29 Sept 2011/BG Satsang/Day 36/Verses 2.28 and 2.29/Don't believe, just experience!

Sadaashiva Samaarambaam Shankaraacharya Madhyamaam Asmadaacharya parayantam Vande Guru paramparaam

I welcome you all with my love and respects.

I thank all the organizers and devotees for organizing this wonderful program.

Today I’m starting new series of discourses on Patanjali Yoga Sutra. First time, when I started the mission of teaching, when I started sharing the spiritual knowledge, I was asked by our devotees, ’Swamiji, (please) give us two, three books which is the essence of all spiritual knowledge. Essence of all the spiritual traditions, essence of all the spiritual truths.’ I chose three books. One, Shiva Sutras, another one, Bhagavad Gita. Third, Patanjali Yoga Sutra. I finished talking on both the books, Shiva Sutras and Bhagavad Gita. Now, today I am starting a series of discourses on Patanjali Yoga Sutra.

Every religion has two parts, one, the spiritual core, essence, the other, belief system, the day-to-day practices. Any religion will have these two part, one is the spiritual essence, the core part, the other one is day-to-day, beliefs. All the traditions, all the spiritual groups, all the religions will have these two. In the belief system they may differ; whether you need to eat with right hand or the left hand, or you need to stand and wait or sit and wait, or how many hours you need to sleep, how many wives you can marry. These day-to-day practices, beliefs. In the beliefs they may differ, each religion will have their own opinion. If you ask Buddha, ‘how many times I can marry?’ He will say, ‘Don’t think of it. Even if you are married escape.’ If you ask Shankara, he’ll say, ‘Don’t marry,’ If you ask Krishna, ‘Marry how many times you want. Only thing, don’t bother to count.’

So each one will have their own opinion, each one will have their own ideas, the day-to-day belief system, or the day-to-day things. But in the spiritual core, the essence, everybody accepts the basic truths. There are some truths, which is accepted, experienced, expressed by everybody, that is what we call spiritual essence. The belief system is different, spiritual essence is different. Whatever masters believed, led them to that spiritual experience, has become belief system. Please understand, whatever the masters who had the spiritual experience, whatever they believed has led them to that experience, has become belief system.

If somebody believed being unmarried led them to enlightenment, spiritual experience, being unmarried becomes a belief system to achieve that truth. If somebody believes fasting led them to a spiritual experience, fasting becomes a belief system. If somebody believes worshipping some deity led them to a spiritual experience, worshipping the deity becomes a belief system. Whatever masters believed has led them to the higher experience, has become a belief system. Always from time immemorial, whatever masters have believed has led them to the higher experience, has become a religion. Has become belief system.

Here, first time, a master has happened, a master is expressing a pure spiritual science without any belief system. Please understand, a pure spiritual science without any belief system. That is why I say, ‘He’s the greatest master. Patanjali is the greatest master ever happened on the planet Earth.’ I can say, if I have to define the spiritual master; Spiritual master is a person whose teachings are remembered every day and practiced with him*. If this is the definition of a spiritual master, Patanjali is the greatest master on the planet Earth. Because, directly or indirectly, almost all the religions are influenced by this great master. Directly or indirectly almost all religions are followers of this great master. Anywhere spiritual truth is expressed as a science, directly or indirectly, Patanjali’s role is there in that place. He’s an ultimate master. I can say, a rare master who has made a spiritual tradition without any belief. No need for any belief, no need for any assumptions. No need for any theories, no need for any philosophies, straight simple truth. Experience straight simple truths, which can be directly experienced.

I can say all religions have only two parts: one belief, other Patanjali’s part, that’s all. All religions has only two parts: one is belief, day-to-day system, the science, Patanjali’s part. Nobody, nobody’s able to (class, cast the religion)*, either before or after. Still, he holds his position. He’s the ultimate, greatest spiritual scientist happened on the planet Earth, he’s very clear. He’s very clear. He’s not mincing words. He’s not playing with words. He’s not having fine prints. If you see the billboards, big, big billboards, “free”. Below that fine print, ”conditions apply”. He doesn’t have any fine prints. He’s a straight master. Straight away he talks about the truth and gives the experience.

He’s the first master, I can say, last master, who made spirituality into a science. Please understand, entering into the other consciousness, entering into the other zone, entering into a different consciousness, different space, was always an accident or a miracle. Till Patanjali, it was an accident or a miracle, getting enlightened was an accident or a miracle, both has no logic. First time, Patanjali made that as a science. You don’t need to wait for the accident or miracle to happen. You can create it. You can consciously work for it and achieve it. Patanjali was the first master who explored, experimented, experienced and expressed the whole thing in clear terms. In very clear terms. All kinds of miracles, all kinds of accidents, happens on the planet Earth with a clear cause and effect system. Please understand, he has not only explored the science of enlightenment, he’s explored all the planes in which metaphysical experiences happens, different kinds of experiences happens. He’s explored everything, experimented, experienced and expressed.

