Ever Wondered how some people are able to lead others and seemingly control their minds?
How One Master becomes the " idol' of millions and they follow his every thought, command and step..while others cannot even get their own kids to obey them?
Thousands of years ago in ancient India.....Patanjali the father of Yoga wrote about the Powers of the Mind in his book Raja yoga ( Sanskrit). 100 years ago the great Indian spiritual master Swami Vivekananda..translated , explained and brought these ancient texts to modern readers.
At The Vedanta Society of Toronto a group of students of Vedanta study the works of Swami Vivekananda under the guidance of the renowned Monk Swami Kripamayananda Maharaj head of the Toronto Vedanta Society, belonging to the Ramakrishna order of Monks India. We talk about The Huge Cosmic Mind
which is that of God....we are all connected with him..by whatever name
or means or paths we seek him..when we are in tune with that mind...our
work is harmonious and virtuous and worthy.When we go against that..then disturbances, destruction, disharmony and mayhem come about. In Raja Yoga the only subject is Mind Control and being in harmony with the Spiritual Mind which is God. Here the others aspects of Vedanta such as Maya ( illusion etc) do not apply..we study the pure theory of Raja Yoga..the Royal Path of meditation. Mind control, can be used or misused...Our teacher Swami Kripamayananda explained it as Fire..a burning inferno and a small speck of fire are both made of the same matter..and have the same properties..that is how our disciplined and trained Minds can merge with the ultimate..
The Yogis or the Spiritual Masters have so tuned in their minds to the great mind of God that they begin to understand a tiny fractional part of that creative and Mind control power...from that comes the powers of the Mind..Some use it to lead others from darkness into light and some use it to lead others into further darkness and destruction...That is how you see Mass enlightenment ( as when a spiritual incarnation or leader is born) or Mass destruction such as the one witnessed in Europe during Hitlers rule.( more details on discussion) to be updated) Also read :The Secret of Winning the Heart of the World from ...
From Raja Yoga by Swami Vivekananda ....Chapter 4.
प्रवृत्तिभेदे प्रयोजकं चित्तमेकमनेकेषाम् ॥५॥ Swami Vivekananda Explains the aphorism below...
5. Though the activities of the different created minds are various, the one original mind is the controller of them all.
These different minds, which act in these different bodies are called made-minds, and the bodies, made-bodies; that is, manufactured bodies and minds. Matter and mind are like two inexhaustible storehouses. When you become a Yogi, you learn the secret of their control. It was yours all the time, but you had forgotten it. When you become a Yogi, you recollect it. Then you can do anything with it, manipulate it in every way you like. The material out of which a manufactured mind is created is the very same material which is used for the macrocosm. It is not that mind is one thing and matter another, they are different aspects of the same thing. Asmitā, egoism, is the material, the fine state of existence out of which these made-minds and made-bodies of the Yogi are manufactured. Therefore, when the Yogi has found the secret of these energies of nature, he can manufacture any number of bodies or minds out of the substance known as egoism.
The Chapter 4 we have studied so far...
PATANJALI'S YOGA APHORISMS
CHAPTER IV
INDEPENDENCE निमित्तमप्रयोजकं प्रकृतीनां वरणभेदस्तु ततः क्षेत्रिकवत् ॥३॥
3. Good and bad deeds are not the direct causes in the transformations of nature, but they act as breakers of obstacles to the evolutions of nature: as a farmer breaks the obstacles to the course of water, which then runs down by its own nature.
The water for irrigation of fields is already in the canal, only shut in by gates. The farmer opens these gates, and the water flows in by itself, by the law of gravitation. So all progress and power are already in every man; perfection is man's nature, only it is barred in and prevented from taking its proper course. If anyone can take the bar off, in rushes nature. Then the man attains the powers which are his already. Those we call wicked become saints, as soon as the bar is broken and nature rushes in. It is nature that is driving us towards perfection, and eventually she will bring everyone there. All these practices and struggles to become religious are only negative work, to take off the bars, and open the doors to that perfection which is our birthright, our nature.
