When I was Seven Years old my mother asked me if I wanted to learn how to play the piano, "Not this time" I replied. Because I had been there, done that got the T-shirt. This lifetime was to be my lifetime devoted towards Illumination. Yet the talents still exist and is one of the reasons I have become the Director of Videos of Sacred Dance performed by Swami Devi Dhyani in High Definition moving towards 5.1 surround sound as with our latest Video "Sacred Beethoven's Ninth"  Like the Sacred Series of Carmina Burana, Shakti, Phillip Glass, Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin it reaches the highest available in Sacred Music. Music  channeling a "Psychic Charge" which can be used for further transmission of pure Love - of the Truth. I like to use music and dance as a method for the transmission of Kundalini Energy. All our students should use our 14 Sacred Dance DVDs in order to gain power and energy to help in their transformation.

33. Maitri = friendliness; karuna = compassion; mudita = delight; upekshanam = disregard; sukha = happy; duhkha = unhappy; punya = virtuous; apunya = wicked; vishayanam = in the case of; bhavanatah = by cultivating attitudes; chitta = mind-stuff; prasadanam = undisturbed calmness.

By cultivating attitudes of:

• Friendliness toward the happy
• Compassion for the unhappy
•  Delight to the virtuous
• And disregard toward the wicked

the mind-stuff retains its undisturbed calmness.

Whether you are interested in reaching samadhi or plan to ignore Yoga entirely, I would advise you to remember at least this one Sutra. It will be very helpful to you in keeping a peaceful mind in your daily life. You may not have any great goal in your life, but just try to follow this one Sutra very well and you will see its efficacy. Who would not like undisturbed calmness of mind always? Who would not like to be happy always? Everybody wants that.

Patanjali gives four golden keys: friendliness, compassion, delight and disregard. There are only four kinds of locks in the world. Keep these four golden keys always with you and when you come across any one of these four locks you will have the proper key to open it.

What are those four locks? Sukha, duhkha, punya and apunya — the happy people, unhappy people, the virtuous and the wicked. At a given moment, you can fit any person into one of these four categories.

When you see a happy man, use the "friendliness" key. Why should Patanjali say this? Because even four thousand years ago there must have been people who were not happy at seeing others happy. It is still the same way. Suppose somebody drives up in a big car, walks in front of his huge palatial home and gets out. Some other people are standing on the pavement in the hot sun getting tired. How many of those people will be happy? Not many. They will be saying, "See that big car? Be is sucking the blood of the laborers." We come across people like that. They are always jealous. When a person gets name, fame or high position, they try to criticize him, "Oh, don't you know, his brother is so-and-so; he must have pulled some strings somewhere." They will never admit that he might have gone up by his own merit. By that jealousy, you will not disturb him, but you disturb your own serenity. He simply got out of the car and walked into the house, but you are burning up inside. Instead, think, "Oh, such a fortunate man. If everybody were like that how happy the world would be. May God bless everybody to have such comfort. I will also get that one day." Make him your friend.

That response is missed in many cases, not only between individuals but even among nations. When some nation is prospering, the neighboring country is jealous, envious of it and wants to ruin its economy. In order to maintain an advantage over your enemies it is necessary to reduce the economy of their countries during times of, "Peace" Genghis Khan is symptomatic of most foreign policy when he said, "It is not enough that I am victorious, everyone else must fail!" And he was the guy to do that. To destroy the economies of the other countries through standard Machiavellian tactics - funding the terrorist enemies, funding the enemy countries of these countries, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend" Indeed to these wicked people everyone else is an enemy!!

It is said that the Catholic Pope funded Genghis Khan in order that he attack the rear of the Pope's Muslim enemies and thus reduce the economy of the Muslims through war and distract their attention from the Holy Land and their proposed invasion of Europe. Some people say that Hitler was funded in order to destroy the economies of Russia and Europe itself.

So WE should be different from that. We should always have the key of friendliness when we see happy people.

And what of the next lock, the unhappy people? "Well, Swami said everybody has his own karma; he must have done some wretched thing in his last birth. Let him suffer now." That should not be our attitude. Maybe he is suffering from previous bad karma but we should have compassion. If you can lend a helping hand, do it. If you can share half of your loaf, share it. Be merciful always. By doing that, you will retain the peace and poise of your mind. Remember our goal is to keep the serenity of our minds. Whether our mercy is going to help that man or not, by our own feeling of mercy, at least we are helped.