I want to give you one simple example. How many of you experience this one simple thing, let me describe. You will go to a new place, new country, or a new friend’s house. The moment you enter the house, suddenly you will have the feeling, you have been in the same spot with the same person in the same space, already at least once, and you know the whole place. Suddenly you feel, ‘I know it, where master bedroom is, where pooja room is, where the living room is.’ You know the whole map of that place. And you feel, ‘I’ve been in this place already, with the same person, same situation.’ Sometimes, suddenly, when you are dancing in the party here with some friends, suddenly you feel, ‘Somebody’s going to come or something is going to happen in the next five minutes.’ It’ll happen exactly. That same person will be there, or that same incident will happen.

How many of you have felt this kind of an experience this at least once in your lifetime? Raise your hand. Understand, if it happens once in your life for one person you can call it as coincidence. If it happens in so many persons’ life so many times, how can this be coincidence? We have never explored, have you ever thought ‘How this is happening? Why am I feeling like this? What is the science behind this?’ No. You never thought about it? Even if you have thought, you don’t have answer.

Patanjali has an answer. For every question, every question related to this metaphysical plane, and the things happen in your psychological space, in your inner space, Patanjali has an answer. Great scientist. Not only explored the science of enlightenment, explored all different human experiences, all the different spiritual experiences. All kind of miraculous experiences. And all accidents. He has explored everything. Please understand, not only miracles, even about accidents. He has studied, he has mastered and expressed. Miracle and accident are almost one and the same. Both you don’t know the reason.

If the result is favorable, you call it as miracle. If the result is, you don’t feel happy with the result, you call it as accident. But both has no reason in your ordinary logic. It has reason in your deeper layers. In the deeper space it has logic. The incident which happens in your conscious plane but the reason is unknown to the conscious plane is what we call as miracle or accident. Patanjali has explored the whole science, and he has clearly expressed how to consciously create miracles and how to consciously avoid accidents. He’s the ultimate master. He’s teaching the science of life. Science of living. Science of uniting, yoga means, uniting.

Uniting, union. Please understand, uniting the individual soul with the cosmos, uniting the individual identity with the whole nature, Patanjali knows the whole science. He has experimented the whole science. He has experienced the whole science. He beautifully describes and presents the whole thing, as a science in this one book.

Sutra means with a minimum word the ultimate truth should be expressed. Here, Patanjali, the great master, expresses in a very simple minimum words, the ultimate science of uniting yourself with the whole cosmos, and the science of all extraordinary powers. How to gain those extraordinary powers and the science of how to avoid accidents. All possible accidents in your life. Disease is an accident. Old age is an accident. There are so many things, which you don’t want, which happens in your life. He has a clear science, how to avoid all those accidents. He’s the greatest master, happened on the planet Earth to show the way of life to all of us.

Few more understandings about Patanjali. About his greatness, about his work. Before entering into this great book, I’m going to talk on this great book this whole year. This whole year I am dedicating to this great book. So I need at least one hour to introduce him to you all. To introduce him to you all. Only with the proper introduction. People are going to put their energy and attention to listen to this great master’s teachings. He’s not talking in metaphysical terms. He doesn’t talk in poetic language. See poetry is beautiful, when you want to express your emotion, but the poetry is not going to be a manual for your life. It cannot be a manual for your life. It cannot be the system through which (you’re going to live)(you will relate). That is why all poets will all be always impractical. They live in poverty because they are very impractical. Very rarely the practicality and emotion meets each other.

There are three kinds of personalities: one, who can intellectually connect but it will take lot of time to emotionally feel connected. With anything he can intellectually understand, he can intellectually relate, but he can’t emotionally the, have the feeling, the feeling connection doesn’t happen in him. Other kinds, second variety, they can connect emotionally immediately. They will straight away have that feeling connection. One sight, love at the sight. They can have that strong feeling connection. But very difficult to intellectually analyze and understand. Intellectually they will be a little dull. The more energy will be through the heart. This is the second kind of people. The third, very balanced. The intellect and emotion both will be parallel lines in them. They will be very straight. They can connect intellectually and experience emotionally. They are called being level people.

Here, Patanjali is the solution for all the three kinds of people. He can very clearly connect with intellects. Intellectually, he can very clearly be experienced with the emotional people, and he can straightway raise the people who are in the being level. He’s the complete solution, Patanjali. He’s the complete solution for the whole humanity. He knows the language of logic. He knows the language of experience. He knows the language of being, consciousness. He can play all the three game, beautifully. And he has played in this book. Patanjali is a great scientist. Scientist is a person who creates a formula to reproduce his experiences; the outer world scientist creates a formula to reproduce the understandings, which happened in him in the outer world. The inner world scientist creates a formula to reproduce the same experience in all of us, which happened in him in the inner world, which happened to him in the inner world. Patanjali is a great spiritual scientist. If your mastered Patanjali, you can’t be cheated. Please understand, the spiritual field, because the problem is you can easily be cheated by small, small powers, by small, small miracles, by small, small incidents. If you read Patanjali, if you mastered Patanjali, if you studied Patanjali, nobody can cheat you. Nobody can cheat you. You will never be diverted from your spiritual journey. Because he talks about all possible diversions. He’s literally a spiritual navigator. He’s literally a spiritual navigator. He talks about all the possible dangers, all the possible diversions, all the possible miraculous powers.

