Patanjali Yoga Sutra: Day 10

DAY 10: THE EIGHT LIMBS OF YOGA
     
Human consciousness is like a seed. Seed has the possibility of trees, branches, flowers, fruits etc; of multiplication and so is the human mind. Seed requires proper water, sun light and other conditions to blossom similarly for human consciousness; either it can be in a dormant state or can start sprouting. This sprouting of human consciousness is 'discrimination' ('viveka'). Freedom comes with viveka. All other species are governed by nature. They don’t have freedom. Human mind has been given the freedom and also given the 'viveka'. You will hardly find any animal who overeats…:)

The freedom is given with the knowledge of consequences of action. The specialty of human life is governed by discrimination.

Through practices of yoga the impurity gets eliminated and wisdom shines through.

·         Limbs of yoga:

Each limb is connected to the whole and they all grow together like limbs in the body.

1.    Yama

                         i.         Ahimsha (non-violence)

• It is complete lack of viveka.
• Violence comes with frustration and it catches on to the surrounding. Eg. A person who cannot do any harm to anybody might do the same while he is part of mob. Mind gets frustrated.
• Viveka can dawn when person takes the path of non-violence. Dropping the intention to destroy something is non-violence. The intention of destroy something can cut your very roots. (Himsha is associated with intention.)
• Violence done by you, you make it do by other or you approve of it - all is Himsha

                       ii.         Satya (truth)

• To be with something non changing. It’s not just speaking truth. It's total commitment to establish in truth.
• Knowing that everything is changing, being in truth.
• Once established in truth, your acts will bring fruits; fruit of action will follow actions. You will have success in actions.
• Truth is not just a word. It is state of consciousness. Truth doesn't mean we need to blunt.
• Anytime when you are opening your mouth, you are distorting the truth.

                      iii.        Astheya (non-stealing)

• Astheya doesn't mean stealing physically. If you are looking at something and your mind wishes to possess the same, you have already indulged in stealing. Such thoughts bring jealousy. People who steal, they remain poor. If you don't steal, all the wealth comes to you. A little intention to steal can keep you poor. Very often poverty is self-made.

                      iv.         Brahamacharya (celibacy)

• Brahamacharya means moving beyond small identifications. Being not interested in shapes and forms of the body and seeing the infinite is brahmacharya
• Seeing yourself more than the body is brahamacharaya.
• It brings strength.
• This is 'walking (charya) in infinity (brahama)'. When you are in meditation you are 'space', you are limitless, you don't feel the body and bodily pleasures.
• The person obsessed with sex is simply un-attracting and he/she doesn't have any strength, vigor or commitment.

                        v.        Aparigraha (non-accumulation)

• When you don't accumulate, you get the knowledge of previous births and of different species. The communication improves.
• Non accumulation simply means confidence in oneself, in once abilities; knowledge of oneself.
• Life has been here for so long and will be here so long.
• Who is stingy: a person who doesn't have idea of self.
• This doesn't mean that we should not save. But you should share, give to others. This brings good vibes to you. If you are not happy someday, give away something to somebody.  You will also feel happiness due to good vibrations.
• Dakshina: When the giver is thankful to the receiver for accepting the gift.

These five are great rules. These five principles are applicable to all the people, at all stages, at all the times. These are universal.

2.    Niyama

                         i.         Sauch (physical purity)

• Water should run through this body; both inside and outside. With this your attachment to your        physical body is lifted.
• Non-contact with anybody of any sort can bring the ability to realize oneself and can bring the clarity in thinking. Most of the great works have come in solitude.

                       ii.         Santosha (contentment)

• Santosha is a practice. Contentment makes you happy. Just be happy and joyous. Enjoy your breath. To be happy unconditionally is the rule of yoga. Remember that someday even this body will go. Your own body will desert you someday. Strength of your happiness is measured through the adversity of situation you are in; everybody can smile in good times.
• Throughout our life we are unhappy for what we have and for what we don't have.
• Develop the habit of santosha to be happy; being happy in you.
• Santosha is the greatest happiness of the life.
• An attitude that 'It will pass through' gives you incomparable happiness.

                      iii.        Tapa

• A little endurance patience.
• The body and senses become strong.
• Impurities are eliminated.

                      iv.         Swadhyaya (self-study)

• By the self-study the divine presence is felt and you become a part of divine. Different parts of consciousness starts developing. 

