13. Your Past and Present have no Connection🔗

A small story: In a small Indian village hospital, a doctor is diagnosing a patient. He says, 'This man is dead.' But the patient wakes up and says, 'No, no, no, I am not dead! I am alive.' The doctor says, 'Sshhh! I have become a doctor after studying MBBS and spending so much money! So do I know better or you?'

In the same way, the psychiatrists have got their degrees after spending so much money. So they naturally ask, 'Do I know better about your mind or you?' They might have studied spending millions of dollars. But that does not mean they will know what you carry. They may not even know what they are carrying! Earlier, priests used to exploit society using guilt, saying, 'You have committed a sin, you are a sinner, you have to confess, you have to do this, you have to do that.' Now, psychiatrists are exploiting society by saying that you are carrying something called an unconscious mind!

Understand, it is just a game. You are very strongly made to believe - by society, by politicians, by educationists, by everyone - that you have an unconscious mind, you have a subconscious mind and what not. That is the worst part of the whole game. I am not being insensitive when I say, 'There is no such thing as suffering, there is no such thing as healing, and there is nothing to be healed.' I am stating the simple truth straightaway. I am seeing all the possible nonsense you create out of your past! You don't understand - it actually does not have any control over your inner space. Any mental pattern, any incompletion, any memory you are carrying from the past, cannot touch your inner space. This is the Truth!

told you, don't go there. He doesn't know anything. The moment I saw his photograph, looking so young, I knew he doesn't know much. And you are going there and sitting in front of him, wasting your time.' The second 33% is just sitting, unable to connect. The third 33% is making fun. Now Patanjali comes down and says, 'At least let the connection with the Master not be disturbed.'

You are constantly made to believe that your past has a very strong connection with your present. You are constantly taught the idea that you are carrying an unconscious mind. You are taught that you carry so many engraved memories, you are taught that you have committed sins, and you have so much karma - everything is a pure lie.

Please understand: this is the ultimate thing a man can have - feeling connected to a living Master. Anything can be sacrificed for that, but that should not be sacrificed for anything. I always tell people, 'Actually I am an uncompromising Master. Any decision I take, I don't compromise. There is only one spot where you can bend me - that is, when you send me a signal that if I stick to my own stand, the feeling-connection may be lost.' Nothing else can bend me. If you want to bend the masters, this is the only thing you can do. You can't use anything else. This is the only point where you can blackmail them, because they cannot afford to let you lose the seeking.

Sometimes people ask me, 'Swamiji, how can I heal my past life wounds?' I think, 'Oh God!' Now I don't know how to help these people. At least if you talk about this life's wounds, I can tell you that I will heal you. But now I have to go into past life regression with you, ten or twelve lives, and release those karmas! Now the madness has gone to the extreme. Nothing can be done! But if I talk in my own language, then the disconnection happens, and I can't help them. So I have to come down. That is what Patanjali is doing.

First he says, 'Just stop your action called Mind and relax into your true nature.'

Actually, he wants to complete with this and get up and leave. He wants to say, 'Yoga Sutras are over. You enjoy life and let me also have a vacation.'

But these guys are not able to relate with that! The second 33% is sitting with a long face. The third 33% is making fun of the whole thing, 'See, I

So Patanjali is bending here. The moment he says, 'Till that state is reached', he has compromised. He has compromised, because there is no such thing as, 'Till that state is reached.' It is a pure lie, because you are in that state NOW. Nothing else is required.

But now, the second 33% feels very comfortable, and they say, 'Yes, yes, yes!' They are able to connect.

The following sutras are for them.

Recall any one incident from your past that you believe has a strong influence over your present. Now, relive the same incident with the understanding that it has no control over your inner space. It can never touch you again.

The modifications of your mind are five. They can be the source of anguish or of non- anguish.