An example of a miracle. Suddenly, due to some natural calamity, everybody dies. Only two, three persons are left. And one radio is left. Some one person got that radio and he knows how to handle it. If he starts operating that radio and the radio starts operating, other few people who are there will be surprised. They think he has some miraculous powers, he has a small box which talks which sings, which does different things. It will be a miracle for the people who don’t know the science. Same way, the spiritual field also if you see some master materializing some objects, if you see some master materializing objects or doing, performing some extraordinary miraculous things.

Please understand, you don’t know the science, that’s all. Otherwise, that is also a science, a clear science. Just like how a cell phone works, a radio works, just like that. These extraordinary things like materializing, teleporting or healing, everything is a simple science. Almost all possible miracles Patanjali explores, experiments and clearly expresses as a formula. He has an answer for everything. I can say, he’s a master who creates masters. How you recognize masters? Based on the miracles they perform, based on the extraordinary things they perform. Based on that only, recognized masters, are you understand about masters. You recognize them. You go near them. You appreciate them. You accept them. Here’s a master who made a clear science, all the miraculous things, are reduced to a simple scientific statements. Anybody can take these statements, work on it and experiment their powers, experience it and express it. A clear master who creates masters.

I can say, there are some books, which creates traditions, there are some books which creates religions. Bhagavad Gita is a book which is a, which can create different religions. It is not a book for one religion. Anybody who reads and interprets, can create a new religion. It can be a source of many religions. So each book, each interpretation on the whole Gita can become it’s own religion. So Bhagavad Gita can create many religions. There are some books, which can create many traditions. There are some books, which can be a source for many books to get it done.

Here is one book, which can create any number of masters. The book, which creates masters, is a manual to create masters. I can say, it’s a manual of how to make manual for religions. Not even how to make religions. It’s a manual for how to make manual for creating religions. It’s a source, source book. One sutra from this book can create a master who can create religions. It’s a essence of all the spiritual truths expressed. Extraordinary energy. Extraordinary intelligence. Extraordinary understanding. Everything expressing in one book is what I call Patanjali Yoga Sutra.

Let me introduce this great master. I’m very happy to introduce him because I am from the same province, same state from where Patanjali’s born. Patanjali was born, Patanjali lived. I’m from the same area. I’m proud to say, I’m born and brought up in a community which still follows, remembers, radiates, respects Patanjali. His teachings are still in the air. His words are still remembered. He is still respected. He‘s still worshipped. Thousands of years. We don’t know how many thousands of years. We don’t know how many thousands of years. Thousands of years before, was born, he lived, as a extraordinary spiritual scientist, explored. Did a lot of research, analyzed, arranged all the great truths based on his own conscious experience and offered it to the world.

People ask me sometime, ‘How do you know this book was written by Patanjali only?’ Please understand, anybody who can express such a sharp, such an amazing spiritual truths, he’s already in Patanjali Consciousness. He’s already great master. We don’t bother about the name and form and date of birth and all those things. That is the greatness of these great masters. They don’t leave their biography. They don’t leave even simple things* about their biography. They are dissolved in their work. They say if these great truths are remembered, that’s enough. There’s no need to remember the person that happened in the form, the 6 feet. They dissolved themselves into the great truths. They are completely, they disappeared, into the great truths. That’s the greatness of these great masters.

He was born in a place called Chidambarum in Tamil Nadu, south part, southern part of Bharat, and lived there, had his enlightenment experience, experience of Shiva Consciousness in Chidambaram, and attained maha samadhi, means left the body, in Rameswaram. He lived the southern part of Bharat. Still we have enough of records, enough of stories, enough of things, to respect his memory, enjoy his memory, and devoted to his memory.

I’ll narrate a beautiful story. How he expressed his yoga sutras. How he expressed his great book. It’s a very powerful story. Please understand. Understand the story. It’s a very inspiring story. After his enlightenment, Patanjali gave a group of disciples to whom he was teaching all the great truths, how to have a spiritual experience, how to train your body, how to train your mind, how to play with the nature, how to go beyond the nature. This is the one book.

See there are some books, which can teach you just to have the spiritual experience, enlightenment. There are some books, which can teach you to have extraordinary powers, playing with the nature. But this is the one book, which teaches you how to have spiritual experience, enlightenment, and playing with the nature. Enlightenment experience means, realizing whatever you are seeing is a dream, and resting in super consciousness is enlightenment experience. Having extraordinary powers means conquering the nature, not realizing this is a dream, but trying to overpower, trying to conquer whatever you’ll see in front of you.

It’s a two opposite things. Two opposite things. If you try to conquer this, what you are seeing, enlightenment will be delayed. If you are working on enlightenment, you may not directly achieve the powers to conquer the outer world. But here is a great master who teaches you this whole thing is a dream and the same time, who gives you the key to alter the dream as you want. He not only teaches you how to get up from the dream, he gives you the key, even to alter the dreams. That is where his vibhuti pada comes to place.