                        v.        Eswar Pranidhana (devotion/surrender)

• One pointed devotion leads to samadhi. 

3.    Aasana

Something which is comfortable and steady is aasana. You are erect/steady still comfortable, you are in aasana. Feeling the body, letting go the effort and feeling the infinity is the main point. The dualities and conflicts are removed. Anytime you are confused, do aasanas. Breaking the movement of breath (consciously breathing)

4.    Pranayama

Breathe in, hold, breathe out, hold, take attention to different parts of body is pranayama. There is fourth type of pranayama that happens automatically. Through pranayama, mind gets ability to stay at one point. You get direction, intention and clarity comes to your mind.

5.    Pratyahara

The substitute food for mind is pratyahara. Gives the ability to see all our senses and body as 'one whole'. Then all the senses listen to you (you need not to listen to your senses). Your energy becomes complete.

6.    Dhyan

7.    Dharana

8.    Samadhi

Patanjali Yoga Sutra: Day 09

DAY 09: ELIMINATING THE CAUSE OF PAIN

1. All the pleasure and joys in this world come with a tax and this tax is sorrow.
2. Every event causes some pain because it finishes. Ending of any event has some pain (Parinaam dukha); greater the joy, greater the pain in the end. Longing or waiting for a pleasurable event is again pain (Taap dukha). Memory of events also brings pain (Sanskaara dukha).
3. Before you have something, feverishness to get it is pain; then, when you have it, the fear of losing or the end of event is also pain; and when it is gone, the memories of that event is also pain; so it is pain throughout.
4. Everything is painful. Love is beautiful but still painful. Separation creates pain. To please somebody and then to know if he/she is pleased is pain.
5. Two expressions of love:
• I want to disappear in your love
• (You are so sweet) I want to eat and make you disappear… :)


6. Pain is everywhere in this world. Pain is the tail of everything /anything in this world.
7. So what to do to stop this pain?
• The root cause of pain needs to be eliminated. The pain that hasn't yet come into life needs to be removed. How to do that?
• The main cause of pain is forgetting that one's Self is separate from one's environment; the self, the seer (the senses) and the scene (the object) - lack of perception of the Self and the objects that are all around the Self. Usually we keep our life somewhere else and not in us.
• When you give something more importance than life that becomes the cause of your sufferings.
• Through meditation you can see the difference between the surroundings and the seer - the light.
8. This doesn’t mean that we have to run from world; this world is here for us to enjoy. But while we enjoy don’t forget the 'self'. This is 'viveka'.


9. Everything conveys you a message. Every aspect in this world is an expression of consciousness.
10. Everything in this world is dynamic. Every thing has a stage and everything is governed by certain principles & qualities.
11. The entire creation is made up of 5 elements - the five elements and five sense organs. There are five organs of perception and five organs of action. The entire creation is endowed with these ten and the mind.


12. The entire creation is there to give you pleasure and relief. Whatever gives you pleasure should also gives you relief. Otherwise, the pleasure becomes the pain.
13. The entire creation does give you enjoyment and liberation. You have to get yourself liberated of all these at some point or another. Otherwise they will become a pain.


14. The self, though is ever pure & untainted, is just a witness. But when it becomes one with intellect, seems to be get colored and get stuck in intellect. People get stuck in their thoughts and ideas. The self is the center of whole creation.


15. The world does not exist for the one who is realized and enlightened the way it does for the one who is not enlightened. There is no more suffering for the one who is awakened in the knowledge.


16. The body is made up of three gunas:
• Satvik: alert, joyful, peaceful
• Rajsik: restlessness; mind is full of desires and gallop on horse of wants
• Tamsik: lethargic
17. These gunas influence you according to their nature, time, place etc; you tend to identify yourself with the effect of that influence. Identifying yourself with the effect of the influence is Ignorance. Observe the tendencies that come up in you and know that you are not those tendencies; know that the gunas will influence you according to their nature -  this is the way to go pass ignorance.
18. The definite understanding and the knowledge in the mind that the body is undergoing changes all the time; the world is undergoing changes all the time; that the entire universe is fluid - full of changes and is going on, on its own, according to its nature - is the way to come out of ignorance.
19. The definite knowledge that you are not the body; that you are the self, untouched & untamed, that the body is all hollow & empty, and every particle in this body is changing and that the mind is ever changing is the way to get out this cycle.

