WHAT IS YOGA? THE SUPREME TRUTH THE CAUSAL MATRIX THE GLORIOUS MARCH WHAT IS YOGA? official source: A'nanda Vacana'mrtam Part 14 cross-references: none this version: is the printed A'nanda Vacana'mrtam Part 14, 1st edition, version (spelling mistakes only may have been corrected). I.e., this is the most up-to-date version as of the present Electronic Edition. Yoga has become a very popular word throughout the world. We should know what Yoga is or rather, what the spirit of Yoga is. Human existence, or human expressions are trifarious. Human beings have got a physical body and they have got physical problems, and they have to be solved. Secondly, human beings have got an intellectual structure, a mind, a psychic body, and all their psychic problems must be solved. There are so many knotty and complicated psychic problems, and when those psychic problems are not solved properly, people may become insane. There is a constant rise in cases of insanity throughout the world. This shows that the human problems, the psychic problems of human beings are not being properly solved. And, there is the spiritual body of human beings, their spiritual life. The culminating point of all spiritual progress is Parama Purus'a, the Supreme Enitity, the Supreme Cosmological Lord. Now, what is Yoga ? We must have Yoga in all the three strata of life. If there is Yoga only in the spritual stratum and there is no Yoga in the psychic and physical strata, what will happen ? The very existence of human beings will become unbalaced, human equipoise will be lost. So we must have Yoga, or rather Yoga-oriented movement, in each and every sphere of life. The crudest portion of human existence is the physical body. Now, what is this physical body ? For human beings there is the external physical body and there is the inner projection of the physical body in the mind. You see an elephant in the external physical world, and you see the projection, that is, the extro-internal projection of that elephant in your mind. But for the creating Entity, for the Causal Matrix, there is no external world, so there is no physical world. For Him there is a psychic world and a spiritual world. But, for human beings there are three worlds - physical, psychic and spiritual. So, for us, our physical world is nothing but an ectoplasmic world of the Creator. While doing any work, while being engaged in any action we should remember the fact that whatever we see, whatever we do, is within the ectoplasmic scope of the Creator. This will be our Yoga in the physical sphere. Suppose, there is a drop of water in an ocean. When the drop feels its unity with the ocean, the drop no longer remains as a drop, it becomes the ocean. But when it feels its separation from the ocean, it is nothing but a drop of water. So, when a human being feels his/her unity with the Supreme Lord and feels that he/she is not an ordinary person, but the blessed child of the Supreme Father and when becomes one with him, then he/she is no longer an ordinary person. He/she acquires immense power, immense vitality, infinite vitality and this is your Yoga in the physical sphere. You should always remember that a man or a woman is an ordinary person when separated from the Supreme Father, but he/she becomes Supreme when one with the Supreme. This we do with the help of our Guru Mantra. This is Yoga in the physical sphere. In the psychic sphere, human mind is a projection of Cosmic mind. The so called physical body of human beings is nothing but the ectoplasmic creation of the Supreme. When this physical body, due to internal clashes and cohesions, gets powdered down, it is human mind, it is unit mind, and for this unit mind there are two worlds-internal and external. We become associated with the external world when there is an intro-external projection or an intro-external emanation. In the intellectual field, what is Yoga? 'Yogashcittavrtti nirodhah.' In the field of intellectuality, Yoga is Cittavrittinirodhah or "sarvacinta' paritya'go nishcinto yoga'ucyate." What is Cittavrttinirodhah? We should know. Just now I explained to you Yoga in the physical sphere and now I will explain Yoga in the intellectual sphere. In the human mind there are 50 propensities controlling 20 directional movements or propensities. So in all, there are 50 x 20. How many? 50 x 20 = 1000. So human expressions - human intellectual or human psychic expressions are 1000 in number. Those 1000 propensities are controlled by the pineal gland in the human body. This controlling point lies in the unconscious stratum of human mind and these 1000 expressions are there both in cerebral and non-cerebral or rather extra-cerebral memory. These propensities are there both in cerebral and extra-cerebral memory. If I get time I will explain to you what are cerebral and extra-cerebral memories. Now, when one withdraws particular propensity or all the 1000 propensities and goads those collectively withdrawn propensities unto Parama Purus'a, that is, when all those withdrawn propensities and the collective force of