🌹PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS🌹
🌀CHAPTER - 3🌀
~ Samadhi ~
🌀DAY - 17🌀
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" विरामप्रत्ययाभ्यासपूवॅः संस्कारशेषोऽन्यः "
By doing something you cannot experience, you cannot achieve this awareness. You cannot bring up the intelligence and the alertness in you by effort. It can be done only without effort; with relaxation - by relaxing and reposing in the Self. विराम प्रत्यया - resting. अभ्यासपूवॅः means the practice of resting - conscious relaxation and rest.
Unconscious rest is sleep which we are force to do by the nature. You are not resting voluntarily;you are forced to. When you are tired,it feels as if nature is pulling you down and forcing you to rest. You are not resting voluntarily. It is only in meditation that you really rest because you are consciously resting. You allow rest. Otherwise, your rest swallows you. Sleep is putting yourself to rest and meditation is resting on your own. This is abhyasa. This is practice - practice of deep rest consciously. विराम अभ्यास पूवॅः ।
Then comes संस्कारशेषोऽन्यः For some people, this comes through old samskaras, impressions. Some people have to do a lot of practice in order to be calm and equanimous; in order to bring up more awareness in them. For some people it happens due to some old impression of past-lives. Some people start opening up right from their birth or they do so at a particular period in their lives. Samskara sheshonyaha. Some people suddenly open up to some spiritual experience after they are thirty or forty years old. Then, they have more awareness. But unfortunately, most of these people get misguided. They get a little experience and then they go on with all kinds of prophecies about the end of the world, etc. They may have read about some prophecies somewhere in the Bible. Then, an experience becomes so real to them that they see visions. And they begin to make prophecies. This is because they have no knowledge of the root of Yoga. They may see a white light coming down, and they will exclaim that something would be happening. People get misled by such evangelic experiences. But, someone who knows the roots will be aware of all about such experience.
We should know that they ar all from samskara shesha - some samskara from the past. That is a different type of Samadhi.
Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankarji
PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS
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