Guru Patanjali Preaching in Sadhana Yoga

Part 2
The practice of yogic discipline serve the purpose of reducing afflictions or misery to minimum or even eradicating it and also promotes the understanding of true meaning of contemplation and profound meditation and entering in spiritual union. It also serve the purpose of weakening the impediments, affliction, misery and sorrows that a disciple faces before understanding the true meaning of thoughtless meditation and the attainment of spiritual union. Sustained practice of yogic discipline results in the realization thoughtless meditation in conscious and spiritual union with self-conscious. It also assists in directing a disciple’s attention towards disclosure, elucidation, revelation, illumination and enlightenment of conscious mind and self-conscious. It also helps the disciple turning away from the forms of matter and subtle elements of nature essence that cause mental turmoil and confusion in unconscious mind. When the disciple turn away from the causes of mental dispersions, these dispersions and impediments automatically get attenuated in the practice of yoga discipline.

Concentration and meditation on the self-conscious as well as adoration of the inner God essence are most essential. It is as per the fruit of undertaking yogic discipline practice that the experience of entering into contemplation, meditation and spiritual union is felt. It is as a result of undertaking such a meditation practice consciously that the impediments and sorrows get eliminated gradually and steadily from unconscious mind.

These impediments and sorrows start getting enfeebled at the commencement of the practice of yoga discipline. Over a period of time, they get more weakened and ultimately become ineffective. The seeker experiences the true meaning and condition of sorrows. The practice of yogic discipline is to conduct on the lines of the eight-fold path of yoga. It is by entering in spiritual union that the body and mind of human being get purged of all impurities and become purified. The yoga discipline practice of fundamental leads to the purification of thoughts and contemplation and meditation in thoughtless conscious mind.

It also leads to the purification of the cravings and desires of the unconscious mind. When the purified body and conscious mind is made thought-free with the reverence to inner God essence, it is then that the disciple starts treading on the path leading to the attainment and perfection of seeded spiritual union (Samadhi). It is then that the self -sense experiences the feeling of entering into profound meditation leading to spiritual union. It is then that the meaning, feeling and experience of thoughts, which enter, and float in the unconscious mind as impediments, are experienced. It is by practicing yogic discipline that the impediments become powerless. There after, they get undergone and enjoyed as pleasures instead of sorrows.

The Great Guru Patanjali says that there are five kinds of impediments, sorrows, misery or obstacles. The causes of these impediments are also five kinds. They are attachment, aversion, fear, self-sense and lack of spiritual knowledge. It is because human being is unaware about these causes and reasons that they undergoes suffering and feels distress in unconscious mind. The cause of attachment lies in search of more happiness in unconscious mind during the enjoyment of available happiness. The cause of aversion lies in not accepting sorrow or distress provoking thoughts in present and then undergoing with thoughts of escape from it.

The cause of fear lies in trying to escape from the predetermined sorrow or distress or death. The cause of self-sense lies in thinking or believing independent from self-conscious of soul that is real self. And thinking and believing mind or body that is mere cloth provided by subtlest nature essence as real self. The cause of this lack of spiritual knowledge lies in having a belief and thinking in unconscious mind that material things and body of living being, which are in a state of motion, are static. Lack of spiritual knowledge also lies in having a belief and thinking in unconscious mind that the distress provoking material things and other living beings are objects of happiness.

It also lies in having a belief and thinking that craving desires are craving free. It also lies in the belief and thinking in unconscious mind that the body and the mind comprise self-conscious or the self-conscious does not exist. It is only by undertaking self-discipline and meditation and surrender to the God essence that that the practice of yoga starts becoming stable and static. It is then that the yogi starts getting feeling of actual distress and actual sorrow in conscious mind. It is then that he realize the spiritual knowledge of thought, feeling, conscious mind and self-conscious and their true meaning. He attains the spiritual knowledge of true living and gets a feeling of entering into spiritual union (Samadhi). The knowledge of spiritual union leads to the spiritual knowledge of sorrows. It is by their spiritual knowledge that sorrows become powerless. It is then that the undergoing of sorrows gets undergone as joys.

The Great Guru Patanjali says that in the practice of yoga, all the five kinds of thoughts are to be stopped. The five kinds of thoughts include worldly craving and desires. Craving is the cause of distress and apprehensive troubles and afflictions. It is on attaining spiritual knowledge of feeling and experience of apprehensive troubles and their significance that the mind becomes free from the thoughts of craving and free from sorrow. It is by this method that the practice of yoga becomes thought free and gets stabilized.

It is then that the thought free mind enters the state of spiritual union (Samadhi). As the mind delves deeper and deeper into profound meditation, it starts becoming more and more stable and enters in spiritual union with self-conscious. It starts comprehending the meaning and feeling of spiritual union and self-conscious. The meaning and feeling of spiritual union, which is the last preparatory limb of yogic discipline, is experienced and its spiritual knowledge is gained. It is then that seeded spiritual union gets perfected.

The cravings endowed by subtlest nature, in the thoughts of an embodied soul, are called comprehensive troubles in the practice of yoga. The three attributes of nature in the conscious mind are luminous, passionate and slothful. They are forever engaged in their respective tasks. They all work in the manifested form of subtlest nature essence as well. The first manifested form of subtlest nature essence is similar to the faceless and formless inner formless soul essence Himself. The second manifested form is the rudimentary subtle nature elements or sub-conscious mind form of subtlest nature essence. This is the formless form and this is the sub conscious mind. The third aspect of subtest nature essence is the matter elements of nature.

It is in this aspect that the flow of thoughts continues unabated. Shutting all the five senses can only experience its flow. The fourth form of aspect of subtlest nature essence is the matter objects or things. This is the material form state, which is within the reach of the sense organs of human beings. The outer and external universe is in different forms and different proportions to the attributes of inner subtlest nature essence. The embodied soul merely takes in sight vision of it as seer. He sees its insight vision in full awareness and consciousness. The formless mind is in the living body. There is a close relationship between the attributes or modes of subtlest nature essence and the mind’s concentration, meditation and spiritual union with self-conscious.

Not having spiritual knowledge and experience and feeling in this aspect is itself an apprehensive trouble and affliction. It indicates that the disciple is still in a non-spiritual union state. It is only through self-discipline, concentration and devotion to the lord that spiritual knowledge about apprehensive troubles and spiritual knowledge about spiritual union (Samadhi) is experienced. It is only then that spiritual knowledge about nature’s four manifested forms and spiritual knowledge about the three powers of nature’s three attributes and spiritual knowledge about sorrows born out of them gets realized. It is then that the spiritual knowledge of the human body and spiritual knowledge of the human mind, which is man’s temporary abode and is given by subtlest nature, is experienced.

It is then that a disciple gets complete consciousness about these aspects. Spiritual knowledge of sorrows and suffering diminishes their effect. Acceptance of sorrows leads to their getting undergone as joys. Apprehensive troubles and affliction get attenuated. Really Yogic meditation practice reduces misery and suffering and leads to spiritual union with self conscious and spiritual knowledge.
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