THE YOGA SUTRAS (FROM 33 TO 43)

 

                                  👀    THE YOGA  👀

                        SUTRA 33👇

                    VITARKA-BADHANE PRATIPRAKSA-BHAVANAM

                      FOR THE  BONDAGE OCCURING FROM DISCURSIVE THOUGHT, THE CULTIVATION OF THE OPPOSSITE IS LAID DOWN.

                    SUTRA 34 ONWARDS IS AN ELABORARATION OF SUTRA 33.

                    SUTRA 34👇

                  VITARKA HIMSA ADAYAH KRTA-KARITA-ANUMODITA LOBHA-

                   KRODHA-MOHA-PURVAKA MRDU-MADHYA ADHIMATRA

                  DUHKHA-AJNANA-ANANTA-PHALA ITI PRATIPRAKSHA-BHAVANAM

                VIOLENT THOUGHTS THAT ARE INIMICAL TO TRANQUILITY AND CAUSE HARM TO OTHERS, THAT ARE DONE, CAUSED OR APPROVED BY YOU, LUST, ANGER OR DELUSION, WHETHER MILD, MEDIUM OR INTENSE, WHICH RESULTS IN ENDLESS DISATISFACTION, AND SPRING FROM IGNORANCE, CAN BE NEUTRALISED BY DELIBERATE CULTIVATION OF OPPOSITES AS PRESCRIBED IN THE NEW FEW SUTRAS.

               SUTRA 35👇

                   AHIMSA-PRATISTHAYAM TAT-SANNIDHAU VAIRATYAGHA

                    WHEN IN THE PRESENCE  OF ONE ESTABLISHED IN NON-VIOLENCE, ONE GIVES UP HOSTILITY, GRADUALLY.

                        SUTRA 36👇

                     SATYA-PRATISTHAYAM KRIYA-PHALA-ASRAYATVAM

                      WHEN ONE IS ESTABLISHED IN TRUTHFULNESS, THEN THERE IS A CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN ACTION AND ITS RESULTS.

                 SUTRA 37👇

                    ASTEYA-PRATISTHAYAM SARVARATN-OPASTHANAM

                     WHEN ESTABLISHED IN NON-STEALING, ALL THAT IS PRESENT OR AVAILABLE IS LIKE JEWELS.

                                                                              ❤❤

                           THIS CAN BE EXPLAINED AS FOLLOWS:

                     WHEN ONE CEASES TO THINK OF STEALING OTHER PEOPLE'S POSSESSIONS, THE MIND IS NOT CEASELESSLY SCHEMING TO GET THEM. THE MIND THEN BECOMES TRANQUIL AND BEGINS TO SEE BEAUTY AND SATISFACTION IN THE LITTLE THINGS ONE HAS AND IN THE SURROUNDINGS. ONCE ESTABLISED IN NON-STEALING, ONE BECOMES FRIENDS WITH THE LITTLE SQUIRREL THAT COMES DAY OR THE BEAUTIFUL BIRD THAT SITS LOOKING OUT FROM THE BRANCHES OF THE DEODHAR TREE, JUST OUTSIDE ONE'S KUTIR IN THE MOUNTAINS. NO THIEF CAN STEAL THE TREASURES OF YOUR HEART.

                  SUTRA 38👇

                        BRAHMACARYA PRATISTHAYAM VIRYA-LABHAH

                           WHEN STEADY WITH THE PRACTISE OF SEXUAL CONTROL, VIGOUR IS OBTAINED.

                         THIS MEANS THAT IF ONE HAS A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF CONTROL OF ONE'S SEXUAL URGES AND INDULGENCE, THE TREMENDOUS POWER, WHICH IS OTHERWISE DISSIPATED, IS WITHHELD AND SUBLIMATED INTO PHYSICAL VIGOUR AND MENTAL CREATIVITY. THIS NEED NOT NECESSARILY MEAN TOTAL CELIBACY AS THERE HAVE BEEN GREAT YOGIS WHO WERE (GRIHASTAS) MARRIED MEN.

                  SUTRA 39👇

                 APARIGRAHA-STHAIRYE JANMA-KATHAMTA SAMBODHAH

                                                                            ❤❤

                      WHEN ESTABLISHED IN NON-POSSESSIONS, THE KNOWLEDGE OF THE HOW AND WHAT OF EXISTENCE IS BORN.

                        WHEN IT  IS CLEARLY UNDERSTOOD, BY THE BY, THAT NOTHING BELONGS TO ONE, SINCE ONE HAS TO LEAVE IT BEHIND AT SOME TIME AND THE MIND BEGINS TO EXTRICATE ITSELF FROM THE IMAGINARY WORLD OF THE IMAGES WE HAVE CREATED DEPENDING ON BIRTH, TITLES, AND POSSESSIONS, IT BEGINS TO SEE CLEARLY THAT PURE EXISTENCE DOES NOT DEPEND ON THE IMAGE - THE EGO. THEN, THE TRANQUIL MIND UNDERSTANDS WHAT TRUE EXISTENCE IS, STRIPPED OF ALL THE PARAPHERNALIA THAT HAD HITHERTO KEPT IT ENSLAVED.

                SUTRA 40👇

                 SAUCAT SVA-ANGA-JUGUPSA PARAIRA ASAMSARGAH

                      FROM CLEANLINESS / PURITY (MAINTAINING THE PURITY OF THE BODY) ONE DEVELOPS DISLIKE OVER ONE'S BODY AND ALSO OF OTHERS AND AVOIDS CONTACT WITH OTHERS.