Then comes the third kind, the virtuous people. The Illuminated. When you see a virtuous man, feel delighted. "Oh, how great he is. He must be my hero. I should imitate his great qualities." Don't envy him; don't try to pull him down. Appreciate the virtuous qualities in him and try to cultivate them in your own life.

And lastly, the wicked. We come across wicked people sometimes. We can't deny that. So what should be our attitude? Indifference. "Well, some people are like that. Probably I was like that yesterday. Am I not a better person now? He will probably be all right tomorrow." Don't try to advise him because wicked people seldom take advice. If you try to advise them you will lose your peace.

I still remember a small story from the Pancha Tantra which I was told as a small child. One rainy day a monkey was sitting on a tree branch getting completely drenched. Right opposite on another branch of the same tree there was a small sparrow sitting in his hanging nest. Normally a sparrow builds its nest on the edge of a branch so it can hang down and swing around gently in the breeze. It has a nice cabin inside with an upper chamber, a reception room, a bedroom down below and even a delivery room if it is going to give birth to young ones. Oh yes, you should see and admire a sparrow's nest sometime.

So it was warm and cozy inside its nest and the sparrow just peeped out and seeing the poor monkey, said, "Oh my dear friend, I am so small; I don't even have hands like you, only a small beak. But with only that I built a nice house expecting this rainy day. Even if the rain comes for days and days, I will be warm inside. I heard Darwin saying that you are the forefather of the human beings so why don't you use your brain? Build a nice small hut somewhere to protect yourself during the rain."

You should have seen the face of that monkey. It was terrible! He was so envious!! "Oh, you little devil. How dare you try to advise me? Because you are warm and cozy in your nest you are teasing me. Wait, you will see where you are!" The monkey proceeded to tear the nest to pieces and throw it to the ground and the poor bird had to fly out and get drenched like the monkey.

This is a story of the envy of the wicked I was told when I was quite young and I still remember it. So sometimes we come across such monkeys and if you advise them, they take it as an insult. They think you are proud of your position. If you sense even a little of that tendency in somebody, stay away. They will have to learn by their experience. By giving advice to such people, you will only lose your peace of mind.

So, these simple tales told from the Pancha Tantra and the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali for 5000 years to help humanity - to teach them the real truth is available to attract people to those techniques which alone can heal all the problems of humanity and of the whole world.

Which say, "After all that" After you have tried everything else in all your 1000 lifetimes of toil on this planet, here is meditation. It is the only thing which works to enable you to pass on to the next level.

Remember, Gurdjieff pulled no punches when he talked of his students on the path of Illumination. "Every person on this planet is the shit of a shit!! But if you want to change, then you are my brother and I will help you to the utmost of my powers!!"

Note that the mind flows each day between happy, unhappy, virtuous and wicked. He who is happy one day will be unhappy the next. He who is virtuous one day will when pushed too much by the energy of the Buddhafield will be wicked the next day. People on this planet are only in the process of learning to be good. We have all done horrible things in our past lifetimes. And most people have so many sub-personalities they have no idea or connection with their soul infused personality higher selves. Until illuminated it is almost impossible to maintain goodness in every minute of the day.

Yet it is these changes in our temperament which teach us the symptoms of our energy blockages so that we can focus on the problem and remove the  energy blockage cause using the Energy Enhancement Seven Step Process of Level 2.

This real experience perceived by every aspirant to enter into the Sacred Space which surrounds every Illuminated Master.. "Bringing an unformed man into the presence of the wise is like throwing a dead dog into a pool of rose-water!" - Jalalluddin Rumi - is that the blockages exist within them. That there truly is a battle between good and evil in each student. And this real experience of experiencing the symptoms of the blockages trying to make them leave by all means possible.. by aches and pains, by negative emotions like despair or anger, by false arguments created to make them lose faith in techniques like meditation which have been used by Masters to help their Students attain Illumination for 5000 years.

