Who Is Yogi, Meditator - Man Of Steady Wisdom - 1

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Who Is Yogi, Meditator- Man Of Steady Wisdom - 1

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On Friday will be good. On a Friday night, Okay, That's when I'll put you in. So, Keep smiling. Yoga, Journey of yoga is always with a smile. So, I have even with a smile. No, I have been talking for so, My master used to talk for five, Six hours and then he always said that, Go back to your room and contemplate and reflect, Come back and you should be clear. There should not be, No doubt. So, When there is no doubt, When you think. You do not think about others life, You think about your own life. So, That is how yoga becomes a way of life. Om purnamada purnamidam purnat purnamaducyate purnasya purnamadaya purnamivavasya syate purnamivavasya syate aum shanti shanti shanti gita. In the last couple of sessions, The first two chapters gives a clear idea where this text or the master is taking us to. The journey of yoga in the Gita is both outside and inside. Inside we discover our real self and then we allow the real self to express in our personal, Professional and social lives. So that we find the ultimate security in our life, Ultimate security. I was talking, I think last week I was just talking about how unemployed people are suffering, Isn't it Leslie, During COVID. So now see how our masters asks us to change our thinking. So the master asked, How many employed people are happy? Oh, You have a problem with your honey. No problem. How many people who have no problem with the honey are really happy? Poor people are suffering. How many rich people are happy? No, I don't look good. How those people who look good, Beautiful are really happy. We don't ask these questions. Because if I look into the mirror and I, My ego says I am handsome. There is little more handsome people already present in this world. Is it not effect? We don't ask. So if you do not ask, Then Gita says we are not a human being. Perfect. So the basic questions I am suffering in social, Professional and family lives, I have tried to be happy, But the unhappiness chases me, Insecurity chases me. So one group of people rationalizes by blame, Complain, Reaction to outer people, Situation and events in life. When I was posted in Jakarta as a diplomat, I had a royal house, John. And in that house, We have a two maid houses also, Two maids were living, Taking care of us. When I was thrown by destiny to be in US in 2007, I was living in a very humble rented home. Compare, Can living in a particular home or a mansion makes you happy or unhappy? That needs to be understood and thought. And if any outer situation makes us happy, We are not a seeker, We have to find out how to become a seeker on this path of yoga. Or you just want to continue to live in the same way. Did I tell you the story? It was the story of a, We American, You know, 20, 30 years back. He married 10 times and went to a psychiatrist to find out, Is there a problem with the women who got, Who married to him or he has the problem? Psychologist told you, You have a problem. We don't realize. What is the message? The message, The moment I have a problem, I must find out, Problem is in the mind, I must find out. Then only I begin the first step of becoming a seeker. This is what the first chapter concludes. If I open the, Lock the intellect, Nothing happens. Preparatory steps, Four connections. My goal should be clear. Goal is clear, 100%. Subject matter must be clear. Subject matter, I have to find the real self. I know that I do not know my real self. So what is the solution? I should know the real self, I'll find the solution. Who is the seeker? I just covered, So I'm not going deeper. All the fourfold qualifications are required. Mandatory. It is mandatory to have a driving license while driving on the road. Mandatory. We wake our discernment, Dispassion, Six treasures, Intense desire for the real self and purity of the mind, Et cetera, Et cetera, We need that. If you don't have that, The journey will not be clear. But by listening again and again, You have that purity. So in the second chapter, We came to Sankhi Yoga. Sankhi Yoga, You can say Gyan Yoga. What is Gyan Yoga? That my intellect must clearly understand these steps of yoga. But the intellect keeps the doubt all the time. It is important to keep the doubt, But we should understand what is the nature of the doubt. Now, You have been talking of the real self, I don't believe in yourself. So your mind is closed, You are not a seeker. You will listen to it, You will enjoy and you will say, Beer guy speaks very good and after that you'll forget. But if you accept the knowledge that there is a real self and I have to continue the journey. Okay, In Gita, In the second chapter, Now we are approaching that how to have a steady intellect, The intellect that is steady. Why it is steady? Because it has a knowledge, The