CHAKRAS EXTERNAL TO THE BODY AND ENERGY ENHANCEMENT MEDITATION INITIATION FOUR

Students with your Indian Spiritual Guides Satchidanand and Devi Dhyani at the Taj Mahal

The large circle of the fountain above is the Earth. The little circle in its center is kundalini energy which flows in every direction but is then channelled through the Antahkarana, the channel, into the pool, the ocean, the Soul, the central spiritual sun of Gurdjieff.

The fountain and the channel looks like a Key, does it not? Therefore here is the key of the Lockmakers, the Naqshbandi.

Below is a Shiva Lingham and Yoni from the india and the Ancient, 5000 years old Hindu religion. The base, Yoni looks like the fountain above, yes? The Shiva Lingam (Male Genitals) takes the part of the upwelling water of the fountain. In ritual worship, milk is poured over the Shiva Lingam and it comes out of the Yoni (Female Genitals) which symbolise the earth and the antahkarana spout shooting spiritual energy out of the center of the earth like the water of the fountain comes out of the fountain above into the pool.

This shows the rectification (The R of Vitriol) of the energy milk which comes down from the center of the universe and its rectification, change of direction, as it returns from the center of the earth back into the center of the universe.

Super Computers gain speed through the number of processors connected. Each Chakra is a processor. As we connect the chakras higher and higher along the antahkarana by removing the energy blockages between them so we gain more intelligence the higher they go, and the more chakras we connect together. As more processors are connected, so a human being gains more wisdom. The communication bus connecting the chakras together is the Antahkarana - a connecting tower of energy between heaven and earth. There are an infinity of chakras in the body and above the crown - soul, monad, sirius etc - connecting us with god. The number of processors is infinite. Our intelligence is potentially unlimited!!

Brahma is God. Acharya is Mastery. Translation "Mastery of the Connection with God" not "Celibacy".

Sexual Energy and Selfish Desire is Mastered through the Soul Connection and ONLY through the Soul Connection because the energy of God is higher and stronger. The Soul Connection is more interesting than the Sexual Connection. The Soul Connection puts the Sexual Connection in its place as a part of the energy of God, lower than the Energy of God and thus gradually stops Sexual Addiction.

Established in the connection with God is Enlightenment. Each Incarnation is Unique and dependant on the Quality and Quantity of the connection. Of the size and function of the Spiritual Body and the components of the Spiritual Body of the Enlightened Person. Established in the soul, sanskrit- Stithyapragnyam.

As my Master Roshi Hogen says "The spring at the top of the Mountain." - the Energy coming from the Crown Chakra.

Illness is caused by a lack of energy. We can only heal ourselves when we learn to fill ourselves with energy by these methods.

This FOURTH Energy Enhancement Initiation is the most important Initiation of Energy Enhancement.

Other Initiations teach us about the Negativities and attitudes which stop this highly Energetic Soul Connection. Other Initiations teach us how to use this Higher energy in the correct way.

In this Initiation we learn Methods of Accessing the Infinite Energy of the Higher Mind. Easy and practical meditations based upon Ancient Methodology of 200,000 years duration whose track record of success is greater than any other system!

By accessing this energy we get in touch with our Intuition, our Direction, our Soul Path.

By accessing this energy we get in touch with the path we will take when we die.

When Gorakh says, "Die O Yogi, Die." When the Sufis say, "Die before you Die." this Fourth Initiation of energy Enhancement is the Meditation connection they mean.

Practise this Connection every day so that when you die you will not be so shocked by the Death Process.

Practise this Connection every day so that when you die you will be able to pass through the death process without losing your memory. Die in full consciousness.

ACCESS THE ENERGIES OF THE THIRD TO THE SIXTH INITIATIONS OF ALICE BAILEY ON THE PATH OF ENLIGHTENMENT!

By accessing this energy we get in touch with our Intuition, our Direction, our Soul Path.

By accessing this energy we subordinate everything else in our lives to this higher connection, to this Higher Energy. Then, every lower pleasure is subordinated to this energy. Everything in our lives starts to get put into its correct place..

Everything in our lives is important and should be used correctly, but when these lower things are put in control, when we become addicted to them. Then we have life problems.

Food, Relationships, Sharing the energies of the Psychic Sexual Connection, Sex, Power, Money, Property are all good and necessary when in their proper place.

Feeling the orgasmic Higher Energies from the Connection to chakras above our heads makes us understand that everything else in our lives is good... but not that good!!

WHEN HYAKUJO FIRST ARRIVED AT CHIANG-SI TO PAY HIS RESPECTS TO MA TZU, MA TZU INQUIRED, "FROM WHERE HAVE YOU COME?"

"FROM THE GREAT CLOUD MONASTERY AT YUEH CHOU," ANSWERED HYAKUJO.

"AND WHAT DO YOU HOPE TO GAIN BY COMING HERE?" ASKED MA TZU.

HYAKUJO REPLIED, "I HAVE COME SEEKING THE BUDDHA-DHARMA."

TO THIS MA TZU REPLIED, "INSTEAD OF LOOKING TO THE TREASURE HOUSE WHICH IS YOUR VERY OWN, YOU HAVE LEFT HOME AND GONE WANDERING FAR AWAY. WHAT FOR? I HAVE ABSOLUTELY NOTHING HERE AT ALL. (THE TREASURE HOUSE IS YOUR HIGHER SELF. NOTHING, EMPTINESS, ANATTA, NIRVANA IS THE HIGHER SELF, HERE HE IS SAYING THAT HE IS CONNECTED TO THE EMPTINESS OF THE HIGHER SELF, THAT HE CAN DROP THE BODY, THAT HE IS ENLIGHTENED - COMMENTARY SATCHIDANAND) WHAT IS THIS BUDDHA-DHARMA THAT YOU SEEK?"

WHEREUPON HYAKUJO PROSTRATED HIMSELF AND ASKED, "PLEASE TELL ME TO WHAT YOU ALLUDED WHEN YOU SPOKE OF A TREASURE HOUSE OF MY VERY OWN."

MA TZU REPLIED, "THAT WHICH ASKED THE QUESTION IS YOUR TREASURE HOUSE. IT CONTAINS ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING YOU NEED AND LACKS NOTHING AT ALL. IT IS THERE FOR YOU TO USE FREELY, SO WHY THIS VAIN SEARCH FOR SOMETHING OUTSIDE YOURSELF?"

NO SOONER WERE THESE WORDS SPOKEN THAN HYAKUJO RECEIVED A GREAT ILLUMINATION AND RECOGNIZED HIS OWN NO-MIND. (NO MIND IS EMPTINESS OF THE HIGHER SELF, THE CHAKRAS ABOVE THE HEAD ALONG THE ANTAHKARANA. HERE HYAJUKO HAD TUNED IN TO THE BUDDHAFIELD OF THE MASTER MA TSU. THUS THE TRANSMISSION BEYOND WORDS) BESIDE HIMSELF WITH JOY, HE BOWED IN DEEP GRATITUDE.

(THE TREASURE HOUSE IS THE HIGHER SELF, THE SOUL, THE MONAD, THE LOGOS AND HIGHER, COMMENTARY BY SATCHIDANAND)

HYAKUJO SPENT THE NEXT SIX YEARS IN ATTENDANCE UPON MA TZU. BUT AS TAO-CHIH, HIS FIRST TEACHER, WAS GROWING OLD, HE WANTED TO RETURN TO LOOK AFTER HIM.

BEFORE HYAKUJO LEFT MA TZU, HE WENT TO PAY HIS FINAL TRIBUTE TO HIM.

SEEING HIM COMING, MA TZU RAISED HIS HORSE WHISK STRAIGHT UP. (THE HORSE WHISK IS THE "FINGER POINTING AT THE MOON" IT REPRESENTS THE ANTAHKARANA.)HYAKUJO ASKED, "ARE YOU IN THE USE OF IT, OR APART FROM THE USE?"

