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Guru Patanjali Preaching in Sadhana Yoga

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Part 17
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The union between the "seer" and the "seen" is the cause of pain and is to be warded off.

The contact between the self-conscious who sees and the conscious mind that is seen is the cause of experiencing pain. The association, identification and connection of true self that is inner self-conscious of soul essence with outer matter forms, subtle matter elements or subtlest nature essence of conscious of mind of living being is the cause of all pains to living being and remedy lies in their dissociation or to be avoided consciously. This is cause that is to be warded off or avoided consciously. In order to avoid contact with the experience of pain, it is necessary to understand into the structure of such self-conscious and conscious mind experience.

The infrastructure of such an experience comprises the experience and the experienced or knowledgeable. It comprises contact of the self conscious with the mind. It is only by warding off the contact between the two that experience or knowledge of pain in thoughts flowing in unconscious mind can be avoided. The contact between the "seer" and the "seen" is, however, inevitable. It is the cause of all types of distress. It is also the cause of the birth of different forms of life.

The contact between the self conscious which is the seer or insight visionary or the Guru with subtlest nature essence and its characteristics and qualities or forms or subjects or objects or things or forms which is seen are to be warded off and broken consciously. This is because such a contact in thoughts of unconscious mind is the cause of creating distress, pain, sorrow or trouble in all kinds of life. The subtlest mind resides within the matter body of a living being. The inner self-conscious of soul essence resides within the formless mind. The matter body organs, the formless subtle senses and the subtlest mind that are the products of true nature essence characteristics and qualities, are part of nature essence that is emerging in form of super conscious mind in living being of universe. This inner subtlest nature essence is wrapped around the endless self-conscious of soul that is outer part of inner oneness of formless god essence.

The contact between inner individual self-conscious and individual unconscious mind of human being is to be avoided, broken and ultimately destroyed. Such a contact is the cause of distress, pains, troubles, afflictions and sorrow in life and the cause of birth of different forms of life.

The lingering past subliminal karma impressions or imprints that are in the form of a ball containing the seeds of karma actions and of cravings and in which distress, pain, troubles and sorrows are felt, are born in the formless subtlest nature essence of individual branch of mind of living being that is called unconscious mind. They are not born in the self-conscious. They are experienced in unconscious mind of living being on account of the presence of lack of spiritual knowledge. They are believed on account of the wrong surmises and wrong perceptions that it is in the self-conscious. Really self-conscious is always in a state of tranquility, serenity, calmness, peace, luminosity and quietness.

That the birth of life takes place in the self-conscious is another wrong surmise born out of lack of spiritual knowledge in unconscious mind of human beings. The life of a living being, senses and body is wrapped around the conscious mind that is subtlest nature essence. Nature’s essence that is the servant of the self-conscious of soul creates the life, the senses and the body through the functioning of its four states. These states are the true essence state, subtlest essence state, subtle elements state, matter elements state.

Nature’s true essence state creates the super conscious mind in the subtlest essence state and so is the subtle senses in the subtle elements state and the sense organs and matter body in matter elements state according to the lingering past subliminal karma impressions. It is at the time when these subliminal karma impressions are undergone that a living being creates the seed of karma actions as per his cravings in his thoughts in unconscious mind that is subtlest nature essence state. It is according to the seeds of karma actions that the living being’s future lives and a subliminal impression as well as their death gets created.

It is the nature’s essence that creates the ball of life and death and on the self-conscious. Pain and pleasure thoughts are the parts of the life of a living being. It is in the thoughts of pain and pleasure that there is merit or demerit and the enjoyment of fruits of karma actions which becomes the cause of enjoyment of lingering past subliminal karma impressions in the next life.

Subtlest essence state of true nature essence controls the conscious mind and karma of all living being in universe. Subtlest essence states of true nature essence control the unconscious mind and its senses and thoughts of all living being in universe. Matter elements form of essence states of nature control the body organs of all living being in universe.

