EIGHT-FOLDPATH(ASTANGA YOGA)

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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 .

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The eighth one is Samadhi .What does it mean ? Even the person who is

experiencing will disappear and only experience will stand. We has been to a

musical concert, but what is there in our mind ? There is the hall, its location

and there are the seats and  people sitting around us .After wards, there are

the musician and his shape.Suppose, he will sit down there .His name and his

past achievements also are there, We will be talking about his achievements, his

greatness, his name, his fame.Everything except himself, we are enjoying.(In

South India, there is renowed musician by name Chittibabu). All these are about

Chittibabu and not  at all Chittibabu.He started music.There is another

musician  in South India.He has a big wart in his face, and abig brow- mark and

big eyes.Before he starts music,we will see all these things fancifully and

sometimes we will be silly by laughing at each other about his face and his

expressions, how he is expressing and

all that.So he just started the music.What happened ? The hall disappeared .

Then the environment disappeared.Your friends who came to attend the concert and

with whom you are talking about pickles and other things disappeared.Some were

talking on the crop of mango fruits that year . They were talking all these

things.But when he started, it disappeared. The friends disappeared, the

environment and the neighbours disappeared and the musical concert and the

programme disappeared from your mind.Then his name disappeared from your mind,

his fame, what you about him disappeared and the big wart disappeared . The

peculiar expressions of his face disappeared .What is there ? You wanted to

catch the train by 9.30, you sat down by 7.30 P.M . and the concert was stopped

..You got up .It was 10.30 in the night.Did you go by train ? Our mind stopped,

our senses stopped.Our programme to catch the train stopped.We were not

present.Only one thing was present.Either

ourselves or the musician were not present.But only one thing that is called

experience of music was present.Even ourselves were not present.If we had been

in our minds, we would have gone to the railway station and caught the

train.No.What happened ? The total absence of the observer himself.What is that

happens here ? Total absence of the four- fold ring and the five pointed

star.What is present ? The one who is existing in everyone commonly.But the

original glass which these two are made up of is there.It is one .In the same

way, the indweller is one in all.He is called ‘Antharyami’. He is the Great

presence .So  the one thing exist.This is called  ‘Samadhi’ .These  are

the eight steps that are to be practiced simultaneously, not one after

another.Then how to do it ?

 

 

 

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COURTESY.MASTER E.K

 

Regards

Bhararthi.A