Patanjali Yoga Sutra: Day 08

DAY 08: THE VEILS OF MISERY

1. Tapa purifies and strengthens our system. But tapa can also bring ego. Out of proportion glorifying tapa can lead to ego. That is why after 'Tapas' we require 'Swadhyay' (self study). Studying your self and look into the motives behind your actions. What you want? Why you want?
2. Self study leads you upward to the universe that is unknown.
3. Fulfillment of desires doesn't maintain its charm for too long. It either leads to more desires or soon gives you an impression that probably you had wrong desire.
4. Self study: Who are you? Are you body? Are you emotion? Self study takes you a step forward and it eliminates the misery and suffering from the mind.
5. Budha has said:
1. Observe the body
2. Observe the sensations in the body
3. Observer mind (the impressions in the mind; the thoughts in the mind)
4. Observe your very nature.
6. Surrender to the God and offer every thing to God. Surrender completes the process. Without surrender self study is not charming. Without love/devotion journey on the spiritual path becomes very dry.


7. How can love for lord blossom in you?
• To see lord separate from you.
• Lord is all. I am no body. In this 'nobody-ness' union happens. Offer everything to divine. This universe is YOURS (God's). This mind is YOURS. This mind with all its conflicts is YOURS. This mind with all its beauty is YOURS. This offering itself is a technique which brings you back to the source. This itself brings samadhi. Offer every part of your body. Offer every moment of your life. Offer every breath. Offer all negativities (you become free from misery, you don’t feel bad about yourself), offer all virtues (you become free from ego and arrogance). Feel close to divine. Stop comparing. It is up to you to feel close to divine or for that matter to anybody. You start feeling that you are close to the master and the same will start happening. Whatever seed you sow, that will grow. Whatever you think, that will start growing. Do not grow weeds (unnecessary thoughts, doubts etc).
• 'Swadhyay' removes the weeds, which grow on their own.
• The purpose of this is to remove the suffering from life and bring samadhi in life.


8. What are the root causes of misery in life?
•  Avidya (ignorance): Ignorance is the root cause of suffering. Ignorance is thinking that something that is not permanent as permanent, to think that is changing as non-changing, to think that something that is not joy as joy, to think body as the self.
• Awake to the truth that everything is changing.
• Ignorance is having an idea about who you are. You are someone or something that you are not. The fixed idea of who you are stops you growth, it limits your possibilities.
• Ashmita ('I'): is oneness of our intellect and ourselves. 'I', 'Me', 'My' - you get stuck to your point and senseless argument. Inability to see the self and the intellect (thoughts) as different is Ashmita.
• Raga (craving): It comes with pleasant experiences. We expect enlightened behavior, unconditional love from everyone around us that is very rare and we don't even know what we are expecting. We expect everyone around to be divine (we expect unconditional love from everyone). 'How things should be' this makes us more miserable.
People seek God without knowing that God could behave in any manner :)
• Dvesha (aversion): This comes with unpleasant experience. Aversion also brings the same misery as craving brings.
• Abhinivesha (fear): How so ever great scholar of scriptures you are, you have some amount of this.
Nature has put these five things in every body; how thin it can get or how thick it remains, makes you evolved or unevolved.


9. These misery can be in four stages in anybody:
• Prasusupta (Sleeping/ dormant)
• Tanu (Very feeble)
• Becoming aware of negativities (angers/passion/lust) is the key. But a person who is not aware becomes the anger itself.
• Sadhana makes these miseries 'tanu' (very thin). Even after sadhana you can become angry but there is difference in the quality of anger. There is a shift.
• Prachana (One is dominant while others go to the background)
• Udara (All miseries are fully active; all miseries are present in generous way…:))


10. Fear should be there but should be like salt. Then it is alertness or carefulness. Between fearfulness and alertness there is a similarity. 'Fear' is actually not a correct translation for 'Abhinivesha'. It is not 'Bhaya'. Thickest form of it is fear and in its thinnest form it is care. A little care is required but if it is a little more it becomes insecurity; a little more and it becomes fear; a little more and it becomes paranoia.
11. The moment these becomes thinner, your mind becomes free. And allows the mind to get back to the source.


