Atma-Samyama Yoga
Atma-Samyama Yoga
Flame in a Windless Room
Mind in Deep Meditation
Sri Krishna spoke, “My dear friend,
anasritah karma phalam
karyam karma karoti yah
sa sannyasi ca yogi ca
na niragnir na cakriyah
“Neither the one who renounces action is a yogi, nor one who renounces the sacred fire, but verily he or she who renounces the passionate clinging to the outcome and enthusiastically performs is the true yogi and true swami too. The one, which is sannyasa, is yoga also, because without transcending the desires, yoga is not possible. Selfless action is best in start with and complete evaporation of desires is a progressively higher stage. Neither being a workaholic nor being a fruitaholic, but pure desirelessness is the only perfume of advancing in the path of yoga. It is desire, clinging to the fruit that pushes one’s self off into the ditch. Therefore one must lift up oneself from the ocean of suffering by oneself, and one must not push or let fall one’s self in the hellish pool of misery. Because, you are yoursell your own friend; and you are yourself your own enemy. If you have empowered your intellect, if you have exercised and strengthened its might and its commanding ability upon mind & senses, then you are certainly your own best friend; But if you have not done this yet, you are definitely your own worst enemy! If you are still not yet in the mood of starting you are destined to stay your own worst enemy for the rest of eternity!
“Do not shiver when cold comes, do not go restless and grumble when heat comes. Do not go stupefied like fortune wheel winners when happiness arrives, and do not cry when suffering descends. Do not feel bitter when humiliated and do not brag around when highly respected. Keep heart just like oceanica pacifica because, in great length and width of heart, God is accommodated!
uddhared atmanatmanam
natmanam avasadayet
atmaiva hy atmano bandhur
atmaiva ripur atmanah
bandhur atmatmanas tasya
yenatmaivatmana jitah
anatmanas tu satmtve
vartetatmaiva satruvat
jitatmanah prasantasya
paramatma samahitah
sitosna sukhaduhkhesu
tatha manapamanayoh
“When you are so rich and prosperous in knowledge & experience all the gold, silver & diamonds of the world become like insignificant clay and stones, just like El Dorado. Not of much worth to strive for. Striving for them becomes a waste of time. So rich, so famous, so empirical, so royal, so gentile you become that no hate, no bitterness no irritation, no agitation is left in your heart even for sinners. Even for enemies and those avaricious, jealous and indifferent. Your love inundates all.”
When Majanoo was sneaking into his beloved Laila’s upstairs room, he confronted her angry brother, ready to fight, but he refused. Because his face look like his beloved. He can only love & love & love to all who arc related, connected, or even resemble her.
“Holding such love in your bosom, staying alone in a silent place, not possessing, nor accepting, nor hoping, not tempting, for anything from anyone, with organized mind and organized senses, settled body in pyramidical position, locus your attention please in your own inner Self.
“Spread kusha grass mat, deer skin over that, hand woven cotton upon that, remaining even, balanced, not too high, nor loo low, nor tilting but straight & firm be seated softly on that train and let mind & senses and their actions to stay under your yogic dictum and then begin yoga, first just to purify yourself. Body, head and neck should be in one straight line, your glance should be focused nowhere else but on the nose tip. Staying firm on the vow of celibacy & fearlessness do visualization of my transcendental form on dorsal, pineal or KM) lotus petal plexus. Peacefully practicing induction visualization and retreating you begin abiding in me. Make my remembrance your very residence. This is the simplest easiest yoga, O dear friend.
“This yoga is perfected by moderate consumption of health food therapy, moderate application of sleep therapy. There should be a healthy balance between waking & sleeping, acting & socializing. When your mind guided by intellect begins to abide in the Self, that time you become yoga - yukta…
“Just like a burning flame alit in the windless space, likewise your mind becomes. That’s when yoga succeeds!
yatha dipo nivatastho
nengate sopama smrta
yogino yatacittasya
yunjato yogam atmanah
“Completely introversive by practice of successful yoga when your intellect becomes purified & subtlized then it abides permanently in the satisfaction of atmic-experience. Great joy…O,Wonderful bliss of beyond senses is perceived by stilled windless, whimless intellect and there you become immovably established in the atmatatva Magnificent.
“Attaining which you consider no other item superior other than this, before which even mountains of misery fail to shake, rattle or mesh; which is far beyond, furthest away from smearing unions with misery in the form of worldliness, that, yes THAT, hurray, that- is yoga, the one and only- that’s it! There is the yogic experience born, hatched in all its loveliness. That should be practiced, untired, unbored, and with determined consciousness. This is the supreme duty. Recognize this fact and leap up on the line of this most elegant Amtrak duly of your life!
