“Anything beside your being and the body that you have is possession and…”

Prayer. Welcome. I have a question from a devotee. I will answer the question and then enter into the next sutra.

Anything beside your being and the body that you have is possession and let go. Is it like being in your inner space only, no outside you….

Answer: You got the point. Exactly. That is what exactly I was saying. Now I am repeating. When you do not possess other than what you experience as you. see the authentic experience of you as you can never be body and mind. It is beyond. It is super consciousness. So anything which you see beyond you as you is you. so just don’t be possessive for anything other than you. The power of this technique I can prove in your life within 21 hours. Just 21 hours consciously decide not to possess your body. Walk around, do things with this. Immediately you will see your sugar and BP will go down. This is a solid proof you will have how the right idea brings help to you immediately. Just try one day you will see. This is also a technique to grow hair! Just don’t be possessive about your body and you will see you will grow hair ☺

Just this one alteration in your inner space can change the very way you exist.

Today’s sutra is 91st sutra overall, 2nd chapter 40th verse –

Souchaat swaanga jugupsaa parayiir a sansargaha

Vivekananda: when he is established in internal and external cleanliness there arises in him disgust in one’s own body and non intercourse with others.

Prabhavananda: As a result of purity there arises a disgust for body and non intercourse with other bodies.

Satchit: By purification arises disgust for one’s own body and contact with others body.

“Souchaat swaanga jugupsaa parayiir a sansargaha”

I defer only in one place with orthodox translation of this sutra.

Souchaat – owing to purity. Establishing yourself in purity.

Swa anga – your own body

Jugupsa – the orthodox translation many acharyas translate this word as aversion, disgust. But I will translate this word as distancing. Now the whole meaning is different ☺

Orthodox translations translate this as - if you establish yourself in inner and outer purities, you will have the disgust for intercourse with other bodies and you will be disgusted with your own body. That is the rough idea many translators are trying to give.

I can say this one misunderstanding has created the worst sin in Bharatn spiritual tradition. The Jugupsa being understood as aversion, disgust. This idea is almost like a thorn inserted into the Bharatn conscience. This idea and misunderstanding is responsible for the whole untouchability and all sufferings Bharat went through because of this. Somehow we gave weapon to western world to destroy us.

Souchaat swaanga jugupsaa parayiir a sansargaha

If you are established in purity of your own body, you will distance from your body and the physical relationship with other bodies. I will try to translate. If you are established in the purity of your own body. First let me define the word purity – do not mix the indriya and the parts of the body, organs of the body that is what I exactly mean by the word purity. Please understand, your eyes are not seeing. There is a Indriya called chakshu and that sees Through the eye., chakshu is not the eye. Eye is a organ, part of the body. Something else sees through the eye. Having awareness that you are looking through the Indriyas is purity.

Like a ripe tamarind fruit lives inside the shell untouched knowing clearly you are looking through the eyes, ears, tongue. You are experiencing through the body. Suddenly, you will learn the science of joy. When you are aware you are looking through the eye, you will know what all will give you joy. You will create the same scenes with the chakshu without even seeing the actual thing! 50% of your life goes in what is it that gives you that joy. By that time you are in some other profession where that joy is no more available. Soucha – being aware that you are living through your body. Then naturally you will know the science of joy. You will know what is the scene that again & again brings joy. If you have the soucha, within few weeks you will find out which scene repeatedly brings joy to you. which sound brings joy to your ears. Which taste brings joy. You will not be wasting your time running around testing. Be like a tamarind fruit inside the shell. Always feel yes I am inside this body. So all this senses I am using. I tell you every space where you experience, there is a liquid in your body. That liquid will become alive if you understand you are using that part of the body. If you understand what I am saying, you will understand the science of pleasure. Whenever you exp pleasure of taste, the whole mouth will become watery. When you bring in awareness on that spot also, again the whole mouth becomes watery. So saucha brings pleasure. The aversion of the body cannot take you away from the intercourse with other bodies. Please understand.