Today the evolution theory of the ancient Yogis will be better understood in the light of modern research. And yet the theory of the Yogis is a better explanation. The two causes of evolution advanced by the moderns, viz. sexual selection and survival of the fittest, are inadequate. Suppose human knowledge to have advanced so much as to eliminate competition, both from the function of acquiring physical sustenance and of acquiring a mate. Then, according to the moderns, human progress will stop and the race will die. The result of this theory is to furnish every oppressor with an argument to calm the qualms of conscience. Men are not lacking, who, posing as philosophers, want to kill out all wicked and incompetent persons (they are, of course, the only judges of competency) and thus preserve the human race! But the great ancient evolutionist, Patanjali, declares that the true secret of evolution is the manifestation of the perfection which is already in every being; that this perfection has been barred and the infinite tide behind is struggling to express itself. These struggles and competitions are but the results of our ignorance, because we do not know the proper way to unlock the gate and let the water in. This infinite tide behind must express itself; it is the cause of all manifestation.
Competitions for life or sex-gratification are only momentary, unnecessary, extraneous effects, caused by ignorance. Even when all competition has ceased, this perfect nature behind will make us go forward until everyone has become perfect. Therefore there is no reason to believe that competition is necessary to progress. In the animal the man was suppressed, but as soon as the door was opened, out rushed man. So in man there is the potential god, kept in by the locks and bars of ignorance. When knowledge breaks these bars, the god becomes manifest.
निर्माणचित्तान्यस्मितामात्रात् ॥४॥
4. From egoism alone proceed the created minds.
The theory of Karma is that we suffer for our good or bad deeds, and the whole scope of philosophy is to reach the glory of man. All the scriptures sing the glory of man, of the soul, and then, in the same breath, they preach Karma. A good deed brings such a result, and a bad deed such another, but if the soul can be acted upon by a good or a bad deed, the soul amounts to nothing. Bad deeds put a bar to the manifestation of the nature of the Purusha; good deeds take the obstacles off, and the glory of the Purusha becomes manifest. The Purusha itself is never changed. Whatever you do never destroys your own glory, your own nature, because the soul cannot be acted upon by anything, only a veil is spread before it, hiding its perfection.
With a view to exhausting their Karma quickly, Yogis create Kāya-vyuha, or groups of bodies, in which to work it out. For all these bodies they create minds from egoism. These are called "created minds", in contradistinction to their original minds.
This teaching is based on the Theory presented by Patanjali the father of Ancient Yoga. We study the Raja Yoga of Swami Vivekananda with an open and eager mind..many questions and arguments are obviously posed and will be presented in future posts on this blog.The one fundamental rule of Vedanta and that of our teacher and our fellow disciples is that we believe that God is one and that all great teachers and incarnations came from that same God..Vedantists have respect and openness towards all great faiths though they understand that to `Each his own'..and that is why Vedanta respects all Paths..all views and all Teachers and we come to the Class with open minds on a journey through Time..Space..the Heart..the Soul and the pure invincible Mind that is directed towatrds God as the final and only goal.......
How One Master becomes the " idol' of millions and they follow his every thought, command and step..while others cannot even get their own kids to obey them?
| Monks of the Ramakrishna Math Belur India |
The Yogis or the Spiritual Masters have so tuned in their minds to the great mind of God that they begin to understand a tiny fractional part of that creative and Mind control power...from that comes the powers of the Mind..Some use it to lead others from darkness into light and some use it to lead others into further darkness and destruction...That is how you see Mass enlightenment ( as when a spiritual incarnation or leader is born) or Mass destruction such as the one witnessed in Europe during Hitlers rule.( more details on discussion) to be updated) Also read :The Secret of Winning the Heart of the World from ...
From Raja Yoga by Swami Vivekananda ....Chapter 4.
5. Though the activities of the different created minds are various, the one original mind is the controller of them all.
These different minds, which act in these different bodies are called made-minds, and the bodies, made-bodies; that is, manufactured bodies and minds. Matter and mind are like two inexhaustible storehouses. When you become a Yogi, you learn the secret of their control. It was yours all the time, but you had forgotten it. When you become a Yogi, you recollect it. Then you can do anything with it, manipulate it in every way you like. The material out of which a manufactured mind is created is the very same material which is used for the macrocosm. It is not that mind is one thing and matter another, they are different aspects of the same thing. Asmitā, egoism, is the material, the fine state of existence out of which these made-minds and made-bodies of the Yogi are manufactured. Therefore, when the Yogi has found the secret of these energies of nature, he can manufacture any number of bodies or minds out of the substance known as egoism.