right knowledge, Free from bias, Free from preferences, Free from likes, Free from dislikes. Why? That knowledge will take me to the journey of permanent peace and happiness. Love, Truth and wisdom. And ultimately it will help me discover what is my real self. And once I discover that, It is irreversible process. It is irreversible. I believe you understand what is not, Cannot be reversed. Means once the intellect is awakened to that state of consciousness, It cannot be reversed. Means what? Ultimate security, Permanent peace, Happiness. So I'll go with these verses with the same pace but you should understand why we all claim we have a good intellect. I understand. So if you are a seeker, No. Why should I use the word if you all are seekers? So what question arises when I say you should have a steady intellect. You should have a steady intellect. So you see that this is what the verse 254th seeker is asking now. Seeker is saying I have heard a lot of your gossip, My teacher, Now I want to know. Now see that. You have talked about the steady intellect. You see the seeker is now asking. I understand. You should be very open in asking questions so that we will understand the nature of your mind. The teacher understands the nature of your mind and then the journey begins. We don't ask. I'm busy in something else even while listening, It will not work. Now Arjuna was a seeker, What he is saying. What is the sign of a man in Samadhi, The highest meditation, Tell me, My master. Tell me whose intelligence is firmly fixed in the wisdom. How does the seas of settled understanding speak how they sit and how they walk? Did you understand? Do you have those questions in your mind? Yes, You are a seeker. No, You have yet to become a seeker. Understand the verses in that way. Put yourself in place of a seeker. What language they speak, How they speak, How they sit, How they think. Do you see that? That is the way of being seeker. Seekers mind is not convinced by if the beer guy is speaking or a clean-shaped guy is speaking. Nothing to, Nothing not interested. You see, Seeker is focused. Oh, You have told me about seeker and okay, Steady intellect and you see this, The man by understanding only. Don't go for practicing asanas, Headstand pose and pranayama, Nothing. Master sings steady intellect by simply understanding settled in your intellect. So now the seeker is asking the question. So now pay attention closely. The four questions are there by the seeker. You can divide them into two major categories. First question, Describe to me the sthita prajna, The steady wisdom that will ultimately help me to live into the highest meditative state. That is samadhi. Sthita prajna is a kabha sha samadhi sthasya keshava, Keshava means Krishna, Arjuna, The master. You see the first question, You know? Are you focused on that? Now, Second question, Third and fourth. How does that seeker speak? Or you can say when he is talking, We have already covered, We avoid gossiping. But we attend this gossip. Third question, How does he sit? How does he live? What is his lifestyle? Internal coming and how does he walk? How does he sit? How does he walk? So I will focus on these four questions first before we answer next week. First thing, Only the seeker can ask these questions because he's focused. Do you see that? But if these questions do not come to your mind, Then hammer your mind, Listening to it again and again. How come this seeker is asking these four questions? And the simple answer, If we do not follow the preparatory step, Then the mind is constantly running here and there. Even while listening at this moment, It will not help us. My master used to say with that reference, Are you really listening to me? Or you are listening to your mind only. Until you start working on your mind, You don't listen. Interlect, We are talking of the intellect. We are talking of the intellect. When we use the word intellect, It is known as inner instrument in yoga. Structurally, It is one. Functionally, It is four. Mind and memory, One pair. Intellect and ego, Second pair. Memory, I remember John memory. I am just talking one thought, Other thought, Mind. I make a decision, I choose one thought to act on it. That becomes the intellect. Functionally, They are four. Structurally, They are one. That is why it is known as inner instrument. Inner instrument, We also say it is subtle instrument. Understand what do you mean by subtle? I can see the world through my sense organs, They are physical. Why it is subtle? Why it is subtle? You cannot see my thoughts inside, My feeling and emotion unless I express it. So whether you say it is subtle or it is inner instrument. Before we understand the intellect, How to refine and define, Shine your intellect. If your intellect is shining all the time, It is the path of knowledge of yoga. It starts from here. You need not to sit doing pastures for three hours. Pranayama for one of just understanding. Understanding