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🌹PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS🌹                          🌀CHAPTER - 7🌀                ~ Kriya Yoga ~                 🌀DAY - 50🌀 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷 When someone is anxious, they are aware of the passage of time; of every moment. However, then the total focus is on an event or a happening rather than just on time. Someone may be waiting for a train, a bus or a boat and they will go on thinking of it is coming. The focus is on the concerned object rather than just on time.           But, if there is a little shift done by you, then when you wait for somebody or something, you will just wait for the moment - for "Now". This is uniting with the time. This is Yoga. When you do this, your mind is in he moment and waiting for nothing. However, you are still waiting. This adds a different quality to the consciousne...

🌹PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS🌹                          🌀CHAPTER - 6🌀      ~ Steadiness In Samadhi ~                 🌀DAY - 49🌀 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷 "तस्यापि निरोधे सवॅनिरोधान्निबीॅजः समाधिः साधनपादः" " Tasyapi nirodhe sarva nirodhaannirbeejah samadhih saadhnapaadah. " This is another kind of samadhi where even the feeling of some impressions is not there. There is no end to this. There are many different states of awareness and types of samadhi being described. The path is long. Every step is complete in itself. It is not that you are aiming at a goal after sometime. The goal is in every moment. Yet the path is long. The path is very long, yet the goal is there at every moment. The goal is where you are. You are not in a hurry and want samadhi immediately. There should be enthusiasm and along with it there should be patience. Those who are very enthusiast...

🌹PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS🌹                          🌀CHAPTER - 6🌀      ~ Steadiness In Samadhi ~                 🌀DAY - 48🌀 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷 Once Buddha was in an assembly and a gentleman came to him. He was furious. He thought that Buddha was doing something wrong. He was attracting people and everybody had begun meditating. The people had become very calm and quiet. The gentleman was a restless businessman. He had found thrash his children were going and sitting wig Buddha and meditating for two hours every day. And he thought that if his children would be engaged in business, they could make more money and be better off. What would they get bu sitting for two hours with somebody with their eyes closed? So he was angry and wanted to teach Buddha a lesson.             He walked up to Buddha but as soon as he came...

🌹PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS🌹                          🌀CHAPTER - 6🌀      ~ Steadiness In Samadhi ~                 🌀DAY - 47🌀 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷 " तज्जः संस्कारोऽन्यसंस्कारप्रतिबन्धी "  " Tajjah samsakaaroh anya sanskaara partibhandhi. "           The impression of that state of consciousness can wipe out all other impressions in the mind which are useless and not necessary for life. This happens to some extent with all - maybe five, ten, fifteen, twenty, fifty or eighty percent. Something of the past erased in your first meditation. You begin to feel that you are a new person the deeper you go and more hollow and empty that you become. You feel you are a different person. Many have had this experience. What has happened is that other samskaras and impressions have been erased from your mind. It has made you new. It renews...

🌹PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS🌹                          🌀CHAPTER - 6🌀      ~ Steadiness In Samadhi ~                 🌀DAY - 46🌀 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷 "स्मृतिपरिशुद्धौ स्वरुपशून्येवाथॅमात्रनिभाॅसा निविॅतकाॅ" "Smriti parishuddhau swaroopa shoonyaiva artha maatra nirbhaasa nirvitarkaa. "            And there is another type of samadhi, when you are not aware of anything. You just know that you are. That is it. This meditation is done with the eyes closed. When your eyes are closed, you just know that you are. But you do not know where you are, what you are or who you are - as though you are not there at all. There is just an aabhas, a feeling that you are nothing more than the feeling that "I am."            Patanjali called this Nirvichara samadhi, Nirvitarka samadhi.         ...

🌹PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS🌹                          🌀CHAPTER - 6🌀      ~ Steadiness In Samadhi ~                 🌀DAY - 45🌀 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷 " क्षीणवृत्तेरभिजातस्येवमणेग्रॅहीतृग्रहणग्राह्येषु तत्स्थतदञजनता समापत्तिः " " Ksheena vrittih abhijaatasya evamaneh graheetu grahana graahyeshu tatstha tadanjanataa samapattih. "            When the consciousness which grabs or holds, the object it holds and senses through which it holds are in harmony, there is samadhi. The one who is seeing, the mind, the Self, which is seeing, is in harmony. The senses are in harmony.            The eyes are the instruments through which you hold the scene. The ears are the instrument through which you hear the sound. Your ears, the sound that is heard and its source are connected. They all become keen, crystal cl...

