71. Problems can wash away problems!🔗

I welcome you all with my love and respects. Today's we are entering into the thirteenth sutra: Tatra sthitau yatno'bhyāsaḥ The effort to remain constantly in that elevated state of awareness is abhyasa.

As I said, abhyasa can be loosely translated as 'practice.' Practice is too small a word, but there is no other word! Abhyasa is the most important key for whole of humanity. Through this, Patanjali is giving us one more chance. He is explaining abhyasa in a very deep way.

This one word is the key word for the whole civilization. Please understand: from animals evolving as human beings, and in the human level, expressing various qualities - the whole thing happens with abhyasa. Where it is success in the outer world or success in the inner world, R&D in the outer world or R&D in the inner world - anything to be achieved needs abhyasa. Each sutra is a seed out of which a whole tree can be created. Or I can say, Patanjali reduces a whole tree into a seed and offers it to us! Abhyasa means again and again bringing yourself back to the center, elevating yourself to that high state of consciousness, centering yourself in that truth.

Please understand: your mind in not logical.

Every moment, your idea about pain, your idea about pleasure, your idea about joy, your idea about love is changing.

If a new wave comes, you don't know what changes it will make inside you.

A month ago, a devotee requested me for some guidance. His problem was that he was in love with somebody, but that person was not bothered about him. So it was torturing him. He was walking to the temple with me. I could see very clearly what was going on inside his inner space; the suffocation which he was having.

in your life also.

Please understand, your mind in not a logical thing. If it was logical, after the second problem got solved, you should have started thinking about first problem. The big difficulty is - you always think mind is logical. Mind is not like a solid ground, it is like an ocean. One wave, when it comes, can clear some ten problems which were there. Problems can dissolve problems. Waves can move waves. Problems can wash away problems.

Just a few minutes later, he received a call from his home. His house was going to be taken away by the bank for some reason. Suddenly I saw, his mind started fighting with that problem! Till then he was fighting with the problem that the other person was not responding to him; suddenly this conflict took over. I could see very clearly how the whole game of mind is happening. House is a bigger problem, a survival issue, and I saw that he completely forgot about his love - everything is forgotten!

All your ideas about problems do not have a base; they are just floating. Your idea about love, your idea about pain, your idea about attention, your idea about fear, your idea about worry, your idea about greed - all these ideas are just floating, they are not clearly rooted or grounded. One wave is enough; suddenly you will see that so many things which you were thinking can never be removed just disappear!

For this devotee, when it came to his house, his survival, the big wave started to happen in his inner space. Suddenly, all the small waves, all the small problems, just disappeared. Understand what I said now: this one big problem rising and suddenly all these small problems disappearing. When the big problem is solved, you are completely in peace, and even the small problems are not there anymore, even though you have not solved them.

He asked me, 'Swamiji, how to solve this issue?'

I said, 'Don't worry, things will be settled.'

After an hour, he received a call that the problem got sorted out.

Suddenly when he came out the complicated problem, I saw he was completely relieved not only from this problem, from the earlier problem also! He is completely clear.

If you look inside, you can also see that what I am saying would have happened many times

My mind in not logical as I think. Every moment, my idea about pain, my idea about pleasure, my idea about joy, my idea about love, is changing.