means knowledge. Knowledge means experience. If I know myself, I have that experience. Four aspects, Knowledge remains the knowledge, The first principle, Understand. Knowledge do not change. But the way I perceive the thing, People conditions outside, They constantly change because they are influenced by my preferences, My likes, My dislikes. Yoga talks of absolute truth. Absolute truth. Whether I say yoga is 10, 000 years old, 6, 000 years old or discovered today, It is talking of absolute truth. That does not change. So means what? The time does not matter. Do you understand that? Time does not matter means what? I can take up yoga at any age. It is not important. Knowledge is given by standing, By sitting, Given by a teacher in one language or the other language. Yoga says knowledge is important. Absolute knowledge. Why I said this? Where we receive the knowledge. In the intellect, You see, I came back to the same topic. To the same topic. We say the importance of truth is greater than anything. Greater than the teacher. Greater than the books. Any condition, Time, Place, Teacher. Where lives that knowledge? It lives in the yoga intellect. I'm adding an adjective to make you understand. Yoga intellect. Then it becomes a steady intellect. It becomes a steady intellect. Then it becomes a steady intellect. So now I put the adjective yoga. So what is this yoga intellect? Understand that part, You know, It takes a long, When you listen to it again and again, You will understand. That intellect which expresses the knowledge of yoga had never been a livelihood for people, Our masters. That is why the tradition says do not ask. But if you are a monk inside, You have reached to that, You have a right to ask. Monk has a right to ask. That is why the tradition started. Monk means you change your name, Orange color, Glute, Et cetera, Et cetera. Why that is a symbolism. Look at this guy who is not going to ask any money for this knowledge. Why? Intellect is neither a livelihood. Now see the simile, That will make you understand. Intellect is the son of a mother. And what is the mother? Who is the mother? Mother is the Eastern wisdom. What is Eastern wisdom? Eastern wisdom is an instrument of knowledge that helps me to discover my real nature. Do you understand that point? Mother, Who is the mother? Eastern wisdom. What is Eastern wisdom? Yoga, Tantra, Meditation, Et cetera, Et cetera. What is that mother? Is the full of knowledge. That knowledge should be planted, Understood, Supported into the intellect. So Eastern wisdom as a mother is always ready to descend and put that knowledge into the intellect. Intellect is the son. So who is the father? Existence. What is that existence? The condition in which I'm living, The relations that I have, The money and the resources I have is a perfect situation, Condition, People given to me by the existence to evolve, To accelerate my evolution, To find my real self. Did you understand this point from the intellect? Tell me. Then only we can start with the steady wisdom. So mother is the knowledge that teaches the intellect. In the presence of the father that is existence. What is the book of knowledge? Gita. So we normally say Gita is a feminine word is our mother. And mother is always ready for the son. And the son is the intellect. But without accepting clearly the situation, Condition, The birth, The time and the place, The gender, Everything, I don't have a choice. It comes from the existence. So existence has given me the most favorable condition. My intellect should have a level of acceptance before I begin the journey of yoga. Sometime I tell people, Those people come with me, Lot of problems and anxiety. I said, You have that anxiety because you have approached me or you have approached a person who knows the Eastern wisdom to help you transcend the suffering. You are lucky. You are thinking in that way. Clear? Clear. So let us go a little deeper. Ay, What it says, Tit ragnasya ka bhasha. So we will go there, But we are understanding about this intellect. So that is why your master says, Think of it, Leave worrying about birth into death. Leave about where you were born. Drop the wrong notion that I'm born in a good or bad family or the worst family. Don't start blaming your father. Or the parents or the relations. I heard a story. Did I tell you that story? 