OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD

 

                             

                               IS THE GOD IS EXIST?

                     OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD NEVER CHANGE WHEREAS THE REST OF RELATIONSHIPS CHANGE THE TIME! THEN WHY DO WE GIVE MORE IMPORTANT TO THE REST OF RELATIONSHIPS THAN OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD? MR. 'Y' ASKED.

                   MR 'Z' REPLIED, GOD IS OUR OWN BUT THIS WORLD IS NOT OURS. THE BODY, FAMILY AND FRIENDS WE HAVE RECEIVED, WILL ALL DEPART ONE DAY. GOD IS ALWAYS WITH US, TAKING CARE OF US, GUIDING US, HELPING US, PROTECTING US AND LEADING US TOWARDS HIM. GOD IS OUR OWN FOR ETERNITY. GOD IS ALWAYS THERE TO LISTEN TO OUR PROBLEMS, GRIEVANCES AND TROUBLES WHICH WE CAN'T SHARE WITH ANYBODY ELSE".

                      GOD IS AN IDEA. GOD IS THE PRODUCT OF MIND.TO SOME IT APPEARS IN FORM, TO SOME IT IS FORMLESS OR TO OTHERS AS LIGHT OR TO OTHERS AS THE SUPREME TRUTH. IT IS ONLY ONE'S IMAGINATION HOW ONE WISHES TO SEE GOD AND GOD MANIFEST BEFORE THAT PERSON ACCORDING TO ONE'S CONCEPTION AND PERCEPTION. GOD IS EVERYWHERE, IN THE SUN, MOON, STARTS, MOUNTAINS, RIVERS, BIRDS, ANIMALS, TREES ETC. HE IS IN EVERY PARTICLE. ACCORDING TO BOEHME, "THE BIRDS IS OUR FOREST, THEY PRAISE GOD EACH IN ITS OWN WAY, IN DIVERSE TONES AND FASHIONS. DO YOU THINK GOD  IS VEXED BY THIS DIVERSITY AND DESIRES TO SILENCE DISCORDANT VOICES? ALL THE FORMS OF LIFE ARE DEAR TO INFINITE BEING HIMSELF".

                    ACCORDING TO DR. S. RADHAKRISHNAN, " A TRUE SEER IS COVINCED OF THE INEXHAUSTIBILITY OF THE NATURE OF GOD AND THE FINITE NUMBER OF ITS POSSIBLE MANIFESTATIONS.

                     EVERYONE  LOOKS AT GOD ACCORDING TO ONE'S OWN UNDERSTANDING ABOUT HIM . AT THE TIME OF SITA'S SWAYAMVAR , WHEN LORD RAM ENTERED THE COURT OF KING JANAK, ALL THE INVITEE KINGS LOOKED AT HIM AS A BRAVE PERSON, THE WICKED KINGS GOT SCARED LOOKING AT HIM AS IF HE IS A TERRIBLE FORM, THED DEMONS WHO WERE SITTING THERE DECEITFULLY IN PRINCE'S FORM SAW HIM AS THEIR DEATH, THE COMMON CITIZENS OF MITHILA SAW HIM AS A ABODE OF HUMANITY AND A DELIGHT TO THEIR EYES. FOR SAINT AND SAGES HE LOOKED LIKE A OBEDIENT DISCIPLE, TO DEVOTEES HE LOOKED LIKE LORD VISHNU IN HIS COSMIC FORM, TO THE RELATIVES OF KING JANAK HE LOOKED LIKE THEIR SON-IN-LAW, TO THE QUEEN HE LOOKED LIKE HER DEAR CHILD, TO THE YOGIS EVER UNITED WITH GOD SAW HIM AS THE HIGHEST TRUTH AND PLACID, SITA SAW HIM WITH JOY AND LOVE THAT COULD'NT BE PUT IN WORDS.

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                    THIS STORY IS FROM MUNDAKA UPANISHAD. ONCE THERE WAS A LARGE TREE WITH MANY BRANCHES. ON ITS LOWER BRANCH WAS SITTING A BIRD. WHEN IT LOOKED UP, IT SAW ANOTHER BIRD ON TOP BRANCH OF THE TREES. THE BIRD SITTING ON LOWER BRANCH RESTLESSLY PECKED FRUITS, SOMETIMES SWEET AND SOMETIMES BITTER AND THEN JUMPED A BRANCH UP. IT LOOKED UP AND SAW ANOTHER BIRD WAS SITTING ON THE HIGHEST BRANCH. IT AGAIN ATE SOME SWEET AND BITTER FRUITS AND HOPPED UP ONE BRANCH. IT KEPT MOVING TILL IT REACHED A BRANCH LOWER TO THE HIGHEST BRANCH. WHEN IT LOOKED UP THERE WAS STILL THAT ANOTHER BIRD ON THE ABOVE BRANCH. AS SOON AS IT REACHED THE TOP BRANCH IT FOUND THERE WAS NO BIRD EXCEPT ITSELF.

