“Live it to leave it.”

Live it to leave it. All the auspicious things should be lived, so that you can leave, without any yearning. Without the feeling that you are missing something. Without the feeling, that there is something not happening in your life. All auspicious things should be lived, so that you can leave.

[00:02:58] Living and leaving are two sides of the same coin. Living and leaving, are the two sides of same coin. Please understand... If you have not lived, you can’t leave. If you don’t know how to leave, you can’t live. Unless you know how to leave the past, you can’t live. Any hangover inside you about the past will reduce your ability to live in the present. The ability to live drastically gets reduced by the inability to leave. And inability to live, never lets you leave. So whether it is living or leaving, both should be complete.

[00:04:08] Here is Patanjali’s sutra. Today is the 18th sutra, in 2nd chapter. Overall if you see, 69th sutra. 69th Patanjali Yoga sutra. In 2nd chapter, 18th sutra.

Prakasha Kriya, Sthithi Seelam, Bhoota Indriya Atmakam, Bhoga, Apavargha, Artham Drushyam. [00:05:17] The scene which is composed of elements, and organs, and characterized by illumination and action and inertia, is for the purpose of experience, and release of the seer. Vivekananda translates very beautifully. I am reading out Swami Vivekananda’s translation. The scene, which is composed of 5 elements, and organs, Indriyas, and characterised by illumination and action, and inertia, means Satva - Rajas - Tamas, is for the purpose of the experience and release of the seer. The scene is created, so that we can experience it and be released, be out of it.

[00:06:16] Swami Satchitananda translates as, the seen is of the nature of gunas- illumination, activity and inertia, and consists of the elements and sense organs, whose purpose is to provide both experience, and liberation, to the Purusha, means the seer.

[00:06:35] Swami Prabhavananda translates as the object of experience is composed of 3 gunas – the principles of illumination, activity, inertia. From this the whole universe has evolved, together with the instruments of knowledge such as the mind and senses, and the objects perceived, such as the physical elements, the universe exists in order to the... in order, that the experiencer may experience it, and thus become liberated.

[00:07:13] I’ll just remind you the yesterday’s sutra, the last sutra, 17th sutra so that you can catch up with this idea. The last sutra says, \<Sanskrit at 07:25\>, means, the cause of the misery, which is to be avoided, is the junction of the seer & the seen. When the seer & the seen overlaps on each other samyoga happens on each other. That is where the suffering starts. The last sutra samyoga is the keyword – union, or overlapping, overlapping, or misidentification. That is the... keyword. Now in this sutra, we have many keywords. Prakasha means illumination, satva. Kriya means activity... Sthithi, inertia. Tamas, seelam, seelam bhoota, indriya atmakam, bhoga apavargha, artham drushyam.

[00:09:03] Beautiful truth. This whole world is made out of elements – pancha bhootas. Earth, water, fire, air, ether. Pancha bhootas... Experienced by organs, sense organs -sense organs are not 5 as you think, it is actually 11. Karmendriya, gnanendriya. Gnanendriya is 5, which receives things inside. Karmendriya is 5, which does the actions. Your tongue, when it speaks, it is karmendriya; when it tastes, it is gnanendriya.

[00:10:10] Genital organs, when it is used for releasing unnecessary things in the body, it is karmendriya. When it is involving sexual activity, reproductive... reproduction activity, it is gnanendriya. So karmendriya is 5, gnanendriya is 5. Your hands, when it is acting, it is called, karmendriya. Legs, karmendriya. Karmendriya 5, gnanendriya 5. Mind, which plays between all these 10 continuously, so all these put together totally 11. Karmendriya 5, gnanendriya 5, and mind. 11, things are called organs. The world which is made out of 5 elements is experienced by this 11 organs, which are, playing on 3 gunas. Rajas, tamas, tatva. Then understand the chaos going on. This is made out of 5, and the experience, the medium for experience is made out of 11, and the 5 \+11 \= 16 are playing on 3 gunas. Then 16 into 3. Then understand the chaos happening in you.

[00:11:50] It’s like in this pancha bhootas, anyone changes its guna, immediately your experience about life will be different. Or in these organs, anyone just shifts the guna, the immediately the experience of the world will be different. 5 elements… anyone changes its guna, or 11 indriyas, anyone changes its guna, the experience of the world and experience about you will be different. It is a just huge chaos. You don’t know what is happening. That is why Patanjali says, we are established on 3 – prakasha, kriya, sthithi. Prakasha means illumination, intelligence, life. Sthithi means inertia, dull. Kriya means activity.

[00:13:07] When the energy shift -whether the organs or the elements- shift, happens, chaos. This whole thing is made, so that the seer, the consciousness which is in you, can experience it and be liberated from it. That is what Patanjali means here. This whole thing is created, to experience and be liberated. One of the biggest problem we have is, we try to experience, but never feel the need for liberation. Understand. Experience, with the clarity to be liberated. World is given to you free, so that you can be, free. Understand. World is given to you, as free, so that you can be, free. World is given to you as free, so that you can be free. Unfortunately, you go on try to experience to get entangled into more, more, more & more experience. Experience should be so complete, there should not be any entanglement. The moment you enter be very clear have the clear awareness, it is for liberation. When you enter it, with the clarity “for liberation”, nothing can bind you. Nothing can bind you.