🌹PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS🌹                          🌀CHAPTER - 6🌀      ~ Steadiness In Samadhi ~                 🌀DAY - 44🌀 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷 You can experiment. For a few moments, keep your body and your eyes steady and you will see, almost immediately, the mind will so become steady. If you stand still, the mind will become still and the breath will become steady. This is when the time stops, death stops and immortality begins. You wake up before time swallows you and before this earth gulps you. Then, you swallow time. This is samadhi. Samadhi is that state where you feel you can stay like that for a million years. It is a state where the mind freezes. It is just like things remaining fresh, if they are put in a fridge. Samadhi is the refrigerator of your life. It is the secret of youthfulness, the secret of bubbling enthusiasm and the secret of ...

🌹PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS🌹                          🌀CHAPTER - 6🌀      ~ Steadiness In Samadhi ~                 🌀DAY - 43🌀 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷 This is the same with the ears. Sometimes, people switch on the the radio and every few minutes change the station. They go on tuning to different stations. I knew one such person. He would not let anybody listen to one song completely or one program fully. After listening to a station for a few seconds, he would wonder what program would be on in another station. Then again, he would be off to another station after some time. All the time would be spent in tuning to different stations. That is how the mind works. This happens in relation to all the other senses, too - smell, taste, touch and hearing. When the senses get steady, then the prana,which is shaking inside becomes steady, too. You would have noticed...

🌹PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS🌹                          🌀CHAPTER - 6🌀      ~ Steadiness In Samadhi ~                 🌀DAY - 42🌀 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷 When the earth shakes for a few seconds, there is much disaster. You can exist on this planet because it is steady. Once in a while, it shakes and this throws the inhabitants off balance. A few seconds of this is enough to bring life to a standstill for many days.            There are natural calamities - flood, torrential rain, scorching heat. This disturbs life. You can be at peace only when the nature is at peace and is steady. At one time a couple of years ago there was snow fall in the Sahara desert in the middle of summer. In the same year, England was extremely hot during the winter months. This had never happened before.            Nature trem...

🌹PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS🌹                          🌀CHAPTER - 5🌀      ~Overcoming Obstacles ~                 🌀DAY - 41🌀 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷 Next Patanjali said -    "यथाभिमतध्यानाद्धा"           There are many different methods of meditations. You can be awakened by one of methods. You can choose the one that suits you but you need to stick to it. You should not change it at all. If you take one path, you should go only on that path.            And, you should not change Masters at all. Otherwise, you will get very confused and messed up. All the ways are good. Take up one and just go deep into it, without criticizing the others. Then, you will be building it up in you. " यथाभिमतध्यानाद्धा "  " Yatha abhimat dhyaanadwaa."            There are five dif...

🌷 Katho Upanishad 🌷        Chapter 2        Beyond death       🌻 Day 🔟 🌻 प्र ते ब्रवीमि तदु मे निबोध  स्वर्ग्यमग्निं नचिकेतः प्रजानन् । अनन्तलोकाप्तिमथो प्रतिष्ठां विद्धि त्वमेतंनिहितं गृहायाम् ॥ लोकादिमग्निं तमुवाच तस्मै  या इष्टका यावतीर्वा यथा वा । स चापि तत्प्रत्यवदद्यथोक्तं  अथास्य मृत्युः पुनरेवाह तुष्टः ॥ Nachiketa was instructed to climb the steps of heaven. What are those steps? He was taught how to bring together 720 bricks, how to organise them. This is a secret. Think, what is this 720? Nachiketa learnt all this. When the disciple learns fast, it is the pride of the teacher. The Lord of Death got very pleased, “You learnt this with such sincerity, honesty and with such sharp attention; I will give you one more gift.” He gave Nachiketa a necklace. तमब्रवीत् प्रीयमाणो महात्मा  वरं तवेहाद्य ददामि भूयः । तवैव नाम्ना भविताऽयमग्निः सृङ्कां चेमामनेकरूपां गृहाण ॥ It was a most amazing piece ...

🌷 Katho Upanishad 🌷        Chapter 2        Beyond death       🌻 Day 9⃣ 🌻 स्वर्गे लोके न भयं किञ्चनास्ति न तत्र त्वं न जरया बिभेति । उभे तीर्त्वाऽशनायापिपासे शोकातिगो मोदते स्वर्गलोके ॥ स त्वमग्निँ स्वर्ग्यमध्येषि मृत्यो  प्रब्रूहि त्वँ श्रद्धधानाय मह्यम् । स्वर्गलोका अमृतत्वं भजन्त  एतद् द्वितीयेन वृणे वरेण ॥ The natural desire of every life is to have comfort, to get into a place where there is no misery, no sorrow. The goal of human life is to move towards heaven. Heaven means a place where there is no death, no destruction, no old age, where there is no suffering. Where is this place? Is it somewhere up in the heaven? How to get there? What you should do to get to a state where there is only bliss? This was the second boon. The Lord of Death taught Nachiketa how to attain heaven, where there is no misery. Life is heavy when you recognize that there is misery. Whenever you recognize misery, you want to g...