12. Now what is the way to get rid of your miseries?
Meditation is the key.
13. These five 'vrities' can be eliminated through meditation. Misery can be eliminated through meditation.
14. If you don’t cleanse your consciousness from these five miseries, impurities then you will have to suffer in this life and in next life as well. They form the reserve of your karma. And that can only be cleared through meditation. So before this body drops you, you should get rid of Karma. Otherwise there is no way out.
15. Like different seeds give different fruits at different times, our Karmas yield at different times.
16. Bad things never happen to good people. If something bad is happening to someone, he/she must be bad somewhere, sometimes.
17. How Karmas are paid off:
• Jaati: Which body, where you  are born (human - male/female/animal/ rat/horse).
• Aayu: Age - length of your life.
• Bhoga: What you will get in the life. It also decide how much someone has to suffer.
18. Strongest impression persists across life times. Consciousness takes the form in terms of your strongest thought. Last impression carry much more weight than anything any else in his whole life. When last impressions are good, they bring more joy; if last impressions are bad, they bring misery.
• How to get rid of this? Meditation is the way to clear all this. Mediation will make you 'Hollow and Empty'.
19. Even if sometimes it is boring, just do it. Understand that some latent seeds of boredom are getting burnt. You willingly do it. Take a challenge - 'Ok, let me see it. Let me do it.'

Patanjali Yoga Sutra: Day 07

DAY 07: KRIYA YOGA & THREE TYPES OF TAPAS

1. When someone is anxious, he is very aware of every moment but whole focus is only on an event.
2. Uniting with the time, mind is in the moment waiting for nothing. Waiting in the moment but for nothing is Yoga. Little shift from waiting for an event to waiting for the moment sharpens the intellect and softens the heart. And this is called yoga of action.
3. Kriya yoga is yoga of action. Action is part and parcel of this creation. There is activity in everything - right from an atom to sun, moon and stars. The entire creation is activity. There is absolutely no silence at all. Even in sleep there is activity. There is a lot of metabolic activity going on in sleep. Growing kids sleep more than aged people.
4. Even in silence there is activity. One who sees silence in activity and activity in silence is wise.


5. How can we see this? This can come when there is skill in activity. Skill in activity is yoga.
6. Kriya yoga comprises of three parts
• Tapa (endurance, acceptance): Willingly experience the opposite values without grumbling is Tapa. We willingly decide to do some activity that is not usual and very easy, this endurance is called Tapas. The result of this action is very good such as doing exercise, keeping fast etc.
• Sawadhyaya (self study): Observing; observing the thoughts, observing the emotions
• Eshwara Pranidhaana (devotion to the divine): Love for the divine
The above things reduce the suffering, misery and give rise to samadhi.
7. Tapa makes you strong. It strengthens us. Willing going through something that is not pleasant is Tapas.
There are three types of tapas:
• Tapa for body
• Tapa for speech
• Tapa for mind
(These are discussed below in detail)


