#81. You Are Emptiness, You Are Nothingness | Yoga Sutras Of Patanjali

Namaste.

Welcome to this meditation session with me,

Dhyansay,

Your path to inner peace,

Wisdom and awareness.

Let us enter into today's session with a short story.

A tiger entered into a king's palace.

This is one of those kings who has a grand palace,

Who is someone who doesn't have just dogs and cats as his pets.

He has tigers and lions and all the other big wild animals in his collection.

So one of these tigers from his collection,

He entered the palace.

Somehow he escaped the place where he was kept and he found his way to enter the palace.

He entered this large magnificent palace and in this palace he found himself in a room which was full of mirrors.

This king was no ordinary king.

He was a collector of many things.

So he had created a room where he had collected all kinds of mirrors,

All small,

Big,

All different angles,

Convexes,

And all different curvatures and all different shapes of mirrors he had collected in this room from all parts of the world.

So this tiger,

He found himself in the room.

He looked around and he saw in all these mirrors,

He saw 1000 tigers.

He was shocked.

He had never seen anything more than just himself.

At the most,

When he was drinking water in the lake,

He had seen only his own image.

But now he sees 1000 tigers in all these mirrors.

And not only 1000 tigers,

He sees some of them bigger than him,

Some of them more stronger than him.

And in all these images,

He finds himself surrounded.

The fear kicks in,

The instinct kicks in,

And since he is a brave tiger,

He has to defend himself.

He starts roaring at all these images.

All these images,

They roar back at him.

And he sees that whatever he does,

All these 1000 tigers,

They do more back at him.

And in this fight,

He is constantly involved all night long.

And the next morning,

When the people from that palace opened the door of that room,

They found this tiger dead.

Meditate over this story as we enter into today's sutra,

Into today's message of Patanjali in the meditation.

We are on the kevalya pad,

The path to nothingness,

The path to emptiness,

Where all the effort from Patanjali and all the effort in these sessions,

In this last chapter,

Of last phase of yoga sutras of Patanjali,

Is to take all the obstacles away from this path towards emptiness.

Patanjali has been saying,

Not only in this chapter,

But all throughout the journey,

He has been giving signals that everything in life,

Everything that you are imagining about life,

They all fall short of this most ultimate vibration of life,

Which is emptiness.

No matter what ideas you have about life,

What life is,

No matter what ideas you have about yourself,

Who you are,

Today you give yourself this idea,

I am this,

Tomorrow you give yourself that idea,

I am that.

You give yourself a perspective and ideas based on your likings,

Based on your dislikings,

Based on your own versions.

He is saying all of this,

All of this falls short of the truth of this ultimate vibration that is of emptiness.

And he is taking you slowly towards that vibration,

Towards that emptiness,

So that you can see for yourself,

You can realize,

You can acknowledge that all your ideas about yourself,

All your ideas about the world,

They fall short.

At some point of time,

If not today,

You will come to this realization,

As you move along this path,

As you remain guided through these sutras,

Opening the truth in your own heart,

In your own mind,

In your own spirit.

On this note,

Patanjali says,

Incidental events do not directly cause natural evolution,

They just remove the obstacles as a farmer removes the obstacles in the watercourse running in the field.

Here,

Patanjali is saying what he is doing through these sutras,

What you are doing through these sessions,

In your own meditation,

In the practice of meditation,

In the journey of spirituality,

He is saying whatever effort that you are putting in,

Whatever cause,

Whatever incidental events that you lay down in your journey,

They are not the cause of your evolution to the highest.

Because you already are at the highest always,

He is saying the only work that is done through these sutras,

The only work done through spirituality,

Through meditation,

Through yoga,

Is to remove the obstacles.

Just like a farmer in the field,

He removes the obstacles and the water flows into the field.

This is the same process of spirituality,

The process of yoga,

The process of meditation.

You don't cause anything.

You are already that highest vibration of emptiness.

But you have forgotten it.

You have lost touch with it.

So what Patanjali is doing in this kevala lepada,

Through these sutras,

And all throughout this journey,

He is saying that I am just removing the obstacles.

You are just removing your own obstacles.

Meditation is that path,

That practice,

Which is simply removing the obstacles and allowing your life energies to flow in you,

So that you realize your true nature,

You realize that you are this highest vibration of emptiness.

Then he goes on saying,

Nirmana Chittani Asmita Matrath,

You produce all these several roles just to serve your sense of existence.

You produce all these several roles just to serve your sense of existence.

Now reflect back on the story that I told you about the tigers.

The tiger is producing all these images,

All these tigers,

And fighting with these tigers,

And getting caught up in protecting his existence.