“Desires born of immense will, emanated from vasana & prarabdha, which are determined to toss and turn and throw you off of your True Self, drop them all efficiently, completely, & fully so that even a single memory of their existence is finished. Thus having locked off all lingering traces organize your senses patiently, patiently, slowly and slowly, and gradually arise, arise and arise, holding up intellect, steadied by patience, place it in the Self and think no longer of anything other than the Sell.
“Where revolting mind freaks out and sneaks away then patiently following up generously with motherly affection picking it up place it in the Self-experience, facilitate it to relish the gorgeous inside the anti-material world of beyond the mundane.
“It is only your degree of sinlessness, the degree of your honesty, intensity on the line of your duty throughout life, the degree of your clarity in non-expecting in all undertakings, that is on the ultimate TEST today; so when you fathom deep nearing Mystica transcensia check your worth. Also check the worth of all success & accomplishments of your life. If you passed the test then,
santa rajasam bramha
bhutamakalmasam
“Infinitely uplifting, upsurging, arising bliss of Bramhic experience is swelling like high lidos of rapture to engulf you inundate you and immortalize you in bliss, peace & love.
yunjann evam sadatmanam
yogivigata kalmasah
sukhena bramha samsparsam
atyantam sukham asnute
“Once you cross the boundary of lemptaiion, your karmas are considerably less in from of the gigantic sky high size of meritorious deeds of risking life on the line of dutifulness. Yes, of course this makes you cross the boundary then Bramha becomes easy & easily & happily your touch with it enlarges inlo all-encompassing expansion of happiness. There here comes joy, a miracle of miracles…
sarva-bhutastham atmanam
sarva bhutani catmani
iksate yoga yuktatma
sarvatra samadarsanah
yo mam pasyati sarvatra
sarvam ca mayi pasyati
tasyaham na pranasyami
sa ca me na pranasyati
“Once your atma becomes this Bramha, and this Bramha becomes your atma then this same atma you begin to see as being of all. Then you do not see as american, european, ethiopian, russian, arabian, female, male, rich, poor, ugly, beautiful. Just like a righteous person looks only to the good in others and avoids or just doesn’t see the bad, unless their being a teacher and do so just to remove it the same way perfected yogis do not sec other’s bodies nor the past or future nor what dirt is in the heart. He leaves all those for psychics. Atma alone is perceived by him, adorns his eye like star-shine the sky. According to other’s levels of consciousness they are dim or far more bright and walk about like human-stars. In that, like a vast interwoven sheet of will he sees all beings in the Atma, spread out like canopy of sky which Bramha has mysteriously individualized for him. And not just for five billion people of today, but also all plants, animals, hills & nations, their destiny, karma and multifarious history. When the sheet of will is dropped diversity is dissolved and lightenings of Atma alone remain.
“Thus rolling and speeding and racing multi-colored lights continue on and on. Then this light of individualized Bramha now appearing as Atma,” Krishna says “Assumes the form of Me - Myself. And then you see me in all beings in the form of their Atma, which they will realize certainly after multi-billions of lifetimes. Yes, bone-breaking brain-stunning tough task it is and duty performance family taking care of and so many different families-after each 100 or so years in different species and races too. The same ultimate destiny begins to get shining and shimmering and illuminating as Lord Krishna the Vasudeva. You see Me then, O Arjuna, all permeating in the hearts of all regardless of outer appearances.”
Then that vision is taken over by another one, not Vasudeva in each & all appearing now, but all are spread out in Vasudeva. Krishna has become now cosmic now he is Virat. In all his limbs all planets with all happenings are located. You can see in him all like vast screen of television. All the world of each being from Rasatal to Satyaloka, and all indwelling celestials and sages and others of billions of years in age. All are residing or appearing in the 4 billion mile large Sri Krishna Virat. Ami Krishna says,
“One who gets this most valuable & rare darshan1 never disappear from his sight, and he never disappears from mine.”
What a grand reassurance. Krishna is now in the mood of discoursing the Truth in terms of himself. So he says,
“Established in unification of vision, that I am abiding in all as their very own Being, when you love me and you go ecstatic in that as Chaitanya & Meera, then even if you are not dancing and singing like them but stay calm and deep and profound like Buddha and Shankara, or act like you Arjuna, extensive, intensive, or even so like businessmen of america always busy, too busy, but because of immortal love even though working hard, on 24 hour call, still he is in me, for me, by my side always. He is right in front of Me. No matter in Los Angeles or New York, London or Bombay; all are just shadows of the light of Me, reality is Me. They see me always, no need to close eyes and try to tune-in, but right there with wide opened eyes, while hectically acting on the line of duty there is nothing in their experience except Me & Me & Me.