                       IN THIS STORY THE BIRD SITTING ON LOWER BRANCH IS JEEVATMAN (HUMAN BEING) AND THE BIRD SITTING ON HIGHEST BRANCH IS THE PARMATMAN (GOD) AND THE SWEET AND SOUR FRUITS ARE THE BIRH AND DEATH CYCLES.

                                       THE PRESENCE OF GOD

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                     THE MAIN GOAL OF MEDITATION OS GOD REALISATION RIGHT? 

                     MR. 'X' SAID.

                     YA. MR. 'L' REPLIED.

                   

                     YOU ARE DOING MEDITATION FOR PAST FIFTEEN YEARS. HAVE YOU EVER FELT THE PRESENCE OF GOD?

                        "YES"

                         HOW?

                      WHENEVER I FIND SOME OBSTACLES WHILE MOVING ON SPIRITUAL PATH THEN I AM GUIDED BY EITHER INTERNET OR A BOOK OR A STRANGER WHO COMES TO HELP ME. A PATH IS SHOWN TO ME TO IMPROVE MYSELF AND TO OVERCOME THE HIMDRANCE. THAT IS THE FORM OF GOD . I FEEL HIS PRESENCE.

THE BEGINNER MEDITATION TIPS

                             THE BASIC STEPS OF 

                                     MEDITATION

                        MEDITATION HAPPENS NATURALLY JUST LIKE SLEEP. SLEEP CAN'T BE FORCED INTO SOMEBODY EVEN IF SOMEBODY HAS A VERY COMFORTABLE BED, FLUFFY PILLOWS MATTRESS. COSY QUILT AND WELL FURNISHED ROOM WITH ALL LUXURIES. SLEEP COMES NATURALLY. ONE FALLS INTO IT. SIMILARLY MEDITATION COMES BY ITSELF. IT REQUIRES REGULARITY AND PATIENCES. THE NEWCOMERS SHOULD FOLLOW CERTAIN POINTS IN SELECTION OF PLACE.  TIME AND POSTURE FOR GOOD RESULTS. MENTAL ATTITUDE, FOOD HABITS AND ENVIRONMENT COUNT IN THE BEGINNING.

                        HOW TO SELECT PLACE 

                                AND TIME FOR MEDITATION

              A BEGINNER SHOULD KEEP THE FOLLOWING POINTS IN MIND WHILE DOING MEDITATION ACHIEVING BETTER AND EXCELLENT RESULTS IN MEDITATION. THE SELECTION OF PLACE, TIME AND POSTURE SHOULD BE DONE CORRECTLY TO ACHIEVE QUICK AND GOOD RESULTS.

             PLACE - FOR PRACTISING MEDITATION, BEGINNERS SHOULD SELECT THE ROOM IN THE NORTH EAST OR NORTH- EAST CORNER OF THE HOUSE OF BUILDING. ONE SHOULD AVOID DOING MEDITATION IN THE ROOMS SITUATED IN SOUTH. WEST OR SOUTH-WEST CORNER OF THE HOUSE OR BUILDING WHILE MEDITATING ONE SHOULD FACE TOWARDS NORTH. THIS IS THE BEST DIRECTION FOR DOING MEDITATION. ONE CAN ALSO FACE EAST BUT SHOULD NOT FACE SOUTH WHILE MEDITATING.

                IN THE NORTH- EAST CORNER OF  MY HOUSE THERE IS HUGE WATER TANK. IT IS VERY DEEP AND IS ALWAYS FILLED WITH WATER. "MR. X SAID. WHERE WILL DO THE MEDITATION? MR. "S" LAUGHED A LITTLE AND SAID, YOU CAN DO MEDITATION UNDER WATER BUT THAT REQUIRES A LOT OF PRACTICE AND CONTROL OVER BREATH. IN BHAGAVATA PURANA, IT IS MENTIONED THAT SAUBHARI MUNI MEDITATED UNDER WATER IN YAMUNA RIVER FOR SOME TIME AND ATTAINED MANY MYSTIC POWERS".