those propensities are guided and goaded unto the Supreme Entity, it is Yoga in the intellectual sphere, Yoga in the psychic sphere. It is called Jina'na Yoga in Sam'skrta, and the former one is called Karma Yoga in Sam'skrta. What is Karma ? Karma means action. What is action ? Action means change of place. Suppose the boy was there, now the boy has come here. There has been change of place. So, it is an action or deed in English, D-E-E-D. What is intellectual ? Intellectual means movement of ectoplasmic staff. The third Yoga is yoga 'Sam'yogo yoga ityukto Jiiva'tma'parama'tmanah, Yoga in the spiritual sphere is unification of the unit entity with the Cosmic Entity. There is Mr. X, there is Mr. Y, there are Mr. A, B, C,--so many units. And when these units become one with the Supreme, it is Yoga. But in Sam'skrta language--you know Sam'skrta is a language about 15,000 years old and it is no longer a spoken language in Sam'skrta, each and every word is created from a root verb. That is, there was a verb and from that verb a noun was created, an adjective was created. Wherever there is any word, there is one root verb or rudimental verb or controlling verb. For "Doing", the Sam'skrta is Kr, K-R, and from that Kr, the noun Karma, was created. Karma means action. Just now I told you about Karma Yoga. Similarly, in Sam'skrta, Jina' is a root verb--J-I-N-A'--Jina'. From Jina', the noun form is Jina'na which means subjectivisation of objectivity. In modern English the verb is 'know' although there is no pronunciation of K because 'K' is mute, 'K' is silent. The original Sam'skrta term was J-I-N-A' Jina'. That is why intellectual Yoga is called Jjna'na Yoga about which I told you just now. The last one is Bhakti Yoga, that is the unification of unit with the Supreme. In Sam'skrta the word Yoga has got two root verbs. One root verb is 'Yuj' and another root verb is yunj ? Yuj--Two plus two is equal to four, Three plus three is equal to six. It is also yoga. But this yoga is derived from the term 'Yuj'. 'Yuj' means to add. There is another root verb of the word Yoga and that root verb is 'Yunj.' The root verb is 'Yunj,' not 'Yuj', and the word Yoga is also derived from that root 'Yunj'. Here 'Yunj' verb means to unify, not to add, but to unify. Yuj means to add and Yunj means to unify. Suppose there is sugar and there is water. Sugar plus water, what will happen ? Sugar will unify with water. You won't find sugar in a separate form after this unification. Adding two mangoes with two mangoes will be four mangoes--one mango, two mangoes ; three mangoes, four mangoes--four items or four mangoes. But in case of Yunj it is like sugar and water. After unification, will you get sugar in separate form ? It will be one with water. It is unification. In case of Yoga, in the spiritual sphere it comes from the root 'Yunj' and not 'Yuj.' Here Yoga means unification. When unit consciousness, unit spirit, unit cognitive principle, becomes one with the Supreme One, with Parama Purus'a, the unit no longer exists. It becomes one with the Supreme. The little boy 'A' or the little girl B will become Parama Purus'a. This is unification. For each and every human being there are two 'I'-s two 'I's. The name of a man, say, is Solomon. then that means the name of his little 'I' is Solomon and the name of his big 'I' is Parama Purus'a, the Supreme Entity. Suppose the name of a little 'I' is Joseph, Mr. Joseph. But the name of his big 'I' is Parama Purus'a. That is, the big 'I' for all created being is the same, but the little I varies. So many bodies have so many names. These names are names of little 'I's, but the big 'I' is one and indivisible for the entire universe--there is one big 'I'. one is for one Parama Purus'a, one Parama Pita'. What is Yoga in the spiritual level? It is to become one with Parama Purus'a. When you become one with Parama Purus'a, you are getting everything, but you are losing nothing. You are losing the name of your little 'I' and nothing else and in return you are getting the Supreme 'I', the big 'I'. This is Yoga in the spiritual sphere. Some people think that Yoga means a particular exercise, No, no, no: Yoga does not mean exercise. Yoga means unification. It is the Supreme definition of Yoga. There is common wont in each and every human mind and that wont differentiates human being from animals, people from plants. What is that difference ? That spritual wont is called human Dharma. What is Dharma ? Human beings want to expand, and secondly, they want to become one with the Cosmic Body. Thirdly they want to do something noble and the fourth thing is that they want peace, Supreme peace, undisturbed peace. These are the four special qualifications of human beings. Collectively you may say, it is the human mode. Yoga is the path of progress, the path of development for each and every human being. Nobody can keep himself herself away or aloof from that track of Yoga. Yoga is Dharma. So in individual life we should practice Yoga, and in collective life we should encourage others to practice Yoga. It is the solution of all human ailments in the physicial stratum, in the psychic stratum and also in spiritual stratum. 