The Yoga Takes Place In Two Subjective States Of Mind

Freedom, Happiness, and wisdom

When we learn the principles of eastern wisdom, we apply discernment that becomes dispassion. The highest dispassion leads to knowledge of real self, awakens to permanent happiness.
We will learn from Yoga Sutra, Gita, and other texts together to discover the true nature.

Transcript

So we are doing freedom,

Happiness and wisdom.

So we are understanding and doing the practice based on Yog Sutra with support of the Gita,

One of the beautiful texts and also other texts to support and understand deeply what exactly is this Yog Sutra.

So in the very first session always remember there is a natural state that is a meditative state.

So where no thought,

No idea,

No likes and dislikes is there,

The mind is living constantly in a natural state,

24 by 7.

But then comes,

I'm not living in a natural state,

So what causes,

So we understood the psychology of desires.

And then in the third session we understood,

I think we understood,

If I remember,

You are a listener,

Good listener,

You are a speaker,

So you start applying these sutras in your day to day life by speaking,

By expressing in different situations.

So when there is no speaker and listener then you absorb into a meditative state.

And the fourth one that we understood that during the day,

You know,

Like when the mind falls into subconscious habitual routine,

We recall these principles to live our life.

So in the last two sutras we understood what exactly is the sutra and we covered the first part of the sutra.

So the first part of the sutra that makes us clear that the popular notion of yoga is doing physical exercises,

Breathing and etc.

But Vyasa,

The commentator says that yoga is the highest state of mindfulness.

It is the highest state.

What is the highest state?

It is the natural state.

So that I have covered in the first talk and the practice.

So now we also understood that this meditation,

We live in five subjective states of the mind.

But before that,

You know,

Meditation is basically a movement.

So meditation is basically a movement.

So what is that movement?

So first movement that mind is filled with mud of impurities.

So we have to rise above from reaction,

Wandering,

Hatred,

Dualities,

Etc.

,

Etc.

So second is the,

I must fix the goal where I'm moving.

I must have a departure point and I must have an arrival point.

For that we understand there are five subjective states of the mind.

The mind is becoming crazy and the lazy and unnecessary.

It moves into the likes and dislikes.

And it has been happening for years and years and years,

Days after days,

We are living into those likes and dislikes.

Even with a person whom we love,

We create those likes and dislikes.

So there must be a departure point and arrival point in meditation.

So do we understand the departure point?

Departure point is all likes and dislikes,

Reactions,

Dualities,

Conflicts that consist of the first three states of the mind.

So the meaning of the first sutra,

If you see that now the seeker is ready to enter into the highest state of mindfulness,

But mindfulness takes place in,

Where it takes place?

It takes place in the mind.

It is a state.

So but the mind lives in five subjective states.

So the next question comes,

What are those five subjective states where the mind lives?

And which state leads me to meditation?

Which state leads me to non-meditative state?

So it means,

You know,

As a teacher,

I'm not responsible.

You are responsible for changing your mind.

Not at all.

I'm not at all.

Even if you fight with me,

I have no problem.

Or you appreciate me no problem.

So now question comes,

What are those five subjective states?

The first subjective state is known as,

In Sanskrit it is known as chipta.

There will be a great understanding in today's practice in a talk.

So the chipta means distracted mind,

Absent minded,

Craziness,

Claiming likes and dislikes as true.

So what I'm going to say now,

Many people start meditation aims at stopping the mind forever.

You know,

They want to stop the mind.

They want a total emptiness.

My mind should be empty completely.

Empty mind is inert.

It's a material.

You see the wrong understanding,

Misunderstanding?

So every subjective state is good and every subjective state is bad.

That understanding we should have in our life.

Now take an example of a wandering mind.

When it is good,

Pay attention.

When it is good,

You sit in your driver's seat of a car,

You have the key or a push button.

You see the mind first jumped on an idea that I should drive a car.

Then you sit on the driver's seat.

Then you push the button,

Keys,

A keyless start.

Then you hold the steering.