I am revealing one of the deep secrets. If you have aversion towards your body and other body you will just get into pornography and violent sex. Person who is more & more disgusted for his own and other body will not be able to suppress his desire for sex or disgusting disgust he has for sex. The fight will create perversion in the porno industry. Misunderstanding of this sutra has created untouchability in the east and pornography in the west. Soucha is not supposed to lead disgusting or aversion towards your body or other bodies. NO. if you are disgusted about your body and the other body naturally that disgusting feeling aversion cannot lead you to brahmacharya. How can that lead you to the non-intercourse or non touching of other body. NO.

The other day I was reading a book. It gives you a technique for brahmacharya – to visualize your body and other body as blood, flesh and bones and then you will become brahmachari. I thought oh God! NO. aversion or disgust feeling may only lead to suppression but will not work any other way. The romance will be lost in the physical pleasure and it will be a intense animalistic perversion. The base of porno industry.

So saucha and the word jugupsa need to be understood very clearly. Saucha is not continuously washing, washing. Patanjali is not interested in creating a washing mania. I know how many communities have this washing mania! The soucha is not washing mania. Keep your body clean. No doubt. But saucha is like a tamarind fruit. How the fruit and shell live independently but together. Whenever you know you are looking thru the eyes, the liquid, chemical needed to see will be more alive and pleasing. Same way tongue, smell, touch, the ears – everything. Be inside your body knowing that you are different and the senses which you are enjoying or using are different. Suddenly you will know the science of pleasure what gives you pleasure again & again. You will not waste your time in trail and error. You will just know oh this gives me pleasure. Naturally you will have pleasure without the outside object or with minimum touch of outside object. Suddenly you will see 90 things are not required in your life and the suffering related with all the 90 things will disappear. Even the 10 may not exist. Or even if they exist, it will be like a play for you. you may not be bound by it. The saucha leads to non intercourse with other bodies only if you understand the right meaning of it that you are living inside the body. Chakshu is different, eyes are different, vaak is different tongue is different, srodra graana is different ears are different.

When you understand that you are using the body, first thing you will not have intercourse with your own body. Then you may not need intercourse with other body. When you are not agitated about your body, you will naturally not touch some bodies or touch some bodies with aversion. Understand, the perversion of untouchability and perversion of pornography both will have happen if you have aversion and disgusting feeling for your body and other body. Jugupsa word should be understood as distancing not aversion. Aversion and disgust feeling toward your body and other body is responsible for perversion and porno. You are not supposed to develop aversion. Because it will be broken by the harmone build up. And you need to know one thing, when the harmone gets built up, all the ideas of aversion everything is just thrown out of the window! That idea is not going to help you. if want to achieve the real brahmacharya the non-intercourse with other body, you need to understand saucha in right angle. Saucha is being free inside your body. Just feel you are using this body. You are seeing through the eyes, hearing through the ears, tasting thru the tongue, smelling thru the nose enjoying touch thru this body. You will feel you are sacred and other bodies are sacred and will be liberated from the need for inter course. You will become a person of non-intercourse.

Aversion leads to perversion. The word jugupsa I can say some of the words when they are wrongly translated or misunderstood it creates such big nuisance to the human civilization. This is one of the biggest mistake happened by the wrong understanding.

Once in a remote old monastery which was protecting a sacred scripture had a monks conference. In that monastery they were protecting an old scripture which no one is allowed to see. They replicated copies of this scripture. So in the conference the head of the monastery was crying. Every body asked what happened? he said – today I read the original book and in the original book in a word there is one letter extra which is printed. Monks said oh just one letter it is okay. He said no it is a very imp letter. The original book says – celebrate – on the copy the ‘r’ is missing. The sentence was ‘celebrate to reach God!’ which became ‘celebate to reach God!’ Understand just the one letter created so much of chaos and misunderstand. So one misunderstanding can lead to so much of chaos. That is why I am saying sometimes just because it is age old, you cannot carry on with it.

Vivekananda says – if taking bath in Ganges gives liberation then fishes in Ganges must have become enlightened long before! That will help but that alone will not help. So jugupsa must be understood not as disgusting but distancing.

Blessings!