Vibhuti pada means teaching you the science of miracles. He teaches you how to materialize things. He teaches you how to walk on water. He teaches you how to convert things into energy and to convert energy into matter. It’s a manual to alter anything, which you see in front of you, and to realize whatever you see is a dream. He teaches you to make all your dreams into reality, and to realize whatever you experience as reality is one more dream. Always the spiritual books will take only one subject. Either they teach you whatever you are seeing in front of you as a reality is a dream. They are spiritual literature. They will teach you how to become enlightenment, how to come out of this dream. Or they teach you how to make your dreams into reality. There are literatures, which will teach you how to express energy to make your dream the reality.

There are some literatures, which will teach you how to create intelligence. Which will teach you to realize this reality itself is one more dream. Some books will give you shakti, energy. Some books will give you buddhi, intelligence. Here is a master who can give you both at the same time. He’s giving you the enlightenment science. And he’s giving you the keys to change even the dreams, to change even your life situations. To change the matter with which you are living. To master the matter. He’s the ultimate master.

After he became enlightened, he wanted to deliver all he knows to the world. He’s filled, pregnant with that energy. He just wants to deliver. He just want to share. He wants to overflow. He wants to offer. But the energy is extraordinary. Too much. The energy is extraordinary, too much. You know, many time, you would have felt some experiences can never be shared through words. Strong experiences can never be shared through words. Even ordinary human beings, we feel strong experiences cannot be shared through words. And what about a great master like Patanjali. Strong experiences can never be shared with words. Impossible.

So Patanjali also feels that extraordinary experience, he is not able to share, in the form of words. So he contemplates, how to share, but it has to be shared. It should be said, it should be expressed. It has to be shared to the world. How to share. He decides. He will start talking through his thousand heads. Patanjali’s second incarnation of Adi Sesha, the great snake, which has thousand heads, just thousand hoods. Please understand, it’s not mythological. It has a meaning. The story has a meaning. You may think how can somebody have thousand heads? But when you can have so many forms, so many faces, you show one face to your father, one face to your mother, one face to your son, one face to your wife. When you can have so many faces, why not Patanjali have thousand faces? He can.

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There is a beautiful story describing Patanjali’s incarnation. When Shiva was dancing in Kailash, and suddenly his anklet broke. I don’t know what is the connection between his anklet and energy. It never stays in the leg. It broke. And because of that, Shiva has to stop the dance for a moment. Patanjali was seeing, witnessing the dance. He felt the dance should not be stopped. It was going in such a beautiful rhythm. So he became anklet at the feet of Shiva. And Shiva continued his dance. After the dance, Patanjali says, ‘Oh, Master, I was at your feet as an anklet so I couldn’t enjoy your dance. Please bless me to have the darshan of your dance once more. To see your dance one more. I want to see your dance. And Shiva says, Don’t worry, meditate on me. I’ll give you darshan and you will see my dance. You will see my Ananda Tandava, the blissful dance.

So Patanjali comes down, meditates in Chidambaram and experiences Shiva Consciousness. Means he comes down as an incarnation, and after Shiva Consciousness is experienced, he expresses that science. So he takes his thousand heads, his thousand hoods, through that he starts talking. He trains one thousand disciples. He tells all of them, ‘Please understand, I have expressed whatever I have to express once for all. Once for all I’ll express all the great truths. Whatever can be said, I’ll say it. I’ll express it. All possible great truths. Whatever can be said in all eleven dimensions.’

I want you to understand. Patanjali says there are eleven dimensions. Not just length, breath depth and time and space. No. We know only four dimensions. Length, breadth, depth, time and space. Patanjali talks of eleven dimensions. For an example, he says length and breadth of this table can be left here and depth can be tran, tele-tranported, can be moved. Then, you can see the form of this table, but when you put your hand, there will be nothing. There will be nothing to be sensed. You won’t be able to touch the table. Same way, depth can be left, depth of the table can be left here, length and breadth of the table can be moved. Then he says, you will not see the table. But if you put your hand, you will see something. Touching. Something will be touching your feet, touching your hand. You’ll have the feeling.

He says the length, breadth, depth can be separated. Time and space can be separated. Please understand, I am not telling you any stories. I am not telling you any stories. And I said, Patanjali says, I mean it is truth. If I’ve not experienced what Patanjali says, I won’t attest for his words. I say, ‘Patanjali is truth.’ Means? I know what I am talking. I know what I am speaking. I’m responsible for what I am talking. I am not telling you any mythological stories. I am not talking to you any, some unknown mysteries. I am talking to you the straight, simple truth about life and consciousness. He says this can be separated. Even I was shocked when I first time, when I read. But when I started experimenting I understood the truths behind these words. He says eleven dimensions. In all eleven dimensions, whatever can be expressed, he says, ‘Let me express it. Let me express it.’ He starts expressing all the great truths.