                         TIME  

                           CLOCK OR WATCH IN YOUR HOUSE SHOULD BE WORKING PROPERLY IN THE BEGINNING ONE NEEDS TO DO MEDITATION EVERYDAY AT THE SAME TIME. THE BEST TIME FOR CONCENTRATING THE MIND IS BRAHMAMUHURTA I .E FROM 4 A.M TO 6 A.M . AT THAT TIME, EVERYTHING IS SILENT IN THE UNIVERSE AND ONE IS AWAKEN FRESH AFTER SLEEPING THE WHOLE NIGHT. THE DUSK AND DAWN ARE EXCELLENT TIMES. ONE CAN DO MEDITATION AT ANY TIME WHICH IS CONVENIENT AND CAN PRACTISE IT REGULARLY AT THE SAME TIME.

                      ONE WILL PUNCTUAL FOR THE THINGS ONE WANTS TO DO. ONE WILL ALWAYS FIND TIME FOR THE THINGS ONE WISHES TO DO. ONE HAS TO BRING MEDITATION IN THEIR TOP PRIORITY OF THEIR LIST OF CHORES. FOR THAT ONE HAS TO JUST CHANGE ONE'S OUTLOOK.

                      POSTURE 

                       THE SPINE, NECK AND HEAD SHOULD BE A ALIGNED STRAIGHT IN  A LINE WHILE MEDITATING. SUKHASANA, PADMASANA, VRIKSHASANA, SHIRASHASANA ARE GOOD OPTIONS.TRY TO RELAX MUSCLES OF YOUR BODY. ONE SHOULD EXHALE OUT TWO OR THREE BREATHS THINKING, " I AM THROWING OUT ALL THE THOUGHTS RELATED TO THE WORLD AND I AM THROWING OUT ALL THE NEGATIVITY INSIDE ME. NOW I WILL THINK ONLY ABOUT GOD AND WHATEVER THOUGHT COMES TO MY MIND WILL BE OF GOD".

                       FOCUS ON HIGHER GOALS INSTEAD OF FOOD, FABRIC AND FURNITURE, FOCUS AND FURNITURE. FOCUS MIND ON GOD THAN ANYTHING ELSE.

                     WHILE MEDITATING ONE CAN FOCUS ON VARIOUS CENTRES WITHIN BODY. THERE ARE SEVEN CHAKRAS IN THE BODY ON WHICH ONE CAN CONCENTRATE. MOST OF THE SPIRITUAL ASPIRANTS CONCENTRATE ON SIXTH CHAKRA - THE SPACE BETWEEN EYEBROWS. THE OBJECT OF FOCUS IS VISUALIZED IN THE SPACE BETWEEN THE EYEBROWS. SOME ASPIRANTS FOCUS ON FOURTH CHAKRA - THE SPACE IN THE CENTRAL CHANNEL IN THE SPINE BETWEEN THE LUNGS AT HEART.

                 IT IS DIFFICULT TO CONCENTRATE THE MIND. IF ONE ASKS THE MIND TO THINK ABOUT A PARTICULAR OBJECT, THE MIND IS SO MISCHIEVOUS  THAT IT WILL DEFINETELY THINK ABOUT IT. MIND IS VERY NAUGHTY AND VERY DIFFICULT TO CONTROL.

                     THERE ARE TWO TYPES OF JAPA MEDITATION

                👉  1. JAPA WITHOUT MEDITATION - JAPA IS DONE WITHOUT MEIDTATIO

                    UPON IT.

              👉  2.  JAPA MEDITATION - MEDITATING WHILE DOING THE JAPA. IN ADVANCE STAGES JAPA WILL DROP BY ITSELF AND ONLY MEDITATION WILL REMAIN. SAID, PEOPLE DO NOT KNOW WHAT THE NAME OF GOD CAN DO. THOSE WHO REPEAT IT CONSTANLY ALONE KNOW ITS POWER. IT CAN PURIFY OUR MIND COMPLETELY. THE GOD'S NAME CAN TAKE US TO THE SUMMIT OF SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE. REPETITION OF MANTRA PRODUCES A VIBRATION IN THE HEAD WHICH STIMULATES AND RELAXES THE BRAIN. IT REMOVES BLOCKED IMPRESSIONS FROM DEEPER LAYERS OF MIND, IMPROVES AWARENESS, ENHANCES WISDOM AND HELPS IN HAVING BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF MENTAL CONSCIOUSNESS. CHANTING OF MANTRA BRINGS CHANGES IN CONCIOUSNESS, BUT NOT IN PHYSICAL BODY, IT IS A PANACEA FOR GETTING OF MIND.

