Ashtanga Yoga - Asana: Reprogram Your Brain (Patanjali Yoga Sutras 99)

I welcome you all, with My love and respects. Dear devotees and disciples, from all over the world, let Me enter into the yoga sutra, the today's Patanjali Yoga Sutra. Today's sutra is 99th sutra, in 2nd chapter, 48th verse. Subject is 'Reprogram Your Brain'.

ततो द्वन्द्वानभिघातः॥४८॥

tato dvandvaanabhighaataH

That is the sutra. I'll give you the translation.

By Swami Vivekananda: Posture being conquered, the dualities do not obstruct.

And Swami Prabavananda translates as: Thereafter, one is no longer troubled by the dualities of sense experience.

Swami Satchidananda translates as: thereafter one is not disturbed by the dualities.

In this sutra, Patanjali tries to explain how after conquering the posture, the pain and pleasure of the body is conquered. You are no more caught by it. Please understand, the last sutra, I have detailed way explained, how to conquer posture. 'Sukham, Sthiram, Aasanam' - Steady and comfortable. Now I'll give you a technique, I'll make you do that. Last time I explained the theory of being steady and comfortable. 'Sthiram Sukham'. Now I'll give you the exact technique.

Please understand, I'll give you the instruction for the technique, how to make your body balanced. After giving the instruction, I'll explain step by step how keeping the body balanced takes you beyond pain and pleasure. See, if you keep the body balanced, you know you will not have pain. You will have a stable, steady posture. You may be wondering, how can that take me beyond pleasure? Actually when you keep the body balanced, the intense, innate, inside pleasure gets awakened. Please understand, your muscle, by its nature, creates pleasure, just because it is alive. I don’t know how you are going to catch what I am saying. If the life force is infused into the muscle, if the muscle is aware that it is alive, it will create pleasure. So, when you balance your body, the life force is experienced inside muscle, which leads to intense, inner pleasure, which takes you beyond the outer pleasure.

J Krishnamurti says, “When you enjoy any pleasure, just be aware. Only once go through any pleasure being aware, you will be completed in that pleasure and you will be liberated from it.” This is what J Krishnamurti means. When you are alive, when you are alive in your muscles, the pleasure created is so strong, so intense, you will go beyond the outer pleasure.

Let Me give you the instruction exactly, for balancing.

Sit either in, vajrasana or padmasana or sukhasana. Then try to find out in which position your upper body feels most light, weightless. You see, if you push your body…. don’t do now, first listen to the instruction. If you push your body with closed eyes like this [forward], you know, you will feel the weight of the body, and slowly try to bring [backwards]. At one point when it is straight, when the equilibrium is completely balanced, when the whole weight falls in the centre, you will feel your body is weightless. Same way try side, left side, you will feel the heaviness of the body, and again slowly, raise your body. Actually when you balance like this, if you wear like this heavy jewel it will be useful, heavy rudraksha, you will really catch the exact point. So one more use of energy beads!! If you balance at one point you will see, again your body is weightless. Push the body to the right side, again start step by step with deep awareness. Bring your body slowly, at one point you will see, “WOW, I am weightless”! Same way backside; slowly bring, at one point you will feel you are weightless. Try this in all four direction, you will find the balance posture for you.

It may take totally 3 to 4 minute. That’s it, nothing else. You need to bend to the front, feel the heaviness of the body and slowly push it back. You need to bend side, feel the weight, and slowly push it to the center and this side and backside. Any, any direction, in this four any direction you can start, but you need to do from all four, only then you will find out that balance point, for you. Only then you will find out the balance point for you. Please understand, the moment you find out your balance point and be centered, immediately you'll see, there is no pain, you can sit for any number of hours.

