“1st chapter, 1st section, 18th sutra –”

Prayer. Welcome all the devotees, disciples, samajis, satsangis.

1st chapter, 1st section, 18th sutra –

Kamaacha naanu maanaapeksha!

Swami Gambhirananda: there can be no reliance on inference arriving at praadhana owing to the mention of desire

Swami Veereshwarananda: And on account of the word bliss literally desire referring to Brahman you cannot infer anandamaya is also Brahman since the suffix maya is used to denote modification.

Shivananda: because of wishing or willing in the scriptural passage, we cannot say even inferentially that anandamaya means pradhana.

The sacred secret in this sutra which you need to understand is pradhaana, please understand pradhaana as I mean – I give the meaning to the word pradhaana - source, Brahman, existence, cause, intelligence. Source has no desire and nothing to achieve. Please understand, desire can neither happen to the bliss. How can bliss desire anything else? Everybody everything may desire bliss but bliss does not desire anybody or anything. So the source which is bliss & intelligence does not have desire. So based on this sacred secret many more understandings we need to reach. Intelligence, the energy -source cannot have desire. Same way matter also cannot have desire. How can matter have desire? It is inert, dead. How can a dead thing have desire? How can intelligence - energy can have desire? Source, which is intelligence, which is energy, cannot have desire. Same way, the matter because of its nature it is dead, cannot have desire. Then where exactly desire is happening? Desire is happening when the matter tries to move towards energy. Please understand, desire is happening when the matter tries to move towards energy, but unfortunately, you attribute that desires to energy, to the self. Let me make it very clear. It is like a when you are driving fast, you feel trees are all running against you. Trees are not running against you, you are attributing in a wrong way. When the matter wants to achieve your state – bliss, and intensely moving towards you, unfortunately you assume you have desire and make a big mess out of it. The moment you start thinking you have desire, you start fighting with it or whatever you do is wrong. It is like the moment you assume all the trees in the road side are running towards you, whatever you think and do is wrong. You may feel, they are running towards me I should run – no, I should fight with them – no, I should cut them – no. any decision you make is going to be wrong because the assumption you did is wrong. The poorva paksha you did is wrong. When I use the poorva paksha I mean – the basic calculations you do before proceeding to any decisions, that poorva paksha itself is wrong! For example, before coming to the ashram you do all the poorva paksha – why should I go there? Will he be there? Will he help me? you do the poorva paksha. If the poorva paksha is done properly, you will receive what you want properly. If the poorva paksha is done properly, you will receive whatever you get here properly and you will go. If poorva paksha is not done properly, you will end up with receiving wrong things. When you do wrong poorva paksha, whatever decision you make or do is going to be wrong. The basic sacred secret revealed in this sutra is bliss Brahman cannot have desires. And all desires, all movements are because the matter tries to move towards the Brahman. Please understand matter also does not have any desire. It cannot have any desire. How can matter have any desire? It is dead. It cannot have any desire. Then what exactly is the definition of desirese? When matter moves towards energy to become energy, the wrong cognition happens in the side of the energy is desire. The wrong assumptions you make when matter moves towards you is desire. When you are driving in the car, suddenly for few moments you feel all the trees are running towards you - that assumption you make all the trees are running towards you is desire. That assumption is not right. But you make it due to some reason. Same way, when the mater moves towards the energy. See understand, by its very nature, the heavy object intense object attracts all other smaller ones and digests everything into it. That is what is black hole. Black hole is nothing but the highest intense consciousness just sucking the whole and swallowing it! So naturally energy is in highest frequency. Bliss in highest frequency. Try for next 2 days to be in intense bliss. If you add anything from outside and be blissful that is not bliss. Understand. Without adding anything from outside just be blissful, you will see just you are in a higher frequency. Whenever you are in a higher frequency, all the other things are attracted towards you. It is by nature that higher frequency, all other lower frequency objects get pulled to it. It is by nature that matter is lower frequency and energy is higher frequency. So by very law, by very flow matter gets attracted to energy. But without understanding, without assuming, without realizing, without looking in, if you are deciding you have desires your cognition is wrong. It is wrong. Cognition is useless. It is like exactly this example only will match – when you are driving your car, be very clear all trees will look as if they are running towards you. You feeling oh how many trees I am running towards me is like you saying I have so many desires. Relax. Your house is running towards you, your property is running towards you, your wealth is running towards you, your relationships is running towards you, your car is running towards you. But you feel – oh! I have all these desires, what should I do? should I work for it, should I leave it – any decision you take is wrong. Over! Source is desire free.

I am not boasting, if just this one truth humanity is ready to listen, I tell you, Vyaasa can solve the whole suffering in humanity. As I said the other day, when I was at the apple store in New York I saw not a single man is conscious of who he is and what for he is running. It is like after doing 3, 4 hours of exercise, suddenly you feel dull. You don’t even know what for you are walking, where you are walking, everything is so dull. Exactly that is what I saw. Source bliss cannot have desires. Matter dead, inert cannot have desires. Desire is wrong cognizance you take while matter moves towards the energy by its very nature! When the matter moves towards the source because of its very natural flow, you assume, take wrong cognizance that something is wrong in you. You do have desires. You need to either fulfill them, or suppress them, or reject them, or transform them. Still I do not understand this foolish word transformation. What do you mean by the word transformation? I don’t understand. I wanted all of you to know the word transformation has no meaning in spirituality. When the basic assumption is wrong, what will you transform? For example now when you assume all the trees both sides are running towards you, you transformed the trees or what? No. You just realize it is a foolish assumption. I can say you realizing your foolishness can be called as transformation. That’s all. The basic assumption that you have desire is wrong. I can say this is the right sutra just for today. This is the right time to talk about this sutra. I can say you can open your third eye now. Opening your 3rd eye means realizing if I am bliss how can I desire anything? No. if I am matter, matter is dead. Then, how can I desire anything? No. then where is the desire, where is the kaama? Where is the source of all anguish, suffering, pain, desire? Where is all this? Understand, by nature bliss attracts abundance. By nature matter merges into the energy. This flow the matter being pulled into the energy is flow of life. Unfortunately, you have taken the wrong cognizance of that flow. In that chaotic confusion you started thinking you are running towards matter. It is not. If you are running into matter, why should you rest in the space where there is no matter exists every day. You just recoil yourself and rest in the deep restful awareness silence every night in the deep sleep. If you have desire, why should you get every day in that space? Why not spend that time also in desire? No. desire is the wrong cognizance you have taken about the flow of your energy. No such thing as desire exists.

