“148th Patanjali Yoga Sutras, 3rd chapter 42nd verse”

Prayer. Welcome. Today is the new year’s day of vedic solar calendar. Not only New Year’s day, today is Devi’s Pattabhisheka coronation. This year is all sorts of victory for us. I have message from Chicago, Kumkum has started appearing from paadukas in Chicago in our satsang centre. Today’s subject is Divine power of clairvoyance!

148th Patanjali Yoga Sutras, 3rd chapter 42nd verse

Srotra aakaashayoho sambandha samyamaat divyam srotram

Vivekananda: through samyama and the relation between the ear and the aakasha comes divine hearing

Prabhavananda: by making samyama on the relation bet ear and ether one obtains super natural powers of hearing

Satchitananda: by samyama on the relationship between ears and ether super normal hearing becomes possible

Osho: by performing samyama on the relationship between the ether and the ear super physical hearing becomes available

The keyword in the sutra is divyam srotram – the divine hearing. I wanted to translate this word divine hearing in 3 ways – 1. Able to hear whatever is happening inside, 2. able to hear anything happens anywhere in the world outside – not only happens, happened also. 3. Ability to hear the cosmic sound, the soundless sound created by the whole cosmos moving, being alive.

Ability to hear whatever is happening inside – please understand your heart is pumping, blood is flowing, lungs are functioning. If you can hear the pumping of your heart you can avoid your heart getting damaged the moment pressure goes up and pulse rate goes up you will know I am not supposed to eat all the junk which I am grabbing and dumping inside the body, it is time I should become little more disciplined. You will alter because you know something is seriously wrong inside. for example, if you have a cut in the finger you don’t keep quiet. If your doctor says in this case don’t eat something, you will obey your doctor. But if he says same thing about heart, you don’t obey because it is not a vivid experience. It is somewhere hidden in a godown. Ability to hear whatever is happening inside. your stomach is shouting from morning till night – sometimes over loaded from outside food, sometimes feeling full because it is not getting cleared properly, too much of inflow and outflow is not proper, it is suffering sending you all kinds of signals. You don’t attend! Not attending intelligently to the sounds created inside the body is the root cause of all physical disorders. I can say even mental disorders. Your brain creates subtle sounds before it creates depression chemicals. If you can be little aware. You don’t even need to be aware of all sounds happening in your body like heart sound and lungs sound. Just sound in the stomach and sound in the head if you are aware of these 2, you will just be informed very clearly before any disorder, disease, disturbance happens in you!

Only punishment for unconsciousness is just disregarding its existence. Not even hating, disregarding. You live with so much of unconsciousness especially related to your body. you do not even know how to disregard it. I can define samyama. Samyama is disregarding unconscious on particular subject in all 3 levels – physical, mental and conscious. In all 3 levels you need to disregard the unconsciousness with which you are living. The sound of your lungs functioning is almost the sound that gets produced in the centre of the cyclone.

Life experienced with pure awareness is Samyama. Patanjali is giving us a powerful samyama to awaken this extraordinary super physical for hearing powers. 1st is hearing all the sounds happening inside, 2nd hearing all the sounds of outside, whatever it is happening, wherever it is happening or happened you will be able to hear through this samyama. And 3rd whatever sound created by the cosmos being alive that is what we call Omkara – pranava hearing that sound is the 3rd power – divyam srotram.