You see that the mind is jumping from one thing to the other.

Then you put your foot on the paddle,

You reverse the car and you start moving.

You see it's a dynamic movement.

The mind is constantly wandering,

But it is wandering under your conscious control.

So it is a good state of the mind.

I have to use this.

I'm speaking from one word to the second word to this sentence.

You know I'm expending the topic.

The mind is wandering,

Jumping from one topic to the other.

But when it is under my conscious control,

It is a good state of the mind.

I have to use this.

How can I make the mind totally empty?

But if the mind is moving in an unorganized way,

Then it causes the chitta,

The wandering state of the mind is very bad in that state.

It does not pay attention and it causes a lot of challenges in our life.

Second state of the mind is known as Muhra.

So Muhra,

Muhra literally means forgetfulness,

Laziness,

Habitual.

Muhra also means foolish,

Infatuated,

Unwise,

Lacking good judgment or lack of a common sense.

A mad,

You know,

The word mad is insane.

When the mind is fully working on it and a foolish knows,

Still makes a wrong judgment.

He knows this is not good.

To get angry because I want to get the things done from you is not good.

And still I make a wrong judgment.

Do you see that?

We do it in different situations in our relationship with the strangers and a lot of other activities.

So that is known as the second subjective state of the mind.

A foolish talk a lot of nonsense.

A mad is angry and a wicked.

That is the difference between the two.

Now see the beauty of this second state of the mind.

It is the second state of the mind that helps us to get a sound sleep.

Steadiness of the body.

You see that?

So there is a finer line between when this subjective state of the mind is good and that subjective state of the mind is bad.

The third is known as obsessed.

I normally say the first is crazy.

Second is lazy.

Third is obsessed.

Where is that obsession?

So my mind starts moving in alternating thoughts.

Good bad high low pain pleasure.

You had a pain last year and you retrieve that information and you start thinking it is not required.

It is not required but still you think of it.

So that causes a lot of pain.

Now see another part of this obsession.

So when I have say for example passion for meditation.

It is a good state.

Even though that passion is an obsession for meditation but I'm doing it consciously.

Now you see that you have a passion of the sex,

Drugs,

Food,

People,

Past.

So it comes from the same state of the mind.

So that is bad.

So if I have a craziness and obsession for any object outside that is the third state of the mind.

So we have to first three states of the mind have positive aspect,

Have negative aspects.

So if the mind moves into those negative aspects just see that.

Do you experience I have been living in pain and pleasure likes and dislikes and boredom and swing mind swings from here and there.

It is because of these three states of the mind.

I have to get rid of it.

The problem is we have been living in these states and we find that the other is responsible for it.

That is the greatest problem in our life.

Now coming to the fourth state of the mind.

The fourth state of the mind is known as one-pointedness,

Literally translated.

But if we understand little deeply the word a kagra means holding on to one pure thought to seek and search the truth of real self.

One-pointedness means here in yoga that the mind is holding on say for example for peace and happiness,

Love and wisdom my mind is constantly holding on to peace and happiness.

What it means?

You are appearing for a job interview mind is holding on the peace and happiness.

See that.

You are talking to someone mind is holding on the peace and happiness.

You are eating something mind is holding on to the peace and happiness but in meditation the mind is holding on to the thought of a real self.

That real self is of the nature of permanent peace,

Happiness,

Love and wisdom.

Can you imagine that the mind is holding on to the thought of the real self which is of the nature of peace and happiness,

Love and wisdom 24 by 7.

War is going to happen.

Think of it.

What will happen in your day to day life?

But what happens if you are not a seeker the first three states is working behind you,

Behind the mind even if you are holding on the thought of a real self.

So that is why we need an understanding,

A clarity and a regular practice.

Now comes the fifth subjective state of the mind.

The fifth objective state of the mind is known as niruddha.

Niruddha means seized,

Dissolved,

Vanished,

Filled with nothingness.

So that subjective state shines with the true nature.

You see in the very first sutra,

The very first sutra means compressed formula and we are expending.