He assumes thousand heads. And he says, ’Each disciple will note down what one head says.’ He says, ‘All of you don’t get confused, listening to all thousand heads.’ He allots, he connects one disciple to one head. That disciple will only note down only what that one head says. Because the enlightenment cannot be expressed just with this one body. It’s like a, trying to transfer the lightening energy to the houses. Trying to supply the lightening energy to the houses is impossible. So he takes thousand heads so that he can step down and properly transmit the whole energy. He takes thousand heads, starts talking about all the great truths through each head.

One head is talking about vaasta shastra, one head is talking about astrology, one is talking about deities, one is talking about yoga, one is talking about meditation, one is talking about the different spiritual sciences. Each head is talking about one one spiritual science, one one spiritual truths. Suddenly, the whole group feels the intense energy, they are not able to bear. They are not able to bear the energy. And Patanjali says, ‘All right, let me put a thick screen.’ He puts a big thick screen. And he says, ‘Now I’ll express all the truths. You only record. But never remove the screen. Because in this intense energy if you remove the screen you all will get burned.’

So he puts a condition, puts a screen, and starts dictating, expressing all the truths. Understand, the story is many beautiful meaning, many beautiful meaning behind the story. He expresses the truths. Disciples are sitting the other side. Each disciple is connected to one head. He is noting down, recording whatever that head is saying. Whatever is expressed through that head. So intense transmission is happening. The energy expression and the recording. Intensely happening. Almost the recording is going to be ended. Means the teaching is going to be finished. The end of the discourse. The end of the recording.

One disciple had a strong doubt. Suddenly he had a strong doubt. ‘Master says he’s talking through thousand heads. And he is behind the screen. But I am listening only through one head. So I feel usually what he teaches that is what I am listening.’ But this foolish disciple is not remembering he usually heard from one head, now also he is listening only from one head. But 999 other disciples are listening to other different truths. He did not think from that angle. He thought earlier what he used to talk. Now what he’s talking, ‘I feel almost it is same, I feel almost it is same. Then how come he is saying, “Don’t remove the screen I am expressing extraordinary energy, I am talking through thousand heads, I think these are all some stories.” Maybe he is telling these things to inspire us. So we should have more respect for the truths he expressed.’ He had some doubt. Some disturbance. This a big problem, this a big problem with the disciples. When they are not completely devoted, they can cause big damage. They can cause big damage. Not to the master, but to the truths which are delivered.

Understand the scene. Patanjali, when he took his thousand head and started teaching, the disciples are unable to bear the energy expression. So he puts a big screen and says, ‘Each disciple record from one head. Whatever has been expressed, don’t remove the screen. If you remove the screen you may get burned by this intense energy.’ and starts expressing. All the great truths, all the thousand disciples are recording, almost it’s about to over, the session is about to end, one disciple gets the doubt. ‘Maybe Master is sleeping the other side. He’s not expressing through thousand heads as he claims. Because I am listening as usual. When he talks through one head what I listen? The same thing only I am hearing even now.’

He’s not understanding. Master has made him listen only one head. The other 999 heads are heard and recorded by the other 999 disciples. So he wants to verify. He wants to check. Very dangerous. Sometime very dangerous. Finally he removes the screen. Once he takes the screen, the intense energy being radiated. All the thousand disciples, they became enlightened and got burned. Whole thing. All the disciples and whatever was recorded, whole thing got burned. Patanjali suddenly realizes what happened. The whole thing got burned. And he comes down. His, he relaxes. He comes back to his normal energy. Normal position and feels deeply, ‘Oh God, what happened.’

The story says for more than thousand years they were recording. Thousand heads were talking, thousand years was getting recorded, the whole effort a waste. Gone. He feels so sad. He says, ‘Oh God.’ It’s like a practically you put your whole life into research and development. End of research and development you’ll have everything got burned. All the data you collected got burnt. Disappeared. Suddenly his face become blicked*. He became very bright. Because he saw one disciple just entering the area. He became very cool now. He’s not radiating that intense energy, he’s very normal. He saw that one disciple walking. He was jumping in ecstasy. Extraordinary joy. He went and hugged the disciple. Asked, how did he survive? What happened? The disciple said, ‘I went to attend my nature calls. I went to attend my nature calls.’ The story says: Whatever that one disciple recorded, that one part is what we now read as Patanjali Yoga Sutra. That one head. Whatever was expressed from that one head, whatever that one disciple had recorded, is Patanjali Yoga Sutra. Patanali was so happy, at least one part, point 1%, was preserved. But there was one thing, one unfortunate thing. When Patanjali was talking about initiation, means initiating a person into that enlightenment science. The main key part, the disciple was missing, the disciple was not there, was recording. So Patanjali says, the main initiation cannot be given through books or through sutra. It has to be given only from master to disciple, master to disciple, master to disciple. So he says, ‘I have given the whole thing, except initiation. Let that be given only by master to disciple, master to disciple, master to disciple.’

That is why even now, the importance of master. The importance of direct initiation, is insisted in all the yoga tradition. In all the yoga traditions, again and again people are requested to have the direct initiation from the master. Because the initiation can never be transmitted through book or any other material. I have tried. I tried. I’ve tried many times. And I initiate. The initiation, the click, the connection happens with the disciples. The same disciples, if they sit and watch the DVD, they are not able to have the click, that experience does not happen. The same DVD, the same disciple, if they sit and watch without my physical presence, the click is not happening.