WHY WE SHOULD MEDITATE?

 

                  

                                DIFFERENT WAYS TO 

                               CONTROL THE MIND

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                           THERE ARE VARIOUS WAYS TO CONTROL THE MIND, TO FOCUS IT ON ONE SINGLE POINT. SOME OF THEM ARE LISTED BELOW.

                   👀 1. CONCENTRATION ON BREATHING - CONCENTRATE MIND ON BREATHING INHALE SLOWLY AND DEEPLY AND EXHALE UNHURRIEDLY. FEEL THE COOL AIR INHALING AND HOT AIR WHILE EXHALING. SLOWER THE BREATH, MORE STABLE IS MIND. CONCENTRATE ON BREATHING AND FEEL RELAXED AS WELL AS CALM.

                  👀 2 .  CONCENTRATION ON SENSATIONS - CONCENTRATE MIND ON THE SENSATIONS FELT BY THE NOSTRIL DURING INHALING AND EXHALING. OR MIND CAN BE CONCENTRATED ON THE RISE AND FALL OF ABDOMEN WHILE BREATHING.

                  👀 3.  OBSERVATION OF THOUGHTS - THIS METHOD IS SUGGESTED BY JIDDU KRISHNAMURTI. WILL ENTER THE MIND OBSERVE IT FROM WHERE IT COMES FROM AND WHERE IT GOES AFTER LEAVING MIND. OBSERVE  THE SECOND THOUGHT FROM WHERE IT ARISES. STAY IN THE PRESENT. DO NOT LIVE IN PAST OR FUTURE. ON CAUTIONS THINKING, THE THOUGHT WILL LEAVE  THE MIND AND THE NEXT THOUGHT WILL NOT ENTER THE MIND. THE DAY HAS ENDED AND NIGHT HAS YET TO BEGIN AND IN BETWEEN TIME ZONE IS THE STATE OF SAMADHI - SUPREME PEACE.

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                 👀 4. EMPTYING THE MIND -  MIND IS LIKE A HUGE BAD FILLED WITH LOTS OF STUFF. WITH EACH PASSING DAY WE ARE INCREASING THE STUFF IN THAT BAG. PICK UP STUFF AND THROW IT OUT. THINK ABOUT A THOUGHT, GET DETACHED FROM IT. REMOVE IT FROM THE MIND THINKING THAT IT IS USELESS AND UNIMPORTANT. SLOWLY AND GRADUALLY THE THOUGHTS WILL START DECREASING AND ONE DAY WILL COME WHEN THERE WILL BE NO THOUGHT.

                  👀 5. HATHA YOGA AND PRANAYAMA - DIFFICULT YOGIC POSTURES ALONG WITH PRANAYAMA AND MUDRAS (HAND POSTURES) ARE PRACTICED TO CONCENTRATE MIND AND TO AWAKEN KUNDALINI. THE ENERGY IS THEN CONTROLLED AND PUSHED TO HEAD FOR SELF REALISATION. WHATEVER ONE MAY CHOOSE THE WAY TO CONTROL MIND ONE CAN PRACTICE PRANAYAMA, YOGA POSTURES AND MUDRAS LIKE JNANA MUDRA (TOUCH THE TIPS OF THUMB WITH THE INDEX FINGERS OF THE RESPECTIVE HANDS) WHICH WILL HELP ONE TO DEVELOP CONCENTRATION IN INITIAL STAGES.

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                      THE BEST WAY OF MEDITATION IS TO RISE IN THE MORNING. TAKE A BATH. SIT IN PADMASANA ON A MAT IN ERECT POSTURE. CLOSE YOUR EYES AND THINK THAT YOU ARE DEAD. YOUR CLOSE RELATIVES LIKE MOTHER, FATHER, BROTHER, SISTER, WIFE, SON, DAUGHTER AND YOUR FRIENDS ALL ARE CRYING. YOU ARE DEAD YOU CAN'T CONSOLE THEM. YOUR BODY IS PUL ON THE BIER AND YOUR FUNERAL POSSESSION BEGINS. YOU LEAVE BEHIND THE STREET IN WHICH YOU HAVE PLAYED GAMES, YOU LEAVE BEHIND THE SHOPS FROM WHICH YOU HAVE BOUGHT TOFFEES AND TOYS IN YOUR CHILDHOOD, YOU LEAVE BEHIND THE TOWN IN WHICH YOU HAVE SPENT WONDERFUL YEARS OF YOUR LIFE. YOUR BODY REACH BURIAL GROUND AND YOUR BODY IS PLACED UPON PYRE. YOUR SON LIT THE FIRE TO THE PYRE. YOUR BODY TURNS INTO ASHES. NOW YOU ARE TOTALLY FREE FROM DESIRE, ANGER, LUST, JEALOUSY, GREED, SORROW, AND ALL MATERIALISTIC ATTACHMENTS". MR "D" SAID.