sarvabhutasthitam yo mam
bhajaty ekatvam asthitah
sarvatha vartamano pi
sa yogi mayi vartate
Krishna elaborates further, and my reverend father used to become very particular when emphasizing this adventure-
atmaupamyena sarvatra
samam pasyati yo arjuna
sukham va yadi va duhkham
sa yogi paramo matah
“Even while he sees all in Me and Me in all, still his interactions flow differently and appropriately. Just like the whole body is yours, if any limb suffers you also suffer equally from the toe to the head, but still you cannot wear your shoes on your head, and your hat on your feet; shirt you cannot wear on your thighs and pant you cannot wear on your neck and necktie on your hips. Although all are your limbsand you love them alike, still there is appropriate discrimination. The same way with equanimity of vision a great automatic talent of appropriate responsecomes and that is a special gift of enlightenment. Below that there will always be questions of right & wrong which is what–? Is it right or is it wrong??–But it is only here you see all in him & him in all. All equally and on the grounds of absolute equanimity different varieties of treatment and interactions flow. While seeing like this and acting like this, whatever joy & problem and suffering comes then treat them all alike. One who is past master of this way of life is mine own; he is my favorite. He is my man. I can sing & laugh with him.
Then here goes Arjuna, he asks,-
“O great one, what can I do? Seems what you’ve said is grcal. the all-time finest, but look at my mind, so turbulent, restless, it always sneaks out… It takes off my Lord-see, it goes out to see the Pyramids in Egypt then to Buckingham palace, then to Disneyland, then Vedaland, then Grand Canyon, the Crystal cathedral, then Benares Hindu University Too powerful Sir, organizing it is too difficult like taming the air, what shall 1 do- O my angelic friend?”
Krishna resounded.
“Yes of course, no doubt about it oh great warrior- you are right! You are absolutely right! But there is a way also, just because it seems difficult are you one to give up? Where there’s a will the way opens up. I’m sure. You have to practice to bring it on to the right spot. Through the faculty of detachment you have to hold it upright. Anyone, who wants right, always right, has got to do it dear. And once you determine & decide things become easy, I assure you. Therefore, you must try. If you have already tried fifty times, make it one hundred. Even if you’ve tried nine hundred times make it one thousand! Nothing to lose. If you don’t do it you lose life itself.”
Arjuna asked,
“Holy sire, I’ve a question again; If a shaky minded person after practicing so much yoga goes astray in the midway if he fell in love with Ms. Universe, became a tycoon, or ran for office& was elected President, or death came, and Realization didn’t happen then does his life just perish away like some shattered piece of cloud?”
“No Arjuna, no, not like that. Neither here nor hereafter there is no perish to come to harm any iota of his earnings. Nobody can take it away, and you can’t lose it. There’s no going backwards, or astrayonce you begin on the spiritual path. Perish or fall does not occur to those who do kalyana to his own Self through yogic practice. Such yogabhrasta’s soul travels to either Svah, Maha, Janah, Tapah, Satyam or Bramha loka of existence and there he enjoys & lives long long years according to his punyas. Then he comes back on earth again and is born in a prosperous, spiritual, yoga practicing family. Rare is such a birth of course. Here his past impressions of yoga, draw him to some enlightened one & he continues from wherever he had left. Even great riches and family love and glamour cannot allure him, he transcends them all successfully. Rises beyond all leg pulling stuff on his way clean and purified and serene he becomes and then – tato yati param gatim. He then attains the supreme benediction.
“Therefore, O Arjuna, you become a yogi! Yogi is far-advanced personality than penance-performing great wilier, intellectual giant or philosopher or even great scholar of performances of religious rituals. And among all yogis, the one who is unified with me through all the depths of his or her heart, is the very intimate friend of me.
“Do you know someone, anyone like this? Give him this flower and invite him to dinner to see me…”
*****
Lord, How shall I know a yogi?
-Dearest one, know him as the one who unites his mind with the Divine within; who merges his 1/10 into the total 9/10’s, and lives like that always. Whose world-dream is dropped; and he’s awakened into Bramhic-Reality. One who is nobody in the world but somebody in My world, where all is composed of divine Love…
One who melted into love and rose into ultimate triplicity of worshipper, worshipped and the worship; of lover, beloved & the relation. You have a choice: Be thou an actionist yogi like Bharat, Janak, Rama, or meditationist yogi as Matsendra, Gorahka, Jalandhar, or devotionist yogi as Andal, Lalla & Harivamsa.
All these grandeurs of yogic wonders lead to one state of premaiva karyam, premaiva karyam… that reflects through one’s eyes & face, through one’s way of speaking, smiling & laughing…. Know him, he is the best yogi in my heart.
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