“Let us enter into today’s satsang.”

Prayer. Welcome. Understand feel you are the mirror and everything is mirroring you. every action, every idea, every thought even the idea that you are female, male, man, woman – any idea even an idea that you are a human being is a just an idea, a reflection from a lie! So just see that you are a pure mirror – mirroring all the fun, chaos, greed whatever is happening – you are just mirroring!

Let us enter into today’s satsang. Today’s subject is Art of mind reading! Patanjali is giving a very powerful samyama on mind reading.

141st Patanjali Yoga Sutras, 3rd chapter 35th verse

Hridaye chittha samvith

Vivekananda: thru samyama on the heart comes knowledge of the mind

Prabhavananda; by making samyama on the heart one gains know of contents of mind

Satchitananda: by making samyama on the heart know of heart stuff is obtained

Osho: by perfo samyama on the heart brigns awareness on the nature of the mind.

Samvith is a keyword in this sutra. Let me give you the exact translation & the sacred secret hidden behind this sutra. Here Hridaye does not mean heart. Ramana Maharshi again & again clarifies, whenever the word ‘hridaye’ is used in our scriptures, it is not the heart but the ananda Gandha. Patanjali has given so many different samyamas. He is today taking us to the ultimate point, to the omega through the ananda gandha. When you do samyama on the ananda gandha 2 things will happen. The stuff out of which your mind is made will be revealed to you and you settle in the no mind space and the stuff out of which others minds are made will be revealed to you and you will simply know how to live. ananda gandha is located below the heart centre. There is no specific point. When you remain in that space, suddenly you will get sucked. The point where you get sucked is ananda gandha.

Today’s samyama should be done only after you do yesterday’s samyama – prateebha. That samyama prepares you. unless you do the samyama on prateebha you will not be able to practice today’s samyama. See, pure sky is different, cloudless is diff. cloudless means there is no negativity. Pure sky means the very air is also pure. At least you should reach the level of cloudlessness. To that level you will reach only when you do samyama on prateecha. This samyama on ananda gandha is more like purifying the very air so that you can see the pure sky! Just below the anahata bring your awareness and see how every thought comes inside you, every movement happens in you and do samayama on that movement. The stuff from which mind is made, ideas are evolving, stuff from which the existence of I comes up, that stuff is ananda gandha! That stuff is samvith. By the word samvith that stuff is what is being meant by Patanjali. When you look at somebody if you want to read his mind, don’t see the head. NO. look at the ananda gandha space. When you look into your ananda gandha how you look, with the same awareness into others ananda gandha then you will know what they are thinking. But before that you need to look into your own ananda gandha. First you need to know what you think because you don’t even know what you think. I know people take decisions without even being aware of what they are thinking. That is the reason for all their suffering!

If I give technique which is mind based I don’t know if they do or not, I gave all physical spiritual practices to my Ashramites. But this also they don’t do. I looked and saw that they don’t know what they think! Even in your life, you don’t know what you are doing because you don’t think. You don’t know why you get married, why you want children, why you want to work. You are not aware of why your life is the way it is. One side you go on stretching your fantasy. The other side you go on denying your creativity. Spiritual sadhana is creativity. Every morning when you bend your body & do intense yoga, praanaayaaama & the unique work out which I designed combining best of hata yoga, traditional body building system along with kundalini awakening with modern equipment so that your muscles don’t get damaged – all these things are direct spiritual practice. Everyday just like construction is done with cement, brick, with spiritual Akhada and body I am building your body with new muscle memory!

Unfortunately we don’t even think and we don’t even know what we think! Better than knowing what others are thinking, it is better to first know what you are thinking so that your life becomes more blissful, more joyful! First time I made the spiritual practice as fun. That is why people take spiritual practice for granted. Yesterday’s samyama if you read the orthodox translations and practice, you will never be able to do it. based on what I learnt I made the practice just hang a mirror and go around – spontaneously you will get enlightened. Same way anything I make will put you into spiritual experience intensely. Unfortunately, you don’t think, you don’t bother nor you understand. Again & again & again look in – find out the stuff out of which your thoughts are made, stuff out of which your mind is made. You will know what you think & you will know what others think! It is a samyama which can directly enrich your life. If you know what you think, you will simply be able to know what others think. If you know the chaos inside you, you will know the chaos happening outside you. doing samyama on ananda gandha just below the heart centre. I wanted to define the samyama. Samyama means doing Dharana, Dhyana, Samadhi on that subject which in this sutra is the ananda gandha and becoming one with that stuff, becoming one with that idea – this is Samyama on hridaye, on hridaya. On ananda gandha let you experience the pure conscious space so that just like that you will know if any thought happens in you and you will know if any thought happens in others. Reflection – chitha samvith! Hridaye chitta samvith – on the heart do the samyama so that you know what you are thinking & what others are thinking. I do not want to add much words to it. you cannot do this samyama unless you don’t do yesterday’s samyama – prateebha. I speaking on this so that this is on record for future.

This is the essence. Learning to find out what you think is more important than learning to find out what others think. First learn your mind reading. Then you will be able to read others mind. I think I will leave you with the pure translation & sacred secret from this sutra. Blessings!