                      SEEING THAT THE BODY NEEDS CONSTANT CLEANING TO PREVENT IT FROM THE BAD EFFECTS OF SWEAT, DIRT, EXCRETA, GLANDULAR DISCHARGE AND BAD BREATH, ONE DEVELOPS DETACHMENT FROM THE BODY THAT ONE LOVED SO MUCH BEFORE.

                    SEEING THAT OTHERS ARE IN THE SAME BOAT, ONE TEDS TO DETACH ONESELF FROM OTHERS AND KEEP CONTANT TO THE MINIMUM. TODAY, THIS IS SIMILAR TO THE STEPS THAT ARE BEING TAKEN DURING THE SPREAD OF THIS CURRENT DANGEROUS VIRAL PANDEMIC.

                     SUTRA  41👇

                       SATTVA-SUDDHIH-SAUMANASYA-EKA-AGRYA-INDRIYA-

                       JAYA-ATMA-DARSANA YOGYATVANI CA

                   AND THE FITNESS TO HAVE THE VISION OF THE SELF STEMS FROM A MIND THAT IS LIGHT (RESTING IN BEINGNESS), PURE (FREE OF ALL DISTRACTIONS AND THEREFORE), CONTENT AND CHEERFUL, WITH ONE-POINTED MASTERY OF THE SENSE (THAT OTHERWISE KEEP DISTRACTING AND CREATING CONFLICT).

                   SUTRA 42👇

                   SAMTOSAD ANUTTAMAH SUKHA LABHAH

                   FROM CONTENTMENT, JOY IS GAINED.

                    SUTRA 43👇

                  KAYA-INDRIYA-SIDDHIR-ASUDDHI-KSAYAT TAPASAH

                    FROM CONTENTMENT, JOY IS GAINED.

                      SUTRA 43👇

                    KAYA-INDRIYA-SIDDHIR-ASUDDHI-KSAYAT TAPASAH

                   FROM THE PRACTICE OF AUSTERITY (SUCH AS EXERCISE, YOGA, CONTROL OF EATING HABITS AND SEXUAL DISCIPLINE) THE DESTRUCTION OF IMPURITY TAKES PLACE AND THE PERFECTION OF THE BODY AND SENSES ARISES.

                    

THE YOGA SUTRAS (FROM 28 TO 32)

 

                                          THE YOGA

                                   SUTRA 28 👀

                      YOGA-ANGA-ANUSTHANAD ASUDDHI-KSAYE JNANA-DIPTIR-

                      AVIVEKA-KHYATEH

                             BY PRACTICING THE EIGHT LIMBS OF YOGA (LISTED BELOW IN THE DESCRIPTION OF SUTRA 29) IMPURITY IS DESTROYED, AND THE LIGHT OF WISDOM LEADS TO DISCRIMINATIVE DISCERNMENT.

                   SUTRA 29 👀

                    YAMA-NIYAMA-ASANA-PRANAYAMA-PRATYAHARA-

                     DHARANA-DHYANA-SAMADHAYO-ASTAV-ANGANI

                     RESTRAINTS, OBSERVANCES, POSTURE, CONTROL OF BREATH, WITHDRAWING THE SENSES, HOLDING ATTENTION, MEDITATION, ABSORPTION - THE STATE OF AWARENESS. THESE ARE THE EIGHT LIMBS.

                          SUTRA 30 👀

                       AHIMSA-SATYA-ASTEYA BRAHMACARYA-APARIGRAHAH

                         YAMAH

                      THE YAMAS ARE NON-VIOLENCE, TRUTHFULNESS, NON-STEALING, SEXUAL CONTROL AND RENUNCIATION OF NON-ESSENTIAL OR NON-POSSESSION.

                      NON-VIOLENCE EVENTUALLY LEADS TO A STAGE WHERE ONE GRADUALLY LOSES THE DESIRE TO KILL OR INJURE. FOR THE YOGI WHO FINDS JOY WITHIN, IT MAKES NO SENSE TO LIVE A LIFE AND DECEIT AND TO TRY TO REACH THE "TRUTH" A LYING MIND IS NEVER A TRANQUIL MIND.

                                                                       👇

                        SEXUAL CONTROL NEED NOT BE TOTAL CELIBACY. IT MEANS ALL ACTIONS THAT LEAD TO THE BRAHMAN. BASICALLY, IT KEEPS THE SENSE ORGANS, ESPECIALLY THE SEX ORGANS DISCIPLINED, SO THAT ALL THE ENERGY OF YOUR LIFE IS NOT SPENT IN SEXUAL PURSUIT.

                        LIBIDO HAS TREMENDOUS ENERGY AND IS A CREATIVE FORCE THAT CREATES THAT A NEW HUMAN BEGIN, WHICH IS THE RESULT OF THE CONSUMMATION OF THE SEXUAL ACT.

                        IF THIS ENERGY CAN BE BROUGHT UNDER CONTROL TO A GREAT EXTENT AND SUBLIMATED TO REACH HIGHER AND SUBTLER EMOTIONS, THEN THE AWARENESS TRAVELS FROM THE GROSS TO THE SUBTLE AND FINALLY TO THE HIGHEST POSSIBLE, IN WHICH THE HUMAN IS TRANSFORMED INTO A DIVINE BEING. THIS IS THE WHOLE POINT OF PRACTICING THE RAISING OF THE KUNDALINI - THE DIVINE, FEMININE PARA SHAKTI THAT RESTS AT THE BASE OF THE SPINE AND IS RAISED BY THE YOGI THROUGH THE FIVE CHAKRAS, TILL IT REACHES THE SEVENTH CHAKRA INSIDE THE BRAIN, THE SAHASRARA. THE YOGI THEN EXPERIENCES THE THOUSAND-FOLD SPIRITUAL ORGASM, WHEREIN ALL THE CONDITIONINGS ARE DESTROYED AND THERE IS ULTIMATE SOLITUDE AND TOTAL FREEDOM.