I have experimented many times because in the modern days I wanted to replace the necessary of physical guru. Because of this one constraint, we are not able to reach millions and millions who are waiting for this science. Who are yearning for this science. So I tried my best to replace the physical presence of guru. Impossible. It’s impossible. I tried many times. The ultimate initiation, the click, that connection, does not happen without the physical presence of the master.

So here is the great book. Delivered, by this great master, Patanjali, and recorded by one disciple, without the initiation part which has to happen only from the master and disciple. It means you have to listen to this great sutras from an enlightened being. Only then the true meaning is revealed. The click, the feeling connection happens. Because without enlightenment, the sutras can be misinterpreted, misunderstood and misused. The great knowledge, if it is misused, it is dangerous, not only to the person but to the whole world. That’s the reason Patanjali has left the last key unrecorded. The last thing unrecorded.

And he says, ‘Let this knowledge be transmitted from a living master to the disciples for ages.’ And he says, ‘Just for that reason, the planet Earth will continue to have living masters. Just to interpret the Patanjali Yoga Sutra, planet Earth will continue to have living masters continuously.’ He says, ‘Planet Earth will have living masters continuously.’ So almost all the spiritual sciences are explored, experimented, experienced and expressed in this one book. The science of healing, the science of doing miracles. All extraordinary miracles, whatever you name it, you have in this book. The science of the miracle is in this book.

If you read this book, people will show a simple miracles, you will laugh at them. You will laugh at them. Once you read this book you will become an insider of spirituality. Nothing can shake you except enlightenment experience. You will not stop at anything except enlightenment experience. You will not be bothered about the simple materialism or small, small miracles foretelling vac siddhi, vak siddhi means whatever you tell will become reality. You will not be disturbed. You will not be diverted by the small miracles. You may enjoy but you will know there is something more. There is something beyond. There is something to go beyond.

Because this book describes the whole thing as a science. You yourself can explore. You yourself can experience. You yourself can experiment. You yourself can say it’s an extraordinary guide. Extraordinary manual, extraordinary work in the spiritual field. Before entering into the first sutra, let’s pray. Let us feel connected to the great master, Patanjali. Please close your eyes. Sit with a deep prayerful mood. Remember the great master, Patanjali.

1:00:54 (meditation)

Pray to him. Let this great sutras be experienced by all of us. Let the great truths expressed by him be understood inside us. Let us all experience the great truths expressed in his book.

1:01:38 – 1:02:29 (meditation)

1:02:30 Pray to this great master, Patanjali with deep respect, love, and reverence. Let’s understand the great truths. Let us internalize all the great truths expressed by this master.

1:02:58 – 1:06:45

Relax, You can open your eyes.

Let’s enter into the sutras by remembering the great master, Patanjali.

The first sutra, beautiful sutra,

Atha Yogaanushaasanam

Exact translation of the sutra is, Here begins the instruction on Yoga.

I can say now, ‘Let us enter into the yoga’.

Patanjali is a great master he doesn’t use unnecessary words. You can’t edit him. Uses very minimum restricted words. What does he mean by saying, ‘Now let’s enter into yoga.’ Please understand, to enter into the zone of yoga, to enter into the teachings of yoga, you need to be in this moment. Now. Usually, if your body is here, know for sure you are not here. That is the state of mind we are living.

Morning, the moment you get out of your bed and put the brush in the mouth you are already in the office, thinking about office. If you are sitting in the office and working, you are already on the beach, evening. If you are sitting on the beach and enjoying the breeze already you are in the house. Back. If you are back home sitting in the house, already you are thinking of one next day morning office. If your body’s here you are not here. Patanjali says, No. Come down. Be here.

Just day before yesterday, before I started for my, this world tour, Bharat they gave me a farewell. The farewell, one of our devotee, she brought a child, she doesn’t have a husband, she’s a widow, she brought a child. The child came to Kalpataru Darshan. Kalpataru Darshan is a program anyway we are going to have tomorrow the program. It’s a program where people can ask whatever they need and, their desires or their thoughts will be strengthened through meditation and the energy of the master. This child has come for the Kalpataru darshan because what of what the child did.*

Mother asked for something, I didn’t ask yet, and the child came and asked me* what do you want. He didn’t know what to ask. He just looked this side and that side. He saw me in my chair and bunch of chocolates. He asked, ‘I want chocolates. I said, ‘All right. Have it.’ Again he said, ‘I want everyday.’ I just laughed and I blessed him. ‘All right. You’ll have every day.’ He says, ‘How many will you give me everyday?’ I said, ‘I’m in your house. Don’t you see.’ He said, ‘yes, yes, in our house you are, in our house we have your photograph. A big, big, photograph. I’ll give it.

