eight-foldpath(astanga yoga)

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If you are looking at a banana, if a boy is looking at a banana, if a Botony

professor is looking at a banana, all these three are different from one

another. The boy has only one thing with the banana.What is it ? Experience .

What is the relationship between sugar and a sugar technology professor ?

What is the relationship between sugar and a boy ?

The first thing is a volume about sugar, with the sugar technology—What is

sugar ? Its definition, how to produce,how to prepare,manufacture etc. The

second thing is called Dhayana.The boy did not know the word sugar.The boy need

not remember that the sugar is crystallary or transparent or something else .

Theboy need not remember that the sugar has some weight and volume, all its

physical, chemical and mental properties.They go, they disappear. What is there

? The boy wants something.It is there.That is what we call ‘sugar’,what he

never calls,but experiences.The relationship between us and the world is similar

that between the sugar technology professor and sugar.

 

Suppose there is a banana.What is our conception about banana ? The shape or

name of the banana, but not the actual banana.But the shape or name or colour is

not banana.When you eat it, you just experience the happiness.You would not be

alive to the name,shape,taste,colour,smell,or weight of the banana. You would

become one with that.That is called happiness.By way of practice, that state of

happiness would be attained.What is the practice required to attain this,I am

going to tell you.The actual practice, we have described yesterday.But I will

tell you a little bit more.Thus Dhyana is something your experience, where the

name of a thing disappears.The shape of a thing disappears from your

mind.Everything disappears except what, it is experience,I will give you an

example.(Master here showed a wood in the instructional hall).Is This wood there

all these four days or not ?  It was yellow also all these days.But do you see

it until I  disturb your mind

and bring it to you ? Have you seen the log of wood and is yellowish nature and

its shape all these three days? Why ? You are busy with moreimportant thing and

though your eye is opened,your mind does not see it through your eye.The eye is

not permitted to see.Are we closing the other part of the eye, so that we may

not see this and open the eye only to the board ? But we recognise only the

board.Not even the board you remember.What it is your remember ? The letter we

write.After a few minutes, you won’t remember the letter because you have to

remember the words.You have to remember the sentences.After a few minutes, you

will not remember the sentences, because you have to remember the import and

grasp and receive it .Thus what  you are grasping is like the electeicity.These

are all meant for electricity.But for it,all these arewaste.So when the one

thing required stands and all the other things disappear, that state is (like

electricity) called

Dhyana.There is only one thing and one thing – not its name , not its colour,

not its shape, not its meaning,not its import, but it is yourself.When  all

these disappear, what remains ? That is the observer himself and nothing else

..Crystal, a transparent crystal of himself.The difference between the thing that

is seen and one who sees disappears.This is the  meaning of experiencing it or

enjoying it .Our hunger is  satiated only after we cook our food and take it.So

we have to do that work.This is about Dhyana .Let us practice it and dwell in it

..

 

Continues……

 

COURTESY-MASTER E.K

 

Regards

Bharathi.A