea. Vairagya has to be understood, properly, vairagya has to be understood directly, as transcending attachment and detachment. This one truth, constantly work with it, constantly internalize. The experience, the experiencer and experienced does not have logical relationship. So no object can give the same joy or same suffering which I expect will give. A big problem is if you expect a particular joy or suffering from a situation or a person or an object and if it does not happen, you start going on creating some complaints and complications inside. It does not happen you are healthy, you are a healthy human being. Please understand, if experience, experiencer, experienced are not logically having a relationship in your life you are living healthy life. If they are all very logical and very clear, very stabilized way it is going, something is very wrong with your life. No really something is seriously wrong with your life, then,either something is seriously wrong with the experiencer, experience and the experienced. So the same person, may not create same emotion in you, same emotion may not be created by the same object in you. Understand this truth, Guna Vaidrishinyam, so, the gunas, the qualities created in your inner space, do not be attached to it, do not be attached to it. Your attachment to those experience which you go through your inside is the root cause for all your suffering. See, why are you , attached to some person, because the security or the love you experience by that person. You are attached to your husband because of the security he creates in you. You are attached to the wife because the love she creates in you, some guna, the big problem is as long as you are attached to this guna, you will be constantly forcing that person to give you that experience, without understanding the reality no person can give you constantly the same experience. The person who gives you security he will be sometime threat for you. The person who gives you the love will sometime he himself will be creating the hatred in you. It is not the mistake of the person it is the very quality of that reality, the very quality of the truth, its very existence. By its own existence, there can not be consistency in experience and the experiencer connection. But you go on forcing the consistency and naturally she has to have a plastic smile and you have to have a plastic card. So everything becomes plastic. Understanding the consistency is not the nature and when the other person is not delivering what you need. Give the other person little space, give space understand, he is too tired by you forcing yourself on him and she is too tired by you constantly nagging her. Understand and remember the consistency of delivering the same quality of experience by the same person is impossible. Maybe in the canned foods you can have consistent, quality, purity and taste,not in living person. In canned food you read a word, we assure the quality and purity and taste consistently, because the chicken is already dead and it is packed. But even that object maybe consistent, but that cannot create a consistent experience in you. And here the object is not only dead, but alive then how do you expect, the consistency can be maintained? Having this understanding, THATH PARAM PURUSHA-KYATHER GUNA VAIDISRHRINYAM. Neither by person nor object, or by situations the same experience can be created in you. am repeating the same idea with different, different, different, different,different words with different, different stories. I have decided that I will drill this one idea in to yo today. Because this one idea can create so much of liberation. See now I applied this idea in the relationship. Apply this same idea with money, apply this same idea with your other things whatever you think in your life is important. Apply with everything,this one idea and where ever the consistency is not there, relax wait. It is nature, it is truth. 5000 years ago, Patanjali has clearly prophosised, clearly predicted, clearly giving us the solution, that is the nature. When you understand that is the nature, he says you have the knowledge of self. This is the knowledge of self. Knowledge of self, is experience, experiencer, experienced do not have consistent relationship. Sometimes people become very possessive about even meditation. One day they would have had deep experience in meditation. Then they start possessing that, they come and complain to me, 'swamiji, day before yesterday I meditated with you and it was such a joyful thing. Yesterday I meditated in my house it did not happen. How to maintain?' They start creating some complications, I tell them, understand even with mediation, understand it can never be consistent. Please be very clear, if you do some particular technique, and experience something, do not expect the same thing and start doing the same thing. I have seen, sometime when you read vishnu sahasranama, early morning when you get up, just sit, and listen to this beautiful suprabatham and start reading vishnu sahasranama, Vishnam Vishnu Satkaro Bhoota bavya bavth prabu, boothathma, boo.. when you recite, you have a beautiful mood, that half hour you are in Vaikunta and you experience the peace, joy. Immediately that night you decide, from next day you are going to repeat all the 1008 names, every day morning. See understand, when you fix that every day morning you are going to recite the 1008 things, names in the morning, after 2/3 days what will happen, you will pick up the book. Early morning you will get up with lot of irritation, wash the face, and sit in the pooja room, Vishnam vishnu satkro Bhoota bhavya bhavath prabu bhoothma bhoo, after 4/5 minutes you will be just waiting and seeing the site number. I have