So after expansion we realize that this great master Patanjali in the very first sutra lays the entire foundation of yoga.

He summarized what exactly is meditation.

Now I believe you all are seekers so we can give another expression.

It means mindfulness is minimizing the first three subjective states and maximizing the stay of the last two subjective states is what takes us to a meditation.

Now I was just explaining to the Stephen and David and Jerry,

I am driving a car.

The power of that car is a brake,

Paddle and steering.

If these three things are not in the car,

I cannot have a conscious control over the car.

Understood?

So two things are there.

My mind should be capable.

It should have some powers.

When the mind is wandering,

I should take my mind back in meditation.

Do you see that?

So if I don't,

If my mind is not capable,

If the mind is not possessing those powers,

Then we do not succeed in meditation.

Or even if we say we succeed in meditation,

You do meditation,

You are absorbed into the meditative state for an hour,

You return from it and the mind takes over the same old habits and habitual thoughts.

My mind,

I don't realize that the mind has a brake.

I should give a brake to the mind.

Hold on.

You're not going there.

Say for example,

You have a certain thought of anguishedness or reaction against a person,

Even in the family or outside.

Now the mind is going there.

It gets obsessed.

It is constantly thinking about it.

The mind must have a power to stop this.

If you don't have that capacity in the mind,

The mind should be capable of this and telling the mind consciously why you are thinking all those crazy stuff.

If I don't have that power in the mind,

We do not succeed in any meditation.

Now see these crazy thoughts.

The mind moves daily in these crazy steps,

Thousands of times every day.

Do you realize that?

The mind goes and it daydreams,

You know,

That guy,

That guy,

And you have an anxiety and I must be able to stop this nonsense.

My mind must be capable.

That is why we are studying these five states of the mind.

It is not for academic talk.

Do you see that?

Thousands of times,

Mind goes,

Like Sam was saying,

You know,

I get,

You know,

Younger people goes for an interview and that anxiety.

Why should I have anxiety fear?

I know what I'm capable of.

So mind is holding on to the peace and then it appears on the interview.

The white is holding on.

That ability should be there in the mind.

This is what the master Patanjali is saying in the first sutra.

Are you getting it?

I should be able to give a break.

That break is in my conscious control.

So how do I know it?

The mind lives in the first three states and I give a break.

So what is going to happen?

The mind will start living either in the fourth and the fifth subjective states and that will help me in going deeper into the meditation.

Are you getting it?

Make the things very clear.

There is nothing mysticism,

Cult,

Dogma,

Religion.

There is no guru who says I will bless you and everything will happen.

No,

You have to do everything.

I'm simply a pointer.

I do nothing.

I just speak.

So I'm very happy that I just speak.

I don't own any responsibility on the other side.

I respond.

I'm 100% responsible that I'm teaching from the teachings of those great masters.

The teacher is bound to teach in this tradition.

Similarly,

It's the same thing.

Physics teacher is bound by the knowledge of the physics.

He should not start teaching the biology in a physics class.

So simple.

So understand.

So what is the takeaway from today's understanding is that I am aware 24 by 7.

Now I can realize that mind is moving in the first three subjective states may cause the problem in the future.

So let me give a break.

Hold on.

Mind is holding on to the real nature 24 by 7 and my mind understands that real nature is full of permanent peace and happiness and that takes me to the success in meditation.

So close your eyes.

Let us start our journey.

Close your eyes.

So when you close your eyes,

Remember I am.

Where is I am?

I exist.

I exist.

Now I am conscious that I exist is the pure consciousness.

It is known as Chit.

And because this I am is a common element everywhere in the world it is my real nature that is why I experience the joy from all sides and that is what my real nature is.

The real nature is the absolute existence consciousness and bliss.

So now look at the body.

The body is comfortable and steady.

We understood the part of the steadiness.

I think in the last talk in the practice.

So why the body becomes steady?

The mind has started thinking in a right direction.

Now looking deep inside the heart in the space.

So you are aware of the space one and you are aware of the point in the space.