The Great Guru Patanjali says that the ball of the cycle of life and death is eternal everlasting and regular or constant in endless living being in universe. The ball of the thoughts of pleasure characteristics and qualities and pain characteristics and qualities is also everlasting and constant. Destruction of this ball would mean destroying the connection between the self-conscious and subtlest essence of nature. In order to destroy the connection between the self-conscious of soul and all four states of nature in conscious mind, it is essential that lingering past subliminal karma impressions in the life span of a living being should be undergone constantly and consciously. Attempt is not to be made to stop the physical enjoyment or undergoing of the fruits of karma actions. But pleasure or pain is not to be desired or much loved from among the enjoyment of fruits of karma actions.

The fruits of karma actions are to be enjoyed consciously by going beyond affection, enmity, and fear and self-ego or egoism. They are to be undergone in a thought free and craving free state. They are to be undergone with constant meditation practice of yoga keeping the mind in a consciously thought free and craving free state. They are to be undergone with unfailing faith and firm determination and resolve. On the contrary, the undergoing of the fruits of karma actions in an enmity free and fear free state is not to be stopped. Such an undergoing does not bring in the fruits of action. Rather it breaks the ball of cycle of life and death. The flow of cravings and the flow of thoughts of those fruits of karma actions which are still in a seed-like rudimentary form and have not become the lingering past subliminal impressions for future lives, keeps on flowing in the conscious mind, in the conscious mind and in the inner core of conscious mind.

This flow is to be consciously halted and put to an end during the state of seeded spiritual union called Samadhi. This is to be done with the help of self-discipline, meditation and surrender to God’s will. These three aspects comprise the yogic discipline practice stage. This preparatory yogic discipline is to be practiced for the perfection and disciplining of eight limbs of yoga, whose detailed description is given in step 29 of this Book.

The Great Guru says that the lingering past subliminal karma impressions cannot be destroyed, or eradicated, or eliminated. They have to be undergone under all circumstances. It is at the time of undergoing them that the seeds of action get born. The future subliminal karma impressions get born there after out of the seeds of these karma actions. A disciple who wants to break the connection between the self-conscious of soul and the nature in all four states and a disciple who wants to break the ball of distress and who wants to break the formation of future lives, can do so by eliminating the seeds of karma actions and by making the subliminal karma impressions action free. Both the hen and its egg are to be destroyed simultaneously.

The method of its destruction lies through the disciplining and perfection of the eight limbs of preparatory yogic discipline. The practice of yoga under this discipline and the pledge and firm resolve are to be undertaken consciously by entering into a state of complete silence, tranquility, serenity, calmness and stillness in conscious mind. The physical enjoyment of fruits of karma actions is, however, to be carried on. It is not to be stopped under any circumstances.

The commandment of nature is to be carried out consciously and surrender of formless God be made with full awareness. Distress is in the manifested form of the state of mind i.e. in unconscious mind. The thought of distress is felt at the time of the thought of craving. In case the manifested form of the state of mind i.e. the state of subtle material elements is consciously changed to subtlest, no distress will be felt. In other words, when the concentration on consciousness is focused on subtlest nature essence of the conscious mind or it is focused on the senses, which are produced by the mind or focused on the body, it is then that consciousness gets focused on the living and non-living issues. It also gets focused on the connection of self-conscious of soul with nature or its outcome states. It also gets focused on the mind, senses, the body and through it the living or non-living subjects and objects.

The Great Sage Patanjali says that the connection between the self-conscious of soul and the four states of nature is to be consciously broken. The connection is not felt due to the presence of the ball of lack of spiritual knowledge, which is wrapped around unconsciousness. Knowledge of lack of spiritual knowledge gets attained by stabilizing the thoughts of unconscious mind in the conscious mind and by stilling the mind out of the jumble of body, the senses and subjects and objects. This is to be done through the undertaking of the preparatory yogic discipline. Conscious Mind is to be stabilized by perfecting seeded spiritual union through the eight limbs of yogic discipline.

The knowledge regarding the connection between the essence of self-conscious of soul and the essence of four states of nature, leads to their breakage and disconnection. This is to be achieved through inactivity stage of yogic discipline. It is to be practiced by seeded spiritual union called Samadhi. It is by mercy and benevolence of God and through patience and contentment and unfailing faith and firm determination that the enjoyment of fruits of karma actions is to be undertaken according to one’s lingering past subliminal karma impressions.

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