8. Fire sustains life.
9. There are five types of fire (Panchaagni):
• Bhootagni: Fire with which we heat our homes; we keep warm. This fire that exists in physical form. It sustains life. This is also present in the body to some extent.
• Kamagni: Fire of desire/lust/passion. It gulps you. It is because of this fire that life continues on this planet. The moment desires come we want to immediately fulfill it. Promiscuous people have zero Kamagni. We don’t even let this agni rise. When ever this arises, just observe it, be aware and it moves on. But if you don't allow it to sustain it, it makes you less sensitive and fills you with inertia.
• Jatharagni: Fire of hunger/digestion. If this is less or more, it affects the health, the balance. We don’t even allow the hunger to rise to optimal level. We feel a little hungry and we start stuffing.
• Fasting (once in a while) can be a very good for us. When we fast every cell of the body becomes alive. Fating is very good therapy. It cleanse your body; the Jatharagni purifies your body. Also, too much fasting is also no good. Fasting can bring dynamism but has to be done with the understanding. Fasting touches the deepest 'sanskaras'.
• What is fever - burning all the foreign elements. This is what happens in fever. The purpose of fever is to get rid of foreign element.
• Badagni: Fire of criticism. Fire due to opinion of others. Man is a social element i.e. why there is fear of social criticism. We need to follow certain laws. Fire of criticism keeps the morals in you but if it grows out of proportion, the same fire can shutdown your freedom, sense of openness & centeredness.
• Pass through the fear of criticism with awareness.
• Premagni or gyanagni: Fire of love or knowledge; the fire of love that can take you above the fire of criticism. This fire begins with intense longing. This can be experienced only in the human birth. This creates unpleasant feeling (sense of longing) in the beginning but moves on to the blossoming of bliss.
10. When life moves through all these fires, it comes out as gold. Tapa means actually being baked or fried in above panchagni. One who goes through the five fires, crosses over to the other side.


11. Tapa:
• Tamsik (demonic): Torturing oneself
• Rajsic: Doing any practice with the desire of achieving something. Doing something with some motive to get something. Tapas that is done with showoff and with sense 'I' & 'I'-ness.
• Satvik: You don’t feel as if you are doing tapa. Being aware and going through these fire of life, is satvik tapas.

1. This world is a phenomenon. This time in the ocean of consciousness is an phenomenon. We all are like the waves arising in the ocean of consciousness. Waves rise and then will merge in the ocean. With this awareness move through the Tapas in life.


2. Tapa:
• Tapa of body: Keep personal hygiene and continence. Having a say on the senses. Overcoming lethargy. Having a control on the senses and body.
• Tapa of speech (Vangmaya Tapas): Speaking something that doesn't excite others (in wrong sense); doesn't ruffle others. Speaking the truth - the pleasant truth, that doesn't hurt other. Truth can also be said in pleasant way. Do not use the harsh expression of the truth.
• Often when you keep you lips tight the better person you are. Words have the power to bless and to curse as well so should be used properly. Bad words rebound to you but need not to be wish-washy, goody-goody always. Even that is a self deception.
• Tapa of mind (Manomaya Tapas): Maintaining the (1) pleasantness with contentment (2) calm and composed (3) silent mind (4) a mind remaining in the self are part of Manomaya tapas. Awareness comes with composedness. If you are calm and composed then you are more aware and sensitive to others' feeling and things around you.
• Keeping mind silent is also tapas of mind. Mind goes out again and again but keep reminding to be silent.

• Normally we think our mind is in the body but the body is inside mind. Prana is 10 times bigger than physical body; 10 times bigger than prana body is mind body; 10 times bigger than mind body is intuitive body and 10 times bigger than intuitive body is body of bliss…which is limitless and bound less, infinite body.
• Whenever you are unhappy, remember your love (which is so big & infinite) has stuck in a small object/box. Love gives you problem when you don't understand its magnitude.
• Coming back to the self, to the center is Tapas.

Patanjali Yoga Sutra: Day 06

DAY 06: STEADINESS IN SAMADHI

1. Nature shakes once in a while but our senses shake everyday. Human senses are shaky every day. When senses are shaky this it is unable to behold the lord within.This disturbs the peace. Like when nature is steady there is peace, when senses are steady it is peace.
2. Meditation can happen when there is harmony in nature and when there is harmony in senses.
3. Observe that while doing mediation, our eye balls, breath, prana should be steady. When senses are steady, the soul - the being inside - also becomes steady. Senses are the bridge between object (outside) and self (inside). When senses think that pleasure will come from the objects, senses shake and become tired. And then they become unable to perceive and experience the joy.
4. Mind would be far more peaceful without the eyes. Greatest distraction in the steadiness of senses is due to eyes. The eyes that bring you light also brings you darkness when they shake. Same is true with other senses … hearing, smell, touch.
5. When the senses get steady, the prana inside also becomes steady. All those moments when you are feeling low, observe and you will find that your prana is shaky. Samadhi is steadiness of prana.
6. Don't panic, just observe, be with that; this will help in getting back the steadiness of prana in few moment. This brings you to the space where you are hollow and empty. This is being centered.
7. Become like a crystal; when you are doing something just immerse in it but as soon as that thing is over, you should be free from traces of it. When you are with senses, you are so immersed in the senses. And when you are with the sense objects you become the object completely.
8. In samadhi you do stay physically but as if you don’t exist.