Please understand, from that day, every day this guy goes and stands in front of the photograph. I don’t know how he believed, he has started in his hands. Please understand, too difficult to believe. I know, I know a little difficult to relate. It’s a little difficult to relate. A little difficult to believe. Not only for you even for the mother. His own mother. The child’s mother. So she thought the child is stealing from somewhere. So she asked the child. The take him and said, please come and stand. In front of the mother, the child asked for a chocolate, he’s there. Suddenly, Please understand, not once or twice, everyday he has materialized seventeen objects out of my photograph. A small child. Seventeen objects he has materialized. He asked for earrings. It was there. He asked for an anklet, it was there, he asked for a chocolate, it was there.

Yesterday they came and reported to me. In front of, in a satsang, one devotee asked, ‘Swamiji, are you not surprised?’ I said, ‘No. I know the science.’ The child has experienced what Patanjali says is Atha Yogaanushaasanam. Means, now let us enter into the yoga. The child has understood. The child is in a zone of now. Please understand, he’s in this zone. Now. When you are in that zone, now, the connection between you and the master happens straight away. It is direct. It is straight.

Another one funny thing happened. The mother says, the mother said, it seems, ‘I want a cell phone’ so mother decides, ‘let me also ask him. My son is getting all these things, why not me?’ She asked for a cell phone, nothing came out. Nothing came out of what was said. Then she said, told the boy, told the child, please ask for a cell phone, I want money for a cell phone. I need to have the money. Please understand, I am not telling lies. And I know it’s being video recorded. I am responsible for what I am talking. Maybe I’ll try to, have sent, tell them to send the video recording with the child’s video recorder. The experience of the child. When the mother asked, nothing happened. When the child asked, suddenly it happens. Because the child has experienced the now.

Here the now Atha Yogaanushaasanam, this a beautiful word. Patanjali says, ‘Come to this moment, let us enter into yoga space. Let us enter into the experience of yoga.’ You may ask why the child was able to get, why not the mother. Because mother is not in THIS moment. Child knows very clearly, child is in this moment. He doesn’t know people can tell lies. He doesn’t know master can tell a lie. He doesn’t know, he doesn’t doubt, master may tell a lie. He doesn’t carry any of that kind of doubts. He knows very clearly he’s an enlightened master. If he says it will become reality. That’s all. He‘s not believing for some reason. We also sometimes believe.

‘If I believe, only then it will get healed. Let me believe.’ If it doesn’t happen, ‘I think I shouldn’t have believed.’ Even our belief is a business. Even our belief is a business. Patanjali says, ‘Come to now.’ See, he’s not saying believe, No. Be straight. If you can believe, see, if it is a straight thing, you, it can’t even be called as belief. It can be called as belief only if one part of, one corner of your mind if you have a doubt. If there is no doubt it can’t even be called as belief, it is a straight truth. Straight experience. People ask me, ‘Swamiji, are you not surprised.’ I said ‘No, I know the science. It is not miracle. It is a science.’

’Swamiji, why then did you not give it to the mother.’ Because she can’t connect. Please understand, for a miracle to happen, you need a proper connection, you need a beautiful space to be created. You need a strong feeling connection between the two persons, only then miracle can happen. If there’s a strong feeling connection between two persons, in both consciousness, in both souls, different spaces will be awakened. For example, when you fall in love with somebody, when you fall in love with somebody, suddenly a different dimension of you, which was unknown to you, will be awakened. You will start sacrificing more. You will start becoming more joyful. You will start becoming more sensitive. Many unknown dimensions of your own being will be awakened by the other person.

The same way in other person also you will awaken many dimensions. Beloved is a person who awakens unknown dimensions inside you. When the feeling connection happens, if it happens between two ordinary human beings, the unknown dimensions are awakened. It’s called love affair. Please understand, beloved is a person who awakens the dimensions, which are inside you but unknown to you, to you. Same way, master is a person who awakens the unknown dimension of enlightenment in you, which was unknown to you.

In that small boy, the feeling connection has straight away happened. He‘s in the being level. He’s neither struggling with the intellect nor struggling with emotion. He’s straight. His intellect and emotion are parallel lines. Straight. He’s connected. The being level connection has happened. So miracles are automatically happened. It is not even done by me. Anything done is a work not miracle. Anything happens is miracle. It was not done by me. It just happened. Because he’s also in the space of now and I’m also in the space of now. Understand, when you come to the space of now, now the yoga can happen inside you. I’m already in the space of now. If you can come down, come to now, this moment, the yoga can happen in you. Patanjali says, ‘Here now, begins yoga.’ You need to come to this moment. Man lives in dreams.

Nietzsche says beautifully, ‘Man cannot live truth. He needs dreams, fantasies, hope to live his life. He cannot bear the present moment as it is. It is too much. He needs hopes. He needs illusions. He needs stories. He needs fantasies. He can’t be with the reality.’ But kids are not in that zone. They can experience now. They can have that connection if they are not still spoiled. If they are not still spoiled. If you can come to this moment, now, suddenly you see, you’ll experience the yoga, you’ll experience the yoga.

