Guru Patanjali Preaching in Sadhana Yoga

Part 13
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The existence of those roots of thoughts of unease, distress or sorrows leads to their inevitable fruition in different life spans, in different species and in diverse experiences.

As long as the root of action, deeds or works with those thoughts of unease, distress or sorrow in unconscious mind in matter world exists, it is bound to give rise to a class of birth, its span life and karma experiences. As long as the root of supernatural unconscious disturbances exists, they will continue to generate their consequent karma actions , deeds and works. Hence, their growth, expansion and fruition are inevitable. Their fruition takes place in different life spans, in different kind and in diverse experiences and enjoying.

It is only when the root remains intact in unconscious mind that is subtlest nature essence that it leads to the fruition in the form of birth, life and experience. Existence of the unconscious roots of spiritual disturbances generates their consequences. This consequence leads to their fruition in the form of different life spans, in the form of different species and in the form of diverse experiences.

The lingering past karma subliminal impressions lies in the unconscious root of distress sorrow, pain or affliction. At the time of undergoing these subliminal karma impressions unconsciously, the birth of fruits of action keeps itself wrapped around them in the form of seed of karma action. Both the lingering past subliminal karma impressions and the seed of karma action becomes the consequences of past karma actions and are to be undergone in the matter form of the fruits of karma action. The fact is that they are the unconscious fruits of craving and are the root cause of desires and craving. The lingering past subliminal karma impressions and the seed of karma action, both get born according to unconscious craving and the root of desire. They get born in the thoughts of the unconscious mind. The fruit of karma action is felt at the time of undergoing action on account of unconscious affection, enmity, fear, self-ego and lack of spiritual knowledge.

Such a fruit of karma action is received in the matter form of the seed of karma action. The seed of karma action has to be undergone in the present embodied life or in the future embodied lives. The Great Sage says that after death, the memory of the seed of action remains intact in the super conscious mind that is the inner core of conscious mind. The seeds of karma action keep themselves wrapped around the subtlest nature essence in the super conscious mind. The awareness of the mind and its concentration and self-conscious in the subtlest world of dead remains focused on them. It is in the subtlest world of Dead that the memory of the concentration of the conscious mind remains focused in the unconscious mind itself.

This is understood and comprehended by the three attributes of subtlest nature essence that are luminous, passionate and slothful. A person is born in the next life according to the attributes and their sub attributes he has absorbed in the previous life in mind. This means that his form of life, the species to which he will belong and his life span will be according to the consequences of karma actions which he consciously or unconsciously performs during the previous life. These aspects will also be governed by the emerging attribute and sub attributes that he absorbs in his previous life. The next life will be created by subtlest nature essence that is conscious mind according to the memory of thoughts present in it at the time of the departure from this matter world to inner subtlest nature essence of true nature essence.

Subtlest Nature essence creates life in a living being according to craving of individual living being. When the craving of a living being is liberated from worldly pursuits and pleasures, it is then that subtlest nature’s aspects of affection, enmity and fear become meaningless. It is then that the life cycle of living being comes to an end. It is then that the conscious mind gets into a purified and cleansed form. An embodied self-conscious of soul becomes a manifested form of inner formless self-conscious of soul that is outer part of inner formless God essence, when he loses interest in his self-ego and when his lack of spiritual knowledge gets eliminated.

It is only on elimination of his lack of spiritual knowledge and self-ego that a living being starts adopting the true attributes of inner f formless God essence himself. It is then that with the absorption of Godly essence true attributes the living being virtually attains to the stakes of Godhead or prophet or seer. It is then that the embodied self-conscious of soul becomes an extraordinary soul. It becomes almighty. It becomes enmity free, indestructible, and imperishable and not subject to birth and death. It becomes a reverberation and echo of love. It reaches a state where it is beyond the time. It reaches the state where it is beyond birth and death. It becomes static. It becomes omni-present and formless.

The Great Guru Patanjali says that the cycle of birth and death does not come to an end so long as spiritual knowledge about lack of spiritual knowledge does not get realized. Subtlest Nature essence keeps on creating life after life for a living being. A living being keeps on getting born in one form or another. The formless life that gets created, matter and its body form, its life span and through it the consequences of karma actions and the place of the living being in the universe is also created by nature essence. Nature’s three true attributes luminosity, passionate and slothful and their endless emerging variable attributes put in action to the cosmic laws according to the craving of a living being which envelopes his thinking process.

As long as a person does not attain spiritual knowledge about his lingering past karma subliminal impressions, as long as he does not attain spiritual knowledge of the cravings of his thoughts and as long as he does not stop his thoughts relating to affection, enmity, fear and as long as he does not eradicate his self-ego at the time of undergoing the fruits of karma action and as long as he does not accepts the lingering past karma subliminal impressions in obedience to the commands of formless God essence, the flow of birth of the seeds of lingering past karma subliminal impressions will not end. At the time of undergoing the fruits of karma action, the flow of pain and pleasure, which is according to his past lingering subliminal karma impressions, cannot also be stopped. The relinquishment of craving from the thoughts of the unconscious mind and the restraint of non-craving thoughts can be talented with the help of the preparatory yogic discipline.

It can be accomplished through adherence to yogic discipline, through self-discipline, through self-analysis and by surrendering to the will of formless God essence. It is accomplished by attaining spiritual knowledge about lack of spiritual knowledge of the unconscious mind. So long as there is lack of spiritual knowledge and the unconscious mind remains in an unconscious state at the time of undergoing consequences of karma actions, pain, unease or sorrows and their opposites as well as pain and non-pain will keep on appearing as per a person’s manifested auspicious and inauspicious lingering past subliminal karma impressions.

Really a wise saint consciously regards, accepts and feels frightened plight of apprehensive karma troubles, affliction, pain, distress and sorrow as non-apprehensive and then undergoes it in calmness, quietness, peace, serenity and tranquility. An ignorant person or human beings lacking spiritual knowledge on the other hand, unconsciously regards non-apprehensive karma serenity, quietness, peace and calmness as pain, unease or sorrows and then undergoes sorrow, tension, pain, distress, and troubles in them.

Yoga Tip: - Select any one spiritual form & remain above any blind worship or superstition attached to it. Meditate on it with devotion regularly and consciously. Here is offered an icon of saintly image of Kore, The Goddess of Springtime. Because Kore symbolized joy and abundance, statues in this shape were sometimes used instead of columns to support roof beams in Greek temples.

Kore is a triple goddess, the maiden, the mother and the crone all within one goddess. Kore is the maiden when she is on earth sharing duties with her mother, Demeter, living wild and free, and belonging only to herself. Kore is mother to all her creations, and does not let death stop her mothering; instead she is there for them through every step of life and death. Kore is the sage old crone who rules over death and the underworld, and knows all the secrets and mysteries of life and death.