MA TZU HUNG THE HORSE WHISK ON THE CORNER OF HIS CHAIR. AFTER A MINUTE OR SO, HE ASKED HYAKUJO, "HENCE FORWARD, HOW DO YOU OPEN THOSE TWO LEAVES OF YOUR MOUTH TO WORK FOR OTHERS?"

AT THIS, HYAKUJO TOOK THE HORSE WHISK AND RAISED IT STRAIGHT UP.

MA TZU SAID, "ARE YOU IN THE USE OF IT, OR APART FROM IT?"

HYAKUJO HUNG THE HORSE WHISK ON THE CORNER OF THE CHAIR.

JUST AT THAT MOMENT, A GREAT ROAR, LIKE HUNDREDS OF THUNDERBOLTS FALLING, RAINED ON HYAKUJO'S HEAD. MA TZU HAD GIVEN A SHOUT WHICH, IT IS SAID, DEAFENED HYAKUJO FOR THREE DAYS.

(THE HORSE WHISK IS THE "FINGER POINTING AT THE MOON" IT IS THE ANTAHKARANA. WE DO NOT USE IT. WE ARE APART FROM IT AND YET IT IS PART OF OURSELVES. AND WHEN WE DO NOT USE IT WE ARE THEN THE WITNESS OF ITS USE BY OUR HIGHER SELVES. THEN THE FLOWERS SHOWER. THE ENERGY OF THE HIGHER SELF RAINS DOWN UPON OUR CROWN CHAKRAS, AND WE ARE DEAFENED BY THE LIGHTNING BOLT OF ENERGY WHICH ENERGIZES US FROM ON HIGH. COMMENTARY - SATCHIDANAND)

PSYCHOPATHY HEALED BY REMOVING BLOCKAGES IN CHAKRAS OUTSIDE THE BODY IN THE ANTAHKARANA

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After the functions of the mind as chakras and about the exponential improvement in intelligence as each function is improved and blockages between them removed. The Chakras are spread out along the spine and in the head. They reside in powerful nervous plexuses within the body. Each chakra is associated with an endocrine gland, which pours its powerful hormones directly into the bloodstream. The spine protects the spinal chord, which is made of the same nerve cells as the brain itself and is protected by the same spinal fluid as surrounds the brain. Each chakra communicates along the spinal chord. Each chakra can be educated and brought to full function. This communicating spinal chord can be educated to full information flow.

As the fears, jealousy, envy, competition and other negative thoughtforms, which cause the blockages in and between the chakras are cleared out by the techniques on our Energy Enhancement courses then one after another the functions are improved and the communication between them becomes better. This exponentially increases the intelligence of the more integrated human being, - the Gestalt.

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs a plagiarism of the Chakras.

Maslow said that evolution of man was how he gradually fulfilled the "Hierarchy of Needs". His level of evolution was shown by which level of the hierarchy he placed his life attention.

Chakras and Communication, the Ancient Symbol of the Tower of Babel or Babble

The tower of Babel is the synonym in the Bible for a human being.

In a "normal" human being every part works and communicates together.

The brain, spine and connection with the Soul, the Antahkarana, comprise the tower. Along the spine are the Seven Major Chakras or parallel processors. As I said, these chakras rarely communicate. They rarely work together. The parable goes that because God was afraid that the Tower of Babel would be built so high as to reach heaven, he purposefully created different languages amongst the various people building the tower. Because of the lack of communication the tower never got built to Heaven.

The lack of communication between the chakras, or the people building the Tower, symbolises their lack of integration. Because we are not integrated our psychic bodies will not reach up to heaven. We never managed to contact our Higher Selves. We are not Enlightened.

The Enlightened have built a Tower of communication "Twixt Heaven and Earth".

In the Ancient Sanskrit this Tower has been given the name "The Antahkarana".

It is the psychic wiring, created in mental matter. A thoughtform created dually by the Soul and the aspirant to connect the Crown Chakra through to the Soul and then to the spiritual triad and then the Monad.

Your evolution is the height of your Antahkarana or how many chakras within and outside the body you have integrated into your being and removed all energy blockages from.

Please notice I said "Chakras Outside the Body!" - These chakras are energy centers and brain functions called the kundalini center in the center of the earth, and the Soul, the Monad, the Logos, Sirius and the Avatar of Synthesis above the head through an infinity of chakras above the head towards God.

The Astral plane is not flat. Although most people inhabit the psychic slums in the basement of the astral plane in their dreams, when they go to sleep.

It is the "Rainbow Bridge" whereby the Higher frequencies of the energy of the Soul are stepped down to that of the Earth, so that the Earth itself can raise its frequencies, can evolve. We have been created to help in this creative act.

These frequencies are stepped down Octave by Octave through each Chakra which are really Way Stations in the Energy System of the Soul. This is the "Music of the Spheres" of Pythagoras. Because The Enlightened Master Pythagoras was indeed talking of Chakras when talking about the Spheres or the Planets. Each Chakra as it evolves corresponds to one or more of the Planets. This is the secret of Astrology. This is the means whereby the Seven Sacred Suns and the Seven Sacred Constellations in this Sacred Universe affect us.

Each Chakra, when working correctly, acts like a Transformer in an Electrical system to halve the Energy Frequency of God. The frequency drops Chakra by Chakra, "Station by Station" as said David Bowie, on its way down to this planet because as Gurdjieff said "Normal Human Beings are transmitters of Cosmic Energy". And this is the function of Normal Human Beings. Those who are Enlightened. To transmit the Energy of The Soul. Whereby the higher energies of Truth, Prophesy, Intuition and Initiation are sent down towards this Planet.

Where the Higher Energy Frequencies of God create the Higher Energy Thoughtforms towards which the Median of the Masses are moved as they evolve and as the Earth Spirit Evolves.

Because the Energy Transmitted by the Enlightened is used to raise the frequency level of the Earth itself and all the people on it. To transmit the Light of Love down on to this planet of Love. To dissolve the Selfishness of the separated selves, those "Law of the Jungle" Egos who cannot communicate with The Higher Self. Who think of themselves as Separate. Who think themselves Apart. Who do not know that they too are A Part of the Universe of God Itself. Those who are not connected. Those who have not been touched by God. Those who are not "Made".

A Table of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and the Chakras.

*Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs – The Psychological Expression of the Chakras*	*Chakra Body Position and associated Endocrine Gland together with illnesses associated with the Chakra.*
0. The Kundalini Chakra in the Center of the Earth given in the Alchemical Formula and guided meditation, VITRIOL. – Visita Interiore Terrae Rectificando Invenies Occultem Lapidem.	Blockages along the path to that chakra create energy lacks which create a fearful slave mentality and locks people, lifetime after lifetime, into abusive slave-like situations.
1. Negative energy or blockages in the Base Chakra are the cause of fears about security. The removal of this negative energy gives mastery of basic security needs like food, money, and housing. The Mastery of the fear of not having them. Last of all the mastery of the fear of death. The Base Chakra is symbolised by the tantrics as a shiva lingam surrounded by three and a half coils of a kundalini snake. As we clear out the base chakra so the Initiations are taken as the snake rises to the fourth coil or the fourth chakra and so on.	1. The Base Chakra is located in the coccyx. The trigger point in the perineum where resides a muscle which stops us urinating and ejaculating semen in men. The trigger point is in the vulva in women. It is known as Muladhara Chakra in India. It is associated with security. Its sense is smell. It controls the fight or flight reaction through the adrenal gland. The energetic blockages of fear in the base chakra cause stiffness, Trauma and illnesses in the vulva, prostate, hips and legs. Base Chakra Blockages cause problems with the emotion fear, problems with sex, problems with money or being a miser, and problems with security.
2. Blockages are selfish dependant desire and are the cause of unhappy dependant relationships. There are many fears about abuse, bereavement and divorce in relationships. Removal of negative energy or blockages to the energy flows in this center gives mastery of Sexual Desire and Mastery of strong independent and happy relationships through control of the Psychic Sexual Connection.	2. The Sacral, Second or Swadisthan Chakra is located in the abdomen below the navel. Its sense is taste. Its blockages are associated with selfish uncontrolled, sexual desire and attachment. Its function is the creation of children and the energetic feeding of children through energetic connections. It controls the sex glands -Ovaries and Testes. Physical illness is caused by blockages in this area.
3. Fear in this area causes us to use power selfishly only for our own benefit. As we remove the negative energy causing the blockages, we get mastery of the use of power for the benefit of all and the mastery of selfish desire for objects or things.	3. The Solar Plexus, Third or Manipur Chakra is located in the soft spot just below the center of the lower ribs- the sternum. Its sense is vision. It is the major energetic reservoir of the body. It releases its energy through the pancreas which synthesises insulin which burns sugar. If this chakra is out of whack, after a time digestive problems, ulcers, and diabetes is the result.
4. The First major blockage to enlightenment - Alice Baileys First Initiation, The Opening of the Heart - is between the Solar Plexus and the Heart Center. The Solar Plexus should power the Heart. Any blockage in the Solar Plexus the Heart or between them causes problems to The Mastery of Loving Relationships in partnerships, groups and organisations, and anger. Energy Blockages in the heart center cause a lack of empathy with others, an inability to put yourself in anothers shoes – external consideration, an inability to feel for another.	4. The Heart Chakra is the Fourth or Anahata Chakra and is located just to the right center of the chest. Its sense is touch and its energy emmanates through the hands as in Reiki as well as in the centre of the chest. It controls the immune system through the Thymus gland. Any problems with the giving and receiving of love and empathy will cause toxins to reside there and the immune system thus to suffer. Heart disease, AIDS, Cancer are physical expressions of this problem.
5. The second major blockage to enlightenment - Alice Baileys Second initiation - The Mastery of Relationships - is between the second chakra and the throat. The second chakra should power the throat. Any blockages to the second chakra, the throat or between them causes problems to the Mastery of Purification of thoughtforms, travel on the astral plane and The Mastery of Creativity in Art, Science, Philosophy and Business.	5. The Throat Chakra is the Fifth Chakra also called Visshuddhi Chakra and is located in the pit of the throat. Its senses are speach, singing, chanting and hearing both normal and psychic. It controls the metabolism through the Thyroid and Parathyroid glands.
6. Self Actualisation. The Third Blockage to Enlightenment is between the Base Chakra and the Head Chakras. Blockages to these Chakras and between them will cause problems to the Master Control Center of all the Chakras, the intellect, and the creation and use of Thoughtforms, entities, ideals, ideas and Ego Sub-Personalities.	6. The Third Eye, Sixth or Ajna Chakra is located in the center of the forehead. Like a snake the Energy curves from the forehead like the ornamentation seen on the headresses of Ancient Egyptian Pharohs. It controls the Sixth sense of the intellect and is associated with the Pineal Gland.
7. Self Transcendence. The Third Initiation of enlightenment is stopped by blockages between the Base Chakra and the Head Chakras. Blockages between these chakras and within them cause problems to the Mastery of Self Transcendence, Connection with the Higher Self, The Soul, The Spiritual Triad, Ascended Masters, The Central Spiritual Sun and I AM – God.	7. The Crown Chakra is the Seventh or Sahasrara Chakra above the top of the Head. It is also "The Thousand Petalled Lotus" or the "Golden Flower". It controls the Seventh Sense of Connection with higher Energies, and is associated with the Pituitary Gland.
8. The Soul Chakra connecting with one to twenty Soul Personalities and many ego-Sub-Personalities which need to be integrated with the soul	Blockages and Implants above the crown chakra cause a lack of conscience along with Heart Blockages which cause a lack of Empathy. Together these are one of the main causes of Psychopathy and Political Authoritarianism. - Thus these blockages are the main cause of misery, Trauma and lack of integration on this planet. The solution to all the problems of this planet is not revolution and war. The solution is to remove all energy blockages and implants through techniques like Energy Enhancement which is the most advanced technique in this time period. The higher the blockage, the more effect it has in controlling the normal mind. Energy Enhancement teaches how to remove blockages from chakras 1 to 5 and then one million, 10 million on the way to infinity. The first Initiation of Enlightenment (Alice Bailey's Third Initiation) crowns the removal of all sub-personalities and One Soul Infused Personality. The Second Initiation of Enlightenment (Alice Bailey's Fourth Initiation) crowns a Master responsible for the removal of all Sub-Personalities in his Monad. The Third Initiation of Enlightenment (Alice Bailey's Fifth Initiation) crowns an Ascended Master who can maintain his consciousness through the death process, a Master responsible for the removal of all Sub-Personalities in his Logos - an integrating World teacher like the Christ.
9. The Monad Chakra connecting with a Group of Souls of perhaps 100,000 people.
10. The Logos Chakra - the group of all the Monads or Soul Groups on this planet both in and out of incarnation connecting with 200 Billion Souls animal, mineral and angelic composing the psychic body of the Archangel in charge of this planet whose aim is to evolve into a sacred planet having strong, blockageless connections with the Seven sacred Suns or Constellations.
11. Sirius Chakra. Outside of this planet are Seven possible connections with the seven sacred Suns. Usually we choose one of these connections. Perhaps the most powerful is Sirius, the Chakra where the Christ lives.
12. The Avatar of Synthesis is an Angelic being who controls the Christ and the Buddha and all the Spiritual Enlightened and Ascended Masters. Like his name, his job is to integrate this planet, helping its evolution and raising its possible energy level.
13. An infinity of Chakras ending in God The last Stage of Self Transcendence is just another way of saying Enlightenment. The Seven Stages of the Hierarchy of Needs is just a plagiarism on the Theories of Tantric or Kundalini Yoga known about in India for thousands of years. Kundalini Yoga talks about the psychological aspects of the seven major energy centers spread out along the spine called chakras. The spinal chord is an extension of the brain. It is made up of the same type of cells. It is surrounded by the same cerebral fluid as is the brain. The spine acts as a communication bus, in computer terminology, between all the chakra parallel processors which make up the Human Being and is the physical correspondence of the Antahkarana in the body.

The Enlightened exist to bring light into darkness. To dissolve the darkness and this itself is the meaning of the Sanskrit word "Guru". A person who dissolves or Transmutes Goo is a GooRoo.

And this is done through the Light of the Soul. Brighter than Ten Thousand Suns it exists alone. Unchangeable. Like Fire it lights everything with which it comes into contact. And once you are lit, you too burn with the Fire of the Soul. Like Prometheus you bring down the Fire of God onto the Earth, for the Benefit of every living being.

THIS SYMBOL ABOVE IS THE SOURCE SHAPE OF ANCIENT SACRED SYMBOLS - AXIS MUNDI, OMPHALLOS, THE TAU, THE ANKH, SQUARING THE CIRCLE, THE CROSS, THE SWORD IN THE STONE, THE SWORD OF SAINT MICHAEL, THE YONI SHIVALINGAM, THE FOUNTAINS AT THE ALHAMBRA, THE MOORISH ARCH, THE KEYHOLE, THE LUTE (TROUBADOUR - ABJAD ROOT TRB - MEANS LUTE IN ARABIC) AND THE SUFI NAQSBANDHI KUNDALINI KEY

Your first duty is to find the peace in you. If you root

yourself in your peace and then lend your hand, you will certainly bring peace. If not, you will only add more and more to the peaceless condition.

Violence cannot stop violence. A war can never really be won by violence alone. The mind must be changed. A violent victory only means that you have handicapped your enemy. He is still your enemy and the peace is only temporary. You have covered the fire so it doesn't show now, but it is still inside and one day it will flare up again.

When you win a war with your power, your enemy simply retreats and waits for an opportunity to strike back at you. You have won the war but not the heart. Real victory is to win the heart, not just the land or the political power.