16 year old son. Lot of problem he created for his father. Father said, You have been creating law. I should not have given you the birth. Son said, I have given you the birth. Come on, See the steady, The wisdom. How dare you say, Are you crazy? How can you give me the birth? Dad, The moment I was born, Then only you became the father. So as a father, You are also 16 years old. And as a son, I am also 16 years old. Are you understanding that? So, Gita takes us little deeper. It puts lot of questions to change our perception. There are normally six obstacles in developing our intellect or wisdom. Now coming to the main topic. What is the natural result? As long as we are craving something with force, Means anxiety, Depression are the results. When I want something from the world outside, Anxiety, Depression are the natural result. That prevents my intellect to grow. They are the basic foundation. We are going to develop the steady intellect later. Then we enter into a deeper, Higher yoga. Are you understanding? Mind leaves understanding of what is right and good in anxiety. It leaves what is just and unjust. Then we start applying the corrupt means, Unfair means. So what does it means? I have to drop the binding desire of the world. What will happen? The intellect will be settled. First obstacle, Are you understanding? Oh, Today in yoga also, We were talking of obstacles. Did you understand that point? I am lying down, I'm going for a sleep. My bed cost $5, 000. All the golden plates, But the iron plates are inside. I'm still thinking of the guy who cheated me. What will happen to the golden bird? I'm going, I can give you hundreds of. Now, When you understand that in your intellect, What happens? Tell me what happens? Gita is not so easy. I have yet to understand. Every year I go through all the 18 chapters again and again and again. Every time I find something new. So when I'll teach you next year, It will be totally different. Why? Wisdom. So first thing, I have to understand it clearly, Once and for all. Second master says, My master, You say contentment. Santo sha niyama. Contentment, Discontentment is disease and symptom. Discontentment is both. It is a symptom, It is a disease. Where is our contentment? Find out. Barrows pizza. And there is our contentment. Where we keep our intellect. This is what I'm saying you. Are you understanding? Don't take contentment literally. Are you getting it? John, You will not find these kind of explanations in the book. Okay. You have to live that life, Then you know it. Do you have those stories of the vampires? I have yet to read it, But in India, We have the story of the vampires, Whose life, Whose life was sitting in the parrot. So if you twist, Kill the parrot, The vampire dies. You know, That kind of a story. So we need not to fight the vampires directly. So our stories tells, Oh, Where he or she has kept his life in the parrot. So we go to the parrot. Now compare this with the contentment. You must understand clearly. We wake up in the morning, You know, I didn't get a cup of tea. Come on. You're destroying your intellect. Today you didn't get it, Be happy. Are you getting it? Life will be the happiest. We are finding what are the obstacles. So discontentment is a disease and a symptom both. To keep the contentment in the heart inside with the intellect is the key. Otherwise what happens? I intellect adds mixture. What is the mixture? Corruption. Intellect gets corrupted when contentment is a slave to anything outside. Are you understanding? The intellect will not function properly. Now, John, Compare. I have been telling you, We are not talking of IQ. How many people who have the highest IQ, They lived in, They studied in the best universities and committed suicide? You know it, It's a fact. We are not talking of IQ. We don't want IQ. We want a simple, Easy, Carefree intellect. If you have a higher IQ, Then you can prove how wrong I am, Even if I'm right. Now it is required in some part of the profession, But have a simple, Clear IQ. Kind IQ. Are you getting it Leslie? We don't need IQ. In leading your life, Brandy is serious, Trying to understand. Third problem, Third factor, Third factor to get easily influenced by pain, Pleasures, Sorrow. What will happen? The intellect will conclude the world is full of suffering. I don't want to live in this world. The moment you have many times these thoughts in the mind, And every time you have these thoughts, It will create a repulse in the mind. Those impressions will go to the intellect and whenever you meet someone, Then you try to smile, But you don't have a smile. Why? The mind is totally obsessed with it. To get frustrated in pain and obsessed with the pleasure destroys my intellect. Now, Intellect understands. Tell me, Does the intellect understand that this body is constantly changing? The health and the illnesses are dynamic states, They are not static. Do you understand that? Tell me, Who is the guy who remained healthy since birth? Right knowledge, Let me accept it. Let me accept it. So, Acceptance, Acceptance makes my intellect free to think of what is right and good in my life. Then I have enough time to see, To find out, To discover what is my real self. Are you getting it? I'm laying a foundation, How we reach to the steady intellect. You got it? Fourth, This life and the word perceived by the intellect in plurality, The word of dualities. You see, In this situation, In this setup, This guy is a teacher, You are a student, Duality. Look at it, I'm a weird guy, Wesley is clean. Duality, Duality