9. There are two types of Samadhi:
1. Sabeej Samadhi: Samadhi that you experience through activity. This is experience while doing some activity. You look at mountain, sun or moon and things remind you of consciousness. That very moment Samadhi happens. Steadiness is the divinity; steadiness is the strength; steadiness is dispassion. When body is steady, eyes are still, mind also becomes steady and you will find that your prana is also steady. This is when the time stops, death stops to exist; immortality begins. Before the time swallows you, you wake up and you swallow the time. Samadhi is the refrigeration of your life; samadhi is the secret of youthfulness, bubbling enthusiasm.
• When you have awareness that is expanded you tend to got to sleep (the deep relaxation takes you to sleep) and when you have sharpness of awareness (extreme alertness) you tend to become uptight. So the state, you are totally relaxed and at the same time also have sharpness of awareness (combination of relaxation / expansion and sharpness of awareness / intelligence) that is Sabeej Samadhi. Your senses become very clear. You become sensitive to other's feeling. And when you become sensitive, nature becomes sensitive to you; nature listens to you.
• How to achieve this: the five 'vritis' (that we have discusses earlier: proof, wrong knowledge, fantasy, sleep and latent impressions) are subdued.
• Consciousness, senses and object of senses  - all three are in harmony, that is Samadhi. When the ears, the sound and the source from where sound is coming - that is Samadhi.
• But when we see something, we don't just stay immersed in it; other things start coming to our mind - we see it through the memory. Seeing things through comparison is no samadhi. When
• Which holds (mind/soul), through which it holds (senses) and the objects (that is held), when all three are in harmony - it is samadhi. And when this happens, though you are engaged still you are not feverish, you are steady. Steadiness despite of being engaged in sensory objects is samadhi.
• If a few thoughts are coming but not disturbing the steadiness, this is Savitarka Samadhi. This is subtle variation of Sabeej Samadhi. There are subtle thoughts or discussion but they don't disturb the harmony.


2. Nirvichara / Nirvitarka Samadhi: When you are not aware of anything, you know you are ('I AM') but you don't know what you are, who you are, where you are.
• More and more experience of the thoughtless state of mind brings grace of the divine in life; grace of the soul gets manifested; spiritual awakening / blossoming happens. The knowledge that comes from depth of your being/soul is intuitive, flawless, beyond time, steady, benevolent. This is different from what you have heard or read or what we guess. The impression of such state of consciousness can wipe out all other impressions that are useless & unnecessary. You become hollow and empty.


10. The forgiveness should be such that people whom you are forgiving doesn't even that he/she has done some mistake. People should not be made to feel guilty of the mistakes, if guilt comes this is no forgiveness. Guilt itself is punishment. Forgive other without making others feel guilty. Knowledge awakes you, takes you to the pedestal where you don't see the world (the chit chat, the trivial events of the world).
11. There are different states of samadhi. The path is long but every step is complete in itself. The goal is not somewhere after long time. You are not aiming for a goal after some time. The goal is in every moment still path is very long.
12. Be enthusiastic and patient. This is a golden path where you are enthusiastic but not feverish; you are patient but at the same time you are not lethargic.
13. Those who are enthusiastic are not patient and those who are patient are not enthusiastic.
14. We cannot say that we want samadhi today. We can not get samadhi in hurry. This is not possible. We have to take the middle path; patience with dynamism. And there lies the challenge. You should be enthusiastic still should not be hurried. This is like remembering something. You cannot remember in hurry. The more hurry you do the longer it will take to remember.

Patanjali Yoga Sutra: Day 05

DAY 05: OVERCOMING OBSTACLES

1. To get rid of the obstacles, just do one thing - one pointed attention in one thing.
2. When we do only one thing, boredom and restlessness will surface. This will take us to peak and which will then bring the clarity. Otherwise our mind is divided between various things and that is the symbol of fear and misery. This one thing can be any thing, anybody - divine, guru, self…anything. Look at and focus on one principle.


