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Guru Patanjali Preaching in Sadhana Yoga

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Part 19
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Changes in the characteristics and qualities of true nature essence generate four states of true nature essence that are the true essence, subtlest nature essence, subtle matter elements and matter elements.

The true characteristics and qualities of true nature essence that are luminosity and serenity (Sat Vic), action and motion (Rajas) and Inertia or inactivity (Tam Sic) and their endless variable qualities creates divisions in nature state and these may be classified as the true essence, subtlest essence, subtle matter elements and matter elements. These four states of nature are general classification in accordance with three basic characteristics and qualities of true nature essence namely musical and luminous, motion and action for action or motion and sluggish and inactive or inertia.

Really states of true nature essence are endless and are in a state of flux and keep on changing every moment. They are manifesting and fresh appearing every moment. Nature has three basic characteristics and qualities namely melodious and illumination, motion and action and sluggish and inactive that is forever but they have endless sub-characteristics and qualities that are in continuous motion and action and are changing every moment. But the basic melodious and illumination attribute of true nature essence always creates radiance, the motion and action attribute always creates activity and the sluggish and inactive attribute always creates sloth and negligence. The manifested endless forms of nature essence get manifested through the embodied beings and their organs of perception and action. It gets manifested through the matter form, through the subtle senses and through the very subtle conscious mind.

There are five-matter elements earth, water, air, light and fire that are formed out of the five subtle elements of true essence of nature. These five subtle elements, scent, taste, sound, color and touch are also formed out of the one subtlest essence of true nature essence. One Subtlest essence is formed out of true nature essence directly in conscious mind of living being of universe. All these are mere classifications of four different states of true nature essence. Nature and its manifested state namely the matter elements, the subtle elements, the subtlest essence or conscious mind and true essence of nature is wrapped around the self-conscious of soul essence.

The presence of melodious and illumination, motion and action and sluggish and inactive characteristics and qualities of nature essence in a living being is in accordance with the cosmic law and in accordance with the karma actions. It is subtlest nature essence, which creates the body, senses and the mind of a living being for the self-conscious of soul essence. It is nature essence, which creates subliminal karma impressions in the conscious mind of living being. It is nature, which ensures the undergoing of these subliminal karma impressions. It is nature, which destines the fate of the embodied self-conscious of soul and its position in the universe.

It creates all these by virtue and qualities of its characteristics and qualities and through the manifested form of states of true nature essence as subtlest essence, subtle elements and matter elements in living being and out of living being in universe. Whatever life is there and whatever form of life is there, it is wrapped around the oneness of formless conscious mind alone. The self-conscious of soul by itself is static and self-consciousness of living beings is its outer part. It is eternal. It is not subject to birth and death or decay. It is formless.

Whatever life and whatever body is there, whatever senses and whatever mind is there in endless living being in universe, it is all in accordance with the quality of nature essence characteristics and qualities flowing in endless living being and exists in four states of true nature essence that are called true essence, subtlest essence, subtle elements and matter elements. The body, the senses and the mind of living being are mere indication of classification of matter elements, subtle elements, and subtlest essence of nature flowing over the conscious mind having specific qualities of three characteristics and qualities of nature essence that are melodious and illumination, motion and action and sloth.

Nature’s essence having specific qualities in its four states flowing in the specific living body is the servant while the self-conscious of soul’s essence and its consciousness is the master. It appears as if nature’s essence is embedded in the living being, in giving a dance performance in a specific way. It is giving the dance performance for the sake of the self-conscious of soul essence only. The sight and insight vision that gets manifested in nature states of body, senses and mind are according to the soul’s consciousness. There are four stages of nature’s states. These stages get manifested or become un-manifested according to the cosmic law. Their names are true nature essence, subtle nature essence, five subtle elements of nature that are color, scent, sound, taste and touch, five matter elements of nature that are earth, water, air, fire and light and its endless forms in universe.

In the subtlest essence state of nature, the concentration of self-conscious of human being is focused on the self-conscious of soul essence itself. Here the self-conscious of soul’s essence of human being gets broken from the subtlest essence state of nature. The self-conscious of soul is not subject to birth and death or decay. It is imperishable and indestructible. It has almost all the characteristics and qualities of inner formless God essence. It floats in a formless form. Formless nature in the subtlest essence state distances itself from the self-conscious of soul’s essence. It also keeps on floating like the self-conscious of soul in a purified and formless state. It is in this state that nature’s three characteristics and qualities namely melodious and illumination, motion and action and sluggish and inactive and the modes of these characteristics and qualities work or act or perform karma actions in tranquility, serenity, quietness and peace.

In the subtle elements state of nature, the concentration of self-conscious of human being is focused on formless subtle senses of living being itself. It is on account of the focusing of this concentration of self-conscious that senses of mind gets merged with the self-conscious of soul essence. Self-conscious of soul’s essence gets focused on the nature’s subtle elements formless state. It is around the self-conscious of soul essence that creation of the life of an embodied being takes place. It is in the life of an embodied human being that his inner core called conscious mind is also created. Nature, in order to show a glimpse of its subtlest nature essence or conscious mind state, creates self-ego in the inner core called conscious mind of an embodied human being.

