Tag Yoga Sutra

Yoga State Can Be Attained Faster Yoga Sutra 1.22

You can not shift the responsibility to God, hold Him responsible nor can you expect Him to atone your Sins, as it were, as in some other Religions.

In Indian Philosophy , Free Will Vs Determinism is dealt with exhaustively.

While it is true that , being a Part of Brahman, The Reality,our individual Self , is not affected by our actions,we are responsible for our action at the Empirical level when and if we do not perform an Action as a Non Action,if we are driven by only our senses.

Such actions beget results , the remnants of the Impressions or the Vaasanas linger and they condition our development.

As Krishna declares in the 14th Chapter of The Bhagavad Gita, Sathva Guna is the result of previous Vaasanas or Impressions, though,

'There may be innumerable Forms and beings , living and non living;yet Prakriti, Nature is The Mother and I am The Father , The Seed"

(Bhagavad Gita Chapter 14.4)

Ramana Maharishi and Paramahamsa Yogananda
This Sathva drives a Man for Yoga Sadhana.

As I have been mentioning on various occasions, Yoga is not an exercise that can be mastered in 30 days or following some lectures;it is life long spiritual practice.

It takes in most cases, more than a Life time.

If one were to die before attaining Yoga in that birth, he is born , in the next birth, in a Family of Devotional disposition which helps him to continue his attempts at Yoga, thus rendering the attainment of Yoga faster in the present Birth.

( for who question the theory of Rebirth, I shall be posting an Article on this)

Their fore,the dispositions must be there, , the continuous practice must be undertaken.

Then Yoga is achieved faster.

The next is a step less than this.

In some cases, every thing mentioned above might have been followed, yet the Siddhi does not materialize.

The reason is that the Yoga has not been practiced correctly and remnants of Impressions linger.

In such cases , the practitioner attains partial success as the Siddhas.

They have no doubt attained Yoga Siddhi, though of a Lower Order.

This the reason why some Yogis are reborn.

Please read my post" Why some Yogis are reborn?

This level is an average level (Madhyam)

Why,How Faith Helps Imperfect Yoga Sutra 1.20

Panajali has explained how and Yogis were reborn in the Yoga Sutra 1.20.

He explained that this is due to the remnants of impressions in one's chitta, though one has been practicing Yoga arduously.

Patanjali goes deep into the cause for this aberration in attaining Samadhi.

This Yoga Sutra lists five causes.

Faith,(Shraddha)

Strength of Will, Energy,( Virya)

Smriti, (Remembrance)

Samadhi, Deep Contemplation and

Prajna,(Cognition,Right Awareness)

Sraddha.

Faith is fundamental.

Whether one likes it or not, one practices it;the only difference between those who have faith and those who do not have is that while the former is aware of and acknowledges it, the latter is either unaware or refuses to acknowledge it.

Those who deny Faith have faith at least in what they believe in or in the Belief that they do not believe.

The rationalists are the funniest lot.

They do not believe in any thing which they can not reason out, forgetting that Reason can nor t be proved except by its results or by Inference, both premises are at fault.

Who can guarantee I will live after I post this Blog or live as I post?

Scientists, not all of them, do not believe in anything excepting what Science tells them to, conveniently forgetting that Science is based on, mainly, two assumptions,

Law Of Uniformity of Nature and

law Of Causation.

Both are axioms, they can not be questioned.

If Faith is Belief is unquestioned trust on something that is proved, then where does this leave Science?

We assume that Nature behaves Uniformly and systematically.

What if it it is not?

There are already Theories of Chaos, Uncertainty Principle in Science.

Law of Causation.

Two events occur.

We connect them by saying one is the Cause of another.

That's all.

So faith is something which drive us whether we acknowledge it or not.

Now we have positive thinking.

Not all positive thinking is probable or even possible.

Still we are advised to follow it.

Why?

Because it delivers.

Patanjali says this.

Have Faith , continue having it and you will get results.

To me so long as it delivers results it is fine, no matter whether it is true or false.