divisions are the same. Duality, Duality divisions are the fact in the world, But a myth when we discover the real self. Always remember this. Now, What is the masses here? Masses in that Upanishad, I don't remember the Upanishad, Master says, Does the intellect recognize this duality? You see the duality in everything. I and John are different. John does not have beard, I have the beard. You see that he is sitting there, I am sitting here. He is wearing the blue shirt, I am wearing this. Is, Tastes, Duality, This, Don't allow the intellect to fall into these kinds of dualities. When we walk on the path, We definitely find favorable, Unfavorable conditions. We meet good and bad people, Isn't it? There is no place on this earth where you cannot meet good and bad people, High and low people. We meet opposing events, Conditions, People, Rage, Poor, High. Let the intellect remain untouched. Recognize it, Remain untouched. See what happens, What will happen? You remove the four obstacles. You have 90% of the time in the intellect to focus on the real self. Whether you are listening to me, Whether you are driving, Whether you are talking to someone, Whether you are living your personal life or a professional life, Think of it. You saw the viewer, Looks good. Oh, Let me attend this session. No, Don't make the judgment easily. Think first. Without thinking and using intellect, Don't take any decision. Mind throws its impression of likes, Dislikes, Hates and love, Pain and pleasure with reference to the people outside. And we say intellect has decided I will divorce. I always tell the couple when they approach me, Yes, Fifth option is the divorce. Let us start working with the first, Second, Third, Fourth. Sometime I tell there are seventh option. Let put the seventh option is the divorce. So if they are intelligent, Not having the higher IQ, They ask me what are these six options? I will tell them that I will tell you one every week. I have the option. My mother, Geeta, Not this, For any problem, Not for any problem. For any problem, Leave that aside. So whatever comes to the mind, No, Let me decide. Let me first think of it. Otherwise what we do, We date, Then dating, Another intellect says soulmate, Then marriage, Then honeymoon, Then sourmate. Whatever comes to the intellect, We accept it. Now, A yoga seeker does not follow this path. Fifth one, Important fifth one, Whatever comes to my mind, No, Let me accept it. Mind says you are crazy, So let me accept it. Now I create a reaction. I create a likes and dislikes. I'm destroying my intellect. Right? Sixth, Actionless thought, Thoughtless action. Which one you prefer? Yeah, Think of it. Thoughtful action. The entire journey of Eastern wisdom starts with the three words. First, Know it. When you know it fully, Then have a right desire for it. And then act on it. Jana-ti, Ich-chati, Karoti. A very famous Sanskrit words. Jana-ti, Ich-chati, Karoti. Jana-ti, Ich-chati, Karoti. You know, If those who study traditionally, They know it. Jana-ti, Ich-chati, Karoti. I should know. Normally I act without knowing. Does it not happen? I act without knowing. You said, Pisa is very good. Why should I? Okay, Thank you very much. At a social level, Thank you for telling me, But let me see if it is really good for me or not. If you don't have the right intellect, The personality is destroyed. If there is no personality, No power to work, Do you see that? Change in sight by yourself first. Let the world be humanized. Let the world around you be humanized by the intellect. Are you understanding that point? You are aware. Live with that awareness. To remove all the intellect, You have now the higher level of self-awareness. What is the difference between the higher level of self-awareness, The self-awareness in the human self-awareness and animal self-awareness? Do you put your dear cat before the mirror and put yourself before the mirror? You see 100% it is my image. It is not me. But no, My dear friends, The problem is that I see a big face because my intellect is not clear. My level of awareness also goes down. Do you see that? Have you experienced that? I have experienced in my life. Now I don't. The dog looking into its own image starts fighting or starts licking, Touching, Loving, Both ways possible. Are we doing the same thing? We have destroyed our intellect where we can allow the knowledge to settle clearly. Clearly. Why the hell we should understand this intellect? Simple answer. That ego and real self both can be reflected in this intellect. If the intellect is not clear, Pure, The real self cannot be approached. You see how near we have come to the real self? Understand in a different way, Sun is the real self, Moon is my ego. So both are living in the intellect. Did you get it? Now you have only to know and understand if it is coming from my ego, The false I, Or the real I. Are you getting it? If it is coming from the real I, You are always in peace and