3. But in a world of multiplicity how is it possible? Here Patanjali reveals another sutra.
There are only four types of people:
1. Happy
2. Unhappy
3. Engaged in good acts
4. Engaged in demonic acts
• Friendliness with all people who are happy otherwise you feel jealous.
• Don't be friendly with unhappy people but be compassionate with them. Don't even pity them. Difference between pity and compassion is that in pity you make people feel more low rather than uplifting them. With pity you make the belief of suffering person more concrete on his/her sorrow.
• Feel happy with and for people who are engaged in good jobs. Feel one with them (feel as if you yourself are doing that thing), this will remove the sense of competition and the tendency of finding fault. Criticism usually comes mostly from people of who don’t do anything.
• Ignore people who are engaged in demonic or sinful deeds. Educate and ignore such people.
4. Having such feelings for respective type of people will help your mind becoming calm, one pointed and graceful.


5. If all this is difficult, here is another thing:
Breaking the rhythm of breath and holding on to different rhythms. This will make your mind calm and one pointed.
6. This one sentence has clue to Sudarshan Kriya.


7. Suppose even if this doesn't work (though this does work … still) then we can achieve the same through the process of being totally with one object of any of the senses. This will bring our mind to stand still. e.g. eye gazing and then keeping our eyes closed brings our mind to stand still; similarly singing bhajanas or the grape process.


8. Being happy and sad is a training that we give to other mind. Get rid of the sadness. The sadness is just a habit.
9. Unhappiness is self imposed. And with this kind of unhappiness all the negative things come to people. It is simply your own habit; it is self made. Don't compare yourself with anybody who is more happy. You will be better than many-many other people. This is the baseless concept of being sad. Make your mind free of sadness which comes out of your concepts.


10. Consider your mind as a light, as a flame. Your consciousness is flame. You may forget this but your whole body is functioning because of the presence of the mind as a flame in you. Otherwise, you will be like an unlit candle. Candle and our life is very similar. Like candle use oxygen we use oxygen. This body is like wick and the food that we eat is similar to wax in a candle. Once body is old (or wick is burnt out) no amount of food (wax) helps. Life and light are synonymous. Mind is energy, you are energy.


11. Keep you mind engaged in the thoughts of the Enlightened. In whichever way you engage your mind, your mind becomes the same. Thinking of one who had gone beyond cravings, your mind also start assuming and developing the same things.
12. Don't see guru or enlightened people as people instead see them as the forms of highest consciousness. This will help mind staying away from comparison and hence away from creating raga, dvesha and other object of negativities. Just see your Guru as a pure consciousness.


13. Knowledge of sleep and dreams: You sleep all your life but have never met your sleep. You sleep everyday but you don't know what sleep is, what dream is. Why to know about sleep? Because when you sleep you let go of all your identities, you don’t carry your likes-dislikes, you don't carry anybody to your sleep. You are devoid of everything in sleep. Knowledge of sleep awakens you.
14. Ignorant people make dream a reality and enlightened people see this reality as a dream. Trying to interpret dreams is utter ignorance.
15. Five types of dreams:
1. Unfulfilled dreams/cravings - latent desires comes in dreams
2. Stress release from past
3. Intuitive dream - what might happen in future
4. Mixture of all above three types
5. Depends on the place where you sleep
A wise person just brush aside all these.
16. The knowledge of dream and sleep can also awaken you to the truth.
17. Most of us are in these two forms of consciousness throughout: day dream and sleep. While doing mediation or pranayam, you begin to day dream. No pranayam can help if you are day-dreaming. Once you know that you are day dreaming, there is a gush of energy in you. You become alert. This alertness wakes you the reality. You are awakened. This awakening is pragya; it is samadhi.


18. There are many different methods of meditation. You can be awakened by any one of methods. Take one way and go deep into that.


19. What is the sign of progress in this? Smaller than the smallest and bigger than the biggest comes in the purview of operation or life. The nature will love and start supporting you.