“Today’s subject is Altered states of awareness!”

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Today’s subject is Altered states of awareness!

119th Patanjali Yoga Sutras, 3rd chapter 13th verse -

Etena bhoota indriyeshu dharma.. avastha parinaamaha vyakhyanaha

Today I will start exploring one dimension of this sutra. Yesterday I was revealing one truth related to this sutra. When you expand your awareness about your state of consciousness your joy, greed, fear everything changes. Naturally lot of your problems disappear. When the awareness is too clouded, too narrow, it sees even a mustard seed as mountain. Please understand, I will define enlightenment. It means having expanded complete understanding about the cosmos continuously and ability to maintain that understanding in your muscle memory & bio memory continuously that’s all!

If you sit & watch some movie which is related to space where they explain in a detain & interesting way about sun, moon, other stars, galaxies, the whole cosmos. If you see this in a IMAX for 3 hours, you are completely transferred to a diff space and when you come back, you will suddenly understand you are coming back to the earth, country, state, city, finally the compound where you are staying. You will feel Oh god! Such a huge space and we humans what are we such small ants, dust fighting for such silly things! In an aircraft I always think, when in the air it is a different world, but when the aircraft is landing in the compound wall of the airport you think oh God! Where was I, where am I now? That is exactly how I feel when I open my eyes. All that happens in you is just ‘desha’ here patanjali uses the word bhoota. Just you had a understanding about bhoota – elements – for 2 hours you saw the IMAX movie or were int eh flight, you had a broad understanding of elements that’s all. Just that one understanding moves you to a different state! 2 hours you see some movie related to space & slowly get back to this so called ugly dirty 3rd rate abused reality – that is the truth! This petty 3rd rate dirty consciousness of many humans has divided the planet earth so strongly, systematically the moment you enter, the moment air craft lands the airport, you know your very consciousness is getting into a kind of an ideological prison – this state, this country, these are the laws, rules, regulations – this is the way you are supposed to act. Poor human beings! If you just have the understanding of an element for 2-3 hours how you feel if you come back to this foolishness – Oh God! How nice it will be if I stayed there itself!

In the example of the aircraft when you are in the air, the whole earth is just like a speck of dust and you don’t bother who is judge, who is PM, who is CM..but when you come down and land, suddenly you realize – Oh God! You are in a large prison. Understanding of one element itself can give so much freedom. Then if the 5 things - Time, element, state, awareness & sense organs – if you understand all this 5 in a very broad way, then understand the depth of the freedom and experience. A man who never accepts any meditation technique or any ideology related to surrender and practice – J.K. even he accepts sitting everyday with sunrise & sunset. That is the only ritual he promoted – sitting during sunrise and sunset and surrendering yourself to the whole. That is a very powerful technique – just during sunrise & sunset just sit and connect with the whole. You will suddenly feel – oh God! The universe is so big, your problems are so small!

When you understand life is bigger, broader in this 5 dimensions – elements, sense organs, nature attributes, time factor, awareness states – in this 5 even one if you understand, so much of freedom is experienced! I am not saying if you understand & experience that freedom you will dump all this. You will give importance to all this only how much you require. I tell you it is better to have a kingdom rather than having a kingdom possess you! Your inner space is too precious to be possessed by anything else.

Just in one element if you are liberated how you feel. Through all 5 characteristics I am liberated. Then how will I feel? But still I land, just to tell you how it feels up there!

Comments on a question from someone who comments on he sitting on his Golden throne…

Annam brahmeti! – food is good. Sense it experience it with your hand and then imbibe it. When you touch with your hand and imbibe it, you are hugging your food! In plate if you put the food, you may not be aware and you can see here & there. But when you eat in Banana leaf, you will have attention completely on the food ☺ Unless you are completely aware of the food, you cannot eat the food! You will have to constantly manage the borders of the leaf so that the food does not flow out. You are almost playing & living with food. Our furnitures, eating, way of living – everything is connected to spirituality!

Even if you understand in one element the freedom, you will understand how binding this ordinary world is. So if you understand the freedom in all dimensions and able to retain that in your bio memory, that is what I call enlightenment! Understand this one example – today try to do this – watch some movie or youtube clip related to space for 1 or 2 hours, when you come back to normal or abnormal space how you feel the diff. if this one element can give you so much freedom, if you feel this with all 5 how much more you will feel. Share this with at least 5 people. And if you have any questions, c omments or people who want to come along, bring all these 3 to the satsang tomorrow.

This one truth – if you feel the expanded broad understanding of the elements how you feel liberated, when you come down how you feel bound – then if you understand the broadness in all 5 dimensions what will happen? This one truth, go down and share – enroll at least 5 people for this truth. At least share this with 5 people and enroll them for it.

Comments on a question from someone who comments on mistakes in his English when he talks…

Aasha prayoga means whatever master utters you cannot find any grammar mistakes in it. Whatever he utters is ultimate. Because I am trying to express that which cannot be expressed. So I cannot be using or putting myself into the constraints of language and the grammar written by fools who have not seen anything beyond words! That is why in Sanskrit, the Sanskrit grammar has been created by people who have seen things beyond words like Patanjali. He knows so many are going to see the space beyond words, that is why he created this – whatever a master speaks is aasha prayoga – so it cannot come under any rules and regulations. So whatever I talk whether it is English, tamil, Sanskrit or any other language all I utter is aasha prayoga – the meaning I give is the meaning for it! So what is the problem in this? I say, you listen – you understand. You say, I listen – why grammar? What for is language? To express what I am trying to express and for you to understand what I am expressing. That’s all! When the purpose is solved what is the problem. It is like I am pointing towards the moon. You catch the hand and hang with it and sometimes bite it! Just look at the moon! That’s all. Why waste your brain into some useless things. Here I am trying to sit and explain some extraordinary things and I learnt the whole thing in Sanskrit which is so complicated and I am trying to put it in common man’s language…

Let us come back to the subject. Understand this one truth today – even if you feel liberated in one element, how you feel your whole life – fear, problems, anxiety everything has disappeared for those few hours – when you come back the problem starts. Ability to retain that freedom where your anger, fear, greed everything disappears is enlightenment! Even if in one element how it becomes different if you are liberated in all 5 – time, senses, condition, awareness & elements – how different your life will be? tomorrow I will give you a detailed step by step technique to be liberated from all these 5.

Share this truth with at least 5 people. If you have questions, bring them, if you have answers bring them, if you have people who understood this truth, bring them also to tomorrow’s satsang. Blessings!