Patanjali Yog Sutras AJA...BHAsKSITA

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SiRR ji,

page 198 THE GREATNESS OF SATURN by Dr. Robert E. Svoboda " The Seers of

Vedas, who relied more on intutive precision than on mathematical precision

in their observations of the sky, expressed what they SAW of the nine

planets in terms which were incomprehensible to anyone who approaches them

without the internal keys to interpretation that were handed down from Guru

to Disciple. Deprived of these keys, most modern researchers conclude that

Jyotish has progressed from simplistic Vedic conceptions to

better-structured classical speculations, and that because these later

theories are more complex they are more advanced. The view from within

Jyotish suggests instead that profundity is a function of simplicity, and

that real evolutionary advancement in Jyotish occurred on those occasions

when the multiplicity of manifested myths has found new ways, though a

process of attribution inspired by the Jyotir vidya, to coalesce around

the center. " WHEREAS FOR US [ IN THE WEST], KNOWLEDGE IS SOMETHING TO BE

DISCOVERED,FOR THE INDIAN KNOWLEDGE IS TO BE RECOVERED. " [ J.A.B vab

Buitenen, qoted in Coburn, p. 17] India's genius continually shows its

savants how to locate the ONE in the midst of all.

Regards

Kulbir Bains

 

On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 6:04 AM, rohinicrystal <jyotish_vaniwrote:

 

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> Kulbir jee,

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> A very interesting and practical reality is hidden in this allegory that

> you share.

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> Ultimately, who is more important: Guru or Mother Nature?

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> Whose CALL should reign supreme...?

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> Rohiniranjan

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> <%40>,

> Kulbir Bains <lalkitabkb wrote:

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> > Sir ji,

> > AJA(bi) BHAsKSITA ETAh.

> > When the mind unites with the soul, when the body unites with the

> > breath, and when the soul unites with the paramatma, yoga happens.

> > There is this story on Maharshi Patanjili. There were thousands of

> > disciples of Maharshi Ptanjali. One day they were all at the session

> > with Maharshi. Maharshi had a rule that there will be a curtain in

> > between Maharshi and the student. No one was supposed to see the

> > Maharshi. This continued. The students were taking knowledge from the

> > preceptor and the preceptor showering the knowledge to the disciples.

> > One day something happened! One of the students wanted to go to the

> > toilet. He thought why disturb the Guru anyway the Master will not

> > able to see (since there was a curtain in between them)!! He silently

> > slipped off the class and went to the toilet. On the other hand, among

> > the rest of the students, one felt the terrible urge to see the

> > Maharshi. He whispered to the other fellow disciples that they should

> > see their teacher, and the teacher being all compassionate will

> > definitely forgive them and will not be upset on then.

> > So suddenly one of the disciples got up and removed the curtain. And

> > as he removed the curtain off, there happened a terrible disaster!!

> > Everyone who were present there turned into ashes!! All the disciples

> > who were present infront of the Maharshi Patanjali just turned into

> > ashes!! In the meantime the only disciple who had gone out to the

> > toilet returned. Maharshi told the student that he had done a great

> > mistake by going out of the class without the preceptor's permission!!

> > And now the boy has to undergo a curse!! Maharshi cursed him to be a

> > Demon(Brahmadaitya) and that he should sit on a tree and write down

> > all that he learned from Patanjali. The boy immediately turned to a

> > demon and went up the tree and started writing that entire he learnt

> > from the Maharshi. He was writing on the leaves of the tree. It is

> > said that there was a goat sitting at the base of the tree. The

> > disciple who turned a demon kept writing on the leaf and throwing each

> > leaf on the ground and the goat started eating all the leaves one by

> > one!!

> > Now who are those disciples who turn to ashes? Why did they turn to

> > ashes? Why was that only disciple saved? Why did he become a demon?

> > Why was he asked to write all that he learned? Why the goat did eat

> > away all the leaves? These are the questions that you should think and

> > ponder.

> > There are two kinds of disciplines.

