PATANJALI YOGA

                                                             MEDITATION

 

                         THE CAUSE OF THAT WHICH IS TO BE AVOIDED IS THE JUNCTION OF THE SEER AND THE SEEN.

                      WHO IS THE SEER? THE SELF OF MAN, THE PURUSA. WHAT IS THE SEEN? THE WHOLE NATURE, BEGINNING WITH THE MIND, DOWN TO GROSS MATTER. ALL THIS PLEASURE AND PAIN ARISES FROM THE JUNCTION BETWEEN THIS PURUSA AND THE MIND. THE PURUSA, YOU MUST REMEMBER, ACCORDING TO THIS PHILOSOPHY, IS PURE, IT IS WHEN IT IS JOINED TO NATURE, AND BY REFLECTION THAT IT APPEARS TO FEEL EITHER PLEASURE OR PAIN.

                      THE EXPERIENCED IS COMPOSED OF ELEMENTS AND ORGANS, IS OF THE NATURE OF ILLUMINATION, ACTION AND INTERIA, AND IS FOR THE PURPOSE OF EXPERIENCE AND RELEASE (OF THE EXPERIENCER).

                     THE EXPERIENCED, THAT IS NATURE, IS COMPOSED OF ELEMENTS AND ORGANS- THE ELEMENTS GROSS AND FINE WHICH COMPOSE THE WHOLE OF NATURE, AND THE ORGANS OF THE SENSES, MIND, ETC,. AND IS OF THE NATURE OF ILLUMINATION, ACTION, AND INTERTIA. THESE ARE WHAT IS SANSKRIT ARE CALLED SATTVA (ILLUMINATION) RAJAS, (ACTION) AN TAMAS (DARKNESS) EACH IS FOR THE PURPOSE OF EXPERIECE AND RELEASE. WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THE WHOLE OF NATURE? THAT THE PURUSA MAY GAIN EXPERIENCE. THE PURUSA HAS, AS IT WERE, FORGOTTEN IS MIGHTY, GODLY, NATURE. THERE IS A STORY THAT THE KING O THE GODS, INDRA, ONCE BECAME A PIG, WALLOWING IN MIRE, HE HAD A SHE PIG, AND A LOT OF BABY PIGS, AND WAS VERY HAPPY. THEN SOME OTHER ANGELS SAW HIS PLIGHT AND CAME TO HIM, AND TOLD HIM, YOU ARE THE KING OF THE GODS, YOU HAVE ALL THE GODS AT YOUR COMMAND. WHY ARE YOU HERE? BUT INDRA SAID, LET ME BE, I AM ALL RIGHT HERE, I DO PIGS, THE POOR GODS WERE AT THEIR WITS, END ON WHAT TO DO, AFTER A TIME, THEY DECIDED TO SLOWLY COME AND SLAY ONE OF THE LITTLE PIGS, AND THEN ANOTHER, UNTIL THEY HAD SLAIN ALL THE PIGS, AND THE SOW TOO. WHEN ALL WERE DEAD INDRA BEGAN TO WEEP AND MOURN. THEN THE GODS RIPPED HIS PIG BODY OPEN AND HE CAME OUT OF IT, AND BEGAN TO LAUGH WHEN HE REALISED WHAT A HIDEOUS DREAM HE HAD , HE, THE KING OF THE GODS, TO HAVE BECOME A PIG, AND TO THINK THAT THE PIG-LIFE WAS THE ONLY LIFE! NOT ONLY SO, BUT TO HAVE WANTED THE WHOLE UNIVERSE TO COME INTO THE PIG LIFE! THE PURUSA, WHEN IT IDENTIFIES ITSELF WITH NATURE, FORGETS THAT IT IS PURE AND INFINITE. THE PURUSA DOES NOT LIVE, IT IS LIFE ITSELF. IT DOES NOT EXIST, IT IS EXISTENCE ITSELF. THE SOUL DOES NOT KNOW, IT IS KNOWLEDGE ITSELF. IT IS AN ENTIRE MISTAKE TO SAY THAT THE SOUL LIVES, OR KNOWS, OR LOVES. LOVE AND EXISTENCE ARE NOT THE QUALITIES OF THE PURUSA, BUT ITS ESSENCE. WHEN THEY GET REFLECTED UPON SOMETHING YOU MAY CALL THEM THE QUALITIES OF THAT SOMETHING. BUT THEY ARE NOT THE QUALITIES OF THE PURUSA, BUT THE ESSENCE OF THIS GREAT ATMAN, THIS INFINITE BEING, WITHOUT BIRTH TO DEATH, WHO IS ESTABLISHED IN HIS OWN GLORY, BUT APPEARS AS IF BECOME DEGENERATE UNTIL IF YOU APPROACH TO TELL HIM, YOU ARE NOT PIG, HE BEGINS TO SQUEAL AND BITE. THUS WITH US ALL IN THIS MAYA, THIS DREAM WORLD, WHERE IT IS ALL MISERY, WEEPING, AND CRYING, WHERE A FEW GOLDEN BALLS ARE ROLLED, AND THE WORLD SCRAMBLES AFTER THEM. YOU WERE NEVER BOUND BY LAWS, NATURE NEVER HAD A BOND FOR YOU. THAT IS WHAT THE YOGI TELLS YOU, HAVE PATIENCE TO LEARN IT. AND THE YOGI SHOWS HOW, BY JUNCTION WITH THIS NATURE, AND IDENTIFYING ITSELF MISERABLE. THEN THE YOGI GOES ON TO SHOW THAT THE WAY OUR IS THROUGH EXPERIENCE. YOU HAVE TO GET ALL THSI EXPERIENCE, BUT FINISH IT QUICKLY. WE HAVE PLACED OURSELVES CAUGHT IN THE TRAP, AND WE WILL HAVE TO GET OUT. WE HAVE GOT OURSELVES CAUGHT IN THE TRAP, AND WE WILL HAVE TO WORK OUT OUR  FREEDOM.  SO GET THIS EXPERIENCE OF HUSBANDS AND WIVES, AND FRIENDS, AND LITTLE LOVES, AND YOU WILL GET THROUGH THEM SAFELY IF YOU NEVER FORGET WHAT YOU REALLY ARE. NEVER FORGET THIS IS ONLY MOMENTARY STATE, IS THE ONE GREAT TEACHER - EXPERIECE OF PLEASURE AND PAIN - BUT KNOW THEY ARE ONLY EXPERIENCES, AND WILL ALL LEAD, STEP BY STEP, TO THAT STATE WHEN ALL THESE THINGS WILL BECOME SMALL, AND THE PURUSA WILL BE SO GREAT THAT THIS WHOLE UNIVERSE WILL BE AS A DROP IN THE OCEAN, AND WILL FALL OFF BY ITS OWN NOTHINGNESS. WE HAVE TO GO THROUGH THESE EXPERIENCE, BUT LET US NEVER FORGET THE IDEAL.

