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Today’s subject is Consciousness is beyond time!
I will get into deeper sacred secrets about the relationship between consciousness and time!
Patanjali is coming to the end of the great book of books. So he is putting here all he wants you to carry home after his whole discourses. I can say usually even when I speak end of satsang I will just utter whatever I wanted to say in a very condensed way which is the essence of the whole discourse. Whether it is a book or discourse this is usual practice whatever we need to say as message which you need to carry. Even if you forget everything else and remember just the last bit the last 10, 20 statements if you carry it is enough. So he is coming to the last 10, 20 sutras. We have only 16 sutras more! So he is coming to the mood. Even if you have forgotten everything else it is okay.
118th Patanjali Yoga Sutras, 4th chapter 18th verse
Sadaa jaatah chittha vrittayaha tat praboho purushasya aparinaamitvaath
Vivekananda’s Editorial Team: The states of the mind are always known because the lord of the mind the purusha is unchangeable
Prabhavananda: because the atman the lord of the mind is unchangeable the minds fluctuations are always known to it
Satchitananda: due to its changelessness the changes in the minds fluctuations is always known to purusha who is its lord
Osho: the modifications of the mind are always known to the lord due to the constancy of purusha -pure consciousness.
Small story – a guy goes to doctor and says I have body pain all over it is excruciating. I have all my bones fractured. Doctor says put you index finger on shoulder and tell me is there pain? He shouts yes there is pain. Doctor says put your index finger on your fore arm and tell me is there pain? He shouts oh yes pain, then he tells put your index finger on your chest bones and tell me is there pain? He shouts again - oh pain! And the test continues for next ½ hour and almost every part of the body he puts his finger and says excruciating pain in all parts of the body. At the end, the doctor just puts a bandage to index finger and says you have fracture in index finger! ☺
Only your index finger is fractured understand, nothing else! The relationship between time & consciousness! Time is the broken bone of consciousness. Time is the broken index finger of consciousness. Wherever time touches, there is going to be pain! Life is not pain. The index finger with which you touch life is going to be pain. Life is not pain. The index finger with which you touch your life is fractured. The time with which you touch your life is fractured. That causes the pain.
Let me describe time exactly. Time is nothing but the one engram – one samskara in which you are caught and unable to come out! Just yesterday, we were having some discussion with some of my ashramites – some senior ashramites were sitting with me. We were having a discussion. Usually that is the moment where I reveal the deeper insights. Because I am like a breeze when people are sincere and wanted to understand then I flow like a breeze. One of them were telling that 2 other ashramites were having a little problem with this organizational department structure and all that. He said one of them feels there is no freedom. Earlier he could miss Akhaada and Guru puja once in a while earlier. He feels now there is no freedom. I looked in and said Oh God! This fellow is suffering from this one engram from last 700 years! He is a great sadhu. At least twice he lived even with me. this is the 3rd time. But both the times the same engram the idea of freedom. Real freedom is when your mind stops interfering with your life! Broken finger of the consciousness is time! You are consciousness, your broken finger is time. With the time you touch any part of your body you are going to have pain and time is nothing but one engram with which you are caught and unable to jump out of it! Time is not made out of too many engrams. Space is made out of too many engrams. In the space engrams will not be a big problem for you to cross. Laziness will be a problem in the space. But in the time, it will not be too many engrams. It will be just one. One! The idea of freedom! I just looked in because he is a great sadhu by basic prarabdha. But this one engram is his fractured finger. That is his time. If I have to give the essence of his last 700 years of life, I can write his whole biography with one word his last 3 lives this is his 3rd life – suffering with idea of freedom. That’s all!
Actually I felt more insecure than that person. I thought oh God! Poor fellow he should not miss again once more with this engrams. 700 years is too much time to fight with one engram. Especially last time when he left the body after leaving the body he realized how he is suffering with this engram that was 300 years before. He begged next time I should not escape from enlightenment with this one engram. He said whatever happens see that I have to get out of this engram even if I have to spend my life in prison. I said don’t bother I will do whatever needs to be done. Let’s see next time. See when intelligence comes the mind acts in one way. When the ignorance kicks up, mind again goes back to the same engrams. The biggest problem is you cherish those engrams! You do not realize as long as the idea of freedom is there you will never experience freedom! I tell you. it is like you got my young age picture the picture take at age of 10 or 12. With that photograph you are searching for me all over the world and I am sitting right in front of you! My picture cannot be a scale to find out me! the idea of freedom cannot be a scale to find out your freedom. Understand. My picture is the limited one sided one timed version of me. Your idea of freedom is limited, one sided one timed version of freedom. It is limited, one sided, on timed version of freedom!
