#75. It Is Time To Raise Your Consciousness | Yoga Sutras Of Patanjali

We have done enough with our intelligence. Serving our desires have led us to achieve big things together as humanity. Along the way, something more fundamental is left behind. Now it is time to raise our consciousness which doesnt serve desires, rather love, peace, harmony, happiness, joy.

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Namaste and a very warm welcome to all of you in this daily live meditation session with me,

Dhyansa.

We are meditating on Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.

We human beings are so intelligent.

We are the most intelligent species in the whole universe.

At least we can confirm that we are the most intelligent species on this planet.

Out of our intelligence,

We want to go to Mars.

We have used our intelligence,

We have trained our intelligence to develop so much that we could go to the Moon,

That we could now think of going to Mars.

Out of this intelligence,

We have used the Earth,

The nature,

In ways we have forced the nature to produce agriculture.

No other species on this planet has ever thought of going to the Moon,

Going to the Mars,

Doing the agriculture.

No other species on this planet has built buildings like what we have built.

No other species on this planet has found the cure to diseases that are so deadly,

That are killing the entire population.

All because of our intelligence.

How intelligent we are.

How progressive we are as human beings.

This intelligence is driving us constantly further.

We look back 100 years,

We cannot believe where we have come.

If we just see the airplanes.

120 years ago,

There was no airplane.

The idea,

The imagination of flying was just for the lunatics,

Just a dream.

And now we are talking about going to the Mars.

So far,

This intelligence has brought us in this journey along with the intelligence.

Are we missing something?

Is this journey going forwards?

Or is this journey going backwards?

In a way,

We are moving forwards.

What is this feeling that we are also moving backwards?

Something essential we are losing on the way.

Of course,

When you are on a journey,

When you move,

When you have a goal,

When you have an aim,

When you have a purpose,

You lose some things behind.

But what are we losing behind?

If we look back and see now how much love we have in our life.

How much inner peace do we have in our life?

How much compassion?

How much happiness?

How much joy do we have in our life?

Why is this?

That along this journey of intelligence,

Along the lines,

Along the guidelines of intelligence,

Happiness is left behind.

Inner peace is left behind.

Love is left behind.

What is it that is missing?

Is intelligence not enough to also take all these things along?

In all forms of leadership of this world,

Scientific,

Political,

Economic,

Corporate,

Business,

Any kind of leadership,

Spiritual,

Any kind of leadership.

If only intelligence is driving the humanity,

Why are we missing this love,

This inner peace,

This happiness,

This joy behind?

Why is that happening?

What is it that we also must take along?

What is it that should also go in the driving seat,

Not just the intelligence?

We are driven by the most intelligent people,

The most intelligent leadership of this world,

Yet we are all feeling the lack of happiness,

The lack of love,

The lack of inner peace.

Why is that?

The answer is simple,

But the execution,

The implementation is what takes all of us together to reflect,

To meditate,

To reach to silence.

The answer is consciousness.

Intelligence is one thing.

Intelligence is the pinnacle of our mind,

Of our body,

Of all what we can gather as our energies and use that intelligence,

Use that intellect,

Use all the power of the mind to move us forward.

But what also must be in the driving seat,

The co-pilot,

The consciousness,

That is what is missing.

We have left consciousness behind and along with consciousness,

What is left behind is inner peace,

Happiness,

Love,

Joy,

Compassion.

Why?

This intelligence serves the desires,

This wish to go to the moon,

To the mars,

This wish to build the tallest building,

This wish to do things in the most efficient way.

What is this?

This has no root in love,

This has no root in compassion,

This has no root in happiness,

It has roots in desire.

And we also have desires.

Either we completely let go of our desires and then whatever happens,

Happens,

Is all in the right direction.

But we as human beings,

We take our desires along,

So we have to take our intelligence along,

Because without the intelligence,

How will we fulfill those desires?

What is also to be taken,

What is also to be not neglected,

What should have equal or higher importance,

What Patanjali would say,

Is of consciousness.

Is what drives the innate,

The inner nature,

The true nature of a human being,

Which is love,

Compassion,

Inner peace,

Happiness,

Joy,

And everything that you can imagine that brings good things to your life and not just the desires of achieving this and achieving that.

So the message here is to take both along,

The intelligence and the consciousness.

We have worked a lot,

We have worked enough,

For centuries we have worked to raise the intelligence.

Now is the time to raise the consciousness,

Especially when we see how we are living right now,

Especially when we see what we are all going through right now.

We need to raise the consciousness,

Thereby acting out of our true nature.

We have to also take our desires along,

But now is the time for our nature and not just our desires.

Our nature is love,

Our nature is inner peace,

Our nature is compassion,

Our nature is happiness,

And we must take this along,

We must put this forward.

That is the message of yoga and the way is meditation,

The way is silence,

The way is reflection awareness.

Let us hear what Patanjali has to say in this regard,

What sutra he has for us today,

Before we sit in meditation,

Before we sit in silence.

Patanjali says,

Sattva purusha annyata kyati matrsya sarva bhava adishta tratvam sarva jnan tratvam ca.

What that means is,

By recognizing the distinction between sattva,

The intelligence,

And the self,

The consciousness,

Supremacy over all states and all forms of existence is gained,

As is omni science.

Few days back in another sutra,

Patanjali talked about this distinction between intelligence and consciousness.

And once again,

He brings this distinction out,

He highlights this distinction,

He points this out to the meditator,

To the yogi,

Saying in yourself,

In this world,

See distinctly,

Between what is intelligence and what is consciousness.

