#10 OM Is The Antidote | Yoga Sutras Of Patanjali

Namaste and a very warm welcome to all of you in this daily morning live meditation session with me,

D'Anse.

My salutations to Patanjali to showing us the way to bringing this knowledge this path of yoga to our lives.

You're so curious,

Curious to know,

Curious to experience.

You go to any new place,

You immediately want to know the best place to eat,

The best experience to have,

The best hotel to stay,

Best things to do.

And this curiosity is good.

This is what has brought us so far as humanity to explore this world,

To explore the mountain tops,

To explore the depths of the ocean.

And we are now so curious,

We want to explore the space,

We want to go to other planets,

We want to do this and that.

All out of this curiosity to know,

Which is our intrinsic nature to know,

To expand in this knowing is our intrinsic nature.

The only thing that has not happened yet,

The only thing that has happened only for a few is that this curiosity is right now is only of the outside.

It's only of the external,

It's never of the internal.

Even if we bring in 5% of our curiosity,

Our energy,

Our awareness from the outside,

Chasing this best that,

All the experiences,

Fighting with all the miseries,

Trying to understand,

Trying to know this entire external experience.

This external world,

If only a bit of it,

Of that energy is put in turning inwards,

Is put in understanding the inner world,

Much is there to be experienced,

Much is there to be achieved.

And you may not even see that this internal world is the source of the entire external world's experience.

You may not even need to do anything or chase anything in the external world if you understand and master your inner world.

But you may not even see that curiosity into inquiry,

Into an inner inquiry,

And that inner inquiry into an intense desire to know,

To explore what is this inner world,

What is this body,

What is this mind,

And not just be satisfied with what's written in a few lines in a book somewhere,

In a scientific book somewhere that this is the body,

This is the mind,

And now go out in the world,

Suffer.

That's not what life is about,

That's not what body and mind are made for.

These are such an amazing spacesuit to go through this cosmos,

To explore this cosmos from the outside,

From the inside.

But first,

Inside,

The whole effort of Yoga Sutras of Patanjali is to turn your awareness inwards,

To make you explore the inner world,

To show you how to explore the inner world,

To show you when you come across your mind,

How to understand the mind,

What to do when you come across this obstacle and that obstacle,

And when you come across anything in the inner world,

How to perceive it,

How to put it in its right place.

All these secrets,

All this wisdom,

Yoga Sutras are full of this wisdom.

If you dive into it with sincerity,

If you dive in it with patience,

If you dive in it with full awareness,

There is a lot to gain.

Since last two sessions,

Patanjali is talking about the mind,

Patanjali is talking about why you're turning inwards,

What all happens,

What all mind and its obstacles that you face,

And he's connecting them,

He's also giving the antidote,

Which is Om as the mantra.

And he's saying that while you're going through your inner world,

Have this inner mantra,

Om with yourself.

Let us go through these connected Sutras from the past two sessions,

They're connected to the last two sessions.

So if you have not yet attended those two sessions,

Please make sure that after this session,

You take time to go through those as well,

And if you're directly coming into this session,

It's also fine.

We will somewhat pick up from where we left off in the last couple of sessions.

Patanjali says,

He's saying from it,

From the mantra,

Om,

The disappearance of obstacles and turning inwards of consciousness.

This again is that he is wanting you to do everything to turn your consciousness,

Turn your awareness inwards,

Towards yourself,

Towards your being.

It's so important that in almost every Sutra in the beginning,

He's indicating this in some or the other way.

He's saying with Om,

All obstacles disappear.

How does that happen?

You have to see that Om is not a Hindu mantra,

Is not a Vedic mantra,

Is not a yogic mantra.

Om is vibration.

Om is made of these three sounds of A,

U,

M.

These are basic sounds.

These are the sounds when you put them together in a certain form,

In a certain permutation,

In a certain combination,

All other sounds are coming out of it.

All other vibrations of sound are arising out of these primary sounds,

A,

U,

M.

Our whole system,

Our body,

Mind,

The way we are,

Is also energy,

Is also vibration.

It's also resonating,

Vibrating at a certain frequency,

At multiple frequencies.

When you bring in the sound of Om,

Everything is synchronized,

Everything is harmonized.

Because the frequency,

The vibration of Om,

When you resonate to that,

When you synchronize yourself to that,

The entire set of energies and frequencies in your being,

They come out of disharmony.

They come out of all where they were in blocks,

In disorganization.

They are reorganized,

Bringing your energies back to your true being,

To your true nature.

And from there on,

It's easier to turn your awareness inwards and not necessarily have it all the time outwards.

Then Patanjali goes on describing nine of these obstacles that while you are trying to turn inwards,

While you are,

When you said to yourself,

Yes,

I want to turn my awareness inwards,

But still there are obstacles from the mind,

The mind is constantly distracted,

And you can feel that in meditation as well.

The moment you sit down,

Your mind is going and planning,

Your mind is going and thinking about the past,

Thinking about the future,

Thinking or not even thinking,

Just fragments of stuff,

Of images,

Of noises,

Of voices,

Just going through your mind all the time.

So all these obstacles,

All these distractions,

Patanjali is giving an antidote,

A way,

He is using Om as a mantra,

A way to overcome these obstacles.