If the student can overcome the symptoms of the blockages then he finds himself in a situation, a fairyland, where he can easily attain High Samadhi Meditative States due to the ease of absorbing energy from the Buddhafield, where he can pick and choose the blockage symptoms to work upon using the Seven Step process of Energy Enhancement - and remove them all.

Remember, you need a LIVE Master!! Osho himseld said that, "When I die, leave this ashram, and don't walk, RUN!!" Because the Black Crows surround every Master and only become free to distort and change the work of the Master after he dies. Thus the state of every Religion on this Planet.

So, the Master is always there to point out the symptoms of yet another blockage!! He is always there to give another dose of Shaktipat. He is always there to help remove the blockages! Help is always there to bring out the last remaining blockages remaining before Enlightenment.

One of the main reasons for developing Guru Bhakti is so that when the Master points out the faults of aspirants the student does not get angry. The blockages want to make him angry. The blockages know that to remain in the high voltage pressure of the Buddhafield is Ego Death, all the blockages have to go and the pressure is on to make them go.

And what do we do with our students when we see even a little bit of wickedness within them?

We stop teaching them!!

Yes, sometimes we need a rest from the pressure, but the speedy remain, noses to the grindstone and tough it out. The less speedy often need a rest but they always come back to the Buddhafield once their anger has subsided. They retreat back to those simple practises - practises which are really only for preparation to allow people to enter into the space of the genuine Illuminated Masters and the numbing energy of "real" life!! "Just plug me back in the Power Plant" Cypher, the Matrix. Because the presence of the Master is the Only option for those who seek the way out of Illumination.

"All those students out there are the Outpatients, and those in the Buddhafield are the Inpatients, for the Operation of the Egodectomy" - Satchidananda

Is there any other category you can think of? Patanjali groups all individuals in these four ways: the happy, the unhappy, the virtuous and the wicked. So have these four attitudes: friendliness, compassion, gladness and indifference. These four keys should always be with you in your pocket. And if you use the right key with the right person you will retain your peace. Nothing in the world can upset you then. Remember, our goal is to keep a serene mind. From the very beginning of Patanjali's Sutras we are reminded of that. And this Sutra will help us a lot.

34. Or that calm is retained by the controlled exhalation or retention of the breath.

35. Or the concentration on subtle sense perception can cause steadiness of mind.

36. Or by concentrating on the supreme, ever blissful Light within.

37. Or by concentrating on a great soul's mind which is totally freed from attachment to sense objects.

38. Or by concentrating on an experience had during dream or deep sleep.

39. Or by meditating on anything one chooses that is elevating.

40. Gradually, one's mastery in concentration extends from the primal atom to the greatest magnitude.

The whole Antahkarana needs to be purified of all of its energy blockages.

41. Kshina = totally weakened, waned or dwindled; vritter = modifications; abhijatasya = naturally pure; iva = like; maner = crystal; grahitri = knower; grahana = knowable; grahyeshu = knowledge; tatstha = similar; tadanjanata = taking the color of; samapattih = samadhi or balanced state.
 

Just as the naturally pure crystal assumes shapes and colors of objects placed near it, so the Yogi's mind, with its totally weakened modifications, becomes clear and balanced and attains the state devoid of differentiation between knower, knowable and knowledge. This culmination of meditation is samadhi.

"The mind of the Yogi with its totally weakened modifications," means that he has cultivated one thought form at the cost of all others. When you cultivate one alone, all the other impressions become weaker and finer.

To give a physical example, if you concentrate on the development of the brain alone, you are apt to ignore the other parts of the body.

There is a story by H. G. Wells where the future generation is described as having only a big head with little limbs like the roots of a potato. Because they did not use them, there would be no need for them. They, just think, "I must have food," and the food comes. No need even to use a hand to flip a switch, because the switch will be activated by thought. In fact science is devising cars now where you sit in the car and say, "All right, start. Go ahead. Be quick. Hold on. Stop." And even that seems to be unnecessary now that they have printed circuits. If you want to go to Boston, take the Boston card, put it into the car's computer, sit quietly and soon you are in Boston! All you will have to do is buy those cards. Wherever you want to go, put the card into the machine and just do anything you want in the car — talk business, chat or watch television. Then the car will remind you, "Sir, we are in Boston." That's all. No part of the body is put into use; so it will slowly reduce in size.

