🌹PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS🌹
🌀CHAPTER - 3🌀
~ Samadhi ~
🌀DAY - 19🌀
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Prakriti laya is a big practice. People sit in solitude for years till all thoughts disappear. And all that they are left with is emptiness. You can try doing this as experiment when you are very worried or tensed. Just sit by a flowing river or stream and keep looking at the water. Within a few moments, you feel as though there is a magnetic pull; that your mind is being pulled in the direction of the current. Then, sit on the other bank and do the same thing. Then you'll see that youeind is being pulled in the other direction. That is why many people who want to jump into a river and commit suicide, cannot do so once they look at the flowing water. Something happens in them at the sight of flowing water. There is a shift, and they can no longer commit suicide. This happens because, by looking at the water, there is a change in the vibrations of their minds, the prana in the system. In a short while, all their anguish, delusions and whatever was tormenting them flows away. They become fresh. People love the ocean because there is more prana there; more ozone. And when you go on looking at the waves and waves and waves and waves, it washes something off. This is Prakritilaya meditation, where you are dissolving yourself with nature.
And videha means knowing that you are not the body; that you 'have' a body and the body is yours. But that you are not the body. This is videha. This sutra has been so wrongly interpreted over the centuries. People have wrongly understood it again and again.
Patanjali said that these things will suit certain people at certain times. It is not a practice which is done everyday by everybody. For instance, all the people do not go into the mountains every day. It is done by people at certain times. This leads to samadhi.
Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji
PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS
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