Here, the embodied human being feels himself a separate and distinct entity from the self-conscious of soul essence on account of his self-ego and with the creation of unawareness in him, the embodied human being becomes unconscious of subtlest nature essence formless vision. He also becomes unconscious of affection and aversion. It is due to this unconsciousness that fear of life and death gets created in him. After death and before new birth, human being’s embodied conscious mind float in this state of nature. During deep Samadhi state, Yogi penetrates to this state of nature.

The root state of all the living and embodied human beings are the formless subtlest essence state of nature. It is the state, which encompasses all the true qualities and characteristics and qualities of nature essence that are luminosity, tranquility, serenity and cosmic peace and cosmic laws of nature. After death an embodied being rests in the formless subtlest nature essence state. He keeps his self-ego and self-awareness consciously in this nature state .No karma actions or human being in this state of nature performs movements. But he remembers his deep-rooted thoughts due to the lack of spiritual knowledge of his self-ego. It is in the nature’s subtlest essence state that he imbibes his subliminal impressions in his inner core of conscious mind. These impressions are imbibed through the flow of his thoughts and cravings, which is floating in his thoughts for his future and the next life. It is here that he also imbibes three nature’s characteristics and qualities that are melodious and illumination, motion and action and sluggish and inactive along with their modes.

These are to be undergone in the form of a particular form of subliminal impression and during a specific life span. They are to be undergone at a particular place in the universe. They are to be undergone in a state of bliss and serenity. Concentration and vision of the undergoing of the subliminal impressions can be given to the self-conscious of soul according to the intensity of its consciousness. It is the embodied human being that decides the intensity of his self-conscious of soul. It is here that the cycle of so-called 8.4 million kinds of lives gets created. Whatever nature essence does, it does so according to its three characteristics and qualities and their endless modes along with their cosmic laws and all in the four states of nature that are true essence, subtlest state. Subtle state and matter state.

It does so for the sake of the self-conscious of soul essence. The Subtlest nature essence or conscious mind state of nature is called the supreme essence of nature. It is here that nature’s oneness of formless essence gets distributed into a mixture of many subtle essences or realities. The mixture of these subtle essences or realities by distributing itself creates the matter form and body and life span of a living being and its place in the universe as well as the matter form of another living being. It also decides the subliminal karma impressions to be undergone, by him. It begins to create the living embodied being around the self-conscious of soul essence according to the cosmic law. In the Subtlest nature essence or conscious mind state of nature, the embodied human being is in the world of the dead. It is in a Samadhi state. Really the child before birth in uterus of mother is in Samadhi and that is why he remains fresh, and enjoy tranquility, serenity, calmness and quietness in cosmic peace.

The five subtle elements state is the third state of nature. This state enables an embodied human being to enter the activity state of nature from no activity state. It creates the formless unconscious mind according to the inner core of conscious mind and it’s lingering past subliminal impressions. It is out of the formless essence of nature. It manifests into a mixture of subtle essence of scent, sound, taste, smell and sight. It creates the unconscious and sub-conscious mind with the help of the five subtle essences i.e. color, smell, sound, touch and taste. It creates the essence of self-ego in the mind. It creates self-ego in which the lingering past subliminal impressions get embedded. Whatever, it does, it does so out of lack of spiritual knowledge qualities of nature essence.

In the subtle matter elements state of nature, lack of spiritual knowledge is wrapped over spiritual knowledge. It is undergone which manifests the formless nature’s essence in five formless forms of subtler essence. It makes the living embodied being’s sub-conscious mind and unconscious mind and its self-ego enter the embodied being’s into subtle world. It makes it enter into nature’s world of subtle elements. It makes the embodied being’s life subtle. This state of the living being and this state of nature is also called the state of colors. It is in this state that the world of gross forms and thoughts exists. It is beyond this state that nature’s fourth state namely matter state exists and which makes the life of a living being possible.

The matter state is the fourth nature state of the developed forms of the universe. This state appears as a matter elements state. The three characteristics and qualities of nature and their natural inclinations and code of conduct and modes, work according to the cosmic law towards the fulfillment of the life of an embodied human being. Nature works to make the embodied being undergone his lingering past subliminal karma impressions according to his self-ego. It is nature, which is there to make the embodied human being vision or realize a glimpse of his formless self-conscious of soul essence. The lingering past subliminal karma impressions is undergone consciously in order to eliminate lack of spiritual knowledge and self-ego.

All the five gross matter elements of nature appear in the matter elements state. They are earth, water air, fire and light. It is with them that the five internal senses namely heart, brain, lungs, kidney and liver are created in the living human beings. The five external senses of action namely legs, arms, mouth, urinary tract and excretion tract are created in the human beings. The internal formless form of the senses of knowledge and their connection with self-ego is also created in the human beings. The five gross elements and the five senses of knowledge and the five senses of action of the mind, which appear in the matter elements state of a living being, all these are created for undergoing the definite and destined lingering past subliminal karma impressions of the human beings. These impressions are undergone in the matter elements state of nature in the definite form of a body and for a definite period and at definite earth and in definite location in earth of endless universe.