                     IF AM DEAD THEN WHAT IS THE NEED TO MEDITATE?. MR. "T" ASKED.

                   TO FEEL THE SOUL CONSCIOUSNESS YOU HAVE TO END THE BODY CONSCIOUSNESS. ALL THE SORROW, PAIN, HAPPINESS, AND PLEASURES ARE EXPERIENCED BY BODY AND NOT SOUL. SOUL IS FREE FROM PAIN AND PLEASURE. ON REMAINING UNAFFECTED BY PAIN AND PLEASURE YOU WILL EXPERIENCE PEACE".

                 I HAVE A STRONG, BEAUTIFUL AND HEALTHY BODY. WHY SHOULD I IMAGINE THIS? 

                FOR HOW LONG YOU ARE STRONG, HEALTHY AND BEAUTIFUL? ONE DAY YOU WILL BECOME SICK, UGLY, AND OLD. NOBODY WILL WANT TO SEE YOUR FACE. THIS BODY WILL FADE AWAY SOONER OR LATER. YOU CAN BE DETACHED FROM YOUR BODY BY IMAGINING THAT YOU ARE EITHER DEAD OR YOUR BODY HAS BEEN DECOMPOSED. THAT YOUR BODY HAS BEEN EATEN BIT BY GIDHAS - BIRDS OF PREY, CROWS AND ANTS".

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MIND AND THE BODY (YOGI)

 

          

                              OUR MIND AND THOUGHTS

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                     MURUDHA-JYOTISI SIDDHA-DARSANAM

               BY CONTEMPLATION ON THE BRIGHTNESS IN THE HEAD, VISIONS OF GREAT SIDDHAS ARISE.

                   THE CENTRE REFERRED TO IS THE SAHASRARA CHAKRA AND THE  BRAHMARANDHRA AT THE BACK OF THE BRAIN CENTRE AND THE MEDULLA OBLANGATA

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                    PRATIBHAD-VA SARVAM

                 HAVING DEVELOPED INTUITION, EVERYTHING SUBTLE CAN BE SEEN AND UNDERSTOOD.

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                        HRDAYE CITTA- SAMVIT

                        BY CONTEMPLATING ON THE HEART, ONE CAN BEGIN UNDERTANDING THE MIND.

                            THE REFERS NOT TO THE PHYSICAL HEART BUT TO THE ANAHATA  CHAKRA IN THE CENTRE OF THE CHEST BEHIND THE STERNUM. IT IS ACTUALLY LOCATED IN THE SPINE.

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                         SATTVA - PURUSAYOR ATYANTA- ASAMKIRNAYOH PRATYAYA-

                       AVISESAH- BHOGAH PARA- ARTHATVAT - SVARTHA- SAMYANAT

                       PURUSA- JNANAM

                    BETWEEN PURE PURUSHA AND PERFECTLY CLEAR SATTVA, THERE IS VERY LITTLE DISCTINCTION. WHEN THIS IS UNDERTOOD, IT IS CLEAR THAT PURE SATTVA IS ONLY FOR THE PURPOSE OF KNOWING THE PURUSHA. IN SAMYAMA OR PURE SATTVA, THERE IS KNOWLEDGE OF PURUSHA.

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                      TATAH PRATIBHA- SRAVANA - VEDANA- ADARSA - ASVADA-VARTA

                    JAYANTE

                      INTUITIVE HEARING, TOUCHING, SEEING, TASTING AND SMELLING OF ALL THE SENSE ORGANS ARE HEIGHTENED AS A RESULT.

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                   TE SAMADHAV UPASARGAH- VYUTTHANE SIDDHAYAH

                  IN THE HIGHST SAMADHI, THERE IS NO DESIRE FOR EVEN THESE YOGIC POWERS.

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                   BADNHA-KARANA-SAITHILYAT PRACARA - SAMVEDANAT CA

                 CITTASYA PARA - SARIRA - AVESAH

                     WITH THE RELAXATION CAUSED BY THE LOOSENING OF BONDAGE FROM THE MIND, IT CAN ENTER INTO ANOTHER'S MIND AND THEREBY, INTO ANOTHER MANIFESTATION.