Yoga tells you that your own peaceful thoughts will bring results. In the name of Yoga, we try to collect the mind and send out peaceful vibrations. A sincere thought will travel all over the world. It is more than an atomic bomb, it's more than a missile.

Even if you don't believe in God or prayer, sit and say, "Let there be peace. Let the minds of the people who want war be changed." We believe in thought force. Because it is the very same thought force that creates war. Remember that. It is the human mind that creates all these bombs, all these wars.

If you still want a war, fight it against undesirable thinking, not against a nation of people. And to fight such a war, you have to send out beautiful thoughts. Make every thought a powerful anti missile. Sit quietly and send out powerful peaceful thoughts. I'm not joking - it is possible. Even one minute spent in peace is valuable. Don't think, "When our brothers are dying, how can we sit quietly and think of peace?" This crazy world is, in a way, stabilized because of people sitting for a few minutes in meditation every day. Know that.

Don't ever think that by raising your hand or throwing a bomb or shouting something you can help the situation. Do it in a nonviolent way. Don't hurt anybody, don't hate anybody. As long as you have hatred in your mind, you are unfit to talk of peace.

An excerpt from the book, 'Beyond Words'

THE YOGA SUTRAS OF PATANJALI

Introduction to the Path of Yoga

nirodha - TO BRING THEM TO NOTHING - GROUND ALL NEGATIVE ENERGIES WITH ENERGY ENHANCEMENT

SATCHIDANAND

Book 1, Sutra 1

NOW THE DISCIPLINE OF YOGA. ( Note - Yoga Here always refers to Enlightenment. The True meaning of Yoga, in the ancient days, was union with the Soul, or Enlightenment )

THEN THE WITNESS IS ESTABLISHED IN ITSELF. ( Note - The Mind with its excess thoughts and sub-personalities is stopped in its normal functioning. When these thoughts cease, we are at last able to connect with the chakras above the head, the Soul, the Monad, and the Logos, etc - to receive intuitions which are the thoughts of the soul, the still small voice. When the Mind and the Soul become fused trough the application of intense psychic energy on Initiation, we become Enlightened )

IN THE OTHER STATES THERE IS IDENTIFICATION WITH THE MODIFICATIONS OF THE MIND. ( Note - The Modifications of the Mind are the Virtual Machines which live within the mind computer. All selfish desire comes from sub-personality modifications which live within the Mind space together with the One Soul Infused personality. As we reduce the modifications, so we become one, Enlightened. "There can only be one" - Highlander )

We live in a deep illusion -- the illusion of hope, of future, of tomorrow. As man is, man cannot exist without self-deceptions. Nietzsche says somewhere that man cannot live with the true: he needs dreams, he needs illusions, he needs lies to exist. And Nietzsche is true. As man is he cannot exist with the truth. This has to be understood very deeply because without understanding it, there can be no entry into the inquiry which is called yoga.

The mind has to be understood deeply -- the mind which needs lies, the mind which needs illusions, the mind which cannot exist with the real, the mind which needs dreams. You are not dreaming only in the night. Even while awake, you are dreaming continuously. You may be looking at me, you may be listening to me, but a dream current goes on within you. Continuously, the mind is creating dreams, images, fantasies.

Now scientists say that a man can live without sleep, but he cannot live without dreams. In old days it was understood that sleep is a necessity, but now modern research says sleep is not really a necessity. Sleep is needed only so that you can dream. Dream is the necessity. If you are not allowed to dream and allowed to sleep, you will not feel in the morning fresh, alive. You will feel tired, as if you have not been able to sleep at all.

In the night there are periods -- periods for deep sleep and periods for dreaming. There is a rhythm -- just like day and night, there is a rhythm. In the beginning you fall into deep sleep for nearabout forty, forty-five minutes. Then the dream phase comes in, then you dream. Then again dreamless sleep, then again dreaming. The whole night this goes on. If your sleep is disturbed while you are deeply asleep without dreaming, in the morning you will not feel that you have missed anything. But while you are dreaming, if your dream is disturbed then in the morning you will feel completely tired and exhausted.

Now this can be known from the outside. If someone is sleeping you can judge whether he is dreaming or asleep. If he is dreaming, his eyes will be moving continuously -- as if he is seeing something with closed eyes. When he is fast asleep, eyes will not move; they will remain steady. So while your eyes are moving, if your sleep is disturbed in the morning you will feel tired. While your eyes are not moving, sleep can be disturbed, in the morning you will not feel anything missing.

Many researchers have proved that human mind feeds on dreams, dream is a necessity, and dream is total autodeception. And this is not only so in the night: while awake also the same pattern follows; even in the day you can notice. Sometimes there will be dream floating in the mind, sometimes there will be no dreams.

When there are dreams you will be doing something, but you will be absent. Inside you are occupied. For example, you are here. If your mind is passing through a dream state, you will listen to me without listening at all, because your mind will be occupied within. If you are not in a dreaming state, only then you can listen to me.

Day, night, mind goes on moving from no-dream to dream, then from dream to no-dream again. This is an inner rhythm. Not only that we continuously dream, in life also we project hopes into the future.

The present is almost always a hell. You can prolong it only because of the hope that you have projected into the future. You can live today because of the tomorrow. You are hoping something is going to happen tomorrow -- some doors of paradise will open tomorrow. They never open today, and when tomorrow will come it will not come as a tomorrow, it will come as today, but by the time your mind has moved again. You go on moving ahead of you: this is what dreaming means. You are not one with the real, that which is nearby, that which is here and now, you are somewhere else -- moving ahead, jumping ahead.

And that tomorrow, that future, you have named it in so many ways. People call it heaven, some people call it moksha, but it is always in the future. Somebody is thinking in terms of wealth, but that wealth is going to be in the future. And somebody is thinking in terms of paradise, and that paradise is going to be after you are dead -- far away into the future. You waste your present for that which is not: this is what dreaming means. You cannot be here and now. That seems to be arduous, to be just in the moment.

You can be in the past because again that is dreaming -- memories, remembrance of things which are no more Or you can be in the future, which is projection, which is again creating something out of the past. The future is nothing but past projected again -- more colorful, more beautiful, more pleasant, but it is past refined.

You cannot think anything else than the past. Future is nothing but past projected again, and both are not. The present is, but you are never in the present. This is what dreaming means. And Nietzsche is right when he says that man cannot live with the truth. He needs lies he lives through lies. Nietzsche says that we go on saying that we want the truth, but no one wants it. Our so-called truths are nothing but lies, beautiful lies. No one is ready to see the naked reality.

This mind cannot enter on the path of yoga because yoga means a methodology to reveal the truth. Yoga is a method to come to a non-dreaming mind. Yoga is the science to be in the here and now. Yoga means now you are ready not to move into the future. Yoga means you are ready now not to hope, not to jump ahead of your being. Yoga means to encounter the reality as it is.

So one can enter yoga, or the path of yoga, only when he is totally frustrated with his own mind as it is. If you are still hoping that you can gain something through your mind, yoga is not for you. A total frustration is needed -- the revelation that this mind which projects is futile, the mind that hopes is nonsense, it leads nowhere. It simply closes your eyes; it intoxicates you; it never allows reality to be revealed to you. It protects you against reality.

Your mind is a drug. It is against that which is. So unless you are totally frustrated with your mind, with your way of being, the way you have existed up to now, if you can drop it unconditionally, then you can enter on the path.

So many become interested, but very few enter because your interest may be just because of your mind. You may be hoping now, through yoga, that you may gain something, but the achieving motive is there-you may become perfect through yoga, you may reach to the blissful state of perfect being, you may become one with the brahman, you may achieve the satchitananda. This may be the cause why you are interested in yoga. If this is the cause then there can be no meeting between you and the path which is yoga. Then you are totally against it, moving in a totally opposite dimension.

Yoga means that now there is no hope, now there is no future, now there are no desires. One is ready to know what is. One is not interested in what can be, what should be, what ought to be. One is not interested! One is interested only in that which is, because only the real can free you, only the reality can become liberation.