And you do the same in your life,

To give meaning to your life,

To give a sense to your existence.

Because you cannot just be with emptiness.

You just cannot acknowledge that you are emptiness.

You are nothingness.

You fill it with a certain role.

You give yourself a name,

You give yourself a description,

You give yourself roles.

You say,

I am the father,

I am the businessman,

I am the artist,

I am this,

I am that.

You give yourself roles in order to not accept the truth,

In order to distract yourself from the truth.

What is the truth?

That you are emptiness.

All you need to do is remove this obstacle that you giving yourself these roles,

These one thousand roles that you give to yourself on a daily basis,

The ideas that you have developed about these roles,

What they mean,

All are creating your misery of life.

They are all creating the traps for you.

All you need to do is acknowledge that you are emptiness.

See that you are this highest vibration.

By removing these obstacles,

By seeing that these images that are there in all these mirrors,

They are all a projection of your own mind.

And the meaning that you have given to these images are a projection of your own mind.

You are fighting with the projection of your own mind.

And lastly he says,

Although the tendencies in the many created minds may differ,

The original mind stuff is the director of them all.

Here he is pointing at your mind which is creating the projections.

He is saying what you see in the projections,

They have different tendencies,

They have different characters,

They have different functions.

In your life,

The roles that you have given,

These roles that apparently dictate your life,

These different functions,

These different tendencies that drive you in different directions and make you think you are this or you are that and you must do this to fulfill the purpose of your life or you must fulfill that role to justify your existence of life,

He is saying all this is a projection of one chitta,

One mind that you have and that mind is the director of all these roles.

So if you see this phenomena,

If you understand the director who is this mind,

Who is creating all these projections and learn to put that mind into silence,

Learn to put it aside for a few moments,

You can see that these are all projections and with one go you can be away from all these projections.

In one go,

All these projections just fade away if you understand that these are all created by your own mind.

Let us take this understanding,

This wisdom into our meditation and meditate over it in the silence,

In the awareness for the next few minutes.

Please close your eyes and take a posture that is comfortable for you.

Mere your head straight,

Back straight,

Shoulders down,

Face relaxed,

And a gentle smile on your face.

Turn your awareness inwards,

In your inner space,

In your awareness,

Many things will rise and fall,

Thoughts,

Ideas,

Images.

Simply observe for a few moments,

Allowing your awareness to settle in your inner space.

Let us take a moment to close our eyes and take a deep breath in.

Let us take a deep breath in.

Let us take a deep breath in.

With every breath,

More and more awareness settling in your inner space,

Observing your mind,

Observing anything that arises in your consciousness in these moments.

Let us take a deep breath in.

Let us take a deep breath in.

Let us take a deep breath in.

All what arises in your consciousness,

Thoughts,

Ideas,

Feelings,

Images,

Observe,

And see they are a projection of your own mind,

Of your own desires,

Driving you here and there.

And as you observe,

As you realize,

Allow these projections,

These ideas,

To fade away,

To lose the energy and slowly fade away from your consciousness.

Let us take a deep breath in.

Drop all that arises in your consciousness.

They are all projections of your mind.

You are not these thoughts.

You are not these ideas,

This inner conversation,

These images.

Let them go,

Allowing your consciousness to be free of all these projections.

Let us take a deep breath in.

Stay in silence.

Stay in awareness.

Drop everything else.

Let us take a deep breath in.

Let us take a deep breath in.

Let us take a deep breath in.

You have no ideas,

Thoughts,

Images,

Simply awareness and silence.

Let us take a deep breath in.

Let us take a deep breath in.

Drop even the idea that you are sitting in meditation.

Let us take a deep breath in.

Let us take a deep breath in.

Let us take a deep breath in.

Let us take a deep breath in.

Drop even the idea of silence,

The idea of awareness,

The idea of silence.

Let us take a deep breath in.

Let us take a deep breath in.

Let us take a deep breath in.

As you find yourself in nothingness,

Let go of all blockages.

Move in emptiness,

Dissolve in emptiness,

Disappear in emptiness.

Let us take a deep breath in.

Let us take a deep breath in.

There is only emptiness,

Nothingness.

Let us take a deep breath in.

Bring your awareness to the light in front of your closed eyes,

To what you see in front of your closed eyes.

And very gently and slowly,

You may open your eyes.

Remaining connected to this sense of emptiness,

Sense of nothingness,

Awareness,

Silence.

And as once again the projections rise in your consciousness,

In your mind,

The thoughts,

The images,

The conversations as you proceed in your day,

Remember you are emptiness,

Nothingness.

Thank you very much.

Namaste.