2 days before there was a big discussion on my diet with my ashramites and some of our ashramite doctors. They are giving me some strict diet even quantity – like 100g m rice they are measuring and giving. One person said cannot it be made little more tasty. I said forget about all this taste, quantity, quality. If you want to accept anything. Anything brought and put in front of you, just put it in your mouth and swallow it. That’s all. Only then it is a tapas. See diet is also a tapas! The moment you decide no, let me tell them they are our own doctors. Okay. Now it will be fine but after 2 weeks the taste will change and you will ask again. I said the moment you allow the first idea – it is like camel asking the tent owner can I just put my head inside, it is too cold outside? You may think it is my own camel, let him breathe and you allow. Over! In ½ hr he will be inside and you will be outside the tent.
Understand the relationship between time & consciousness. The one egnram which goes on grinding. You can actually easily find out. It will not be a big trouble. Especially our ashramites. Here I made the life so alive, so strong that nobody can miss. With George Gurdjieff and Buddha nobody can miss. With Chaitanya and Meera you can escape because Chaitanya and Meera are like breeze! But Buddha and Gurdjieff are very beautiful creators of the mystery school. In my case if you see in my personal space I will be like chaitanya and meera – breeze but in the sangha space I will be like Buddha and Gurdjieff. And I retain my personal space like meera and chaitanya.
If you are under my direct personal space and working directly with me, even if you lose your black berry I will not bother. I will say okay. Leave it. because I know the maximum awareness I am already infusing. But in the sangha if the same mistake happens, I will ask 200 questions. Because it is directly related to the awareness levels! It is thought as double standard. It is not that it is double standard but relationship between time and consciousness makes you see it that way. See if you are caught with one engram, that one engram goes on grinding and wasting your time. Then you need sangha like Gurdjieff and Buddha. Only then you will be out of that engram. How silly it is to miss me based on my photograph! See if you have somebody else’s photo and compare with me and miss me that is still forgivable mistake. If you have my own photograph and come closer, how foolish it is!
Same way having an idea of freedom. Freedom means one picture or one part of freedom is doing what you want. Doing what you want whenever you want is one picture of time, one portrait of time. Doing what you want whenever you want is considered as freedom. This idea is not even the true representation of freedom. It is one picture taken through time about freedom! Time is used as a camera. And you take a picture of the original freedom. That print out which comes is doing whenever you want whatever you want is freedom. Then you go on searching. What is freedom? In this ashram is this there? No. then is this there? Last 700 years, this fool is doing the same thing. Another one thing is last few years I have come only 3 times. But he has come at least 30, 40 times! And he has lived only few years many times because he got frustrated. He runs around with this one idea of freedom, one photograph of freedom. It is like Bharatn movies hero will come to city from his native village to find out his young age friend whom he wants to marry now. He will be having photograph which was taken at age 10 neither knowing address, profession or anything. Only in movies these kind of heroes catch their heroines. In real life it does not happen. I have seen this guy comes down with the photograph 100s of times for his heroine called freedom. The portrait he has is doing whatever you want is freedom. The camera used is time. Photo at least is one time. But the portrait the person who carries even his quality is added. That poor fellow runs around. All other engrams does not much affect him. because he is a great sadhu. He goes on with just this one engrams. People caught with one engram they are only called as Brahma Raakshasaas. See their enlightenment is just one engram away! They know the Brahma Vidya. BrahmaVidya means the science of enlightenment. But this one portrait they have in their hand. The guy who gave the portrait is his close friend on whom he has all trust in the world. So he thinks I will search for this girl and marry her. By the time she may become old and die or you die and you become Ghost possess some body and say I want that girl only then I will leave this body
The idea of freedom you have is the most dangerous engram which will not allow you to experience freedom! I will give you the mirror for freedom. Understand. Not portrait. Picture, photograph. Mirror for freedom. Freedom is always looking into that mirror. Wherever you look into the mirror, you will have freedom’s present picture. There are beautiful stories in Bharatn Tradition – Harishchandra the lord of truth the king who lived with truth. I can say whatever he realized and understood as truth he lived with it. His wife has a unique mangal sutra which can be seen only by him and nobody else. He has that boon. It is a unique mystical thing. through that mangal sutra he identifies his wife in a last stage of his life. When his wife brings his son to cremate in the Varanasi Harishchandra Ghat.
