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did he create them, rather he just formulated them systematically. This yogic philosophy is eternal, and vedic. It was in the Vedas from the very beginning.
Maharishi Patanjali has said one thing: all your sadhana or spiritual practices are on one side and surrender to the Lord is on the other. However, not understanding the secrets of the scriptures, we consider Ishwara bhakti, devotion to God, as a special emotion. However, if we purify our inner self, in the end we become a devotee of the Lord. We cannot achieve jnana without being the devotee of the Lord. We cannot follow that path. We have seen many great saints who in the beginning are very strict, disciplined and industrious. They move with a resolve to put the whole world on the right path, to reform mankind. However, as they proceed in this direction and their karmas are purified, they become more and more compassionate and full of love for mankind. What is realized by yoga, upasana, jnana and karma? I would like to inform you of one small thing which appears in the beginning of Samvediya Chandogya Upanishad:
Eshaam bhutaanaam prithivee rasah, prithivya aapo rasah. Apaam aushadhayo rasah, aushadhinaam purusho rasah, purushasya vag rasah, vacha rigrasah, richah saama rasah, saamna udgitha rasah.
What does bhuta mean here? It does not mean evil spirit or ghost. Bhutas are what is created, what is produced: earth, water, fire, air and ether. In ether, you will find the attribute of shabdha, or sound. In air, along with sound, you will find the second attribute, sparsha, or touch. When you reach fire, you find, in addition to the two above, one more attribute of form, or roopa. In water you will get four attributes, i.e. sound, touch, form and taste, or rasah. In earth there are five attributes: sound, touch, form, taste and smell. As earth has all the five attributes, Chandogya Upanishad eulogized earth with the mantra, Bhutaanaam prithivee rasah. In all the elements that you can see in the space, in essence the earth is present in each of them.
You might be worrying that the rain is not going to stop, but there is no reason to worry. In Amarkosh the bhuvan (earth) and jivan (life) have been written of as equivalents of water. Water is the life of all, and this whole world has been created out of water. In the Puranas it has been said that prakriti and purusha were manifested from the sadguru Brahman. When
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