12 September 1979, Haifa THE SUPREME TRUTH official source: A'nanda Vacana'mrtam Part 14 cross-references: none this version: is the printed A'nanda Vacana'mrtam Part 14, 1st edition, version (spelling mistakes only may have been corrected). I.e., this is the most up-to-date version as of the present Electronic Edition. The sentient action comes very near to Supreme Existence ; it can maintain a good proximity, but cannot coincide with that Supreme Entity. The philosophy of spiritual aspirants, known as Tantra, says that he is a singular entity. Why should we say that He is a singular entity ? You know, singularity and plurality are different projections of the human mind. If we say 'one', it is a particular projection. If we say 'two', it is a particular projection. If we say one hundred, it is a particular projection. So far as the tendency of projection is concerned, all projections are the same. There is neither any singularity nor any plurality. Even then the spiritual aspirants say that he is a singular entity. Why do they say this ? Because when all the propensities of the mind, when all the propulsions of mind come to a particular point, and apex to singularity, one comes in contact with Him. That is why, if a numeral is to be used at all for Him, that numeral is one. He is the Supreme Controlling Faculty. You know, whatever there is in the realm of physicality, or in the realm of ectoplasm, everything is a particular manifestation, a particular outcome of waves of a particular length. This universe is a mesh of waves of different lengths, and all these waves emanate from a particular source, a particular nucleus. That is, whatever inference is there, whenever you come in contact with any inference, that inference emanates from the Supreme Nucleus. So, He is the controlling faculty. He is the Maha'deva, that is the Supreme Controlling Faculty. Then the spiritual aspirants know that He lies covert in each and every entity. That is, He is all-pervading because everything is of His ectoplasmic expression, everything is a creation of His inner mind. That is why He is everywhere, and in everything, within each and every pore of each and every existence. That is why the aspirants say that He lies covert in everything, He is everywhere. You know in this world of relativity there are three fundamental factors : temporal, spatial and personal. And all our worldly activities are connected with these three fundamental factors. That is why there cannot be absolute pause or absolute speed in this universe of relativity. Whatever there is beyond the scope of relativity, the world of the manifest, is the world of non-manifestation. He, as the expressed world, comes within the scope of human perception or human conception to some extent. I said 'to some extent', because we can come in contact with a particular length of wave--from a particular length to a particular length. If the light is too much, you cannot see. Also if it is too mild, you cannot see. If the sound is too much, you cannot hear, If the sound is too mild, you cannot hear. Your jurisdiction is from a particular wave-length to a particular wave-length. That is why I say that in this expressed world you can see, you can perceive, you can conceive, to a particular extent, not below or above the same. But, His expression is not limited, is not restricted within your jurisdiction. That is why He is all-expanding, all-pervading. When your small existential feeling tries to come in His contact you become one with Him, you lose your small individual small entity. You know, whatever you create in your mind is just an extro-internal projection. Whatever you saw or whatever you heard, you can only recreate that thing within your mind, or you can only see that thing in your dream. Your mental objects or your mental existence is within His mind. So, if you are the seer or you are the witnessing entity, He is the Supreme Seer and Supreme Witnessing Entity. So, if you are the soul, He is the Supreme Soul. If you are the roof, He is the Supreme Roof. Now, let us see our activities in the physical world. We do so many works, we think that we are doing so many works. Actually a man does not do anything, cannot do anything, without getting any energy from Him. You say, "I give it, I am a strong man, I am healthy man." Where do you get that energy from? You get that energy from air, from water, from fruits, from food. Thus you are neither the creator of energy nor the owner of the energy. You take these energies with your vital energy. You do. Doing means action. What is action? Action means change of place. This pot is here. Change the position, and we will say that an action is done. Action means change of space. So, whatever you do, you do with the vital force that you get from Him. That vital energy is not yours. If you do not take food for several days or several months or several years, you won't be able to do anything. If