That is not only true of the physical body, the same is true of the mind. If you develop one idea through constant meditation, all other thoughts and desires will gradually die away. In our daily lives we see that. If you are interested in someone you think of that one day and night. If you open a book, your mind will not go into the subject but instead will think of that person. You will gradually lose interest in all other people and things.

THE STORY OF SAINT NARADA AND HOW VALMIKI THE MURDERER BECAME A SAINT - A KARMA CLEANING PROCESS OF MEDITATION

The same is true in Yoga practice. Our concentration and meditation should be like that. In the ancient Hindu scriptures, we come across stories which illustrate this point, for example the story of Valmiki, the highwayman.

This is the story of a wicked person as described in Sutra 33 of Book One of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.

Valmiki was so bad that he used to murder everyone and then take their fingers and put them in a necklace around his neck. Yet this murderer was special because over many lifetimes he had developed special qualities, the qualities of a student. As Lord Krishna says in the Bhagavad Gita, that he is the energy behind that which is the best, the most highly developed talents of humanity. "Of all the gamblers, I am the best" he says, so even the bad qualities have to be developed. And here is Valmiki, the best murderer!

Over one hundred lifetimes we have entered into every bad path available. We have developed many talents through serendipity. We have grown. Now we need just that one touch to enable the change. As energy flows from higher energies to lower energies, just the presence of an Illuminated Saint can provide that needed touch. Talented students given the right motivation can achieve Illumination very quickly.

Sage Narada was passing by, and as usual Valmiki accosted him and said, "Hey, what do you have in your pockets?" "Oh, I don't even have pockets, sir."

"What a wretched man. I've never seen a man with nothing. You must give me something, otherwise I won't spare your life."
 

Then Narada said, "All right, I will try to get something for you; but don't you think it's a sin to harm innocent people?"
"Oh you Swamis talk a lot about sin. You have no other business, but I have to maintain my wife, children and my house. If I just sit and think of virtue, our tummies are not going to be satisfied. I have to get money somehow, by hook or by crook."

"Well, all right, do it. If that's your policy I don't mind. But you say that you must feed your wife and children by hook or by crook. You should know that it is a sin and you will have to face the reactions of it."
 

"Well, I don't bother about that."
"You may not bother, but since you are committing sins to provide for your wife and children, you'd better ask them whether they are willing to share the reactions of the sins also."
"Undoubtedly they will. My wife always says we are one and my children love me like anything, so naturally all I do for their sake will be shared by them."

"Well, maybe so but don't just tell me. Go find out fort sure."
"Will you run away?"
"No."

"OK. You stay here, I will run there and find out."

So he ran to his house and asked, "Hey, this man asked me a funny question just now. He says that I am committing sins and certainly there's no doubt that. But I am doing it for your sake. When you share of the food, will you take a share of the sin.

The wife answered, "It is your duty as a husband and father to maintain us. It is immaterial to us how you do it. We are not responsible. We didn't ask you to commit sins. You could do some proper work to bring us food. Anyway, that's your business and your duty. We are not going to bother whether it's right or wrong. We won't take a share of your sins."

"My God! My beloved children, how about you?" "As Mommy says, Dad."
"What a dirty family. I thought you were going to share everything with me. You are going to share only the food and nothing else. I don't even want to see your faces!"

He ran back and fell at Narada's feet: "Swamiji, you have opened my eyes. What am I to do now?"
"Well, you have committed a lot of sins. You have to purge them all."
"Please tell me some way."

So Narada gave Valmiki mantra initiation for meditation. "All right. Can you repeat 'Rama, Rama'?"
"What's that? I've never heard of it; I'm just an illiterate person. I can't repeat it. Can you give me something easier?"

"Oh, what a pity. Let's see, look at this." He pointed at a tree. "What is it?"
"It's a mara (tree)."
"All right. Can you repeat it?" "Sure, that's easy."
"Fine. Sit in a quiet place and just go on repeating 'Mara mara mara.' "
"Is that all? That will save me from all my sins?"
"Certainly."