Same way I can give you the mirror where the truth is continuously reflected and freedom is continuously reflected which you can use to find if you have truth and freedom or not. That mystical mirror is ‘mind not interfering in your existence’ – ‘the original photograph of freedom’ whenever you have a trouble am I heading towards enlightenment, liberation, freedom – am I in the right zone, right process, right life take up this mirror and see. Understand the real mirror which mirrors 24 hours the freedom is – ‘mind not interfering in your existence!’ this is the true 3D video record of freedom. I can say it is a live webcast of freedom. You can find out, you can identify somebody with the live webcast because the moment he changes, the web cast changes. But you cannot identify someone with the photo which was done at age 8 or 10 or too young. The engram with which you are caught and suffering again & again & again is time for you! all your time is calculated with the time you spend with that engram. You jump out of that engram, you are beyond time!
Next the suffering with space. Another person. he is a great yogi. He was also last 2,3 times around me physically and spent lot of janmaas. But only suffering he has is a thorough laziness. His bone is filled with laziness not only bone marrow. I really feel if your bone is fractured the first thing that spreads is the quality of your bone marrow. When I had this fracture I felt is compassion – I told to people around me I am ok don’t worry. 2nd thing intelligence – let us go to the hospital it is a fracuture. 3rd thing is let us be in restful awareness it is healing itself. That is the quality of the bone marrow. If this happened with anyone else, you cannot see me taking these decisions. First thing I will do is kick the horse out. The horse, horse trainer, the fellow who is taking care all of them will go out and not only that the whole team would have had a big pooja. And what other repercussions nobody knows. When the bone gets fractured, the very quality with which you are filled gets into your system.
Sometime when you are caught with laziness, then your bone marrow is filled with laziness. Then the only way is till you come out of it, you have to work. You should not allow the laziness to take over you even if the body goes to extreme pain. When it really falls by its own nature to take rest, It is ok.
Yogis always suffer with laziness and sadhus always suffer with idea of freedom. Always yogis suffer with laziness because they are supposed to be doing and first resistance is why should I do. Sadhu is always looking for being free so first idea he will have is what is freedom. Yogis suffer with idea of laziness and don’t achieve yogam and sadhus suffer with idea of freedom and don’t achieve freedom!
The relationship bet time & consciousness. Time is nothing but the fractured finger of consciousness. But still it is extension of consciousness only. That is why you are able to start all parts of consciousness and feel the pain. That fractured finger is not separated from consciousness, it is not separated from the body. If it is separate at least you are free it cannot hurt you anymore. The separated finger once your hand is healed so no hurt you anymore. But it is a fractured finger it is still verily part of consciousness but not part of it.
Patanjali very beautifully puts it here – modifications of the mind are always known by the lord means the consciousness. Modifications of your mind means the portrait you are carrying about freedom, the portrait you are carrying about laziness, and other portraits you are carrying, etc. your consciousness knows these are all modifications. Because your consciousness is eternal, Nithya, saasvata, samaadhaana means peace, there is no aadhaana means the shaking. There is no movement. There is no sachala, there is no sanchala. Aadhaana - please understand the aadhana is always recognized by the space of samaadhana. If you are able to understand that your mind says one time something and other time something, be very clear you are fortunate you have an enlightened energy sitting inside you – your inner Guru is alive. Even if you think in 24 hours 3 times why am I sitting in depression like this. that much is enough. Your inner Guru is alive. All you have to do now is move towards the nithyatva.
In this sutra very beautifully Patanjali uses the word Purushasya means the principle of consciousness eternal nithyatva that is the principle of consciousness. So let all your actions be aligned as much as you can towards the purushatva consciousness. It is not that my ashramites I was talking about don’t know that they are caught. Once in a while they know they are caught and sometimes they are caught. Let all your actions work towards when you understand you are caught. Get back to that principle. Nithyatva eternal. Nithyatva eternal that is the root principle where the original live webcast of liberation goes on. Have the original live webcast of liberation to find out what is liberation. Not the old young age portrait done by somebody.
One more thing, this person, if somebody else goes through an engram, he is a great guide! But when it comes to washing his own…☺ I was just about to say back.