The Chapter 4 we have studied so far...
PATANJALI'S YOGA APHORISMS
CHAPTER IV
INDEPENDENCE निमित्तमप्रयोजकं प्रकृतीनां वरणभेदस्तु ततः क्षेत्रिकवत् ॥३॥
3. Good and bad deeds are not the direct causes in the transformations of nature, but they act as breakers of obstacles to the evolutions of nature: as a farmer breaks the obstacles to the course of water, which then runs down by its own nature.
The water for irrigation of fields is already in the canal, only shut in by gates. The farmer opens these gates, and the water flows in by itself, by the law of gravitation. So all progress and power are already in every man; perfection is man's nature, only it is barred in and prevented from taking its proper course. If anyone can take the bar off, in rushes nature. Then the man attains the powers which are his already. Those we call wicked become saints, as soon as the bar is broken and nature rushes in. It is nature that is driving us towards perfection, and eventually she will bring everyone there. All these practices and struggles to become religious are only negative work, to take off the bars, and open the doors to that perfection which is our birthright, our nature.
Today the evolution theory of the ancient Yogis will be better understood in the light of modern research. And yet the theory of the Yogis is a better explanation. The two causes of evolution advanced by the moderns, viz. sexual selection and survival of the fittest, are inadequate. Suppose human knowledge to have advanced so much as to eliminate competition, both from the function of acquiring physical sustenance and of acquiring a mate. Then, according to the moderns, human progress will stop and the race will die. The result of this theory is to furnish every oppressor with an argument to calm the qualms of conscience. Men are not lacking, who, posing as philosophers, want to kill out all wicked and incompetent persons (they are, of course, the only judges of competency) and thus preserve the human race! But the great ancient evolutionist, Patanjali, declares that the true secret of evolution is the manifestation of the perfection which is already in every being; that this perfection has been barred and the infinite tide behind is struggling to express itself. These struggles and competitions are but the results of our ignorance, because we do not know the proper way to unlock the gate and let the water in. This infinite tide behind must express itself; it is the cause of all manifestation.
Competitions for life or sex-gratification are only momentary, unnecessary, extraneous effects, caused by ignorance. Even when all competition has ceased, this perfect nature behind will make us go forward until everyone has become perfect. Therefore there is no reason to believe that competition is necessary to progress. In the animal the man was suppressed, but as soon as the door was opened, out rushed man. So in man there is the potential god, kept in by the locks and bars of ignorance. When knowledge breaks these bars, the god becomes manifest.
निर्माणचित्तान्यस्मितामात्रात् ॥४॥
4. From egoism alone proceed the created minds.
The theory of Karma is that we suffer for our good or bad deeds, and the whole scope of philosophy is to reach the glory of man. All the scriptures sing the glory of man, of the soul, and then, in the same breath, they preach Karma. A good deed brings such a result, and a bad deed such another, but if the soul can be acted upon by a good or a bad deed, the soul amounts to nothing. Bad deeds put a bar to the manifestation of the nature of the Purusha; good deeds take the obstacles off, and the glory of the Purusha becomes manifest. The Purusha itself is never changed. Whatever you do never destroys your own glory, your own nature, because the soul cannot be acted upon by anything, only a veil is spread before it, hiding its perfection.
With a view to exhausting their Karma quickly, Yogis create Kāya-vyuha, or groups of bodies, in which to work it out. For all these bodies they create minds from egoism. These are called "created minds", in contradistinction to their original minds.
This teaching is based on the Theory presented by Patanjali the father of Ancient Yoga. We study the Raja Yoga of Swami Vivekananda with an open and eager mind..many questions and arguments are obviously posed and will be presented in future posts on this blog.The one fundamental rule of Vedanta and that of our teacher and our fellow disciples is that we believe that God is one and that all great teachers and incarnations came from that same God..Vedantists have respect and openness towards all great faiths though they understand that to `Each his own'..and that is why Vedanta respects all Paths..all views and all Teachers and we come to the Class with open minds on a journey through Time..Space..the Heart..the Soul and the pure invincible Mind that is directed towatrds God as the final and only goal.......
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