                    THE STATES OF THE QUALITIES ARE THE DEFINED, THE UNDEFINED, THE INDICATED ONLY AND THE SIGNLESS.

                   THE SYSTEM OF YOGA IS BUILT ENTIRELY ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE SANKHYAS, AS I TOLD YOU IN SOME OF THE PREVIOUS LECTURES, AND HERE AGAIN I WILL REMIND YOU OF THE COSMOLOGY OF THE SANKHYA PHILOSOPHY. ACCORDING TO THE SANKHYAS, NATURE IS BOTH THE MATERIAL AND EFFICIENT CAUSE OF THIS UNIVERSE. IN THIS NATURE THERE ARE THREE SORTS OF MATERIALS, THE SATTVA, THE RAJAS, AND THE TAMAS. THE TAMAS MATERIAL IS ALL THAT IS DARK, ALL THAT IS IGNORANT AND HEAVY, AND THE RAJAS IS ACTIVITY, THE SATTVA IS CALMLESS, LIGHT. WHEN NATURE IS IN THE STATE BEFORE CREATION IT IS CALLED BY THEM ACYAKTAM, UNDEFINED, OR INDISCRETE, THAT IS, IN WHICH THERE IS NO DISTINCTION OF FORM OR NAME, A STATE IN WHICH THESE THREE MATERIALS ARE HELD IN PERFECT BALANCE. THEN THE BALANCE IS DISTURBED, THESE DIFFERENT MATERIALS BEGIN TO MINGLE IN VARIOUS FASHIONS, AND THE RESULT IS THIS INIVERSE . 

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