One professor asked in a class which part of body expands 3 times when you are in high emotion? The boys starting smiling with each other and girls started giggling, the professor said ‘eyes’. But not a single fellow thought of eyes ☺
I just wanted to tell back! So after revealing eyes, the professor called the last row boys & girls who were not controlling their laughter. When he called them all of them kept quiet except one girl. He called her and said 2 things – one you have an uncontrollable dirty mind, 2nd you will deeply be disappointed. ☺
I will not explain further! ☺ After a long time I gave a non vegetarian joke! Any how sometimes when it is told with proper spices it reaches the stomach properly. Anyhow catch the truth, not the joke!
People who are still waiting, still not caught the truth, attend Bhaktananda’s weight loss program in Ohio! After few losing weight in stomach your brain may work and you may catch the joke and laugh. Actually if you have heaviness on the stomach, your brain will not be able to grasp. See belly itself is not wrong. Belly because of flatulence is wrong. Fat belly is wrong. Many of the Japanese masters have huge bellies. Almost 2,3 kids can play on it. I have seen my opposite house owner, in my childhood, he is a chettiyaar and old man there would be a continuous fight amongst us to play on his belly. Till we were age of 5 it was like a huge playground and soft also. And he was a very nice man. See vysyas have a habit of eating snacks continuously. 2 thing one after sometime when you are playing on his belly, he will sleep off. After he sleeps all the snacks is yours. 2nd it is a very good play ground! And he is a very nice person means such a bhole baba. How I describe bhole baba. He was very wealthy but very innocent. He will call all kids whoever goes to school through that street morning itself he will keep all the candy, snacks everything outside his house so that kids go to school every day. All the shop fellows will curse him because he will give freely and no one will buy from shop. As long as I remember I remember seeing him only outside in his house verandah either giving snacks to kids, or eating snacks or allowing them to play on his belly. Only this 3. Nothing else. He will make murku and all that and give. Murku is a snack.
The big belly of the Buddhist masters are different. Belly that happens because of flatulence. The flatulence does not allow you to catch the truth as it is. If you lose the flatulence and lose wt I can say your intelligence will just flower. This Ohio program works on the flatulence. So in just 2, 3 days all [participants lost 2,3 pounds!
In Oman black spots are appearing on Ma Nithya Devi’s hands. 2,3 rudraakshaas will appear soon.
The essence of this sutra is you go through a major inconsistency in your system by time & space. Fortunately the constancy of your system consciousness is the eternal principle. Because it is constant it recognizes the inconsistency of you. So Patanjali wants each one of us to constantly move, take decisions, align our life style, thinking, feeling, actions towards that eternal, constant principle. Not to the inconsistent principle of time and space. All you need is to bandage for your broken index finger! Not the theory how many places you have pain when you touch your body with the index finger or the theory which part of your body expands 3 times when you are in emotion.
Sadaa jaatah chittha vrittayaha tat praboho purushasya aparinaamitvaath
First time a man like Patanjali is using the word praboho – using the word lord. Through out these sutras no where even a line of devotion you see. Vyakrapaada initiatied Patanjali. But both of them had enlightenment at same time. He had enlightenment just by ordinary initiation by Guru and both of them became as brother disciples. I can say the same kind of relationship as I enjoyed with Raghupati Yogi. He always looked at me as his brother disciple and sometimes a step further as his own guide. Sometime he will explain in the 1000 pillared hall there is one section almost like 600 to 700 yogasanaas are carved. He will ask some 10-12 and explained. Then he will ask me to tell about the rest. I will tell and ask him why did you ask me to tell? He will say this much only I know and I know once it is put inside you, you will grind and give the rest.
An intellectual like Patanjali is using the word devotion and is using the word praboho – the only word which has the color of devotion in this whole 196 sutras. Purushaysa I can understand. But praboho – he says consciousness the constant principle in you is the lord. So he is very clear. Devote dedicate all your action, emotion, feeling, experience, life to the lord. Surrender to the lord!
Sit for few moments. Dedicate all the emotions, thoughts, actions to that constant principle which is inside you which does not change at all forever.
Purushasya means the conscious principle. Let me dedicate to that conscious principle praboho as described by Patanjali. What he describes as praboho let me dedicate to that one constant principle – Purushasya who is described by word Praboho by Patanjali. When he describes the word Praboho whom he meant what he meant let you all dedicate yourself to that truth – praboho
Yesterday I inaugurated I inaugurated the paada yaatra from Tiruvanamalai. Today I am inaugurating large number of devotees and disciples coming from Salem.
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