Yoga Sagar

SR No.: 014011
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Paramhamsa Satyananda
Publisher: Bihar School of Yoga Munger
Publication Year: 1994
Total Pages: 436
Language: English
Classification: Seminar & Articles
File Size: 24 MB

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neurosis. He came for three weeks of treatment with us and at the end of four weeks he was very well. He could then understand what was happening to his mind. He would say that his mind was running so fast that, “I would speak the first sentence. By the time I would speak the second sentence, my mind would have gone one thousand thoughts ahead and the second sentence would have no relation to the first." His logic had broken. So, it is continuity that is most important. That is vijnana, that is buddhi. There is intelligence which validates us. Vijnaanani Brahmeti vyajaanaat. (3:5:1). This is the secret he found. But still the teacher said, “Probably you have to go a little deeper and find out from where the buddhi itself comes, from where the vijnana itself emerges?"
This time, the student returned, did tapas and got to the very foundation of that buddhi, from where the buddhi, the manas, the prana and the body have all emerged. That is the ananda. Aanando Brahmeti vyajaanaat. (3:6:1). That is the state of bliss. But this time something different happened. The student did not return to the teacher at all. Probably the teacher was searching for him and found out that he was in deep samadhi, in the state of total ananda. Parame vyoman pratishthitaa. (3:6:5). He was established in that total silence, all pervasive, pure consciousness, which is an embodiment of total bliss, total peace, total knowledge, total freedom which he realized to be the truth.
That is the total concept that we get in the Upanishads, which form the foundation for a total approach in yoga. Man is not merely a physical being. We all have the five layers of existence: the annamaya kosha, the gross physical body, the pranamaya kosha, manomaya kosha, vijnanamaya kosha and anandamaya kosha, and probably other koshas beyond that too. So, in our causal state, in our original state, we are all one, because it goes beyond space, time and causation. That is what Swami Vivekananda told all his brothers and sisters of America. So, basically we are all one. It is that state that we have to reach. The science to realize that is what we call yoga.
Yoga is the science of total living. It is not merely a set of asanas or pranayama or mudras or bandhas and kriyas. It is a way of living by which we start elevating ourselves towards that ultimate source. We begin to raise ourselves from the animal level to become normal human beings, great human
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