When one wrong cognizance is taken by you that - you have desire. Now, whether you flow with that cognizance or try to oppose the cognizance, whatever you do, you are in a mess. First the very cognizance should be withdrawn from your inner space. Today the subject for vaada prativaada, for eNdebate is - do we have desires? Can we have desires? Can desire exist in bliss? Can desire exist on matter? Analyze, do eNdebate on these 4 – can desire exist in energy – bliss? Can desires exist in matter? Do we have desires? Can we have desires? Analyze do eNdeabte on this 4 – can desire exist in energy – bliss? Can desire exist in matter? Do we have desire? Can we have desire? Drill yourself with vaada prativaadas in eNdebate. Because of the wrong cognizance you go on & on & on – endless suffering. Unless you turn towards the source and address the problem in the source, there is no solution. There is no clarity. There is no possibility of liberation. Some commentators are commenting on this sutra so badly. It is neither useful in day to day life nor giving you more technical knowledge or helping you to understand the shaastra pramaana. Nothing. It is there.

Right cognition of the existence is transformation! Right cognition of the existence is transformation! Understand, right understanding of existence is transformation! Once you understood trees are not running towards you, when you drive fast by nature you will experience that kind of scene. Neither trees are running towards you nor you are running towards the trees. You are running in your own way, they are running on their own. It is due to wrong cognizance that you think they are running towards you. You are driving on your own on the road. They are standing on their own in the side of the road. But during the process you take wrong cognizance. It is like during some riots in that confusion and chaos, chaotic mood you just don’t know. who is beating who you don’t know. Many of the same party fellows beat their own party fellows and take revenge! Just like you cannot take right cognizance during the riots in the confusion and chaos, chaotic movement, you just do not know. And that not knowing which one is flowing towards which the cognizance you take as you having desire is the original sin! Understand that is what is Adam eating the apple from the knowledge tree. The original sin is the wrong cognizance you take that you have desire. You need to sit and churn out all these truths, not just listening. eNdebate has to happen with intense coolness not heat. We are not interested in hot debates No. We are interested in cool debates. We should churn, churn, churn with the vaada prativaada – how can matter have desire because it is dead. How can energy have desire because it is bliss. Then, do we have desire – yes, can we have desire – no. Do we have desire, naturally based on factual cognition you have have to say yes. Can we have desire, if you look in you will know – No. Then how can this yes and no meet each other? Drill. Let the eNdebate happen intensely. eNdebate can happen intensely only when you are expressing by all the conclusions you came by yesterday’s eNdebated. That is another imp thing. If you have come to conclusion in vaada prativaada yesterday, then from today, you should start expressing it. Nidhi dhyasana should start happening. Otherwise whatever you debated will go in the air, that’s all. It will not become part of you. Actually every eNdebate should lead to manana means internalizing and nidhi dhyasana expressing. The essential truths should be internalized and expressed very clearly through the proper eNdebate. Neither you have desire nor you have fears which came because of desire or you have the worries - outcome of fear & desire, or any other chaos and confusion comes out due to the source called desire. When the very source is not the truth, the very understanding - you having desire is not the truth, then all the other decisions you did based on that is a lie! I am just picking up right words to transmit to you because I just know I don’t have desire, I never had nor I can have desire. You do not know the freedom you feel when you just know you do not and cannot have desires! Then the whole thing becomes just play – game. What for you are working, aah chumma! Why? It is okay, time pass! That is why for the great masters, their life is called leela. Krishna leela, rama leela, Ramakrishna leela. It is not work. They know. That is why Krishna says in the Gita – I have finished all my duties. Duty comes when you have desire, responsibility comes when you have desire. Krishna says I finished everything. Means he realized by nature he cannot have desires. He cannot have desires by his very nature!

If you think you are body & mind, you are dead you can’t have desire. If you think you are source -consciousness naturally you can’t have desire because you are bliss. Then what is desire? You think you are body & mind. But you mistake that your body & mind consciously being pulled into super consciousness is desire. When you try to pull and merge it into the super consciousness and in that speed you have the wrong cognizance and you think you have desire. If we can teach kids – how we take wrong cognition, you create new humanity. Just this one lesson. That’s all. The joy you experience is from the source not from desires. Don’t take wrong cognizance. Don’t even think you have desires. You cannot and you do not. When you understand this, suddenly you will know you have done everything need to be done in your life. Understanding you have done everything you need to be done in your life is liberation. That is liberation! Till then you cannot have liberation. Realizing you have done everything which you can do, you need to do in your life. That is liberation! An agitated mind cannot take right cognizance. Agitated mind always takes wrong cognizance.

Sit with this one sacred secret you cannot have desires. As bliss - you cannot have desire. As body, mind – you cannot have desire. Then what is desire? Wrong cognizance! Sit with this one sacred secret! Close your eyes and sit with this one truth. Let this one truth awaken your non-mechanical parts of your brain. Sit and fill yourself with enlightenment and clarity. Blessings!