🌷 Katho Upanishad 🌷            Chapter 2       Beyond death      🌻 Day 8 🌻 Fire is present in piece of wood. But it is not manifest. For fire to manifest, you need another piece of wood to rub against it. That is how they would make fire in the ancient days. From a long, long time, Knowledge has been flowing between the Master and the disciple. The Master is one wood, the disciple is another – one is answering and the other is questioning, and together they produce this fire – the question and answer. Their sincerity gives rise to spiritual fire, which consumes the wood, which consumes life. After having heard from his father,“I give you to death,” Nachiketa moves to the door of death without any fear. Often children don’t know any fear. They are very curious; very scientific in their approach. They are logical. At the same time their emotions are alive, they are not dry or dead. For a seeker this is essential ...

🌷 Katho Upanishad 🌷                Chapter 2        At the door of death        🌻 Day 7 🌻 Further in the Upanishad, what is the size of the soul, what all happens, how it moves is explained. यथा पुरस्ताद् भविता प्रतीत  औद्दालकिरारुणिर्मत्प्रसृष्टः । सुखँ रात्रीः शययिता वीतमन्युः त्वां दद्दशिवान्मृत्युमुखात् प्रमुक्तम् ॥ First boon is granted – let my father’s anger be appeased. Many times, as seekers when you meditate, you feel, “Nothing is happening to me.” Do you know why? Because some of your merits are being passed on to your forefathers. There is no escape from it. When you meditate. Or do something good, a portion of it, those good vibes are passed on automatically. It is like clearing your past debt. When you meditate, a little amount of merit goes to those who gave you this body. Somebody gave you this body and because of it, you are doing everything that you are doing. So some p...

🌷 Katho Upanishad 🌷        Chapter 1        At the door of death        🌻 Day 6 🌻 तिस्रो रात्रिर्यगवात्सीर्गृहे मे ऽनश्नन् ब्रह्मन्नतिथिर्नमस्यः । नमस्तेऽस्तु ब्रह्मन् स्वस्ति मेऽस्तु तस्मात्प्रति त्रीन्वरान्वृणीष्व ॥ Yama gave three boons to the boy – “I owe you three boons because you have been so calm , so quiet , you have meditated , you have been spiritual. You have been thinking of something higher.” शांतसङ्कल्पः सुमना यथा स्याद् वीतमन्युर्गैतमो माऽभि मृत्यो । त्वत्प्रसृष्टं माऽभिवदेत्प्रतीत एतत् त्रयाणां प्रथमं वरं वृणे ॥ Nachiketa said , “O Lord of Death , as the first of these three books , grant that my father’s anger be appeased, so that when I return he may receive me with love.” Father’s anger weighed heavy on the child , Nachiketa. The first boon he asked was an immediate relief from that. A very simple mind , simple question , simple needs. The greater you are the simpler your needs and desires ar...

🌷 Katho Upanishad 🌷                Chapter 1        At the door of death            🌻 Day 5 🌻 Nachiketa goes to the abode of death and waits there for 3 days without food and water. There is greater , deeper knowledge here. What happens in the process of death? What happens to you when you die? First , the mind withdraws from the five senses with their impression. You stop feeling, numbness comes. Sensations in the body disappear. Then , sight gets blurred and vision goes away. Sense of touch goes away , sense of taste goes away , sight goes away and then smells and finally sound disappears. When body is dying , they keep a candle burning so that if the soul, the spirit leaves the body , it can feel the light , see the light and remind itself that it is light and move on. This ritual is there in all ancient traditions. The mind retrieves from the five senses , with the impressions o...

🌷 Katho Upanishad 🌷        Chapter 1        At the Door of Death             🌻 Day 4 🌻   बहूनामेमि प्रथमो बहूनामेमि मध्यमः । किँ स्विध्यमस्य कर्तव्यं यन्मयाऽद्य करिष्यति ॥ Nachiketa thought , “let me be the first to do among those who are going to die. Everyone is going to die. I will go a little earlier. Like corn which ripens and falls and then , comes up again. Everything is temporary. People are dying and I will also die. It’s just that I am going a little early , I am going to go to the Lord of Death.” Nachiketa knew that his father said it in anger , but he still went to death. This is very beautiful. This Upanishad is about dialogue of this young boy and the Lord of Death. What is death? What is the ultimate secret that nobody is able to unwind? What is that? There is another story related to Nachiketa. Once , Vajashravas was praying on a river bank. He accidently left all his belongings on...