Total despair is needed. That despair is called dukkha by Buddha. And if you are really in misery, don't hope, because your hope will only prolong the misery. Your hope is a drug. It can help you to reach death only and nowhere else. All your hopes can lead you only to death. They are leading.

Become totally hopeless -- no future, no hope. Difficult. Needs courage to face the real. But such a moment comes to everyone, some time or other. A moment comes to every human being when he feels total hopelessness. Absolute meaninglessness happens to him. When he becomes aware that whatsoever he is doing is useless, wheresoever he is going, he is going to nowhere, all life is meaningless -- suddenly hopes drop, future drops, and for the first time you are in tune with the present, for the first time you are face to face with reality.

Unless this moment comes to you... You can go on doing asanas, postures; that is not yoga. Yoga is an inward turning. It is a total about-turn. When you are not moving into the future, not moving toward the past, then you start moving within yourself -- because your being is here and now, it is not in the future. You are present here and now, you can enter this reality. But then mind has to be here.

This moment is indicated by the first sutra of Patanjali. Before we talk about the first sutra, a few other things have to be understood. First, yoga is not a religion-remember that. Yoga is not Hindu, it is not Mohammedan. Yoga is a pure science just like mathematics, physics or chemistry. Physics is not Christian physics is not Buddhist. If Christians have discovered the laws of physics, then too physics is not Christian. It is just accidental that Christians have come to discover the laws of physics. But physics remains just a science. Yoga is a science -- it is just an accident that Hindus discovered it. It is not Hindu. It is a pure mathematics of the inner being. So a Mohammedan can be a yogi, a Christian can be a yogi, a Jain, a bauddha can be a yogi.

Yoga is pure science, and Patanjali is the greatest name as far as the world of yoga is concerned. This man is rare. There is no other name comparable to Patanjali. For the first time in the history of humanity, this man brought religion to the state of a science: he made religion a science, bare laws; no belief is needed.

Because so-called religions need beliefs. There is no other difference between one religion and another; the difference is only of beliefs. A Mohammedan has certain beliefs, a Hindu certain others, a Christian certain others. The difference is of beliefs. Yoga has nothing as far as belief is concerned; yoga doesn't say to believe in anything. Yoga says experience. Just like science says experiment, yoga says experience. Experiment and experience are both the same, their directions are different. Experiment means something you can do outside; experience means something you can do inside. Experience iS an inside experiment

Science says: Don't believe, doubt as much as you can. But also, don't disbelieve, because disbelief is again a sort of belief. You can believe in God, you can believe in the concept of no-God. You can say God is, with a fanatic attitude; you can say the quite reverse, that God is not with the same fanaticism. Atheists, theists, are all believers, and belief is not the realm for science. Science means experience something, that which is; no belief is needed. So the second thing to remember: Yoga is existential, experiential, experimental. No belief is required, no faith is needed -- only courage to experience. And that's what's lacking. You can believe easily because in belief you are not going to be transformed. Belief is something added to you, something superficial. Your being is not changed; you are not passing through some mutation. You may be a Hindu, you can become Christian the next day. Simply, you change: you change Gita for a Bible. You can change it for a Koran, but the man who was holding Gita and is now holding the Bible, remains the same. He has changed his beliefs.

Beliefs are like clothes. Nothing substantial is transformed; you remain the same. Dissect a Hindu, dissect a Mohammedan, inside they are the same. He goes to a temple; the Mohammedan hates the temple. The Mohammedan goes to the mosque and the Hindu hates the mosque, but inside they are the same human beings.

Belief is easy because you are not required really to do anything -- just a superficial dressing, a decoration, something which you can put aside any moment you like. Yoga is not belief. That's why it is difficult, arduous, and sometimes it seems impossible. It is an existential approach. You will come to the truth, but not through belief, but through your own experience, through your own realization. That means you will have to be totally changed. Your viewpoints, your way of life, your mind, your psyche has to be shattered completely as it is. Something new has to be created. Only with that new will you come in contact with the reality.

So yoga is both a death and a new life. As you are you will have to die, and unless you die the new cannot be born. The new is hidden in you. You are just a seed for it, and the seed must fall down, absorbed by the earth. The seed must die; only then the new will arise out of you. Your death will become your new life. Yoga is both a death and a new birth. Unless you are ready to die, you cannot be reborn. So it is not a question of changing beliefs.

Yoga is not a philosophy. I say it is not a religion, I say it is not a philosophy. It is not something you can think about. It is something you will have to be; thinking won't do. Thinking goes on in your head. It is not really deep into the roots of your being; it is not your totality. It is just a part, a functional part; it can be trained. And you can argue logically, you can think rationally, but your heart will remain the same. Your heart is your deepest center, your head is just a branch. You can be without the head, but you cannot be without the heart. Your head is not basic.

Yoga is concerned with your total being, with your roots. It is not philosophical. So with Patanjali we will not be thinking, speculating. With Patanjali we will be trying to know the ultimate laws of being: the laws of its transformation, the laws of how to die and how to be reborn again, the laws of a new order of being. That is why I call it a science.

Patanjali is rare. He is an enlightened person like Buddha, like Krishna, like Christ, like Mahavira, Mohammed, Zarathustra, but he is different in one way. Buddha, Krishna, Mahavira, Zarathustra, Mohammed no one has a scientific attitude. They are great founders of religions. They have changed the whole pattern of human mind and its structure, but their approach is not scientific.

Patanjali is like an Einstein in the word of Buddhas. He is a phenomenon. He could have easily been a Nobel Prize winner like an Einstein or Bohr or Max Planck, Heisenberg. He has the same attitude, the same approach of a rigorous scientific mind. He is not a poet; Krishna is a poet. He is not a moralist; Mahavira is a moralist. He is basically a scientist, thinking in terms of laws. And he has come to deduce absolute laws of human being, the ultimate working structure of human mind and reality.

And if you follow Patanjali, you will come to know that he is as exact as any mathematical formula. Simply do what he says and the result will happen. The result is bound to happen; it is just like two plus two, they become four. It is just like you heat water up to one hundred degrees and it evaporates. No belief is needed: you simply do it and know. It is something to be done and known. That's why I say there is no comparison. On this earth, never a man has existed like Patanjali.

You can find in Buddha's utterances, poetry -- bound to be there. Many times while Buddha is expressing himself, he becomes poetic. The realm of ecstasy, the realm of ultimate knowing, is so beautiful, the temptation is so much to become poetic, the beauty is such, the benediction is such, the bliss is such, one starts talking in poetic language.

But Patanjali resists that. It is very difficult. No one has been able to resist. Jesus, Krishna, Buddha they all become poetic. The splendor, the beauty, when it explodes within you, you will start dancing, you will start singing. In that state you are just like a lover who has fallen in love with the whole universe.

Patanjali resists that. He will not use poetry; he will not use a single poetic symbol even. He will not do anything with poetry; he will not talk in terms of beauty. He will talk in terms of mathematics. He will be exact, and he will give you maxims. Those maxims are just indications what is to be done. He will not explode into ecstasy; he will not say things that cannot be said; he will not try the impossible. He will just put down the foundation, and if you follow the foundation you will reach the peak which is beyond. He is a rigorous mathematician -- remember this.

NOW THE DISCIPLINE OF YOGA. Each and single word has to be understood because Patanjali will not use a single superfluous word.

First try to understand the word "now". This "now" indicates to the state of mind I was just talking to you about.

If you are disillusioned, if you are hopeless, if you have completely become aware of the futility of all desires, if you see your life as meaningless -- whatsoever you have been doing up to now has simply fallen dead nothing remains in the future, you are in absolute despair -- what Kierkegaard calls anguish. If you are in anguish, suffering, not knowing what to do, not knowing where to go, not knowing to whom to look, just on the verge of madness or suicide or death, your whole pattern of life suddenly has become futile. If this moment has come, Patanjali says, NOW THE DISCIPLINE OF YOGA. Only now you can understand the science of yoga, the discipline of yoga.