finished 200, I have finished 300, understand, dont create quantitative Do one thing I will recite, as long as I feel comfortable, beautiful, blissful, and the experience of Vaikunta. Just recite 10 names nothing wrong, sitting there and having bank balance. Oh today this fellow recited only 700 names, 300 names he left. and today he recited only 108 , he was supposed to recite 2000. No, relax, he is not sitting there and having bank balance account. No relax, feel, how beautiful, understand, as long as i feel connected, comfortable, I will sit and recite. Each mantra will add that joy, and beauty more and more. You will continue to finish not only 1008, if you have time, if you have 10,008, you will recite 10,008. Because you are free, not out of any bondage. Bondage happens when you think there is going to be consistency. The moment you think there is going to be consistency, you will order the same pizza every day, and after 4th day you know. One story, wife asked the husband go and bring vegetable. In Bharat we have, open market of fresh, they go and bring vegetables. This guy goes and brings ladies finger. She just checks the end and they will just break the end and check if its ripe or not. She started shouting, its over ripe, why did you bring. next day this guy goes and brings, oh its too young, its too ripe, why did you bring this kind of ladies finger? 3rd day this guy begs the person who sells, no no please do something, please give in proper, right condition. And the person helps, he is very happy, he thou, he thought today he is going to be successful. he brings the bag, keeps it, and she says, fool 3 days continuously ladies finger. so this is where you will land if you are stuck with consistence. Consistency through your being, will happen when you understand that there is no consistency between these three. Then you will become a truthful being. Understand you will start living sathya, you will start living sathya. That is when real vairagya happens to you. Real vairagya is not renouncing your house or bank balance or your wife or relationships or all those things. Real vairagya is understanding that they cannot give you the same experience continuously consistency. So having little more expanded inner space even when they are not consistent, having patience, understanding it is truth. Let me be relaxed this is what patanjali calls vairagya, transcending attachment, detachment. please understand, that is what Patanjali is trying to teach us by this word: "Thath param purushakyathe, Guna Vaithisrhinyam" So this one word, this one truth, leads us to the ultimate experience. Many time we are caught, in the restful awareness, as I was describing 3 gunas, thamas, rajas, sattva. Tamas is inertness, dulness, depression. We dont get attached to that, usually. then rajas, means irritated, agitated, stressful mood. We get attached to Rajas, because Rajas pays our bills. Rajas brings paycheck that has utility value so sometimes you get attached to it. Sattva, the restful awareness, you constantly hang for it, here Patanjali says, do not hang for all these 3 qualities, neither try to push them aside nor try to have them back. When you constantly try to push depression aside, I have seen these people who read, all these kinds of books, how to stop worrying, start living, all these positive thinking books. Now they have one more worry, how to stop worrying. At least with worry you have you only ten worries, when you start reading all these books, you have one more worry how to stop worrying. So do not try to push aside your depression, do not try to hold on to your joy. please understand, joy, bliss happens to you when you are choice-less. When you choose joy, you are already choosing suffering. See, joy is like, keeping your hands in the water, in the river, the river is flowing, that is bliss. The moment you try to hold tightly, you will have only empty hands. The bliss is flowing inside your being, when you are relaxed, when you try to hold to that bliss, then you have only empty being. Do not try to push the depression away, and it cannot stand in your inner space. Everything has to move, by your very nature, you are not attached to any gunas. you can see in your life, you can see in your life. One guy came to me and asked me swamiji, i am suffering with fear of death, with fear. Can you give me some solution? Please understand, i am not making fun of you, i am really sympathetic. I am, when I say, i am responsible for what i am saying. He came and asked me, Swamiji, i am suffering from so much of fear, can you give me some solution. I told him, just have a cup of coffee. He said, cup of coffee? How can it solve my problem. I asked him, per how many thoughts can be in you inner space at one moment? he said only one, because any number of thoughts,only if this thought moves, next thought can come, if the next thought comes, it will push this thought and sit. How many number of thoughts you can have at a time? Fortunately only one, you cannot have 2 thoughts at a time. Second thought even if it comes, it has to push the earlier thought and come and sit. May be a micro second, milli second that is different. But at any given moment, point, you can have only one thought. he said only one thought swamiji. I asked him the moment you wanted to have a cup of coffee, the moment you have a thought that you want to have a cup of coffee, can your death fear be with you at that moment. He just looked at me, it cannot be, I asked him if somebody can push me out of this seat and sit in this seat. naturally, he is more powerful than me. He said yes, that is true. For example, if you decided to walk, you renounce the thought of sitting. If you decided to sit, you have renounced the thought