"Well, sir, I believe you. You have already enlightened me quite a lot. You seem to be a good swami. I'll begin right here and now. I don't want to waste any time."

It is nice to be so innocent that you can believe, have sufficient faith to believe all this. Yet it is true!! "Come to me as little children" said the Christ.
So he just sat under a tree and went on repeating "mara, mara, ma ra ma rama, Rama Rama . . . "

See? Mara mara soon became Rama Rama. He sat for years like that until at last an anthill was formed completely covering his body. Yes, because he was so deeply interested in that, he forgot everything else. Even his body became benumbed as if the fuse was blown in the main power house. This is what happens in samadhi. So after a long, long time somebody just passed and happened to disturb the anthill and the saint Valmiki emerged. Later he got the divine vision of Lord Rama's life and wrote the entire epic story of Ramayana. Even now you can read Valmiki's Ramayana.

What is to be learned from this story? He just concentrated on that mantram and forgot everything else. All the sins slowly dried up for want of nourishment and died away. If you do not pour water on your plant, what will happen? It will slowly wither and die. Our habits will also slowly wither and die away if we do not give them an opportunity to manifest. You need not fight to stop a habit. Just don't give it an opportunity to repeat itself. That's all you have to do. Any kind of habit can be easily removed this way. And that is possible by cultivating one proper habit. The mind must have something to hold on to, so you stick to one thing and all the other things die.

So, the Karma Cleaning Process, in this case only by using Meditation and Mantra Initiation and sitting for years you can remove all your problems. If we use more advanced techniques we can speed up this process. The Kundalini Kriyas. Alchemical VITRIOL. Access the the Soul Chakra. The Energy Enhancement Seven Step Process for removing Energy Blockages. With all this we can remove all those bad impressions fast!

Now to finish the Sutra, "...the mind of the Yogi with its totally weakened modifications attains . . . a state in which there can be no differentiation between the knower, knowable and knowledge." The Yogi whose vrittis or energy blockages have thus become powerless by the cultivation of one particular vritti ceases to distinguish between the knower, knowable and knowledge (or meditator, meditated upon and meditation).

In meditation you are conscious of all three — subject, object and process of meditation.

But at this point, moving into Samadhi, the three become one; either the object becomes subject or subject becomes object. There is a merging, a fusion, of the Lower Chakras with the Higher Chakras.

Meditation naturally flows into Samadhi with the Light of ten thousand suns, and you become that sun through a process of fusion. When nothing remains to prevent that process, all the seeds have been burned, the we have EnLightenment.

And when there is no subject-object separation, there is no process either. The mind is completely absorbed and loses itself in the idea or object of meditation.

The process of evolution continues towards a crystallisation of the Psychic functions. Every thoughtform or talent needs to be purified of its negativity. When this has occurred then through the application of energy from the higher chakras, the psychic function or talent can become a hardened crystalline structure which is more difficult to affect - it is impossible to place implant blockages in them for example - and because smaller, much more efficient.

Patanjali gives the example of an object near a crystal. If you put a red flower near a crystal, the crystal itself appears to be red like the flower. It becomes one with that; it accepts that. Likewise, the mind accepts the idea of your meditation and takes that form.

So here there is Development in Samadhi and here Patanjali is giving us the process of that development.
 

42. The samadhi in which name, form and knowledge of them is mixed is called savitarka samadhi, or samadhi with deliberation.

43. When the memory is well purified, the knowledge of the object of concentration shines alone, devoid of the distinction of name and quality. This is nirvitarka samadhi, or samadhi without deliberation.

44. In the same way, savichara (reflective) and nirvichara (super or non reflective) samadhis, are explained.

We normally transmute blockages without any feedback, however, if we need to know something, if we need to be taught something, to reflect on it,  then we usually receive visions of what happened to create the blockage in the first place.

45. The subtlety of possible objects of concentration ends only at the undefinable.

Objects of Concentration are Energy Blockages.

46. All these samadhis are sabija (with seed or Energy Blockage), which could bring one back into bondage or mental disturbance.

47. In the purity of nirvichara samadhi, the supreme Self shines.

The Central Spiritual Sun.. "Brighter than 10,000 Suns it shines alone"

48. This is ritambhara prajna, or the absolute true consciousness.

49. Sruta = (heard) study of scriptures; anumana = inference; prajnabhyam = from the knowledge; anya = totally different; vishaya visesha = special truth; arfhafvaf = cognition of.