you undergo fasting for, say, two or three months, you won't be able to speak, you won't be able to express yourself in any way. This is what your strength is. You are solely dependent on his grace. So, actually the owner of everything is Parama Purus'a, and the Supreme Doer of each and every action is that Parama Purus'a. He is the Supreme Fountain of all energies. What about your abode ? Each and every created being, may it be physical, liquid, gaseous or ethereal, requires some shelter. You are in Calcutta, your shelter is the city of Calcutta. You cannot remain without any shelter. No created being can remain without any shelter. Calcutta also requires some shelter. The shelter of Calcutta is the State of Bengal. And, what is the shelter of Bengal ? The country of India. And, what is the shelter of India ? The continent of Asia. And, what is the shelter of Asia ? This globe, this earth. And, what is the shelter of this earth ? The solar system. And, what is the shelter of the solar system ? The Parama Purus'a, the Supreme factor, is the shelter of the solar system. So, He is the Supreme Shelter. Each and every action gets recognition when it is witnessed by something. Witnessing entity means reflecting and or refracting plate. Without this reflection or refraction no action is recognised. While you see something, the light that comes from that object gets reflected in your mind, and touches a particular point of your nerve cells, and then only you feel that you are seeing something. Similarly, whatever is being done here, a reflection is being made on the Cosmic Body, the Cosmic Body being just like a reflecting plate. He is the reflecting plate, the witness of all the works and all the deeds done in this universe. Nothing is secret for Him. You cannot do anything, or you cannot think anything without His existence, with being witnessed by Him. If you think that you are not being witnessed by anybody, then and there He will witness this external utterance of yours, that the boy says, "I am not being witnessed by anybody." The final assurance, the Supreme assurance to a created entity, given by Him, and will be given by Him forever, is that as a witnessing entity, He is always with you. Your mental strength will be increased a thousandfold because you are always with the Supreme Entity. The Supreme Entity is always with you to help you, and this is the first and the greatest merit of this fact, of this Supreme Veracity. The only demerit is, as He is always with you, you cannot do anything secretly; you will be caught red-handed. But, the merit is, that because He is with you, you are never alone, you are never weak. You are never helpless. So, the duty of a perfect person, the duty of a spiritual aspirant is always to remember this Supreme Truth, that he or she is never alone. You are always with your Supreme Father, who will always help you, and will always accelerate the speed of your progress. 15 September 1979, Istanbul THE CAUSAL MATRIX official source: A'nanda Vacana'mrtam Part 14 cross-references: none this version: is the printed A'nanda Vacana'mrtam Part 14, 1st edition, version (spelling mistakes only may have been corrected). I.e., this is the most up-to-date version as of the present Electronic Edition. Whenever anything is created, there must be three factors : first, the creator ; second, the creative faculty ; and third, the material. In case of this universe, other factors include the Supreme Creator or the Parama Purus'a and the Operative Principle or Parama Prakrti with its dexterity of creation. Then, who is the Causal Matrix ? Not the Operative Principle, but the Supreme Consciousness, who desires to create. That Supreme Entity, that Supreme Consciousness, is the Causal Matrix, and is a singular entity. The creative entity, Operative Principle functions according to His desire and the creative faculty, rather the dexterity is His. Here is another question. Why does He create ? What is the necessity of creation ? Human beings and all other creatures come here to undergo so many sufferings. Then, what is this creation ? So many millions of people came here on this earth for the last four thousand years, but they could not give a satisfactory reply to this eternal question. So many people, engaged in so many types of actional faculties, came. They tried to find out the proper reply, but they failed. But when the devotees came, they said, "It is not at all a knotty problem. It is a very simple issue. You learned scholars, you cannot give the reply. Even you, the heroes of actional faculty, you don't know the reply. But I know, What is the reply. My Lord, my Supreme Father, was alone in this universe before creation. Just think, if you are alone in jungle or in a village, your life becomes miserable. And, in this vast space my Supreme Father was alone. Just to save Himself from the sufferings of monotony He created, And, where did the material come from ? Material came from His mind, because everything in this universe is within Him; nothing is without. So no material