If that moment has not come, you can go on studying yoga, you can become a great scholar, but you will not be a yogi. You can write theses upon it, you can give discourses upon it, but you will not be a yogi. The moment has not come for you. Intellectually you can become interested, through your mind you can be related to yoga, but yoga is nothing if it is not a discipline. Yoga is not a shastra; it is not a scripture. It is a discipline. It is something you have to do. It is not curiosity; it is not philosophic speculation. It is deeper than that. It is a question of life and death.

If the moment has come where you feel that all directions have become confused, all roads have disappeared; the future is dark, and every desire has become bitter, and through every desire you have known only disappointment; all movement into hopes and dreams has ceased:

This "now" may not have come. Then I may go on talking about yoga but you will not listen. You can listen only if the moment is present in you.

Are you really dissatisfied7 Everybody will say "yes", but that dissatisfaction is not real. You are dissatisfied with this, you may be dissatisfied with that, but you are not totally dissatisfied. You are still hoping. You are dissatisfied because of your past hopes, but for the future you are still hoping. Your dissatisfaction is not total. You are still hankering for some satisfaction somewhere, for some gratification somewhere.

Sometimes you feel hopeless, but that hopelessness is not true. You feel hopeless because certain hopes have not been achieved, certain hopes have fallen. But hoping is still there: hoping has not fallen. You will still hope. You are dissatisfied with this hope, that hope, but you are not dissatisfied with hope as such. If with hope as such you are disappointed, the moment has come and then you can enter yoga. And then this entry will not be entering into a mental, speculative phenomenon. This entry will be an entry into a discipline.

What is discipline? Discipline means creating an order within you. As you are, you are a chaos. As you are, you are totally disorderly. Gurdjieff used to say -- and Gurdjieff is in many ways like Patanjali: he was again trying to make the core of religion a science -- Gurdjieff says that you are not one, you are a crowd, not even when you say "I", there is any "I". There are many "I's" in you, many egos. In the morning, one "I"; in the afternoon, another "I"; in the evening, a third "I", but you never become aware of this mess because who will become aware of it7 There is not a center who can become aware.

"Yoga is discipline" means yoga wants to create a crystallized center in you. As you are, you are a crowd and a crowd has many phenomena. One is, you cannot believe a crowd. Gurdjieff used to say that man cannot promise. Who will promise? You are not there. If you promise, who will fulfill the promise? Next morning the one who promised is no more.

People come to me and they say, "Now I will take the vow. I promise to do this." I tell them, "Think twice before you promise something. Are you confident that next moment the one who promised will be there?" You decide to get up early in the morning from tomorrow -- at four o'clock. And at four o'clock somebody in you says, "Don't bother. It is so cold outside. And why are you in such a hurry? We can do it tomorrow." And you fall asleep again.

When you get up you repent. And you think, "This is not good. I should have done it." You decide again that "Tomorrow I will do;" and the same is going to happen tomorrow because at four in the morning the one who promised is no more there, somebody else is in the chair. And you are a Rotary Club: the chairman goes on changing. Every member becomes a rotary chairman. Rotation is there. Every moment someone else is the master.

Gurdjieff used to say, "This is the chief characteristic of man, that he cannot promise." You cannot fulfill a promise. You go on giving promises, and you know well you cannot fulfill, because you are not one: you are a disorder, a chaos. Hence, Patanjali says, NOW THE DISCIPLINE OF YOGA. If your life has become an absolute misery, if you have realized that whatsoever you do creates hell, then the moment has come. This moment can change your dimension, your direction of being.

Up until now you have lived as a chaos, a crowd. Yoga means now you will have to be a harmony, you will have to become one. A crystallization is needed; a centering is needed. And unless you attain a center, all that you do is useless. It is wasting life and time. A center is the first necessity, and only a person can be blissful who has got a center. Everybody asks for it, but you cannot ask. You have to earn it! Everybody hankers for a blissful state of being, but only a center can be blissful. A crowd cannot be blissful, a crowd has got no self. There is no atman. Who is going to be blissful.

Bliss means absolute silence, and silence is possible only when there is harmony-when all the discordant fragments have become one, when there is no crowd, but one. When you are alone in the house and nobody else is there, you will be blissful. Right now everybody else is in your house, you are not there. Only guests are there, the host is always absent. And only the host can be blissful.

This centering Patanjali calls discipline -- ANUSHASANAM. The word "discipline" is beautiful. It comes from the same root from where the word "disciple" comes. "Discipline" means the capacity to learn, the capacity to know. But you cannot know, you cannot learn, unless you have attained the capacity to be.

One man once came to Buddha and he said... He must have been a social reformer, a revolutionary. He said to Buddha, "The world is in misery. I agree with you." Buddha has never said that the world is in misery. Buddha says, "You are the misery," not the world. "Life is misery," not the world. "Man is misery," not the world. "Mind is misery," not the world. But that revolutionary said, "The world is in misery. I agree with you. Now tell me, what I can do? I have a deep compassion, and I want to serve humanity."

Service must have been his motto. Buddha looked at him and remained silent. Buddha's disciple, Ananda, said, "This man seems to be sincere. Guide him. Why you are silent?" Then Buddha said to that revolutionary, "You want to serve the world, but where are you? I don't see anyone inside. I look in you, there is no one.

"You don't have any center, and unless you are centered whatsoever you do will create more mischief." All of your social reformers, your revolutionaries, your leaders, they are the great mischief creators, mischief-mongers. The world will be better if there were no leaders. But they cannot help. They must do something because the world is in misery. And they are not centered, so whatsoever they do they create more misery. Only compassion will not help, only service will not help. Compassion through a centered being is something totally different. Compassion through a crowd is mischief. That compassion is poison.

Discipline means the capacity to be, the capacity to know, the capacity to learn. We must understand these three things.

The capacity to be. All the yoga postures are not really concerned with the body, they are concerned with the capacity to be. Patanjali says if you can sit silently without moving your body for few hours, you are growing in the capacity to be. Why you move? You cannot sit without moving even for few seconds. Your body starts moving. Somewhere you feel itching; the legs go dead; many things start happening. These are just excuses for you to move.

You are not a master. You cannot say to the body, "Now for one hour I will not move." The body will revolt immediately. Immediately it will force you to move, to do something, and it will give reasons: "You have to move because an insect is biting." You may not find the insect when you look. You are not a being, you are a trembling -- a continuous hectic activity. Patanjali's asanas, postures, are concerned not really with any kind of physiological training, but an inner training of being, just to be -- without doing anything, without any movement, without any activity, just remain. That remaining will help centering.

If you can remain in one posture, the body will become a slave; it will follow you. And the more the body follows you, you will have a greater being within you, a stronger being within you. And, remember, if the body is not moving your mind cannot move, because mind and body are not two things. They are two poles of one phenomenon. You are not body and mind, you are body-mind. Your personality is psychosomatic -- body-mind both. The mind is the most subtle part of the body. Or you can say the reverse, that body is the most gross part of the mind.

So whatsoever happens in the body happens in the mind, and the vice versa: whatsoever happens in the mind happens in the body. If the body is non-moving and you can attain a posture, if you can say to the body "Keep quiet," the mind will remain silent. Really, the mind starts moving and tries to move the body, because if the body moves then the mind can move. In a nonmoving body, the mind cannot move; it needs a moving body.

If the body is non-moving, the mind is non-moving, you are centered. This non-moving posture is not a physiological training only. It is just to create a situation in which centering can happen, in which you can become disciplined. When you are, when you have become centered, when you know what it means to be, then you can learn, because then you will be humble. Then you can surrender. Then no false ego will cling to you because once centered you know all egos are false. Then you can bow down. Then a disciple is born.