That point in the space is the spark of you can say the spark of calmness or peace or happiness.

Without doing anything we can experience when the mind lives in the fourth and the fifth state.

So what I did I simply changed where the mind was standing and I said why you are standing there.

Come on stand here look inside.

That easy is the journey provided the knowledge is clear based on the teachings of the master.

And now the next step is we will continue with the mantra.

So that mantra is also a thought.

Understand the secret behind it.

The mantra is a thought is a word.

The word has a meaning and the meaning has a knowledge.

Why I'm saying this?

So when the word meaning and the knowledge merge together you are absorbed into meditation.

So that is what we are doing with the meaning and the knowledge.

So first liner first line we sing mentally and listen it mentally what you sing you listen to it.

Sarvesham swasthir bhavatuh Sarvesham swasthir bhavatuh Sarvesham swasthir bhavatuh Raise your mind raising a prabhu no I cannot chant it the way you are chanting but that is not the practice.

You need to simply chant it singing one in your mind and listening.

So in the second stage we go for singing listening and meaning.

What is the meaning of swasthir?

Sarvesham everywhere everyone's swasthir well-being bhavatuh should happen.

So let there be well-being everywhere.

Who is seeing the mind?

So mind is not seeing at the periphery at the circumstance.

It is looking deeper inside.

So singing listening and meaning.

Sarvesham swasthir bhavatuh Sarvesham swasthir bhavatuh You are doing it mentally.

Sarvesham swasthir bhavatuh We'll continue this and within few weeks your mind will start singing these lines even when you are in the restroom and let me know it even when you are talking to someone let me know it that will be an indication you are going deeper.

And now singing listening meaning and the knowledge.

What exactly is the well-being?

Well-being ooze out inner calm in the peace and the happiness as a means of being carefree.

Can we see that?

By singing listening meaning and the knowledge you have to see in your mind.

Sarvesham swasthir bhavatuh Sarvesham swasthir bhavatuh Sarvesham swasthir bhavatuh It is the thought of an anxiety causes the anxiety in me.

So it is the thought of the well-being should also cause the well-being in me.

What a big deal.

Second line singing and listening.

Sarvesham swasthir bhavatuh Sarvesham swasthir bhavatuh You see,

Sarvesham and bhavatuh is a common word in all the four lines.

Sarvesham swasthir bhavatuh Singing listening and meaning you are listening to what you are singing and just check it your body naturally becomes steady.

This is the beauty.

We need not to adjust in a line and it becomes steady on its own.

You may start feeling this sensation there.

The meaning of shanti is peace.

So singing listening and meaning.

Sarvesham swasthir bhavatuh Sarvesham swasthir bhavatuh Sarvesham swasthir bhavatuh Singing listening meaning and the knowledge that peace is of the nature of infinite space.

It is a good space.

So when the mind is able to perceive the good space amid all the situations in daily activities including the meditation practice,

This peace will take over not only us but also everyone.

We will see the peace in everyone.

Despite the other person is angry,

You see the peace there.

You see what is going to happen in your life then.

Sarvesham shantir bhavatuh Sarvesham shantir bhavatuh Sarvesham shantir bhavatuh Third line,

You see again understand one more point here why we are doing the mantra chanting in three stages.

The moment I say I know Lara behind that sentence behind that speaking that I know Lara,

Other information pops up in my mind behind it.

Lara is a wonderful teacher,

She is located there,

You know and rest of the stuff.

Do you see that the same thing should happen with the mantra?

This mantra should not have a dry knowledge.

No no I know you told me.

Not I told you.

Your mind must tell you,

Third line,

Singing and listening.

Sarvesham puranam bhavatuh Sarvesham puranam bhavatuh Sarvesham puranam bhavatuh Just pick up which state of the mind I'm using and asking you to recite out of the five states.

See you have to maintain awareness,

You have to be your own teacher and singing listening and meaning.

Meaning is completeness,

When I'm complete in all respects in my life,

Will there be a craving?

Will the mind be wandering?

Look at it.