Let us now enter into the exact technique – process. Again before doing this samyama, you need to clean both your ears completely using some of the traditional herbal oils. There are traditional herbal oils, just few drops if you put in your ears, it will completely clean your ears and make it alive so that you can start doing samyama. The contemplation becomes easy. The exact process is visualize the space where the sounds hit your ear drums and becomes experience in you. please understand when the sound hits your ear drum, becomes an experience like a music or a word or just sound. You need to concentrate on both your ear drums – bring your awareness to both your ear drums. Sit on your ear drums with restful awareness and see how the sounds hit it and get converted into information or a file to be attended. Then you attend to that file classifying it as the kind of sound that it is – sound of air, or bird. When the sound comes and hits your ears what exactly happens, how it gets converted into information, contemplate on that. Do samyama on that. This samyama will directly bring you out of depression. Depression is nothing but unconscious processing of unnecessary sounds internally and externally. When you do samyama on the space where the sound is experience, you will realize a great truth that sounds are not only happening from outside but is happening inside also. that is what I call as sound of your inner space. If you do this samyama for 21 days, you will be completely healed of depression and sleeplessness. For Kumbakarana it was working in the extreme level that is why nothing can wake him up. His unconscious was so extreme he was in such a deep depression and mess. His tamas was so huge. He will not even move his body for eating. He had a special kind of a cot. No really. He will just sit up, eat for 6 months and sleep for next 6 months. When he sleeps after 3 months on particular 15 days, he will clear his stomach during sleeping. There used to a huge army to clean. Ravana had become too tired of this job, he built a separate near the ocean so that the drainage becomes easy. I can say the 1st STP on planet earth was built in Srilanka for Kumbakarana. It was too much! I can imagine the size of pipes which Ravana would have used! Kumbakarana was so unconscious about the inner and outer sounds. Not only he cannot be woken up he has taken a boon for Brahma that nobody should disturb his sleep for any reason during the 6 months and he should only wake up naturally after 6 months. Brahma said alright nobody will wake up, don’t worry. This guy asks one more boon, if anybody wakes me up it should become inauspicious to them. Brahma gives that boon. That is why Vibheeshana tells Ravana again & again don’t wake up Kumbakarana. After Vibheeshana moved to Rama’s camp, his daughter reminded Ravana of this. but poor Ravana so much of anger. In anger you do not know when to do the war. Cool guys wait and do things properly but successfully! But these Ravaanas don’t have patience. Anger will not allow the clear decision making intuition to be active and alive. This fool sends a big battalion to beat drums and blowing instruments left and right. They did it for 20 days. Nothing happened. finally Kumbakarana turned his head and just with his breathing, the whole army got blown away. Then they went to the next step of beating him with huge trees carried by elephants. Finally he felt like a mosquito biting him, he used one hand to beat the 1000 elephants and he just put them into the ocean. Kambar who wrote this whole episode in Tamil, writes this in a very beautiful rhythm. When he says all army was using huge trees carried by elephant he uses example of how women grind paddy using the pestle to remove the shell of the rice. So he says just like how women use that pestle to grind the rice. He is comparing that scene with 100s of elephants running and hitting Kumbakarana with huge uprooted trees. Finally they could not do anything. They put fire to his cloth and to his hair. Only after experiencing fire he woke up. That is why the puraana describes very beautifully they put fire on his body just to remind him that he is going to die in few days. He woke up, fought and died in 3-4 days and disappeared into the ocean. Kumba karana means insensitive ears. Most of us are living like kumbakarana in our inner space. Atleast that kumbakarna woke up. You don’t wake up forever. All the thoughts which goes inside you, you don’t hear, it just goes on and on. Kumbakarana is tamas, ravaana is rajas and vibheeshana is satva.

This samyama removes all tamas related problems. But this rajas – anger only misuses the tamas. Kumbakarana otherwise is a nice guy, he does not want to disturb ravana, vibheeshana or rama. He just wants to eat and lie. But this ravana wants to use him. Tamas always wants to feel friendly with rajas. That is the problem. All the problems related to tamas can be cured, healed with this samyama – depression, all problems related to hearing can be cured. I can tell you because your ears become very sensitive, even the problem of over eating can be solved. Because your body sends certain signals to your brain when you have eaten enough. But you are too busy to hear those sounds. All the problems which kumbakarana had – over eating, over sleeping can be healed, depression, unable to sleep also can be healed.

Clean your ears with some herbal cleaning oils. Maybe I can make one specially for cleaning your ears for this samyama and make it available through our eNsiddha products. 2nd sit in a place where there is continuous sound like waterfalls, traffic sound or river flowing, a/c machine or fan sound. Sit in a place where there is a continuous flow of sound. Only then you will be able to do this samyama. Bring your awareness to the space inside your ears where the sound is hitting your ears. Just exactly do samyama on that space and see what is happening, how the sound is hitting your ear drums and how you are experiencing the sounds. That’s all! I will guide you into this samyama for 2 minutes so that you will have an idea. I will use music to create a continuous sound flow. Later on you can try in a place where there is continuous sound flow either artificial or natural.

Please sit straight and close your eyes. Bring your awareness to both your ear drums. You can realize always one ear drum in your body works less than the other naturally. But you put your awareness on both your ear drums. Just see how sound is hitting your ears and how you experience sound. Try this samyama when you find time. It will heal you from all the depression disorders and hearing disorders. Blessings!