A disciple is a great achievement. Only through discipline you will become a disciple. Only through being centered you will become humble, you will become receptive, you will become empty, and the guru, the Master, can pour himself into you. In your emptiness, in your silence, he can come and reach to you. Communication becomes possible.

A disciple means one who is centered, humble, receptive, open, ready, alert, waiting, prayerful. In yoga, the Master is very, very important, absolutely important, because only when you are in a close proximity of a being who is centered your own centering will happen.

That is the meaning of SATSANG. You have heard the word SATSANG. It is totally wrongly used. Satsang means in close proximity of the truth; it means near the truth, it means near a Master who has become one with the truth -- just being near him, open, receptive and waiting. If your waiting has become deep, intense, a deep communion will happen.

The Master is not going to do anything. He is simply there, available. If you are open, he will flow within you. This flowing is called SATSANG. With a Master you need not learn anything else. If you can learn satsang, that's enough -- if you can just be near him without asking, without thinking, without arguing: just present there, available, so the being of the Master can flow in you. And being can flow. It is already flowing. Whenever a person achieves integrity, his being becomes a radiation. He is flowing. Whether you are there to receive or not, that is not the point. He flows like a river. If you are empty like a vessel, ready, open, he will flow in you.

A disciple means one who is ready to receive, who has become a womb -- the Master can penetrate into him. This is the meaning of the word satsang. It is not basically a discourse; satsang is not a discourse. Discourse may be there, but discourse is just an excuse. You are here and I will talk on Patanjali's sutras. That is just an excuse. If you are really here, then the discourse, the talk, becomes just an excuse for your being here, for you to be here. And if you are really here, satsang starts. I can flow, and that flow is deeper than any talk, any communication through language, than any intellectual meeting with you.

While your mind is engaged, if you are a disciple, if you are a disciplined being, your mind is engaged in listening to me, your being can be in SATSANG. Then your head is occupied, your heart is open. Then on a deeper level, a meeting happens. That meeting is satsang, and everything else is just an excuse, just to find ways to be close to the Master.

Closeness is all, but only a disciple can be close. Anybody and everybody cannot be close. Closeness means a loving trust. Why we are not close? Because there is fear. Too close may be dangerous, too open may be dangerous, because you become vulnerable and then it will be difficult to defend. So just as a security measure we keep everybody, never allow to enter a certain distance.

Everybody has a territory around him. Whenever somebody enters your territory you become afraid. Everybody has a space to protect. You are sitting alone in your room. A stranger enters in the room. Just watch when you become really scared. There is a point. If he enters that point, beyond that point, you will become scared, you will be afraid. A sudden trembling will be felt. Beyond a certain territory he can move.

To be close means now no territory of your own. To be close means to be vulnerable, to be close means whatsoever happens you are not thinking in terms of security.

A disciple can be close for two reasons. One: he is a centered one; he is trying to be centered. A person who is trying even to be centered becomes unafraid; he becomes fearless. He has something which cannot be killed. You don't have anything, hence the fear. You are a crowd. The crowd can disperse any moment. You don't have something like a rock which will be there whatsoever happens. Without a rock, without a foundation you are existing -- a house of cards, bound to be always in fear. Any wind, any breeze even, can destroy you, so you have to protect yourself.

Because of this constant protection, you cannot love, you cannot trust, you cannot be friendly. You may have many friends but there is no friendship, because friendship needs closeness. You may have wives and husbands and so-called lovers, but there is no love, because love needs closeness, love needs trust. You may have gurus, Masters, but there is no disciplehood because you cannot allow yourself to be totally given to somebody's being, nearness to his being, closeness to his being, so that he can overpower you, overflood you.

A disciple means a seeker who is not a crowd, who is trying to be centered and crystallized, at least trying, making efforts, sincere efforts to become individual, to feel his being, to become his own master. All discipline of yoga is an effort to make you a master of yourself. As you are, you are just a slave of many, many desires. Many, many masters are there, and you are just a slave -- and pulled in many directions.

Yoga is discipline. It is an effort on your part to change yourself. Many other things have to be understood. Yoga is not a therapy. In the West many psychological therapies are prevalent now, and many western psychologists think that yoga is also a therapy. It is not! It is a discipline. And what is the difference? This is the difference: a therapy is needed if you are ill, a therapy is needed if you are diseased, a therapy is needed if you are pathological. A discipline is needed even when you are healthy. Really, when you are healthy only a discipline can help then.

It is not for pathological cases. Yoga is for those who are completely healthy as far as medical science is concerned, normal. They are not schizophrenic; they are not mad they are not neurotic. They are normal people, healthy people with no particular pathology. Still, they become aware that whatsoever is called normality is futile, whatsoever is called health is of no use. Something more is needed, something greater is needed, something holier and whole is needed.

Therapies are for ill people. Therapies can help you to come to yoga, but yoga is not a therapy. Yoga is for a higher order of health, a different order of health -- a different type of being and wholeness. Therapy can, at the most, make you adjusted. Freud says we cannot do more. We can make you an adjusted, normal member of the society -- but if the society itself is pathological, then? And it is! The society itself is ill. A therapy can make you normal in the sense that you are adjusted to the society, but the society itself is ill!

So sometimes it happens that in an ill society a healthy person is thought to be ill. A Jesus is thought to be ill, and every effort is done to make him adjusted. And when it is found that he is a hopeless case, then he is crucified. When it is found nothing can be done, this man is incurable, then he is crucified. The society is ill itself because society is nothing but your collective. If all the members are ill, the society is ill, and every member has to be adjusted to it.

Yoga is not therapy; yoga is not trying in any way to make you adjusted to the society. If you want to define yoga in terms of adjustment, then it is not adjustment with the society, but it is adjustment with existence itself. It is adjustment with the divine!

So it may happen that a perfect yogi may appear mad to you. He may look out of his senses, out of his mind, because now he is in touch with the greater, with a higher mind, higher order of things. He is in touch with the universal mind. It has happened always so: a Buddha, a Jesus, a Krishna, they always look somehow eccentric. They don't belong to us; they seem to be outsiders.

That's why we call them avatars, outsiders. They have come as if from some other planet; they don't belong to us. They may be higher, they may be good, they may be divine, but they don't belong to us. They come from somewhere else. They are not part and parcel of our being, mankind. The feeling has persisted that they are outsiders; they are not. They are the real insiders because they have touched the innermost core of existence. But to us they appear.

If your mind has come to realize that whatsoever you have been doing up to now was just senseless, it was a nightmare at the worst or a beautiful dream at the best then the path of discipline opens before you. What is that path?

I told you that Patanjali is just mathematical. In a single sentence, NOW THE DISCIPLINE OF YOGA, he is finished with you. This is the only sentence that has been used for you. Now he takes it for granted that you are interested in yoga, not as a hope, but as a discipline, as a transformation right here and now. He proceeds to define:

This is the definition of yoga, the best. In many ways yoga has been defined; there are many definitions. Some say yoga is the meeting of the mind with the divine; hence, it is called yoga -- yoga means meeting, joining together. Some say that yoga means dropping the ego: ego is the barrier; the moment you drop the ego you are joined to the divine. You were already joined, only because of the ego it appeared that you were disjoined. And there are many, but Patanjali's is the most scientific. He says,

Yoga is the state of no-mind. The word "mind" covers all -- your egos, your desires, your hopes, your philosophies, your religions, your scriptures. "Mind" covers all. Whatsoever you can think is mind. All that is known, all that can be known, all that is knowable, is within mind. Cessation of the mind means cessation of the known, cessation of the knowable. It is a jump into the unknown. When there is no mind, you are in the unknown. Yoga is a jump into the unknown. It will not be right to say "unknown"; rather, "unknowable".

What is the mind? What the mind is doing there? What it is? Ordinarily we think that mind is something substantial there inside the head. Patanjali doesn't agree -- and no one who has ever known the insides of the mind will agree. Modern science also doesn't agree. Mind is not something substantial inside the head. Mind is just a function, just an activity.