By this distinction will happen a lot of things,

There will be a natural balance,

You would know when to put the intelligence forward,

And you would know when to put the consciousness forward.

And by having this distinction,

You will also become more and more conscious.

Because intelligence is something which is somewhat of a given,

You cannot become super intelligent,

If you are intelligent,

You remain intelligent.

But with consciousness,

You can work,

You can become more and more conscious.

Because we are already super consciousness,

So to say,

Or the higher consciousness,

But we have a lot of covering of the mind on top of the consciousness.

So it can be purified,

You can work with consciousness,

You can become more and more conscious.

And when you do that,

When you become more conscious,

You become conscious about yourself,

And you also become conscious of everybody else.

You see that the same consciousness which is within you,

Is also in the whole existence.

So that gives you a connect to everybody,

That gives you that obvious connect,

That underlying connection that we have with the whole world of consciousness.

The way to do that is to become conscious of oneself,

To work on this aspect,

Not just the intelligence,

Not just what the intelligence wants,

But also what is consciousness,

And how we can bring more consciousness in our life.

There is one more thing which Patanjali says in this regard.

He says,

Tad viragya,

Api dosa,

Bija,

Shaaya kevalya,

By non-attachment even to that,

The seed of bondage is destroyed and thus follows kevalya.

When I hear the word kevalya,

It gives me great joy,

Because I see that all the hard work that has been put in on this journey together with Patanjali is slowly coming to fruition.

He is moving us towards kevalya.

Kevalya is liberation.

Kevalya is that absolute freedom,

That absolute liberation,

Which arises in consciousness.

It does not arise in intelligence.

That is why he once again reminded the yogi,

The meditator,

About differentiating between the intelligence and the consciousness.

And he says,

By non-attachment even to that,

Once you have done the distinction,

Once you have learned,

Once you have established in consciousness,

Then you can let go of all these powers that come along with this awareness,

With this consciousness.

And he says,

By non-attachment even to that,

The seed of bondage is destroyed and thus follows kevalya.

He is helping the yogi,

The meditator,

To break all the bondages,

Even this last bondage to all the desires that the intelligence has been constantly fulfilling.

So he is saying here,

Be more conscious,

Be rooted in consciousness.

And the second,

Which is to let go of all these desires.

He is encouraging the yogi,

The meditator,

To become unattached,

To practice,

To be in non-attachment,

So that there are absolutely no bondages.

Consciousness can be completely free.

In that freedom,

There is the state of liberation,

The kevalya,

The absoluteness.

We are very slowly moving towards this path of kevalya,

Of absolute freedom,

Of nothingness,

Whatever name you want to give it,

Let us meditate over what Patanjali had given us today and take this one step closer to kevalya,

Which we will open up as a chapter in a few days as well.

For today's meditation,

For today's awareness,

We will start with the chant of Om.

I will chant Om and in that chant,

You either just simply listen,

If you cannot chant along,

Or at best,

You chant along.

In that chanting or in that listening,

Let go of all your attachments.

Let go of all what you have been carrying on you,

Pour this out into the sound,

Into the vibration,

Into the reverberations of Om.

And secondly,

Be more aware.

Just by becoming aware of the sound of Om,

Your consciousness rises,

Your consciousness expands.

With every Om,

The consciousness expands further.

All you need to do is not come in its way.

So sit back,

Relax and chant Om with me or simply listen to the sound of Om and let go in the reverberations.

Please close your eyes,

Take a posture which is comfortable for your back.

We will do long Oms and in between silent pauses.

Inhale and inhale and slow slow o Maverick's implementing its respect Listen or chant along and let go in the reverberations,

In the vibration of Aum.

Inhale.

Inhale.

Aum.

Your awareness on Aum,

On the vibration of Aum,

The sound of Aum.

Aum.

Aum.

Going deep within you,

Pouring all the energy,

All your attachments into the Aum.

Whatever arises in your consciousness,

Pour it into the sound,

Into the vibration of Aum.

Inhale.

Aum.

Aum.

Listen to the sound with full awareness,

Your awareness,

Your consciousness,

Expanding with the sound,

With the vibration of Aum.

Aum.

From your very depths to your heights,

From all your being,

Energy in Aum,

Vibrating in Aum.

Inhale.

Aum.

From the sound to the soundless,

Listen,

Be aware of where the sound of Aum is pointing at.

Into the emptiness,

Into nothingness,

Into soundless.

Aum.

Aum.

This silence,

The peace,

The awareness that arises in this moment is your true nature.

Aum.

The sound of Aum vibrating in your inner space.

Remain aware of this sound of Aum in your inner space.

Aum.

Aum.

Remain aware,

Connected to the sound of Aum,

To the vibration of Aum in your inner space.

In your mind,

In your body,

In the vastness of your inner space,

In the emptiness of your inner space.

Aum.

In everything that arises in your consciousness is the sound of Aum,

Is the vibration of Aum.

Aum.

No more effort.

Stay in this silence,

In this awareness of inner emptiness.

No desire whatsoever.

Sitting still,

Aware,

Silent.

Nowhere to go.

Nothing to do.

Nothing to achieve.

Simply present,

Aware,

Silent.

Stay like this.

Still empty.

Aum.

And very gently and slowly,

You may open your eyes with this new consciousness,

New awareness,

New silence that is the ground for love,

For happiness,

For peace,

No matter what you do,

Where you are,

And in which situation you are in life.

Thank you very much,

Namaste.

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