of walking, only if you renounce the earlier thought,this thought can come. he said yes, then the moment you have the thought let me have a cup of coffee, then the fear of death, the death fear has to move to give way to this thought. He said yes, means what just the idea the thought let me have a cup of coffee is more powerful then the fear of death. He said it looks very logical, but how can that be so simple? I asked come on, listen, listen slowly and very strongly, clearly, the moment the thought comes, let me have a cup of coffee, can you death of, fear of death be simultaneously co exist in that. he said no, surely not, that moment it has to move out. So naturally, a thought to have a cup of coffee, the thought is more powerful than your fear of death. Yes, if I think let me have a cup of coffee, this thought, comes and the fear for that moment is forgotten. He had a big problem, it comes back what to do. I told him, have one more cup of coffee, understand all I want you to understand, it is a very subtle point, its a very deep level of vedantic truth. I am trying to bring a very deep level of vedantic truth, to understanding, to practical living, very powerful truth, this truth is. He said, all right, let me have one more cup of coffee, but again if it comes back what to do. Understand, all i want you to know, not having continuously a cup of coffee. Understand, I want you to understand, any simple thought can replace any big thought which you think as a big suffering. This proves constantly the thoughts are moving. One person came and asked me, Swamiji, I am suffering from sexual thoughts, I don't know how to control, give me some solution. I told him, just sit for 15 minutes, and meditate on those thoughts. 15 minutes fill your mind with fantasies, let me see. That guy, after 5 minutes opened the eyes and said, Swamiji my thoughts are wandering here and there, its not settling with one thought. I said what is going on. You only came with a complaint that my mind is filled with fantasies, and now you say that your mind is not able to meditate on fantasies. So understand the basic truth, by your very nature, all these 3 gunas flows over your being like a breeze. So do not fight with the depression, do not try to hold on to the joy or peace. Neither try to fight nor try to hold on, just be very clear all these things are continuously moving. they can never be consistent on your being. Inconsistency is the only consistent thing. Change is the only unchanging thing. YOur being by its very nature is pure. Constantly that is why these things are moving, just like in the screen, so many things are moving in the screen, but the screen is never affected. Never touched, understand the param purusha, thath param purusha, the, Patanjali, what patanjali calls Thath param purusha, is a pure screen. If the screen tries to, hold on to me my form it will struggle, because in one hour i will go away., and someone else will be sitting and they will be projected or nobody will be there, it will be empty. So if the screen tries to hold on to my form, it will create suffering for itself. Same way if the screen does not like me, it is going be suffering now. Wether it likes me, wants to hold on to me, or does not like, just want to get away from me, it is going to create suffering. So you are THATH PARAM PURUSHA, you are thath param purusha, you are a consciousness where these three gunas blow like a breeze, where this inertness, depression and restlessness, irritation, restful awareness, peace all these flows like a breeze individually, or mixed way or all the 3 in a different proportions. So be very clear the only thing you need to understand, is do not be attached or detached with these 3 qualities. Don't fight with them, and don't try to hold on to them you will see you are relaxed in the sate of THATH PARAM PURUSHA. Internalize this one idea, experienced, experience and the experiencer, do not have consistent responsible relationship. There is no agreement to deliver, there is no expiry date agreement between these three. Please understand, in every agreement below there will be a fine print ,same way in these idea also there is an agreement, a fine print below, the delivery may not be consistent. The same object may not deliver the same experience. when you made an agreement with the world, when you took birth, there is a fine print in the agreement which you forgot to read. To remind you, of the fine print is what Patanjali is trying to do. The home owners insurance, there will be a fine print, that flood will not be covered. Same way, here when you land in the world you are taught this brings this experience, this brings this experience, the below fine print you forgot to read. The experiences with the object, persons, situations may not be consistent. So I am here to remind you what Patanjali wants you to understand. Let you understand this great truth and I am repeating this sloka, for you: THATH PURAM PURUSHA KYATHE GUNA VAITHISHRINYAM Withdrawing from desires through the conscious visualization of one's inner space, is the higher state of awareness. So, internalize this one idea, understand this one consistency, and the drama happening in the inner space and the outer space, have enough space to understand, you don't even need to practice this idea, just understand, it is inconsistent, this is the way it will be, suddenly you will see this understanding will erupt whenever you needed, you need. And when ever you need, when ever you need, this understanding will come up and guide you. Let you all carry this truth, internalize this truth, live this truth, achieve and radiate Jeevan Mukthi, living enlightenment. Let you all achieve and radiate the eternal bliss, Nithyananda. Thank You.