                        NON-POSSESSION OR WHAT CAN ALSO BE DEFINED AS GIVING UP OF NON-ESSENTIAL IS INTERPRETED AS :

                                                                    ❤❤❤

                     1. SIMPLIFYING LIFE SO THAT YOU DON'T HAVE POSSESSIONS TO WORRY ABOUT.

                    2. THE GRADUAL UNDERSTANDING THAT EVEN THOUGH WE SURROUND OURSELVES WITH PEOPLE AND THINGS, NOTHING REALLY BELONGS TO US.  ALL OF US WILL DIE AND LEAVE THEM BEHIND. SO BY DEVELOPING THE ATTITUDE OF NOT DEPENDING ON THEM, WHEN THE TIME TO ABANDON THEM ARRIVES, WHEN DEATH IS IMMINENT, WE WON'T GRIEVE FOR THEM.

                      WE SHOULD ALSO UNDERSTANDING THAT EVERYTHING REALLY BELONGS TO THE WHOLE WORLD AND WE ARE IN CHARGE OF ONLY A PART OF IT.

 

                     AS THE ISAVASYA UPANISHAD SAYS, "MA GRIDHA KASYA SVIDDHANAM (WHOSE WEALTH IS THIS ANYWAY)

                    SUTRA 31 👀

                         JATI-DESA-KALA-SAMAYA-ANAVACHINNAH SARVA-BHAUMA-

                        MAHAVRATAM

                          ON ALL OCCASIONS, UNDER ALL CIRCUMSTANCES OF BIRTH, PLACE OR TIME, WHEN PRACTICES, THEN IT IS TERMED THE GREAT VOW (MAHA VRATA)

                         NO MATTER WHERE AND WHICH FAMILY ONE IS BORN INTO OR WHICH PLACE OR THE PERIOD OF TIME ONE LIVES IN, ON ALL OCCASIONS AND CIRCUMSTANCES WHEN IT BECOMES HABITUAL TO PRACTICE THE ABOVE RESTRAINTS, THEN ONE IS SUCCESSFULLY PRACTICING THE MAHA VRATA.

                      SUTRA 32 👀

                    SAUCA-SAMTOSA-TAPAH-SVADHYAYA-ISWARA-

                     PRANIDHANANI NIYAMAH

                         OBSERVANCES INCLUDE CLEANLINESS, PURITY, COMMITMENT, AUSTERITY, SELF-STUDY AND DEDICATION TO ISHWARA.

                         (FOR THE DISCUSSION AND MEANING OF ISHWARA, REFER TO SECTION 1 OF SAMADHI PADA, SUTRA 23, THE INTRODUCTION)

YOGA SUTRAS (FROM 18 TO 27)

 

                                  THE YOGA SUTRAS

                         SUTRA 18

                    PRAKASA-KRIYA-STHITI-SILAM BHUTENDRIYA-ATMAKAM

                    BHOGA-APAVARGA-ARTHAM DRSYAM

                         THE QUALITIES OF LIGHT, DARKNESS, ACTIVITY, INERTIA. THE MATERIAL ELEMENTS, THE SENSES, AND THE PURPOSE OF EXPERIENCING THE WORLD AND EVEN THE LONGING FOR LIBERATION ARE ONLY THE VRITTIS, THE AMBIT OF THE SEEN.

                  SUTRA 19

                      VISESA-AVISESA-LINGA-MATRA-ALINGANI GUNA-PARVANI

                     WHAT IS DISTINCT, THE ONE WHO FEELS BOTH, AND EVEN THE UNMANIFEST AKASA ARE DIVISIONS OF THE GUNAS.

                       THE COMMENTARIES OF VYASA SUM UP ALL THE ABOVE-MENTIONED QUALITIES AND ATTRIBUTES THEM AS STILL WITHIN THE AMBIT OF THE SEEN.

                      SUTRA 20

                      DRASTA DRSI-MATRAH SUDDHO PI PRATYAYA-ANUPASYAH

                     ALTHOUGH THE SEER ONLY SEES THE IS PURE SEEING, IT APPERS TO THE MIND TO BE INTENTIONAL.

                   SUTRA 21

                         TAD-ARTHA EVA DRSYASYA-ATMA

                THE NATURE OF THE SEEN IS ONLY FOR THE PURPOSE OF FINDING THE SEER, THE PURUSHA.

                    SUTRA 22

                        KRTA-ARTHAM PRATI NASTAM-APY-ANASTAM TADANYA

                       SADHARANATVAT

                   WHEN ITS PURPOSE IS OVER, THE SEEN DISAPPEARS, BUT DOESN'T DISAPPPEAR FOR THOSE WHOSE PURPOSE IS NOT OVER YET.

                      SUTRA 23

                   SVA-SVAMI-SAKTYOH SVA-RUPA UPLABDHI-HETUH SAMYOGAH

               SAMYOGA IS THE NON-DISTINGUISHING BETWEEN THE SEEN AND THE SEER AND SEEING, THEREIN THE MIXING UP OF THE OWNER (A SEER) AND THE OWNED (THE SEEN)

                  FOR EXAMPLE, WHEN I SAY "MY BODY" I AM DIFFERENT FROM MY BODY, WHICH BELONGS TO ME. THIS IS SIMILAR TO SAYING "MY CLOTHES', BECAUSE I AM DIFFERENT FROM THEM, BUT WHEN WORN BOTH SEEM TO BE ONE.