Sarvesham puranam bhavatuh Sarvesham puranam bhavatuh Sarvesham puranam bhavatuh From that point of completeness you come out and you do all your work in your daily life.

Will there be a trace of anxiety,

Reaction,

Duality,

Conflict in your life?

Ask yourself.

Where the meaning and the knowledge is now along with singing and listening.

Sarvesham puranam bhavatuh So from that standpoint of being complete at the center of my existence,

I am doing my work.

You will stop running my friend.

Running causes too much of anxiety in the body which we do not notice.

And then it will take a toll on your life.

Sarvesham puranam bhavatuh Sarvesham puranam bhavatuh From that center of completeness you go for an interview,

You talk to someone,

You talk to honey.

Which standpoint of mind we talk?

I love you but you don't love me.

I love you but you hate me.

I pay you every time but still you criticize me.

See the point of mind?

Fourth line,

Singing and listening.

Sarvesham mangalam bhavatuh Sarvesham mangalam bhavatuh Sarvesham mangalam bhavatuh I appreciate you all.

Second line with the meaning,

Singing,

Listening and meaning.

What is the meaning of the sarvesham mangalam bhavatuh?

Let there be auspiciousness everywhere.

My master used to say if I,

My center of the mind is auspiciousness,

I will only see the auspiciousness outside.

If the center of my mind is craziness,

I will always see the craziness in others.

Sarvesham mangalam bhavatuh Sarvesham mangalam bhavatuh Sarvesham mangalam bhavatuh When Stephen was talking,

He was saying that he did it a couple of times.

What is the passion we need in the beginning and after that it will start happening naturally?

Third,

Singing,

Listening,

Meaning and knowledge.

Sarvesham mangalam bhavatuh Sarvesham mangalam bhavatuh Sarvesham mangalam bhavatuh Sarvesham now sing,

Listen,

Mean it and knowledge off three times mentally.

Aum Shanti Shanti Shanti Aum Shanti Shanti Shanti Without giving a break to the mind,

Start breathing little deep,

Silent and slow.

Let your rhythm of the breath be equal and uniform.

We will understand in future sessions,

You know we always talk of this as tongue yoga,

As tongue yoga,

As tongue yoga.

According to the teachings of our great masters,

We will understand and once you understand and you do the practice,

The life will never be the same.

So you're breathing deep,

Silent and slow,

That is your car.

The mind is the driver and the space inside is the highway.

So what you're doing,

Move the mind inside the right arm.

When you inhale from the shoulder to the fingertips and when you exhale,

Move the mind from the fingertips to the shoulder.

I'm keeping that step intact in this practice also because in the later,

In future,

I will add something and your mind will be stuck with the wonder.

Wow,

Such a simple.

So wait for it,

Continue.

We'll also understand clearly as tongue yoga.

Leave that yama and niyama,

That is the external.

Asana is external.

When you make the body steady,

It directly influences the mind and it gives you a clue that how to make the mind steady.

It's very deep respect.

When you do the pranayama,

It helps the mind to move into meditation from the false to the truth,

From the three states to the last two states.

What about pratyahara?

It helps you to the higher meditative states.

That's how they are connected from outside to inside.

Simply saying you know as tongue yoga doesn't make any sense.

So now you move the mind inside the left arm in the same way.

I believe you understand it this step clearly.

You see that I introduced this step a couple of weeks ago.

We continue with it and we add something into it.

So the mind is driver,

The breath is car,

Moving in the highway.

What is the highway?

The space inside my friend.

Move the mind inside the right leg from the right side of the waist to the toes and from the toes to the right side of the waist.

The mind of a seeker listens to the teacher not only patiently but with awareness and attention and what I speak,

I speak from the knowledge already available,

Given to us,

Passed on to us by the teachers,

Great masters who discovered it.

So what happens?

That mind of a seeker absorbs.

But if you're teaching on your own without any reference of teachings of these masters,

Then your mind lives in the first three states.

Move the mind inside the left leg.

Move the mind inside the left leg.

Now inside the spine,

From the crown of the head to the tailbone.

