65. Words are not Enough🔗

I welcome you all with my love and respects. Today I will continue to expand on the 12th sūtra: Abhyāsavairāgyābhyāṁ tannirodhaḥ Relax from these patterns through constant and intensive practice of unclutching.

Patanjali expressed this whole book in such a way that even if everything is lost, even if you get one sutra, you can become enlightened. Each sutra is self-sufficient and independently capable of leading you to the ultimate truth. The moment I translate it, I feel that only one part has been expressed. You can’t express the complete dimensions of the sutra. When the sutra is experienced inside me, it is a four-dimensional experience. But words can create only a two dimensional experience in you. It can create only a picture. Please understand, orating is an art which can create the same picture which is in the mind of the orator in the mind of the person who is hearing it. So orating can reproduce only the picture. It can never reproduce the experience. It is like this: a guy goes to the beach and sees the ocean for the first time. When he comes back, he is forced to describe what he has seen. He goes on trying to describe, ‘Have you seen the ocean? It is water, water, a lot of water, a LOT of water!’ How much ever he says that, can you understand the ocean? No! It is impossible.

There is a beautiful story by Ramakrishna: Four blind people were asked to study an elephant and give a report. One guy goes and touches the trunk of the elephant, another guy goes and touches the tail, another guy goes and touches the leg and the last guy touches the ear. The fellow who touched the leg comes back and says, 'Elephant is a pillar!' The guy who touched the tail says, 'Elephant is a broomstick!' The guy who touched the tusk says, 'Elephant is a big spoon!' The guy who touched the ear says, 'Elephant is a big fan!'

quiet, he is not enlightened.' The disciple was puzzled. He asked, 'You say he neither speaks nor keeps quiet. What does he do?' The master replied, 'He sings! His being sings. He neither speaks, nor keeps quiet. His very being sings.'

I always tell people, 'The words which I am expressing are only one dimension of that experience. But the courage, confidence and energy which I am expressing are the complete 360 degree picture of that experience'.

Fortunately, Patanjali is blessed with one thousand hoods. Patanjali is supposed to be the incarnation of the snake Adisesha, with one thousand hoods. If I explain it mystically, it means that he had one thousand dedicated disciples who are strongly connected with his inner space, who can just pen down what he is expressing, each in their dimension. Each disciple had imbibed and represents one dimension of the master.

Patanjali just goes into the high ecstasy and connects with all the thousand people. No words are shared, no teachings are given. He just puts the whole room in high energy. All the thousand start downloading and transcribing! It is practically like lightning landing on a body and getting transcribed through the hands into words!

The literature which has been produced by Patanjali in this extraordinary way is called Yoga Sutras.

Each sutra is independently intelligent to lead you to enlightenment, to lead you to completion.

Each person can only give the picture of your experience. The experience is like a huge godown of cotton, while the expression is like a small thread being woven out of that cotton. The thread that is coming out can never do justice to the amount of cotton available inside.

You can see in your own life: even an ordinary experience like love loses its power when it is verbalized. Then how can spiritual experiences and truths be verbalized?

The multiple dimensions of the truth can never be expressed in words. That is why techniques are needed. Only techniques can reproduce the experiences which are happening in our inner space and transmit it to you.

When you know the truth, you can't possess the truth; the truth will possess you. It will be oozing out - not just through your words; your very body language will radiate that grace.

A small story:

A disciple asked a Zen master, 'Does an enlightened master speak?' The master said, 'No, an enlightened person never speaks. Only a person who doesn't know enlightenment speaks.' Then the disciple asked, 'So does an enlightened master keep quiet?' The master said, 'No, an enlightened master never keeps quiet. If he keeps

Even an ordinary experience like love loses its power when it is verbalized. Then how can spiritual experiences and truths be verbalized?