                   THE MIND IS CAPABLE OF ENTERING AND UNDERSTANDING OTHER MINDS AND AFTER LEAVING THE BODY, IT CAN EVEN CHOOSE A NEW EMBODIMENT.

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                    UDANA- JAYAT JALA- PANKA- KANTAKA ADISU- ASINGAH

                    UKRANTIS CA UDANA

                    FROM MASTERING THE UDANA OR THE UPWARD GOING BREATH, THERE IS LOOSENING OF ATTACHMENT TO THE ELEMENTS OF WATER, MUD AND THORNS AND RISING ABOVE THIS.

                      THIS IS TO DO WITH PRANAYAMA, BY MASTERING THE UPWARD BREATH THAT IS LINKED TO INHALATION , THE YOGI'S MIND RISES ABOVE THE DISTRACTIONS OF THE ELEMENTS OF NATURE.

YOGA SUTRAS

 

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                   MAITRI ADISU BALANI

                BY CONTEMPLATING ON FRIENDLINESS AND SO ON, CORRESPONDING POWERS ARE ATTAINED.

             

  

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                   BALESU HASTI -BALA- ADINI

              CONTEMPLATING ON POWERS SIMILAR TO THE ELEPHANT AND SO ON.

               BOTH THE MENTAL AND PHYSICAL STRENGTH OF A HUMAN BEING IS NOT USED TO ITS FULL POTENTIAL BECAUSE OF THE CONDITIONING THAT THE THOUGHT CREATES. IT'S A KIND OF SELF-HYPNOSIS WHERE A PERSON THINKS HE IS WEAK AND CANNOT DO ANYTHING  BEYOND A CERTAIN POINT. AT TIMES OF DANGER TO HIS OWN LIFE, THE LIMBIC SYSTEM IN THE BRAIN TAKES OVER AND HUMAN BEINGS HAVE BEEN KNOWN TO HAVE PERFORMED STUPENDOUS TASKS FOR THE SURVIVAL OF THEIR OWN BODY.

              HERE, THE HINT GIVEN IS THAT ONE CAN IMPROVE ONE'S CAPACITY BY CONTEMPLATING ON THE STRENGTH OF LARGE ANIMALS AND BY DEHYPNOTISING ONESELF FROM THE IDEA THAT ONE IS WEAK.

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                PRAVRITTY-ALOKA- NYASAT - SUKSMA - VYAVAHITA - 

                VIPRAKRSTA- JNANAM

              BY THE CASTING OF LIGHT ON ACTIVITY, THERE IS KNOWLEDGE OF THE HIDDEN AND THE DISTANT. BY CLARITY OBTAINED THROUGH SAMYAMA, CONTEMPLATION, THE YOGI CAN SEE BEYOND  THE OBVIOUS AND LEARNS TO READ INTUITIVELY WHAT THE PERSON THINKS EVEN THOUGH THE OUTWARD SIGNS ARE MEANT TO DISTRACT. YOGIS DON'T GET DISTRACTED. SO THEY ALSO LEARN TO SEE THE CONSEQUENCES FOR THE FUTURE IN THE CLUES OFFERED BY THE PRESENT.

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                  BHUVANA- JNANAM SURYE - SAMYAMAT

                FROM SAMYAMA ON THE SUN AND ITS MOVEMENTS, YOU CAN PERCEIVE KNOWLEDGE OF THE COSMIC REGIONS.

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                CANDRE TARAVYUHA - JNANAM

                  FROM STUDING THE MOON, YOU CAN DETERMINE THE ORDERING 

                   OF THE STARS.

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                 DHRUVE TADGATI - JNANAM

              BY STUDYING THE POLE STAR, YOU CAN DETERMINE THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE MOVEMENT OF THE HEAVENLY BODIES.

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                    NABHI - CAKRE - KAYA - VYUHA - JNANAM

                     BY CONTEMPLATING ON THE NAVEL CHAKRA IN THE NAVEL, YOU CAN OBTAIN KNOWLEDGE OF THE NADIS OF THE BODY.

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                    KANTHA - KUPE KSUT - PIPASA NIVRTTIH

              BY CONTEMPLATION ON THE VISHUDDHI CHAKRA AT THE HOLLOW OF THE THROAT, YOU CAN FREE YOURSELF OF THE DESIRE TO DRINK OR EAT.

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                   KURMA - NADYAM STHAIRYAM

                  BY CONTEMPLATION ON THE KURMA NADI, A CERTAIN INTERNAL CHANNEL, THE MIND BECOMES STABLE.