The mind moves with the breath going in and mind moves out,

Rises from the tailbone to the crown of the head,

Breathing out.

So when you're doing a regular practice,

After understanding the topic that we discussed today,

You know,

They both will merge together in your mind.

It leads to an awakening to the knowledge and the ultimate knowledge,

The real self,

The real self is my true nature,

Is the result of meditation,

My friends.

You now leave,

There's deep silence,

Slow breathing.

Now you see that,

You know,

In the beginning we used to do being comfortable,

Being carefree,

Being casual.

You are already there.

That's why I need not to talk about this.

But just a reminder,

See that the knowledge practice can take you to being comfortable,

Carefree and casual.

So now look at the head and the neck,

Become aware of the head and the neck,

The space all around,

Shape of the head and the neck.

You're simply becoming aware,

Everything is there.

I'm not asking you to do anything.

And then sensation and discover the stillness in the body,

The stillness in the head and the neck,

Stillness in the head and the neck,

Not the stillness of the head and the neck.

The stillness of the head and the neck is the,

Can never happen.

Now the right arm,

Aware of the right arm.

Yes,

The space,

The cylindrical space is covering the right arm,

Visualize that.

And from the space outside,

The mind moves on the shape of the right arm.

Do you see that the mind changed the direction from outside to inside?

Do you remember which of the states it will take over?

And then sensation in the right arm and experience the stillness in the right arm.

You see we are not doing anything.

I'm just,

As a pointer,

Now have you heard about real estate?

They show you,

They picturize,

They give you a vision so that you should buy it.

So here you should not buy it,

You should realize it.

Look at the left arm,

The cylindrical space all around.

And from the space,

You move to the shape of the left arm.

What you're doing,

You're simply looking in a way.

The moment you are aware of the shape,

It is bound to give you a deeper sensation.

That is how the mind works.

And inside the sensation,

We experience what?

Look at the rib cage,

Cylindrical space or a spherical space,

Whatever you say,

All around the rib cage,

In the front,

In the back.

From the space,

You see that?

What you're doing,

I just explained you.

That's a very subtle and a very deeper aspect.

Asana to dharana,

The sixth step.

So shape and then sensation and experience the stillness.

Belly,

You're aware of the belly in the front and lower spine in the back.

So cover that with the cylindrical,

It is already there.

You're aware of the space.

As if a bag of a space is covering this portion and from the space,

You move to the shape.

From the shape,

You move to the sensation.

From the sensation,

You move inside and experience,

It is a stillness in the body.

That stillness,

My friends,

Coming from our true nature,

Real self.

It gives you a glimpse of the real self.

So right leg,

Cylindrical space all around the right leg.

From the space,

Move to the shape of the right leg.

Shape to sensation,

A conscious experience.

Now this sensation may be of different types.

Different types,

Yes.

It may be tingling,

It may be numbness,

It may be freezing,

It may be heaviness,

It may be lightness,

It may be hot and cold.

Lot of things appear including the vision or simply the calmness and the quietness.

Left leg,

The space all around.

Shape,

Sensation,

Stillness,

The entire body.

In a way,

You see that we are doing nothing in the practice.

And still whatever we are doing,

The mind is going deeper and deeper.

The entire body cylindrical space,

Shape,

Sensation,

Stillness in the body.

And can I hold on to the stillness?

I don't control.

I keep looking and experiencing and aware of that stillness.

From there,

I move the mind casually from the crown of the head to the belly button,

Dropping and singing,

Oh,

No use of the breath.

And from the belly button to the crown of the head.

So in today's meditation,

We go behind the karma action.

Belly button is the center of action.

Continue.

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Now do nothing,

Remain as you are in the state of doing nothing.

So mind is still holding on naturally to that stillness.

If it holds on to the stillness,

You discover the calmness within,

You discover the quietness within,

And then from the quietness you discover the peace.

From the peace we go to silence,

From the silence we go to nothingness.

So the journey is like this in one tradition.

We can say in Patanjali.

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