                  SUTRA 24

                          TASYA HETUR-AVIDYA

                        IGNORANCE IS THE ROOT OF CONFUSION.

 

                       SUTRA 25

                                       TAD-ABHAVAT-SAMYOGA-ABHAVO HANAM TAD-DRSEH

        

                          THIS MEANS OF ESCAPE IS CONSTANT DISCRIMINATION.

                 SUTRA 26

                                        VIVEKA-KHYATIR AVIPLAVA HANOPAYAH

                        THE MEANS OF ESCAPE IS CONSTANT DISCRIMINATION.

                    SUTRA 27

                       TASYA SAPTADHA PRANTA-BHUMIH PRAJNA

                  THE ACCOMPLISHED YOGIN IS NOW WISE IN SEVEN-FOLD UNDERSTANDING.

                            ACCORDING TO THE COMMENTARY OF VYASA, THE SEVEN-FOLD UNDERSTANDING IS:

                      1. THAT WHICH IS TO BE KNOWN IS KNOWN NOW.

                      2. THAT WHICH IS TO BE AVOIDED IS AVOIDED.

                      3. WHAT HAS TO BE ATTAINED IS ATTAINED.

                      4. THE ABILITY TO DISCRIMINATION AND DISCERN IS.

                      5. THE INTELLECT (BUDDHI) HAS REALISED, FINISHED ITS PURPOSE, FIRST BY PROVIDING EXPERIENCE AND THEN LIBERATION.

                      6. ALL THE FLUCTUATIONS CAUSED BY THE GUNAS HAVE CEASED.

                      7. THE PURUSHA, THE SEER ABIDES IS SPLENDID ALONENESS.

THE YOGA SUTRAS (SUTRAS FROM 6 TO 17)

 

                                  THE CONSCIOUS MIND

                 ❤   SUTRA 6  ❤

                        DRG-DARSANA-SAKTYOR-EKA ATMATA IVA ASMITA

                      THE SEER (THE CONSCIOUS SELF) AND THE WORLD SEEN THROUGH THE SENSES WHEN NOT DISTINGUISHED, GIVES RISE TO THE FEELINGS OF THE WRONG I AM-NESS OR EGO.

                ❤   SUTRA 7 ❤

                       SUKHA-ANUSAYI RAGAH

                  TO BE ATTRACTED IS TO CLING TO THE PLEASURABLE.

                    EVEN WHEN ONE IS OFTEN TIMES AWARE THAT THE PLEASURE IS FLEETING- AND IN THE END IS THE CAUSE FOR SORROW.

                      THE NEXT SUTRA LOOKS AT THE OTHER SIDE.

                ❤  SUTRA 8 ❤

                       DUHKHA-ANUSAYI DVESAH

                         AVERSION IS CLINGING TO SORROW.

                    THIS MEANS MOSTLY EXPERIENCING SORROW. THE MIND DEVELOPS THE HABIT OF ENJOYING THE FAMILIEAR PATTERN AND DEVELOPS AVERSION TO NO-SORROW, LIKE THE PIG THAT WALLOWS IN THE MUCK OF ITS STY DISLIKES CLEANLINESS. IN EXTREME CASES, LIKE THAT OF THE VOLUNTARY MARTYR, THE MIND IMAGINES EVEN THE PAIN OF DYING TO BE MORE PLEASURABLE THAN THE STATE OF LIVING.

                ❤  SUTRA 9 ❤

                       SVARAS VAHI VIDUSO-PI-TATHA RUDHO-BHINIVESAH

                           THE DESIRE FOR CONTINUITY WHICH EVEN THE WISE HAVE IS A BUILT-IN INSTINCT FOR SURVIVAL AND PLEASURE-SEEKING.

                         FROM THE CORONAVIRUS TO THE COMPLEX DEVELOPED HUMAN BEING, THE DESIRE TO NOT DIE BUT TO CONTINUE AND MULTIPLY IS INSTINCTUAL. IT IS LINKED TO THE IGNORANCE THAT PHYSICAL LIFE IS ETERNAL.

                         THE WILL LAST UNTIL THE CONSCIOUS-AWARENESS IS REALISED TO BE THE REAL SELF AND NOT THE BODY OR THE OUTSIDE WORLD, IN WHICH IT APPEARS ALMOST INEXTRICABLY ENMESHED.

                 ❤  SUTRA 10 ❤

                      TE PRATIPRASAVA-HEYAH SUKSMAH

                   THESE SUBTLE HANKERINGS ARE TO BE AVOIDED BY TRACING BACK TO THE ORIGIN.

                   THIS MEANS THAT FROM THE MULTIPLICITY OF THE WORLD, ONE HAS TO TRACE ONE'S AWARENESS TO THE UNITY OF THE PURE CONSCIOUS SELF.

                        ❤ SUTRA 11 ❤

                      DHYANA HEYAH TAD-VRTTAYAH

                     ALL THESE DISTRACTIONS AND FLUNTUATIONS CAN BE AVOIDED THROUGH DHYANA (MEDITATION).

                     ❤ SUTRA 12 ❤

                       KLESA-MULAH KARMA -ASAYO DRSTA-ADRSTA-JANMA-

                       VEDANIYAH

                       THE WHOLE OF EXISTENCE, SEEN OR UNSEEN, IS BECAUSE THE ROOTS OF AFFLICTION ARE THE RESIDUE TO KARMA- ACTION FROM THE PAST.