[00:15:05] Just a simple understanding, it is for liberation. When you enter into the same activity, whether it is a eating, or seeing, or listening, or touching, any activity. I give you this one process. Understand. This is the today process. Experience, through all your 11 organs, gnanendriya 5, karmendriya 5. Gnanendriya 5, is seeing, listening, smelling, tasting, touching. The sex. So this is, gnanendriya 5. Karmendriya 5 means, your hands -working, tongue -talking, genital organs -reproduction, legs -walking, skin -feeling. See the sex is different, the skin feeling. Karmendriya 5. Sorry, not the touch. Excretion, cleaning. So Karmendriya 5, gnanendriya 5, mind, one – all 11, whatever you experience, just remember, it is, “I am experiencing, just to free myself”. That’s all.

[00:16:42] I tell you, any experience you go through in your life, just have this remembrance, that is all. Smarana will lead to Ananda. Nothing else. Just this one smarana. Smarana means, remembrance. When you stop remembering, you are in marana. When you remember, you are in smarana, ananda. When you forget, you are in marana, death. Just this one thing. All joy, pain, suffering, bliss, anything can happen, to you only through this 11. Gnanendriya, karmendriya, mana. This 11. So understand, just remember nothing much needs to be done. Just remembrance, simple remembrance, through all these 11, “I’m enjoying the world made up of elements, just to be free”.

[00:17:46] I think the word “free” is little corrupted.

[00:17:58] Remember... this one remembrance will awaken vyana energy in you. Vyana is nothing but more awareness, in your actions. Just remember, “I am experiencing all this, to be free”. When you walk, talk, eat, touch, smell, listen, anything. Remember, “I am experiencing all this, just to be free”. That’s all. The whole way in which you function will be shifted. Suddenly, the whole understanding about you will be shifted. “Wow. The goal is, to be free”. So no experience will entangle you. You will not be entangled in any experience. You will live, go through so beautifully. It will be a complete experience.

[00:19:30] Please understand. Biggest problem human beings have is, you become so hypocrite. You yourself don’t believe whatever practice you do will have any effect on you. Really. We slowly lost confidence on us. “Eh. If I just remember, these are all just for, just to be free, how can that lead me to freedom. I have to change the way I am doing”. No! You don’t need to change the way that you do things. You need to change the way in which you think about things. Unfortunately especially, if you are brought up in orthodox way, means too abusive way, you will have a deep guilt about you. Orthodoxy gets built on guilt. G is the base, b for orthodoxy. Really I’m telling you. If the orthodoxy happens in you with understanding, you are enlightened. That is different. But if the orthodoxy based on laws and rules, it is complete suffering.

[00:21:10] I have seen people suffering, suffering terribly. Just an orthodox upbringing. Orthodox upbringing, without understanding is the worst conspiracy done to human consciousness. Because you lose respect on you. Many people come and tell me, “Swamiji I feel what is my problem, but I am not able to correct it.” Orthodox upbringing. No respect for you. You don’t need to correct immediately all your actions. Understand, the way in which you perceive things and remember about you if that shift happens that is enough. Then slowly the whole thing will get aligned. But we are so egoistic and so arrogant, and so deeply, suffering with guilt, we know we don’t mean what we talk. Not only that, after some time, you start suspecting you don’t even mean what you think. Forget about what you talked. You don’t even mean what you think. It is almost like a corporate world. If you don't mean what you talk, you will be successful in your relationships, if you don’t mean what you think, you will be successful in the corporate world. The layers of hypocrisy. God.

[00:22:55] No really. You don’t even mean what you think, forget about what you talk. It is almost like a structure built just by straw. No backbone. That is why you yourself think, “what am I thinking?” You don’t know. You just don’t know you are thinking. You don’t know what you mean, actually, by your thinking and by your words. I tell you, simple remembrance, will do, 2 things. First, it will collapse the 1st layer of hypocrisy. The 1st layer of hypocrisy. Please understand, there are 2 layers of hypocrisy. One, you don’t mean what you talk. Second, you don’t even mean what you think. You don’t mean what you talk to others is the first layer of hypocrisy. You don’t mean what you talk to yourself is the second layer of hypocrisy. This shift, remembering all these experiences are just to feel free, will collapse the 1st layer hypocrisy. Then the 2nd layer hypocrisy will just disappear automatically, just it’s a course of time, few days, nothing else. It’s like it just, matter of few days, that’s all.