🌷 Katho Upanishad 🌷         Chapter 1  At the Door of Death       🌻 Day 1 🌻 Upanishad means sitting close , sitting near the Master , not just physically, but also with attention , with the presence of mind in the space as that of the Master. Katha Upanishad – Katha – ‘tha’ means the final. What is the final thing about life? What is the end? What is the ultimate? Every Upanishad begins with a Shanti Mantra and ends with a Shanti Mantra. Shanti means peace. Only when you have peace can you think of higher knowledge. Higher knowledge cannot be grasped by a disturbed mind. The mind needs to be calm , free from anguish , from hatred , from cravings, and then higher knowledge can be attained.  ॐ सह नाववतु । सह नौ भुनक्तु । सहवीर्यं करवावहै ।       तेजस्वि नावधीतमस्तु । मा विद्विषावहै ॥           ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः ॥ ॐ सह नाववतु । - Let us be together. सह नौ भुनक्तु । - Enjoy this life...

🌷 Katho Upanishad 🌷       Chapter 1       At the Door of death        🌻 Day 3 🌻 उशन् ह वै वाजश्रवसः सर्ववेदसं ददौ । तस्य ह नचिकेता नाम पुत्र आस ॥ The Vishwajit yagna was done by Vajashravas and he gave away whatever he had , in the ceremony. He had a small eight year old son. His name was Nachiketa. तँ ह कुमारँ सन्तं दक्षिणासु  नीयमानासु श्रद्धाविवेश सोऽमन्यत ॥ He saw his father giving everything away. He was running around and observing what his father was doing. He was watching everything with a lot of faith , “Oh. Father is doing all this. He is doing such a great job. He has given everything away.” He also saw his father giving away cattle which were old. He noted that his father would not get any merit out of that. Children are very smart , smarter than their parents. They are so innocent. पीतोदका जग्धतृणा दुग्धदोहा निरिन्द्रियाः । अनन्दा नाम ते लोकास्तान् स गच्छति ता ददत् ॥ Sometimes people give away things whi...

🌺 Welcome to Katho Upanishad series 🌺               🌷 Introduction 🌷 The whole world runs away from death , because death snatches everything , but the one who accepts it and willingly faces it , receives something from death itself. Ironically , knowledge of death gives you the gift of life. Katho Upanishad tells the story of young Nachiketa who goes to face the lord of death and the extraordinary dialogue that ensues between them. Upanishad means sitting close to the. master. Sri Sri takes us through this beautiful story integrating its profoundness with real-life situations , turning abstract philosophy into existential reality. 🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺🌺

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*Chapter 1 - The Mind Facing Inwards Is Always Happy* *Day 3* Today we have completely forgotten this tradition. However, there is one thing we did in the past and continue to do today.  When we celebrate weddings, religious ceremonies and other rituals, whether on happy or sad occasions, we invite guests for food and after food give them each one rupee as dakshina, or offering.  This practice is more prevalent in villages. Do you know the reason behind this? This is to express gratitude to the guests for attending the ceremony and eating the food.  The belief is that the guests have given them peace, and in this way, certain negative karma leaves and positive karma is restored. Wealth should be peaceful.  It is filled with bliss, having a cheerful state of mind. There are some people who do very good acts, but do not have peace and joy.  Instead, they are very serious and have long faces. If the world is serious, it cannot be enjovable, it will be d...

*Chapter 1 - The Mind Facing Inwards Is Always Happy* *Day 2* What attracts the mind outward? It is prosperity, wealth, success and beauty. The sight of anything beautiful draws the mind towards it.  Whether money or fame, the mind gravitates towards it. The whole world revolves around only one thing, and that is "Sri," or prosperity.  Yearn for knowledge, yearn for happiness, yearn for beauty, wealth, success, advancement - whatever you long for, it is only for one desire, and that is sri.  However, the more intensely people long for it, the more difficult it is to attain. That is why everybody wears such long faces, as if everything were shrouded in misery.  This is why Buddha concisely said, "Desire is the root cause of misery." Go anywhere and look at what the people talk about, and you will find that it is all about sri.  Go to any chamber of commerce or film industry meeting, and what do they discuss, but ways to become rich and famous. That is...