With the child that is what has happened. The child has told, ‘Swamiji’ he will get it. He doesn’t ask second question, second thought. It is not that he gets the doubt and suppresses it. No. Then the whole scene is over. The moment you get the doubt and suppress, the whole thing is over. He knows it will happen and straight away connects it, it happens. Still now, every day he continues to gets. All he knows, he goes and stands in front of the photograph and ask ‘Swamiji, I want this.’ It Is there. Please understand. Atha Yogaanushaasanam. Now starts the yoga.

You may think, ‘How is this possible?’ One side you are not able to believe. The other side I am authentically saying, ‘What to do?’ I know what is happening in your mind. People are thinking, ‘Some story, it’s ok, leave it.’ Some people are thinking ‘No, no, no, he can’t tell a lie, I know him. I can’t accept, but he can’t be lie. How can this be?’ There are some people sitting, ‘Hey forget about it. It all happens sometime. Why should we bother too much about it, it’s ok.’ Some people are, ‘Even if he gets what is three, after all chocolate, it’s ok.’ Please understand, I ‘m using that story to make you understand this truth. How that guy is able to get it. Because he’s straight in the now.

Now Patanjali also says, come down from your illusions. Come down from your hopes. Come down from your fantasies. Come down from you dreams. Straight come to this moment. Yoga will start happening in you. Yoga is not just moving your body. Yoga is not just concentrating your mind. Yoga is the ultimate happening. Please understand, first you need to understand what is not yoga. Especially in the west. In the west yoga is reduced just to some physical or mental exercises. Yoga has therapeutic efforts, therapeutic effects, but that does not mean yoga is just a therapy. Please understand. Do not reduce yoga just as a therapy. Yoga has therapeutic effects. I’m not saying no, but don’t reduce yoga just as a therapy. It has more to it. It has depth. It is more sacred. It is not just physical movements. It is not just mental concentration. It has a spiritual depth. Uniting conscious experience.

We are living, we are continuously, we are living in illusions, dreams, hopes. We can’t live without it. That is why, even when we don’t have anything to do, we are constantly chewing our dreams. We are constantly chewing our illusions. We are constantly chewing our fantasies, that is what I call Maya. Maya means, ya ma itti maya, which is not there, but continuously we feel as if it is there and live with it. That is what is maya. See your life, hopes, fantasies, illusions, dreams, it is not there. But constantly you are creating and living with them which is not there, but which you are constantly creating and living is what we call maya.

Patanjali says, Atha Yogaanushaasanam. Now begins yoga. Means, he’s telling all of us, come down. Relax from your hopes. He’s not saying be hopeless. Please understand. He’s not saying be depressed. No. Depression is negative hope. Positive hope is desire, negative hope is fear. He’s not saying be depressed. He’s not saying be disturbed, No. All he’s saying, ‘Come down to this moment. Come to this moment. Come down through illusions. Come down from fantasies. Come down from fears. Come to this moment. Yoga starts.’ Understand. I don’t want to add, add more words. If I add more words, you may forget Patanjali’s words. So I just want to repeat. I don’t want to comment. I want to repeat. I am not commenting. I’m repeating. Please understand. This one sutra. Take this one message. The essence is this one message.

Whenever you are in this moment, yoga is happening in you. You don’t have to bend your body, stand upside down, topsy turvy. No. Whenever you are in this moment, yoga is happening in you. If you want to be a yogi, be in this moment. Atha Yogaanushaasanam. Remember this one sutra. Remember this one truth. You don’t need second truth actually. You don’t need to go to next sutra. Some of you may be feeling, ‘Oh, today Swamiji has only introduced this book, there so many hundreds of sutras. I’m listening only one. How, what will happen to me. I’m not able to listen to all the other sutras. Tomorrow he will leave.’ Don’t bother, this one is enough. This one is enough to make you a yogi.

If you want to understand the whole Patanjali, the essence of Patanjlai, he puts in the first sutra. Atha Yogaanushaasanam. Here now brings, here now starts yoga. Come to this moment. Yoga starts. You are a yogi. Whenever you are in this moment you are a yogi. You are yogi. Let you be in this moment you will become a yogi. You are a yogi. Even you will become a yogi will become one more fantasy. That word, ‘you will become a yogi,’ can become one more fantasy. No. You are a yogi. Come to this moment, you are a yogi. With this introduction to this great master, Patanjali, and to this great book, Patanjali Yoga Sutra. I conclude the first session.

We will see more and more sutras. More and more great truths. More and more experiments. More and more meditation techniques. More and more experiences. So practice this one sutra. Nothing else is required. Whenever you think you should become a yogi, decide, ‘let me be in this moment.’ You are a yogi. You will see new, new doors towards higher consciousness will open inside you. People ask me, ‘How can such a small key open such big doors Swamiji?’ Only when you apply it will you understand. Only this small size key, this size small key opens six feet door. So this, let this small key be in this moment, you will become yogi. It’s a very small key but it opens higher consciousness. The greatest doors, highest doors of your life. Doors, doors of consciousness. So let you all experience the higher consciousness, the jivan mukta state,

Let you all achieve and radiate the eternal bliss, Nithyananda. Thank you.