[00:24:30] Collapsing the 1st layer hypocrisy is the real important thing, then, collapsing the 2nd layer hypocrisy. You go on try to fight with the second layer hypocrisy. Sorry. Please understand. You go on try to fight, with the outer layer hypocrisy means that, when you don’t mean what you talk to others, you suffer with that hypocrisy, and try to go on, alter and change that hypocrisy. It will never happen. That is more, more or less like a make-up. You have to do everyday, and it will again be lost. Again you will have to do. You can’t be crying, “oh yesterday only I put the eye liner and lip stick. Today morning again I have to put.” That is the way it is. But collapsing the 2nd layer hypocrisy, is like plastic surgery. You may not need to do every time. That will shift, the whole understanding about you. Whole idea about you. Understand, collapse the second layer means the deeper layer hypocrisy. You don’t mean, what even, what you even, what you think. You don’t even mean what you think. That layer hypocrisy needs to be collapsed, destroyed.

[00:25:54] Understand this 2 layer hypocrisy. I am repeating again and again so you don’t miss it. One layer, the outer layer, you don’t mean what you talk. Second layer, you don’t even mean what you think. You don’t mean what you tell others is, outer layer hypocrisy. You don’t mean what you tell yourself, is the inner layer of hypocrisy. Outer layer of hypocrisy, is felt, understood immediately by you. That is why you go on try to change that. But, the change in outer layer hypocrisy never happens unless you experience the change in the inner layer hypocrisy.

[00:26:51] I have few one liners on hypocrisy. What they really mean, in management circles, when they say something, to others and, to themselves. When they say, “we will do it”, they mean, “You had better do it”. When they say, “You have done a great job” , they mean, “Watch it, you have got more work coming”. When they say, “We were working on it”, they mean, “We have not even got started”. When they say, “Tomorrow the 1st thing in the morning”, they mean, “Next week, maybe”. When they say, “What is your opinion?”, they mean, “This is my view and you better shut up and listen”. When they say, “Let’s call a meeting and discuss it”, they mean, “I don’t have the time to talk to you now”. When they say, “Why don’t we do it together”, they mean, “I am going to hang around while you do the job”. When they say, “We were working on it, as I said”, they mean, “We actually have not even got started”. When they say, “That’s a wonderful question”, they mean, “I don’t have a clue, how to answer you”. When they say, “All the best”, they mean, “You are in trouble buddy”.

[00:29:07] Understand... the double layer hypocrisy. If you have the hypocrisy, you don’t mean what you tell others, you will be successful in relationships. But, if you don’t even mean what you tell yourself, you will be successful in the corporate circle. Put the inner, the, inner hypocrisy & outer hypocrisy. Collapsing of the inner hypocrisy happens by the constant remembrance. That is why, all spiritual traditions always insist on some techniques, which have, which insist on constant remembrance, either remembering God or awareness. In all traditions. The Hinduism has a great powerful practice – Soham, hamsa, hamsa mantra. Even among the Christian mystics, there is a beautiful practice called practicing the presence of God. And in zen, awareness.

[00:30:39] I give you this as a process from Patanjali, today. Remember, all this experience is, just to make you free. With this understanding, enter the world. When you wake up early morning, “Wow, I am experiencing, cool breeze, beautiful, cold feeling, comfortable bed, cosy experience, light early morning sun, because, I have to be free, from all this”. That is all. “I am eating, because I have to be free from all this. I am touching, because I have to be free from all this. I am breathing, because, I have to be free from all this”. Let all experiences be added with one remembrance. “This is provided to me, to be free”. World is free, to make you free. So life is, free-free.

[00:32:28] Remembrance of, this one truth will liberate you from both hypocrisies. Liberation from both hypocrisies is enlightenment. You don’t need to do anything. If you really mean what you think and if you really mean what you talk you are liberated. That is all. Nothing else. When you don’t mean what you talk, when you don’t mean what you think, you are bound. That is where the hypocrisy starts, that is where the suffering starts. Be medium to yourself. Either, you are media for yourself, or you are medium to yourself. When I say medium to yourself, I mean the higher consciousness. Better be medium, to yourself.

[00:33:34] I have few one liners.

Something went wrong in jet crash, expert says. Safety experts say, “School bus passengers, should be belted”. Miners, n-e, m-i-n-e-r-s, miners refuse to work after death. Two soviet ships collide, one dies. Typhoon rips through cemetery, hundreds dead. Kids make nutritious snacks. Astronaut takes blame for gas in the spacecraft. Include your children when baking cookie, cookies.

[00:35:21] Collapse 2 layers of hypocrisy,just by this one smarana. Remembrance of, all these experience, are given to you, to be free. I’ll give you the mahavakya, from Patanjali again.

Prakasha Kriya, Sthithi Seelam, Bhoota Indriya Atmakam, Bhoga, Apavarghaka, Artham Drushyam.

[00:35:55] The seen which is composed of elements, organs, and characterised by illusion, action and inertia, is for the purpose of experience and release of the seer, liberation of the seer. Remember everything is given to you, for, experience, and liberation, of yourself. Remember to liberate yourself, you will be liberated.

[00:36:33] So, today this is the process. Go around experience everything, just by remembering, it is all for liberation. Now sit with this one process. It is all, for liberation. Whatever you experience in the skin, in the mind, in the smell, in the sound, everything, for liberation. Close your eyes and sit. Let you all liberate yourself, experience and radiate the eternal bliss, Nithyananda. Thank you.

[00:37:20] End