WHAT IS THE MEANING OF OUR THOUGHTS (THE YOGA)

                                    WHAT IS THE LANGUAGE OF 

                                        OF OUR LIFE

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               PARINAMA-TRAYA-SAMYAMAD-ATITA-ANAGATA JNANAM

                    FROM SAMYANA OR A UNIFED VIEW OF THESE THREE STATES OF ARISING, RESTING AND IN-BETWEEN, THE KNOWLEDGE OF WHAT THE PAST STATE WAS AND WHAT THE FUTURE IS GOING TO BE ARISES.

                  WITH AN INTIMATE KNOWLEDGE OF THE MIND AT REST, THE MIND THAT IS ACTIVE AND THE IN-BETWEEN STAGE, ONE IS ABLE TO UNDERTAND ITS PAST INFLUENCES AND WHAT THE RESULTS WILL BE IN THE FUTURE.

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                     SABDA-ARTHA-PRATYAYANAM ITARA-ITARE ADHYASAT

                     SAMSKARAS TAT-PRAVIBHAGA-SAMYAMAT SARVA -BHUTA-

                     RUTA-JNANAM

          

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                  SAMKARA-SAKSAT KARANAT PURVA-JATI-JNANAM SAMSKARA

                  FROM PERCEIVING THE SAMSKARAS, ONE'S ATTITUDES AND TENDENCIES, ONE CAN COME TO AN UNDERSTANDING OF PREVIOUS BIRTHS.

                    FOR EXAMPLE, WHEN A CHILD BEHAVES TOTALLY OPPOSITE TO HIS PARENT'S BEHAVIOUR OR UPBRINGING, ONE BEGINS TO UNDERSTAND THAT THESE ARE ASPECTS OF PAST BIRTHS. PRAHLADA BORN TO HIRANYAKASHIPU IS A CASE IN POINT.

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                      PRATYAYASYA PARA - CITTA- JNANAM

                  FROM THE CAPACITY TO SEE CLEARLY THAT COMES FROM SAMYANA, ONE SEES OTHER'S INTENTIONS AND THERE IS THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE OTHER'S MIND.

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                NA CA TAT SALAMBANAM TASYA AVISAYI BHUTATVAT

                    BUT THIS IS NOT WITHOUT BASIS, FOR NO CONDITIONS APPLIES TO THE PHYSICAL ELEMENTS.

                   WHAT IT COULD MEAN IS THAT ALL THIS IS ON THE SUBJECTIVE LEVEL AND DOES NOT APPLY TO THE PHYSICAL WORLD OF ELEMENTS. OF ALL OF PATANJALI'S SUTRAS, THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST DIFFICULT SUTRAS TO TRANSLATE.

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                    KAYA-RUPA- SAMYAMAT, TAD-GRAHYA-SAKTI-STAMBHE 

                    CAKSUH PRAKASA ASAMPRAYOGE ANTARDHANAM

                   FROM SAMYANA - CONCENTRATION OR DHARANA - COMES THE CAPACITY TO PREVENT THE LIGHT RAYS FALLING ON THE FORM OF THE BODY FROM BEING REFLECTED IN THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER AND HENCE, THE FORM IS CONCEALED.

                  

                 THIS REQUIRES A DETAILED COMMENTARY.

                THE POPULAR INTERPRETATION OF THIS SUTRA IS, THE YOGI, WHO HAS LEARNT HOW LIGHT IS REFLECTED OFF THE BODY, SEES THE LIGHT IN THE EYE OF ANOTHER HUMAN BEING WITHIN THE YOGI'S VISION. AN ACCOMPLISHED YOGI CAN STOP THE LIGHT FROM BEING REFLECTED AND THUS BECOME INVISIBLE.

               LIGHT RAYS CANNOT ACTUALLY BE CONTROLLED BY THE YOGI, BUT THE CELLS ON THE SURFACE OF THE BODY CAN BE MADE TO ABSORB ALL THE LIGHT RAYS, AND IN THE ABSENSE OF REFLECTION, THE EYES OF OTHERS CANNOT PERCEIVE THE BODY.

               IN PRACTICAL TERMS, EVEN IF ONE REMAINS STILL AND WEARS CLOTHES WHICH ARE DIFFERENT FROM ONE'S USUAL DRESS, AND THEREFORE UNIDENTIFIABLE  BY KNOWN PEOPLE, IT'S OFTEN QUITE POSSIBLE TO REMAIN INVISIBLE. REMAINING TOTALLY STILL, THOUGH, IS NOT SO EASY.