                     ❤  SUTRA 13 ❤

                    SATI MULE TAD-VIPAKO JATY-AYUR-BHOGAH

                      AS LONG AS THE ROOT EXISTS, IT BEARS FRUIT BEING BORN IN CERTAIN CONDITIONS, AS LIVING AND EXPERIENCE GENERATED IN LIFE.

                       ❤ SUTRA 14 ❤

                      TE HLADA PARITAPA-PHALAH PUNYA-APUNYA-HETUTVAT

                THESE FRUITS ARE JOYFUL OR PAINFUL, DEPENDING ON THE CAUSES, MERITORIOUS OR DEMERITORIUS.

                   ❤  SUTRA 15 ❤

                          PARINAMA TAPA SAMSKARA DUHKHAIH GUNA-VRTTI-

                          VIRODHACCA DUHKHAM-EVA SARVAM VIVEKINAH

                       TO THE ONE WHO CAN DISCRIMINATE, THE CONFLICTS, THE EXPECTATION AND THE REMITTENT SORROW, THE OPPOSITE OF PLEASURE AND PAIN, THE ANXIETY AND THE CONFLICT ASSOCIATED WITH THEM ARE ALL SUMMED UP BY ONE WORD- FLUCTUATIONS OF THE MIND-STUFF, VRITTIS.

                   ❤   SUTRA 16 ❤

                      HEYAM DUHKHAM-ANAGATAM

                   (SUCH A ONE) AVOIDS THE DISSATISFACTION YET TO COME.

                        ❤  SUTRA 17 ❤

                             DRASTR-DRSYAYOH SAMYOGO HEYAHETUH

                     ALL THIS CAN BE AVOIDED, IF ONE KNOWS THAT THE CAUSES OF ALL THESE AFFLICTIONS IS THE ILLUSION THAT THE SEER AND THE SEEN ARE ONE.

THE YOGA SUTRAS

 

                              

                                THE YOGA GODLESS

                                       THE SUTRAS

                 SAMADHI-BHAVANA-ARTHAH KLESA TANU-KARANA-ARTHAS-CA

                 SAMADHI 2

                     THE PURPOSE OF THE PRACTICE IS TO CULTIVATE SAMADHI AND WEAKENING OF AFFLICTIONS.

                    AT THIS POINT, IT IS RELEVANT TO TAKE NOTE OF THE FACT THAT TILL SUTRA 28, THE PRACTICE POPULARLY CALLED ASHTANGA YOGA OR THE YOGA OF EIGHT LIMBS IS NOT MENTIONED. IT IS ONLY FROM SUTRA 29 THAT THE PRACTICE OF ASHTANGA BEGINS. UNTIL THEN, THE TEACHING CENTRES AROUND UNDERSTANDING THE ROOT CAUSE OF AFFLICTIONS, SO THAT THEY MAY BE DEALT WITH.

                       SUTRAS 3 

                            AVIDYA-ASMITA-RAGA-DVESA-ABHINIVESAH KLESAH

                          THIS SUTRA DESCRIBES THE AFFLICTIONS THAT HAMPER THE TRANQUILITY OF MIND NEEDED TO TOUCH THE FREEDOM OF PURE CONSCIOUSNESS.

                        IGNORANCE, I-AM-NESS (EGO), ATTRACTION, AVERSION AND DESIRE FOR CONTINUITY - THE DESIRE TO LIVE FOREVER.

                      NOW THESE NEED TO BE STUDIED CAREFULLY, THE BRAHMA SUTRAS, UPANISHADS AND THE GITA, TOGETHER CALLED THE PRASTANA TRAYA, OFFER A GREAT DEAL IN THIS DIRECTION.

                       THE NEXT SUTRAS THAT FOLLOW TAKE UP EACH OF THESE WORDS AND EXPLAIN THEIR MEANING,

                          SUTRA 4

                   AVIDYA KSETRAM-UTTARESAM PRASUPTA-TANU-VICCHINNI-

                    UDARANAM AVIDYA

                           IGNORANCE IS THE ORIGIN OF FIELD OF ALL OTHER AFFLICTIONS, EITHER DORMANT OR INACTIVE, DIMISHED (DUE TO VARIOUS REASONS), OVERPOWERED BY OTHER CAUSES OR FULLY AROUSED.

                           THE NEXT SUTRAS ATTEMPT TO DEFINE THE WORD "IGNORANCE".

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                   ANITYA-ASUCI-DUHKHA-ANATMASU NITYA-SUCI-

                   SUKHA-ATMA- KHYATIR-AVIDYA

                      IGNORANCE IS SEEING THE NON-ETERNAL AS ETERNAL, THE NOT PURE AS PURE, SORROW PRODUCING FACTORS AS PLEASURABLE, AND THE NON-SELF AS SELF.

                           AS VEDANTA DECLARES, THE ROOT OF THE PROBLEM IS THAT ONE CONSIDERS THE UNREAL, PHENOMENAL WORLD PERCEIVED BY THE SENSE ORGANS AS REAL AS OPPOSED TO THE REAL SELF, WHICH CANNOT BE RECOGNISED BY THEM. THE FAMOUS "ASSERTATION" OFTEN CONSIDERED A PRAYER, ASATOMA SADGAMAYA 'FROM THE UNREAL MAY I ASCEND TO THE REAL SUMS UP THIS IDEA.