This special truth is totally different from knowledge gained by hearing, study of scripture or inference.

When you achieve that ritambhara prajna you understand everything without study.

Swami Satchidananda said that one day I would be able to understand everything just by looking at it. He said that he himself did not know where his words came from when he was talking. "I just sit back and listen with amazement to what is being said whilst my mouth does the talking" This is the amazing truth of ritambhara prajna.

The "Prajna Paramita" from the Heart Sutra chanted by Zen Buddhists for hundreds of years, are the words of the Buddha about meditation where he says that, "All Sages and Saints for thousands of years Live from Prajna Paramita" or the Highest Wisdom chakras above the head.  Founded in the Earth the highest saints realise the higher chakras above the head as they explore and clean the antahkarana. With more chakra processors working this ritambhara prajna is the result - And More!!

When you transcend the mind through proper concentration, you feel the Cosmic Force or God. I call it, "Intelligent Energy" You can check your experience with the scriptures or through the word of sages and saints but it is known by you through your own experience. Until then all you have heard and read and visualized will be by your own mind. Experiencing God is something which is genuine and comes only when you transcend the mind. God cannot be understood by the mind because mind is matter and matter cannot possibly understand something more subtle than matter.

Western psychology talks only about the mind, saying, "Unless you understand by your mind you can't know something," and at the same time it says, "but you cannot know everything by the mind." That is all; it stops there.

But Yoga tells you you can know something without mind. .  here is a higher knowledge which can only be understood without the mind. As the Mandukya Upanishad says, "Nantah-prajnyam, na bahis prajnyam, nobhayatah-prajnyam, na prajnyana-ghanam, na prajnyam, naprajnyam ... Not the inside knowledge, not outside knowledge, not knowledge itself, not ignorance..."

It's all expressed in the negative: you can't grasp it, you can't think of it, you can't mark it with a symbol, it has no name or form and you can't explain it. Hundreds of people might sit in front of a man and he might talk for hours and hours about God, and they might sit and listen for hours and hours but it's all nonsense. Yes, he has said nothing about God and they have heard nothing about God. He has only said something about the God which he could fit into his own mind, and they have only understood the God that they could grasp with their own minds. That's all. Nobody has said anything about the real God and no one has understood the real God. It's unexplainable.

So in that ritambhara prajna you transcend the mind and gain a knowledge which is realization.

For that the mind must be completely silent as it is only that absence of vrittis which  allows the intelligent energy to pass through into the purified mind to be decoded.

That is why in Hindu mythology there is one form of God called Dakshinamoorthi who sat with four disciples in front of him. They were all learned men; they had read all the Vedas and Upanishads and heard all that was to be heard but they still couldn't realize the truth. So they came to Dakshinamoorthi and requested him to explain the highest Brahman (the unmanifested God). He just sat there in silence. After awhile they got up, bowed down and said, "Swami, we have understood," and went away. Because only in silence can it be explained: Mouna vakya Prakratitha Parabrahma fattvam...The Parabrahma tattvam or unmanifested supreme principle can only be explained by silence, not by words."

In not only the physical silence, but in the real mental silence, the wisdom dawns.
 

50. The impression produced by this samadhi wipes out all other impressions (Energy Blockages).

51. When even this impression is wiped out, every impression is totally wiped out and there is nirbija (seedless or Energy Blockageless) samadhi.

ILLUMINATION!!

THE ENERGY ENHANCEMENT COURSE NOW!!

So concludes the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali of Book One - of Four.

THE STORY OF SAINT NARADA AND HOW VALMIKI THE MURDERER BECAME A SAINT - A KARMA CLEANING PROCESS OF MEDITATION WITH REGARD TO SUTRA 41 OF THE FIRST BOOK OF THE YOGA SUTRAS OF PATANJALI

THE STORY OF THE MONKEY AND THE LITTLE BIRD FROM THE PANCHA TANTRA WITH REGARD TO SUTRA 33 OF THE FIRST BOOK OF THE YOGA SUTRAS OF PATANJALI