can come from outside. In His ectoplasmic stuff, that is, in His mind, is the material, and He creates everything within His mind. So many animate objects, so many inanimate objects are there, but they are all within His mind and not outside. A man may be educated, may be illiterate, may be of fair complexion, may be of dark complexion, may be poor or may be rich, but all are within His mind. All are His psychic creation, all are His loving children, loving progeny of the loving Progenitor. So, nobody is unimportant, nobody is insignificant. Nobody should be suppressed, oppressed or repressed. Now, these created beings, they being the progeny of the same Father, are members of the same Universal Family. They have got a common tie of the Universal Fraternity. We must not forget this Supreme fact. Now, everybody is within His mind. Can a sinner go beyond the periphery of His mind, when there is nothing beyond His mind ? No, nobody can go beyond the periphery of His mind. And, He cannot say, "You naughty chap, get out". If such an order is given by Him, that naughty child will then and there say, "Oh Supreme Father, where am I to go ? Because you are infinite, everything is within you." If you say, 'Oh naughty chap, get out', then certainly there is something outside Your mind, and I am to go there. And, if there is something outside, then You are not infinite. So, either You please, oh Supreme Father, withdraw Your order or change Your name. Sinners are also within His mind, virtuous people are also within His mind. The sinners are His naughty children, and He always wants that His naughty children should become good children by their conduct. He cannot expel anybody from His mind, from the arena of His universal mind. Now, after creation, after being freed from the tortures of monotony, what does He do ? He is playing His eternal game with His loving children, and this is the world. So, nobody should suffer from the psychology of melancholia. None should feel that he or she is alone in this Universe. None should feel that he or she is helpless or hopeless. And, nobody should suffer from inferiority complex or superiority complex. When the Supreme Father is with you, when you are within His mind, then you should not be afraid of any physical or any psychic enemy, that would be stronger than your Supreme Father. When the Supreme Entity is omniscient and omnipotent, no power in heaven or hell can do anything bad for Him. What is the system of thought-process ? What is thought ? Some portion of the ectoplasmic stuff takes a particular form, and that form is a crudified form of ectoplasm ; when projected internally, it takes form. Similarly this quinquelemental universe is a projected crudified form of Cosmic ectoplasm. And, after that, due to internal and external clash and cohesion, energy is created, light is created, psychic structure is created in individuals. And, as a system of thought-process, it finally gets merged into the nucleus from which it came. So, the final goal, the Supreme Desideratum of each and every living being is that Parama Purus'a, is that Supreme Father. So, all living beings and all inanimate objects came from the same source, they live in the same ectoplasmic field of the Supreme Entity. And, their final goal, their desideratum is that Supreme Home. All human beings, all spritual aspirants should always remember this fact, and move along the path of beatitude, collectively singing the song of the Lord, singing the praise of the Supreme Father. 21 September 1979, Kingston THE GLORIOUS MARCH official source: A'nanda Vacana'mrtam Part 14 cross-references: none this version: is the printed A'nanda Vacana'mrtam Part 14, 1st edition, version (spelling mistakes only may have been corrected). I.e., this is the most up-to-date version as of the present Electronic Edition. I have told you so many times that no person should encourage any sort of complex--superiority complex, inferiority complex, fear complex or any other complex. You should always remember that you are children of the Supreme Father, children of the Parama Pita'. You are not at all inferior to anybody. You must not forget this Supreme Truth even for a single moment. From this very moment forget all your past mistakes, all comissional and omissional mistakes, and start your life afresh as an ideal child of Parama Pita', an ideal child of Parama Purus'a. Yours should be a glorious march towards the Supreme Goal, and you should remember that you are not to pause for a moment during this movement. The entire human society is anxiously waiting for you, for your service. You will have to shoulder a great responsibility for the suffering humanity. You know, actually humanity bleeds, and you will have to save them. You should remember that if you don't help humanity, who else is to come and shoulder the responsibility ? It is you--you are to do everything. You are the torch-bearers of human civilization. You are the pioneers of human march, and you are the vanguard of a new civilization 27 September 1979, Caracas