                      WHAT THE VEDANTINS SAY IS WHAT SCIENTISTS, PARTICULARLY NEUROLOGISTS, HAVE BEGUN TO SAY TODAY, THAT WHAT WE PERCEIVE AND FEEL AS THE REAL WORLD, IS MERELY THE IMAGE OF THE WORLD PERCEIVED THROUGH OUR SENSE ORGANS WHICH THEMSELVES ARE INACCURATE INSTRUMENTS OF PERCEPTION, AND BASED ON WHICH, THE MIND CONSTRUTS IMAGES AND PRESENTS TO US AS "REAL".

                       DIFFERENT SETS OF SENSE ORGANS OR INSTRUMENTS OF PERCEPTION, LIKE THE COMPOUND EYE OF THE COMMON HOUSEFLY, CAN PROJECT AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT IMAGE OF THE SAME WORLD. THE QUESTION THAT ARISES IS, THEREFORE, WHAT IS THE REALITY OF EVEN THIS WORLD WE EXPERIENCE AND LIVE IN, EXCEPT WHAT THE MIND PROJECTS, WHICH IN ITSELF IS BASED ON THE ERRONEOUS DATA PROVIDED BY THE UNSTRUMENTS OF PERCEPTION. TO QUOTE THE POET ALEXANDER POPE, THE DIFFERENCE IS AS GREAT BETWEEN THE OPTICS SEEING, AS THE OBJECTS SEEN.

THE EARTH WEIGHT IN SOLAR SYSTEM

 

                                 HAVE YOU KNOW THE 

                                    DENSITY OF EARTH

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                            ACCORDING TO THIS LAW OUR WORLD MUST MEET ITS DOOMSDAY AT THE END OF ITS TERM, AS A PART OF THE CONTINUOUS DIVINE ACTIVITY OF CREATION, RECREATION AND ACCOUNTABILITY. IT IS A COMFORT THAT WE ARE NOT THE ONLY ONE TO HAVE IT IN THIS EXTREMELY VAST UNIVERSE. ALLAH HAS CALLED HIMSELF THE LORD OF THE WORLDS, AND THERE ARE NUMEROUS WORLDS LIKE OURS IN THE UNIVERSE. ALL THESE HAVE THEIR DOOMSDAYS ON THIER RESPECTIVE TERMS. THERE HAVE BEEN WORLDS WHICH HAVE ALREADY PASSED THROUGH THIS EXPERIENCE, AND THERE ARE MANY WORLDS WHICH ARE PASSING THROUGH IT NOW, AND THERE REMAIN MANY WORLDS WHICH WILL MEET A SIMILAR FATE IN FUTURE.

                          THIS IS A REALITY WHICH CONTINUALLY MANIFESTS ITSELF IN NATURE. WHEN IT HAPPENS ON OUR EARTH IT WILL NOT BE AT ALL A UNIQUE OR AN ISOLATED HAPPENING IN THE UNIVERSE. BUT SIMPLY A PART OF THE GRAND DIVINE SCHEME OF ACCOUNTABILITY. HOWEVER, THEY ARE NOT THE DETACHED EVENTS FROM EACH OTHER, BECAUSE ULTIMATELY ALL OF THEM WILL CULMINATE INTO THE OVERALL DOOMSDAY. THEY ARE LIKE THE SUB-SETS OF THE SUPER-SET OF THE OVERALL DOOMSDAY, WHICH WILL BE THE FINAL BLOW TO END THE PRESENT ORDER OF EXISTENCE TOTALLY AND WHOLLY. AS THE QURAN SAYS, EVERY EVENT HAS ITS APPOINTED TIME . IN THIS PROCESS OUR SMALL EARTHLY WORLD WILL SOME DAY BE ALSO DESTROYED UNNOTICED IN THE UNIVERSE. THE WARMING OF THIS PENDING FATE IS CLEARLY GIVEN IN THE HOLY QURAN BY THE FOLLOWING VERSE OF SURAT AR-RAHMAN.

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                         WHOSOEVER IS IN THE HEAVENS AND EARTH

                                   ASK HIM (FOR FAVOURS)

                         (AND) EACH DAY HE MANIFEST HIMSELF

                                  IN NEW SPLENDOUR,

                          WHICH, THEN OF YOUR SUSTAINER'S FAVOUR

                                     CAN YOU DENY?

                           SOON WE SHALL BE FREE TO TAKE

                                       YOU TO TASK ALSO,

                            O! YOU TWIN BURDENS (OF THE EARTH)

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                               THE FIRST PART OF THIS REVELATION "OF HIM SEEK FAVOURS ALL CREATURES IN THE HEAVENS AND EARTH, CLEARLY SPEAKS OF OTHER BEINGS IN THE COSMOS WHO LIKE US ALSO BESEECH THEIR CREATOR AND SUSTAINER FOR THEIR NEEDS. THE NEXT PART OF THE SAME REVELATION INFORMS THAT THE UNIVERSE IS NOT A STEADY-STATE SYSTEM BUT A HIGHLY DYNAMIC ORGANISM WHERE EACH DAY APPEARS WITH NEW SPLENDOUR. THE NEXT VERSE CONVEYS THE IDEA THAT THIS PROCESS OF CREATION AND RECREATION IS INFACT A GREAT FAVOUR TO  THE LIVING BEINGS IN THE COSMOS, BECAUSE IN IT LIES THIER OWN ETERNAL GOOD.

                             HAVE YOU KNOW ABOUT THE EARTH?