happiness. Coming from the false I, Where they are located in the intellect, The house has to be clean. House means intellect has to be clean. Likes, Dislikes, Ego, No contentment, Ego, False I. The false I merges with the intellect. It says you are 100% wrong, John. Whatever you say, I will prove that you are wrong. It is not the job of real self. Now when I have that knowledge in the mind, What will it say? Now example, The John says, Headstand changes my brain completely. I will say yes. What I have to do with this information? Unless you are ready to know. Now apply the same in relationship. You don't prove how other is wrong, That is IQ. Do you see that? It takes time. It will not happen in a day. If you start the journey, Understand it, And you will have many challenges in the time comes. Oh, Intellect. Intellect is one of the most important factor to find out our essential nature. If it is the same intellect, Which is responsible for the fantastic and remarkable discoveries coming from the science in the last 200 years, It is the same intellect. Do you think that all these 3000 texts have been written with a blind belief? Those geniuses have written those texts. Look at the Patanjali. That intellect must get rid of these six obstacles. So when we remove all those six obstacles, That makes you a seeker. And when you are a seeker, Who is the seeker? Obviously, It is the intellect. And the mother is Gita. What is Gita? Knowledge. Who is the father? Existence. So what the father is giving, Father gave me a pain, Unfavorable circumstances. Why? Go to the mother, Find the solution, Right solution that helps you to raise your level of awareness. Did you get it? This is what all yoga is. But if I dream, I want to live in a world beyond all the suffering, No unfavorable circumstances, Then you are not practicing yoga. Utopia, Not possible. We evolve only when we have the challenges in our life. Here the science and the yoga goes together. What is that? If you are not sensitive to pain and the fever, Many severe illnesses in the body will take birth. Medical science. I told you, Kabir, See the beautiful poetry. I have to translate into English and then I'll send you. Dukhme sumeran sabkare sukhme kare na koi. We all remember God in sorrow and suffering. Sukhme kare na koi. When we are enjoying all kinds of pleasure, Favorable circumstances, We have just returned from honeymoon or we are in honeymoon. Who cares God? But what the master is saying, Jo sukhme sumeran kare, Who remembers that I have to find my real self when everything is fine. When everything is balanced in the life, You bring an end to the suffering. Did you understand that? Some of you might have been listening to me too. You have come because you had some point of suffering. You want to bring an end to the suffering. What about those days when you are obsessed with all kinds of pleasure, Everything was goody goody pleasure circumstances. You didn't look at this guy. Nobody goes to pick up the sorrow and the suffering in the world. Another, Dukh leh neh jaave nahi aave acha bhuj. You see the point of this message. This is a message by another Rahim. Dukh or Kabir I think, I don't remember, Dukh leh neh jaave nahi. I don't go to the market to buy sorrow and the suffering. But if I am suffering, If I have a big face, People run away from me. Is it not a fact? But when we are living in favorable circumstances, Full of pleasures that is not giving me permanent happiness, Then more and more people approach us because they are also in the same boat seeking pleasures. So there your intellect should remain alert that I am seeking, I'm in search of permanent happiness. Last thing, It's again, Dhire dhire reh manan dhire sab kuch huya, Walk on slowly. Why slowly? No obstacles in the intellect. Walk on slowly, Walk on steady. Everything will fall into the right place. Why? What self discovery. Mali si che soghara ritu aaye fal hoe. What a beautiful, Let me translate into English. The gardener waters the plants and a proper season comes. Proper season comes, Then flower blooms and the fruits. We can take the fruits. Did you understand that? When we have started the journey of self discovery by yoga, So the master is guiding, Walk on slow and steady. The intellect, The knowledge will be realized in stages. Continue to water, Continue to water your soil, Your ground of the mind and the season will come. You will bloom with permanent peace and happiness. So constantly ponder over these, These six factors of the intellect and once you ponder, Then we are ready for the next verse. Or let me put it and think of it. This verse, What the Krishna sees and from there we bring in and so think of it. So now having Krishna knew that his seeker, His student is ready, He's a perfect seeker. So what he is saying, All desires from the mind and what is the message? Satisfied in the self, By the self, For the self is the first attribute of the steady intellect. Think of it.