> >

> >

> > We will begin with a story, the greatest and most effective way of

> > conveying knowledge. Once upon a time, long ago, all the munis and

> > rishis approached Lord Vishnu to tell him that even though He

> > (incarnated as Lord Dhanvanthari) had given them the means to cure

> > illnesses through Ayurveda, people still fell ill. They also wanted to

> > know what to do when people got sick. Sometimes it is not just

> > physical illness, but mental and emotional illness too that needs to

> > be dealt with. Anger, lust, greed, jealousy etc. How does one get rid

> > of all these impurities? What is the formula? Vishnu was lying on the

> > bed of snakes the serpent Adishesha with a 1,000 heads. When the

> > Rishis approached Him, he gave them Adishesha, the symbol of

> > awareness, who took birth in the world as Maharishi Patanjali. So

> > Patanjali came to this earth to give this knowledge of yoga which came

> > to be known as the yogasutras. Patanjali said he was not going to

> > discuss the yogasutras unless 1,000 people got together. So 1,000

> > people gathered south of Vindhya Mountains to listen to him. Patanjali

> > had another condition he would put a screen between him and his

> > students and told them that nobody was to lift the screen or leave.

> > Everybody had to stay in the hall till he finished. So Patanjali

> > stayed behind the curtain and he transmitted his knowledge to the

> > 1,000 gathered. Each of them absorbed this knowledge. It was an

> > amazing phenomenon and even amongst the students, they could not

> > believe how they were getting this knowledge, how the master was

> > making each of them understand without uttering words from behind the

> > curtain. Everybody was amazed. Each one of them experienced such a

> > blast of energy, such a blast of enthusiasm, that they could not even

> > contain it. But they still had to maintain the discipline. But one

> > little boy had to go out to attend natures call. So he left the room.

> > He thought to himself that he would go quietly and return quietly.

> > Another person became curious. What is the Master doing behind the

> > curtain? I want to see. He got so curious that he lifted the curtain

> > to see the Master. But just as he did so, all 999 disciples were burnt

> > to ashes. Now, Patanjali became very sad. There he was, ready to

> > impart knowledge to the whole world and all of his disciples were

> > burnt. At this moment, that one little boy returned. Patanjali asked

> > him where he had gone. The boy explained and asked his forgiveness.

> > Patanjali was compassionate and felt that at least one of his

> > disciples was saved. So he gave him the rest of the sutras, the rest

> > of the knowledge. But the student had violated the law and Patanjali

> > was not willing to forget that. So he said, Since you have violated

> > the law, you will become a Brahmarakshasa, a ghost and hang on the

> > tree. And the only way he could liberate himself from the curse is to

> > teach one student. Saying this Patanjali disappeared. Now

> > Brahmarakshasa, hanging on a tree, would ask everyone who passed by

> > one question and when they could not answer he would eat them. He had

> > no choice and for a few thousand years this was the story. He could

> > not find a single person to whom he could teach the yogasutras. So he

> > remained in the tree as a Brahmarakshasa (the lesson here being that

> > for the one who has great knowledge, and who does something wrong, the

> > state of Brahmarakshasa will come. An intelligent person becoming a

> > criminal becomes more dangerous than an innocent person becoming a

> > criminal. If a person, who knows all knowledge and then turns a

> > criminal, it is much more dangerous). So the Brahmarakshasa was

> > hanging there and waiting for relief. Then out of compassion,

> > Patanjali himself becomes a disciple and comes as a student to

> > Brahmarakshasa who told him all the sutras, which Patanjali wrote on

> > the palm leaf. The story goes that to redeem one disciple, the Master

> > became the disciple of a disciple. Patanjali wrote the sutras sitting

> > on the top of the tree as that was where the Brahmarakshasa sat. Also,

> > Brahmarakshasa worked only in the night. So he dictated the sutras at

> > night and Patanjali wrote them on the leaves. He plucked all the

> > leaves and made a small scratch, drew blood and wrote. This went on

> > for seven days. At the end of it, Patanjali was tired and put

> > everything he had written on a piece pf cloth and set it down and went

> > to bathe. But when Patanjali returned, he found that a goat had eaten

> > most of the leaves. Patanjali then took the cloth bag and the rest of

> > the leaves and walked away. In this story, there is a lot of depth.

> > The puranas do not give any explanation. They just give a story and it

> > is for us to unlock the meaning. So what is that you all have to find

> > out? (1) How did the master convey the knowledge to everybody without

> > uttering a word? (2) What was the significance of the veil and when it

> > was lifted why did everybody burn down? (3) Why was the one boy

> > forgiven? (4) What is the significance of the goat? (4) What is the

> > significance of this story?

> >

> > Regards

> > Kulbir Bains

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