                 THEN THERE IS ALSO THE FACT THAT IN HYPNOSIS, THE SUBJECT DOES NOT SEE WHAT HE OR SHE IS TOLD DOES NOT EXIST, EVEN THOUGH THE OBJECT IS RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE EYE. IN SUCH A CASE, THE BRAIN DOESN'T REGISTER ITS EXISTENCE.

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                SOPA- KRAMAM NIRUPAKRAMAM CA KARMAN TAD SAMYAMAT

                APARA- NTA-JNANAM ARISTEBHYOVA

                 FROM SAMYAMA ON ACTION OR KARMA SET IN MOTION AND FROM OBSERVING PHENOMENA THAT IS CONSIDERED UNNATURAL, THERE COMES THE KNOWLEDGE OF APPROACHING DEATH.

                   THIS MEANS CONTEMPLATING ON ACTIONS, WHETHER PERFORMED OR NOT, THE YOGI GETS A FAIRLY CLEAR IDEA OF HOW FAR DEATH IS FROM HIM. TRADITIONAL TEXTS ALSO DESCRIBE THE VARIOUS OMENS, INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL, THAT OCCUR, AND BY CONTEMPLATING ON THIS, A YOGI KNOWS WHEN DEATH IS NEAR.

                 AN EXAMPLE IS THE RHYTHM OF ONE'S BREATH.

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THE YOGA (VIBHUTI BADA SUTRAS)

 

                                  

                                         YOGA SUTRAS

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                            TRAYAM-ANTAR-ANGAM PURVEBHYAH

                   THESE THREE, THE INNER LIMBS, ARE DISTINCT FROM THE ONES MENTIONED BEFORE.

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                 TAD API BAHIR-ANGAM NIRBIJASYA

                THESE THREE ARE THE OUTER LIMBS OF NIRBIJA, THE SEEDLESS SAMADHI.

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                      VYUTTHANA-NIRODHA-SAMSKARAYOR ABHIBHAVA-

                    PRADURBHAVAU NIRODHA-KSANA CITTA-ANVAYO NIRODHA-

                    PARINAMAH

                       WHEN EMERGENCE OR EXTROVERSION IS OVERPOWERED BY THE QUALITY OF RESTRAINT, THERE OCCURS A MOMENT OF INTROVERSION. THIS IS THE RESULT OF RESTRAIN.

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                     TASYA PRASANTA VAHITA SAMSKARAT

                 THE MIND THEN DISCOVERS THE QUALITY OF THE MIND WHEN THERE IS A CALM FLOW.

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                   SARVARTHATA EKAGRATAYOH KSAYA-UDAYAU CITTASYA

                   SAMADHI-PARINAMAH

                     WHEN ALL OBJECTIVITY IS ENDED AND ONE-POINTEDNESS ARISES, MODIFICATION (OF THE MIND) LEADS TO SAMADHI.

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                 TATAH PUNAH SANTO-UDITAU TULYA- PRATYAYAU CITTASYA-

               EKAGRATA-PARINAMAH

                   SO AGAIN WHEN THERE IS EQUALITY OF INTROVERSION AND EXTROVERSION BETWEEN THE RISING OF THOUGHTS AND QUIETNESS, THE RESULT IS ONE-POINTEDNESS OF THE CHITTA, MIND.

                   THIS CAN INTERPRETED IN PRACTICAL YOGIC TERMS AS THE QUALISING OF THE INGOING AND OUTGOING BREATH, RESULTING IN BALANCING OF THE PRANA IN THE IDA NADI ON THE LEFT AND IN THE PINGALA NADI ON THE RIGHT.

  

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                          ETENA BHUTA INDRIYESU DHARMA-LAKSANA-AVASTHA

                          PARINAMA VYA KHYATAH

                      THE STATE OF THE MIND AND SENSES, AND THE NATURE OF THE MIND AND ELEMENTS AND THEIR ENGAGEMENT WITH EACH OTHER ARE EXPLAINED AND UNDERSTOOD.

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                    SANTA-UDITA-AVYAPADESYA-DHARMA-ANUPATI DHARMI

                THIS MEANS THAT THE YOGI REFERRED TO AS THE HOLDER OF DHARMA, RECOGNIZES THE DHARMA OR CHARACTERISTICS OF HIS MIND, WHETHER IT IS QUIETENED OR ACTIVE OR IN-BETWEEN.

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                 KRAMAA-ANYATVANI PARINAMA-ANYATEVE HETUH

                THE TRANSFORMATION TAKES PLACE IN SUCCESSION IN BETWEEN THESE STATES, CAUSING THE DIFFERENCE IN STATES.