And he is so scientific,

He is so detailed that he even lists down all the nine obstacles that you would face,

While you would turn your awareness inwards.

He was such a genius to not leave this to the meditator to decide which obstacle is mine,

How do I go about it.

He describes all these obstacles,

He pinpoints all these obstacles,

So that you can easily recognize that yes,

I am stuck here.

And what is the antidote?

Of all these nine obstacles,

He is bringing them together and saying Om is the antidote.

What are these nine obstacles?

He says,

Vyadhi satyana samasya pramada alasya viriti bhramti darshana labdha bhumika tvan vastita tvani chitta viksepas te natarya.

What that means is,

We will go one by one.

He is describing nine obstacles that are distractions of the mind that are not letting you turn your awareness inwards.

First is vyadhi.

Vyadhi is disease.

You see,

In our current times,

We call this disease has this name,

This category,

This disease of the heart,

This disease of the brain,

This disease is of the kidney,

This disease is of the liver,

And so on.

We have isolated,

We have separated all these diseases in different categories,

And we are developing with our modern science point solutions to address all these diseases.

But for Patanjali,

He says,

If you take the root of all this,

The root is DIS-EASE.

When you are not at ease,

When you are at DIS-EASE,

That's the source of all the misery that you would experience in life.

All the complications,

Physical,

Mental,

Experiential,

All these consequences,

All these miseries that you are facing,

They are arising out of you being at DIS-EASE.

You not being at ease in yourself.

The definition or the word for health in yoga,

In Ayurveda,

Is swasthya.

Swasthya means somebody who is seated in oneself.

Swayam me stit,

Seated in oneself.

And when you are not seated in yourself,

When you are not centered,

You are not at ease,

That's what DIS-EASE is all about.

That's what is arising and giving birth to all the diseases.

Second,

Satthina is langua,

No energy.

Motivations are needed for the external world,

Motivations are also needed for the internal world.

And sometimes you are not having enough energy to go inside.

So you need to inspire yourself to overcome this obstacle,

To overcome this lack of energy that you put in your practice and in your inner journey.

You have to go there fully energetic,

You have to bring in all your energy in,

Otherwise there is no reaching anywhere.

Samasya is doubt.

You see people create problems out of problems or problems out of solutions.

They have,

Their life is solved,

Their experience is solved,

But they create more questions,

More problems.

In the name of curiosity,

They create questions,

They create doubts.

And out of those doubts,

Out of those questions,

Those problems,

More problems arise and you are never really at the end.

Because you are just going in this infinite loop,

Infinite chain of problems arising out of other problems and you are always in doubt.

So for a while you have to step aside all your doubts,

You have to trust.

You have to when you go within,

You have to go with trust.

Putting the doubt,

Putting this as a problem aside for a moment.

There are six more obstacles,

I will discuss them tomorrow.

Looking at the time,

Let us move into silence,

Let us move into meditation.

Once again we will for a few sessions,

Starting the last couple of sessions,

We will chant Om as the antidote to put mind in its right place to take ourselves out of the misery what mind creates for us.

If you wish to repeat Om after me,

Please do so.

And while you are either repeating Om or just listening,

Let go in the vibrations.

Meditate on the sound of Om,

See where this is pointing.

It starts with the vibrations in the physical and then it goes very deep in you.

Follow those vibrations,

Let them go along with them,

Let your awareness go within with the vibrations,

With the reverberations of Om.

Please close your eyes.

Your posture upright.

Your breath flowing naturally.

Your awareness inwards.

Om.

Om.

Om.

As you meditate along with Om,

Remain aware of the vibrations,

Of the reverberations and where they lead in your inner world as you chant,

As you listen to Om.

Om.

Om.

Om.

Om.

Let the sound of Om vibrate in every cell of your body,

Every space,

Corner of your mind.

Be full of the vibrations of Om,

Move along within overcoming all obstacles.

Om.

Om.

Feel the emptiness,

The silence after every Om.

The settlement of the mind,

Of the body,

All the energies reorganizing in harmony as you let go in Om.

Om.

Om.

Allow yourself to come back to ease,

Come back to the center,

Come back home with every Om.

Om.

Om.

Om.

From the bottom of your body to the top of your head,

Let the vibration reach everywhere you are,

Consciously,

Unconsciously.

Om.

Let Om be your only vibration.

You,

One with Om.

Om.

No more effort.

Staying absolutely silent,

Still,

Letting the energies reorganize on their own.

Breathing in silence,

In centeredness,

In a sense of present,

Presence in this moment.

You,

One with Om.

You,

One with Om.

Awareness,

At all times,

Inwards,

In a state of complete ease,

Effortlessness,

Silence,

Awareness.

You,

One with Om.

You can maintain this meditative silence for some more minutes.

Let go in it.

Explore your depths,

Keeping your eyes closed,

Remaining aware at all times.

Or very gently and slowly,

You may open your eyes with a sense of ease,

Awareness,

Silence,

Centeredness.

Taking these meditative qualities to your daily life,

To your daily routines,

As you go back from your inner world to the outer world.

I will see you tomorrow at 7am Central European Time.

Namaste.