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                          THE EARTH HAS A CORE POSSIBLY OF IRON, HIGHLY COMPRESSED TO A DENSITY OF 10 TO 12 TIMES THAT OF WATER, EXTENDING TO ABOUT HALF ITS RADIUS. THEN THERE IS A LAVA IN AN AVERAGE DENSITY OF 5.5 WHICH IS OVER 1000 MULES THICK OVERLAID WITH A ROCKY COVER, PERHAPS 700 MILES IN THICKNESS AND DENSITY ABOUT 4.3 . THE OUTER CRUST IS JUST ABOUT 25 MILES OR SO IN THICKNESS AND SEEMS TO FLOAT ON THE LOWER STRATA. THE EARTH WEIGHTS ABOUT 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 TONS. ITS CENTRA CORE IS UNDER PRESSURE OF ABOUT FOR MILLION OF ATOMOSPHER.

                            THE SOLAR SYSTEM CONSISTS OF 9 PLANETS KNOWN SO FAR. EARTH IS ONE OF THE SMALLER PLANETS, SITUATED AT A PLACE WHERE TEMPERATURES AND GRAVITY ARE JUST RIGHT FOR THE EVOLUTION  OF LIFE.

                             DISCOVERY OF SUCH TRUTHS HAS BEEN THE CHERISHED  GOAL OF ALL PHILOSOPHERS, SCIENTIST, POETS AND WISEMAN THROUGH OUT THE HISTORY. THE PROPHET OF ALLAH MAY PEACE BE UPON HIM, EXPRESSED THIS URGE IN MANKIND WITH THE SIMLITUDE OF PEN, AS NARRATED BY HAZRAT ABAD SON OF THABIT. HE SAID:

                          FIRST OF ALL,

                           ALLAH CREATED THE PEN AND SAID TO IT,

                     WRITE, THE PEN SAID,

                              WHAT SHOULD I WRITE? ALLAH TOLD IT

                       TO WRITE ALL THAT WAS DECREED BY HIM

                                TO HAPPEN TILL THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT

                        HENCE EVERY ACCOUNT IS PRESERVED IN THE 

                                BOOK OF THE UNIVERSE, FOR EVER,".

MEDITATION NOTES

 

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                             HOW TO UNDERSTAND

                                  THE MEDITATION 

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                 CONSIDER HOW QUICKLY ALL THINGS ARE DISSOLVED AND RESOLVED. THE BODIES AND SUBSTANCES THEMSELVES, INTO THE MATTER AND SUBSTANCE OF THE WORLD, AND THEIR MEMORIES INTO THE GENERAL AGE AND TIME OF THE WORLD. CONSIDER THE NATURE OF ALL WORDLY SENSIBLE THINGS, OF THOSE ESPECIALLY, WHICH EITHER ENSNARE BY PLEASURE, OR FOR THEIR IRKSOMENESS ARE DREADFUL, OR FOR THEIR OUTWARD LUSTRE AND SHOW ARE IN GREAT ESTEEM AND REQUEST, HOW VILE AND COMTEMPTIBLE, HOW BASE AND CORRUPTIBLE, HOW DESTITUTE OF ALL TRUE LIFE AND BEING THEY ARE.

 

                  IT IS THE PART OF A MAN ENDOWED WITH A GOOD UNDERSTANDING FACULTY, TO CONSIDER WHAT THEY THEMSELVES ARE IN VERY DEED, FROM WHOSE BARE CONCEITS AND  VOICES, HONOUR AND CREDIT TO PROCEED. AS ALSO WHAT IT IS TO DIE, AND HOW IF A MAN SHALL CONSIDER THIS BY ITSELF ALONE, TO DIE, AND SEPARATE FROM IT IN HIS MIND ALL THOSE THING WHICH WITH IT USUALLY REPRESENT THEMSELVES UNTO US, HE CAN CONCEIVE OF IT NO OTHERWISE, THAN  AS OF A WORK OF NATURE, AND HE THAT FEARS ANY WORK OF NATURE, IS A VERY CHILD. NOW DEATH, IT IS NOT ONLY A WORK O NATURE, BUT ALSO CONDUCING TO NATURE.

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                     CONSIDER WITH THYSELF HOW MAN, AND BY WHAT PART OF US, IS JOINED UNTO GOD, AND HOW THAT PART OF MAN IS AFFECTED, WHEN IT IS SAID TO BE DIFFUSED. THERE IS NOTHING MORE WRETCHED THAN THAT SOUL, WHICH IN A KIND OF CIRCUIT COMPASSETH ALL THINGS, SEARCHING (AS HE SAITH) EVEN THE VERY DEPTHS OF THE EARTH, AND BY ALL SIGNS AND CONJECTURES PRYING INTO THE VERY THOUGHTS OF OTHER MEN'S SOULS, AND YET OF THIS, IS NOT SENSIBLE, THAT IT IS SUFFICIENT FOR A MAN TO APPLY HIMSELF WHOLLY, AND TO CONFINE ALL HIS THOUGHTS AND CARES TO THE TENDANCE OF THAT SPIRIT WHICH IS WITHIN HIM, AND TRULY AND REALLY TO SERVE HIM. HIS SERVICE DOTH CONSISTS IS THIS, THAT A MAN KEEP HIMSELF PURE FROM ALL VIOLENT PASSION AND EVIL AFFECTION, FROM ALL RASHNESS AND VANITY, AND FROM ALL MANNER OF DISCONTENT, EITHER IN REGARD OF THE GODS OR MEN. FOR INDEED WHATSOEVER PROCEEDS FROM THE GODS, DESERVES RESPECT FOR THEIR WORTH AND EXCELLENCY, AND WHATSOEVER PROCEEDS FROM MEN, AS THEY ARE OUR KINSMEN, SHOULD BY US BE ENTERTAINED, WITH LOVE, ALWAYS, SOMETIMES, AS PROCEEDING FROM THEIR IGNORANCE, OF THAT WHICH 

                WHAT OBJECT SO EVER,  OUR REASONABLE AND SOCIABLE FACULTY DOTH MEET WITH, THAT AFFORDS NOTHING EITHER FOR THE SATISFACTION OF REASON, OR FOR THE PRACTICE OF CHARITY, SHE WORTHILY DOTH THINK UNWORTHY OF HERSELF.