You walk and I say you are walking. What is walking? If you stop, where is walking? If you sit down, where the walking has gone? Walking is nothing substantial; it is an activity. So while you are sitting, no one can ask, "Where you have put your walking? Just now you were walking, so where the walking has gone?" You will laugh. You will say, "Walking is not something substantial, it is just an activity. I can walk. I can again walk and I can stop. It is activity."

Mind is also activity, but because of the word "mind", it appears as if something substantial is there. It is better to call it "minding" -- just like "walking". Mind means "minding", mind means thinking. It is an activity."

He went to China, and the emperor of China went to see him. And the emperor said, "My mind is very uneasy, very disturbed. You are a great sage, and I have been waiting for you. Tell me what I should do to put my mind at peace."

Bodhidharma said, "You don't do anything. First you bring your mind to me." The emperor could not follow he said, "What do you mean?" He said, "Come in the morning at four o'clock when nobody is there. Come alone, and remember to bring your mind with you."

The emperor couldn't sleep the whole night. Many times he cancelled the whole idea: "This man seems to be mad. What does he mean, 'Come with your mind; don't forget?'" The man was so enchanting, so charismatic that he couldn't cancel the appointment. As if a magnet was pulling him, at four o'clock he jumped out of the bed and said, "Whatsoever happens, I must go. This man may have something; his eyes say that he has something. Looks a little crazy, but still I must go and see what can happen."

So he reached, and Bodhidharma was sitting with his big staff. He said, "So you have come? Where is your mind? Have you brought it or not?"

The emperor said, "You talk nonsense. When I am here my mind is here, and it is not something which I can forget somewhere. It is in me." So Bodhidharma said, "Okay. So the first thing is decided -- that the mind is within you." The emperor said, "Okay, the mind is within me." Bodhidharma said, "Now close your eyes and find out where it is. And if you can find out where it is, immediately indicate to me. I will put it at peace."

So the emperor closed his eyes, tried and tried, looked and looked. The more he looked, the more he became aware there is no mind, mind is an activity. It is not something there so you can pinpoint it. But the moment he realized that it is not something, then the absurdity of his quest became exposed to himself. If it is not something, nothing can be done about it. If it is an activity, then don't do the activity; that's all. If it is like walking, don't walk.

He opened his eyes. He bowed down to Bodhidharma and said, "There is no mind to be found." Bodhidharma said, "Then I have put it at peace. And whenever you feel that you are uneasy, just look within, where that uneasiness is." The very look is anti-mind, because look is not a thinking. And if you look intensely your whole energy becomes a look, and the same energy becomes movement and thinking.

This is Patanjali's definition. When there is no mind, you are in yoga; when there is mind you are not in yoga. So you may do all the postures, but if the mind goes on functioning, if you go on thinking, you are not in yoga. Yoga is the state of no-mind. If you can be without the mind without doing any posture, you have become a perfect yogi. It has happened to many without doing any postures, and it has not happened to many who have been doing postures for many lives.

Because the basic thing to be understood is: when the activity of thinking is not there, you are there; when the activity of the mind is not there, when thoughts have disappeared, they are just like clouds, when they have disappeared, your being, just like the sky, is uncovered. It is always there -- only covered with the clouds, covered with thoughts.

In the West now, there is much appeal for Zen -- a Japanese method of yoga. The word "zen" comes from dhyana. Bodhidharma introduced this word dhyana in China. In China the word dhyana became jhan and then chan and then the word traveled to Japan and became zen.

The root is dhyana. Dhyana means no-mind, so the whole training of Zen in Japan is of nothing but how to stop minding, how to be a no-mind, how to be simply without thinking. Try it! When I say try it, it will look contradictory, because there is no other way to say it. Because if you try, the very try, the effort is coming from the mind. You can sit in a posture and you can try some japa chanting, mantra -- or you can just try to sit silently, not to think. But then not to think becomes a thinking. Then you go on saying, "I am not to think; don't think; stop thinking," but this is all thinking.

Try to understand. When Patanjali says, no-mind, cessation of mind, he means complete cessation. He will not allow you to make a japa, "Ram-Ram-Ram." He will say that this is not cessation; you are using the mind. He will say, "Simply stop!" but you will ask, "How? How to simply stop?" The mind continues. Even if you sit, the mind continues. Even if you don't do, it goes on doing.

Patanjali says just look. Let mind go, let mind do whatsoever it is doing. You just look. You don't interfere. You just be a witness, you just be an onlooker not concerned, as if the mind doesn't belong to you, as if it is not your business, not your concern. Don't be concerned! Just look and let the mind flow. It is flowing because of past momentum, because you have always helped it to flow. The activity has taken its own momentum, so it is flowing. You just don't cooperate Look, and let the mind flow.

For many, many lives, million lives maybe, you have cooperated with it, you have helped it, you have given your energy to it. The river will flow awhile. If you don't cooperate, if you just look unconcerned -- Buddha's word is indifference, upeksha: looking without any concern, just looking, not doing anything in any way -- the mind will flow for a while and it will stop by itself When the momentum is lost, when the energy has flowed, the mind will stop. When the mind stops, you are in yoga: you have attained the discipline. This is the definition: YOGA IS THE CESSATION OF MIND.

When you can simply look without being identified with the mind, without judging, without appreciating, condemning, without choosing -- you simply look and the mind flows, a time comes when by itself, of itself, the mind stops.

When there is no mind, you are established in your witnessing. Then you have become a witness -- just a seer-a drashta, a sakchhi. Then you are not a doer, then you are not a thinker. Then you are simply being pure being, purest of being. Then the witness is established in itself.

Except witnessing, in all states, you are identified with the mind. You become one with the flow of thoughts, you become one with the clouds: sometimes with the white cloud, sometimes with the black cloud, sometimes with a rain-filled cloud, sometimes with a vacant, empty cloud, but whatsoever, you become one with the thought, you become one with the cloud, and you miss your purity of the sky, the purity of space. You become clouded, and this clouding happens because you get identified, you become one.

A thought comes. You are hungry, and the thought flashes in the mind. The thought is simply that there is hunger, that the stomach is feeling hunger. Immediately you get identified; you say, "I am hungry." The mind was just filled with a thought that hunger is there; you have become identified and you say, "I am hungry." This is the identification.

Buddha also feels hunger, Patanjali also feels hunger, but Patanjali will never say that, "I am hungry." He will say "The body is hungry"; he will say, "My stomach is feeling hungry"; he will say, "There is hunger. I am a witness. I have come to witness this thought, which has been flashed by the belly in the brain, that 'I am hungry.'" The belly is hungry; Patanjali will remain a witness. You become identified, you become one with the thought.

When mind ceases, you are established in your witnessing self. In other states, except this, there are identifications. And all identifications constitute the samsar; they are the world. If you are in the identifications, you are in the world, in the misery. If you have transcended the identifications, you are liberated. You have become a siddha, you are in nirvana. You have transcended this world of misery and entered the world of bliss.

And that world is here and now-right now, this very moment! You need not wait for it a single moment even. Just become a witness of the mind, and you have entered. Get identified with the mind, and you have missed. This is the basic definition.

Remember everything, because later on, in other sutras, we will enter details what is to be done, how it is to be done -- but always keep in the mind this is the foundation.

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Vedic-Agamic Cosmology

CHAKRAS ABOVE SAHASRARA

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lokas (3 worlds & 14 planes): This Vedas, Classically name only 14 chakras missing out seven chakras above the head. In reality there are an Infinity of Chakras ending in God, Atma, Purusha.

kala (5 spheres): the five kalas -- vast divisions of consciousness or "dimensions" of the mind. Note that the five states of mind -- superconscious, subsuperconscious, conscious, subconscious and subsubconscious -- are also listed in this column.

tattva (36 evolutes): The 36 tattvas, are the basic "building blocks" of the universe, successively grosser evolutes of consciousness. These are in three groups.

kosha & sharira (3 bodies & 5 sheaths): The sheaths or bodies.

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