Actually next four days, all the NSP participants you can see, practically I will be sitting with you around 10 hours. You will not see Me having any discomfort or uncomfort. You will see exactly Me sitting in the same posture. You can note, next four days you can see, I'll be sitting exactly in this same posture, 10 hours a day with you all. At least, at least 10hrs a day, you will not see Me having any discomfort, uncomfort, anything. Last 10 years, at least 10,000 hours I would have sat in this same posture; no discomfort, no uncomfort, no pain, nothing. Your body will master, the posture.

When you sit in the proper posture, and have the samana mudra, immediately you will experience the psychological kundalini awakening, means you will become light. Psychological levitation will happen. You will become light; then few days of practice, the physical levitation also will happen. Please do not imitate samana mudra from Me. See, whenever I do samana mudra, I put left thumb on the top. You don't imitate. You do only right thumb on the top. Actually, I am imbalancing samana little bit, only then I will not levitate, that's why. So I'll just imbalance little bit, so that I can be settled and not only….. Of course, I don't physically levitate. I have balanced that much. Even otherwise to talk, to relate with you all I need to little, very mild percent, but samana need to be little imbalanced. Imbalanced means like a other energies need to be added, kept live. So whenever I put myself in samana mudra, it will be left thumb up, but whenever you do, it is supposed to be right thumb up.

Now, let us balance. Let Me give the instruction. Push the body to the front side, and slowly move back and find out at what posture, your body is completely balanced and weightless. Let us do the first step. Please push the body forward, as much as you can and get it back very slowly, very slowly. First feel the heaviness of the body. Push it forward, feel the heaviness, weight of the upper body. Backbone should be straight. It should be straight. Then slowly bring it back. Please try this balancing.

Then push the body left side now, left side. Feel the heaviness, weight of the body, and slowly bring it back. Find out the center, the center in which body is weightless. Now push the body to the right side, fully, completely. Push it as much as you can. Slowly bring it back to the center. And, try to find the center where you are weightless. Now push the body backward, push it backside, as much as you can. Bring it back, very slowly, very slowly, with awareness. Find the point, you are weightless. If you want, you can take few more seconds and try once more from any direction you want. Right or left or back or front.

Now, let us understand, what Patanjali means by, tato dvandvaanabhighaataH. When the posture is conquered, there is no dualities; means, pain and pleasure, excitement and boredom. Body completely feels balanced, settled, alive. So all we need to do is aligning the body. Every day before you sit for your meditation, take these 3 minutes and align your body. You will see now, all the aligned body, the kundalini awakening will be very easy. When the body is aligned, the awakening of the kundalini becomes very easy. Just, the backbone structure is such; the energy very easily flows from center to center to the crown.

I'll guide you all into the simple process of balancing your backbone. See now, what we did, with that you balanced your backbone posture externally. I'll align your nadi's - energy centers now internally. Don't move the body now. Once you freeze it, freeze it. Seattle, stay still. Once you freeze, then just be still. If your body moves because of the kundalini awakening then it is okay. You yourself don’t move in ordinary way. I'll awaken your inner energy and align your posture, through this proper syllables; the beeja mantras

OM

(PROCESS)

Let your root center be completely awakened. Let the kula kundalini,, kudalini maha shakti, in your root center, be awakened, Let the Ganesha, Mahadeva, who is stable in your root centre be alive.

OM

Let the kundalini shakti, in your swadishtana, being centered, be alive and awakened.

OM

Let your manipuraka be awakened.

Let the kundalini shakti align itself and flow towards the crown center.

Let it reach the crown center and experience the communion with Sadashiva, Maheshwara.

The kundalini intensely penetrate your every cell, your cell energy; let it become alive and active. Let your bio energy overflow in your body.

Let the awakened kundalini shakti, reach the crown center and the crown centre feel the overflowing energy and bliss.

OM HREEM OM HREEM OM HREEM OM HRAAM OM HREEM

OM NAMAH SHIVAYA OM NAMAH SHIVAYA OM NAMAH SHIVAYA

RELAX.

I bless you all. Live, radiate, share the Eternal Bliss, Nithyananda.

Thank you.