                               

 

     

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                      WHEN THOU HAST DONE WELL, AND ANOTHER IS BENEFITED BY THY ACTION, MUST THOU LIKE A VERY FOOL LOOK FOR A THIRD THING BESIDES, AS THAT IT MAY APPEAR UNTO OTHERS ALSO THAT THOU HAST DONE WELL, OR THAT THOU MAYEST IN TIME, RECEIVE ONE GOOD TURN FOR ANOTHER? NO MAN USETH TO BE WEARY OF THAT WHICH IS BENEFICIAL UNTO HIM. BUT EVERY ACTION ACCORDING TO NATURE, IS BENEFICIAL, BE NOT WEARY THEN OF DOING THAT WHICH IS BENEFICIAL UNTO THEE, WHILST IT IS SO UNTO OTHERS.

                       THE NATURE OF THE UNIVERSE DID ONCE CERTAINLY BEFORE IT WAS CREATED, WHATSOEVER IT HATH DONE SINCE, DELIBERATE AND SO RESOLVE UPON THE CREATION OF THE WORLD. NOW SINCE THAT TIME, WHATSOEVER IT IS, THAT IS AND HAPPENS IN THE WORLD, IS EITHER BUT A CONSEQUENT OF THAT ONE AND FIRST DELIBERATION, OR IF SO BE THAT THIS RULING RATIONAL PART OF THE WORLD, TAKES ANY THOUGHT AND CARE OF THINGS PARTICULAR, THEY ARE SURELY HIS REASONABLE AND PRINCIPLE CREATURES, THAT ARE THE PROPER OBJECT OF HIS PARTICULAR CARE AND PROVIDENCE. THIS OFTEN THOUGHT UPON, WILL MUCH CONDUCE TO THY TRANQUILITY.

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                           THIS ALSO, AMONG OTHER THINGS, MAY SERVE TO KEEP THEE FROM VAINGLORY, IF THOU SHALT CONSIDER, THAT THOU ART NOW ALTOGETHER INCAPABLE OF THE COMMENDATION OF ONE, WHO ALL HIS LIFE LONG, OR FROM HIS YOUTH AT LEAST, HATH LIVED A PHILOSOPHERS LIFE. FOR BOTH UNTO OTHERS, AND TO THYSELF ESPECIALLY, IT IS WELL KNOWN, THAT THOU HAST DONE MANY THINGS CONTRARY TO THAT PERFECTION OF LIFE. THOU HAST THEREFORE BEEN CONFOUNDED IN THY COURSE, AND HENCEFORTH IT WILL BE HARD FOR THEE TO RECOVER THE TITLE AND CREDIT OF A PHILOSOPHER. AND TO IT ALSO IS THY CALLING AND PROFESSION REPUGNANT. IF THEREFORE THOU DOST TRULY UNDERSTAND. WHAT IT IS THAT IS OF MOMENT INDEED, AS FOR THY FAME AND CREDIT, TAKE NO THOUGHT OR CARE FOR THAT. LET IT SUFFICE THEE IF ALL THE REST OF THY LIFE, BE IT MORE OR LESS, THOU SHALT LIVE AS THY NATURE REQUIRETH, OR ACCORDING TO THE TRUE AND NATURAL END OF THY MAKING. TAKE PAINS THEREFORE TO KNOW WHAT IT IS THAT THY NATURE REQUIRETH, AND LET NOTHING ELSE DISTRACT THEE.

                     UPON EVERY ACTION THAT THOU ART ABOUT, PUT THIS QUESTION TO THYSELF (MYSELF), HOW WILL THIS WHEN IT IS DONE AGREE WITH ME? SHALL I HAVE NO OCCASION TO REPENT OF IT? YET A VERY LITTLE WHILE AND I AM DEAD AND GONE, AND ALL THINGS ARE AT END. WHAT THEN DO I CARE FOR MORE THAN THIS, THAT MY PRESENT ACTION WHATSOEVER IT BE, MAY BE THE PROPER ACTION OF ONE THAT IS REASONABLE, WHOSE END IS, THE COMMON GOOD, WHO IN ALL THINGS IS RULED AND GOVERNED BY THE SAZME LAW OF RIGHT AND REASON, BY WHICH GOD HIMSELF IS.

                            THOU HAS NO TIME NOR OPPORTUNITY TO READ. WHAT THEN? HAST THOU NOT TIME AND OPPORTUNITY TO EXERCISE THYSELF, NOT TO WRONG THYSELF, TO STRIVE AGAINST ALL CARNAL PLEASURES AND PAINS, AND TO GET THE UPPER HAND OF THEM, TO CONTEMN HONOUR AND VAINGLORY,  AND NOT ONLY, NOT TO BE ANGRY WITH THEM, WHOM TOWARDS THEE THOU DOEST FIND UNSENSIBLE AND UNTHANKFUL, BUT ALSO TO HAVE A CARE OF THEM STILL, AND OF THEIR WELFARE?