🌹PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS🌹
🌀CHAPTER - 3🌀
~ Samadhi ~
🌀DAY - 20🌀
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" श्रद्धावीयॅस्मृतिसमाधिप्रज्ञापूवॅक इतरेषाम् "
This is the most vital sutra.
Shraddha means faith. Faith creates such good qualities in your consciousness. It is made stable, steady and solid. Doubt in consciousness makes you very vulnerable, fearful, uncertain - fluid. But faith makes you solid. Faith brings totality in you. It pulls together all the loose ends of your consciousness. It integrates your whole personality. Doubt scatters and destroys you. It disseminates you and your energy. It pulls you apart. Dissemination of energy is doubt. Consolidation of your energy is faith. The feeling when you have faith is a form of consolidation; a strength. That is why Jesus also said faith is your strength. They are synonymous - faith and strength. When you are strong and bold, you have faith. When you are weak and feeble, you have doubts. Doubt and uncertainty are signs of weakness. Faith is strength, then samadhi is also achieved. And there is equanimity. Meditation takes place just out of faith.
And then there is veerya. Veerya is one hundred percent vigour or force, courage and vitality. It is totally courage and valour; the valour with which a country is defended by its army. What happens here is that all the energy in the system comes together. We fight for our country when it is in danger; when the religion is in danger. This is how the valour rises in people. It is not done without any joy. In that moment of valour and extreme sense of patriotism, there is tremendous joy. That's why this world has wars again and again. If people completely condemn wars and if nobody likes them, then they cannot take place. Though the after-effects of war are very unpleasant, it's course is very thrilling. People enjoy thrilling movies for the same reason. A thrill is a sense of veerya, valour.
Every cell in our body becomes united and the whole consciousness becomes one. The defence system gets awakened in you. This is strength. When the defence system peaks, it is very joyful because there is equanimity, too. There is a sense of patriotism, devotion and gratitude. That sense of patriotism, or valour, or vigour also takes you into a state of meditation.
श्रद्धा वीयॅ स्मृति । Smriti means memory. Once you have had a very peaceful and beautiful state of mind, the very memory of an experience will make you re-live that experience. Memory of samadhi reproduces memory of one's being;of the Self, freedom, devotion, surrender, love and joy. This takes you back to your Self. Often, we do not remember nice things. What we keep remembering are negative things. We do not remember compliments but we remember insults.
Yoga is turning the wheel around to remember those wonderful moments you have had. Sit and be with it, and with that very memory your entire being gets back to that wonderful state.
स्मृति समाधि प्रज्ञापूवॅक । Then awareness is gained through samadhi, deep meditation, equanimous mind, and the result is samadhi, prajna. Equanimous mind gives rise to a heightened awareness.
So, there are the avenues and ways by which you can blossom in life.
These are the ways of being aware of the Self, and the next sutra is-
To be continued....
Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji
PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS
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