86. Why do masters repeat the Truth?🔗

I welcome you all with my love and respects. As you all may be aware, we are dedicating this whole year to jeevanmukti, living enlightenment. And I am dedicating this whole North America tour to this great book - Patanjali Yoga Sutras.

Today we will be entering into the fourteenth sutra, the fourteenth aphorism. I will first read the sutra, give you the translation, and then add what needs to be added. Let's enter into the fourteenth sutra. Sa tu deergha kala nairantarya satkarasevito dridha bhumihi. Committed and intense practice of unclutching makes one firmly established in a higher state of awareness.

As I said, each sutra in this book can create a religion. Each sutra is independently intelligent to lead a person to enlightenment; to the space of Advaita or non-duality. Please understand, the word 'yoga' means uniting, uniting with the Ultimate. In Bhagavad Gita, each chapter is called 'yoga'. It means that each chapter can independently lead you to enlightenment. So, Bhagavan Krishna talks about eighteen different paths to enlightenment. Whatever major paths were available for enlightenment when Krishna delivered Bhagavad Gita, he has compiled everything and presented it in one book. In this book, I can say each sutra is a yoga, an independent path to enlightenment.

From time immemorial, all the masters have been talking, writing producing spiritual literature. Buddha was teaching and preaching every day for forty years. By the time Adi Shankara was thirty-two, he finished establishing strong four monasteries and writing around two hundred volumes of spiritual literature!

than five thousand hours, and I am adding material every day. Continuously, human beings need to be told, 'Look in!' Human beings need to be reminded to turn in, to live enlightenment.

The largest spiritual literature in the planet Earth exists in Sanskrit language. I don't know how many libraries you can make out of those collections!

It is nothing but the continuous expressions and discourses of the masters who lived in the body, who were teaching the world. This sutra is all about constantly inspiring you to constantly practice.

Somebody asked Buddha, 'You are saying the same thing for the last forty years.' He says, 'If you had listened the first time, I would never have said it

If I look inside and find out the reason why I am talking and writing, I can very clearly tell you that the only reason all the masters go on writing and talking is to constantly make you practice. Krishna says beautifully in the Bhagavad Gita that by their nature, the senses are created to looking in the direction of the outer world. So turning you in, turning you towards enlightenment, turning you towards your source, is not that easy. Every moment, you are again out! If you read a spiritual book, or listen to a spiritual discourse or satsang, you turn inside for a few minutes. But by the time the satsang is over, you are already out! By the time the ideas leave your mind, you are already out.

Constantly, you need to be inspired to turn in, to go inside. That is why the masters go on talking and writing. In the last six years, I have spoken more again!' The truth is only one thing; the essence of all masters' teachings is the same. But it is constantly told in different ways so that you listen and understand. The reason for repetition is we forget, we forget.

In this one sutra, Patanjali says very clearly why the truth should be repeated. After that he says, 'I respect your intelligence, so I am not going to repeat it anymore.'

The truth is constantly told in different ways so that I listen and understand.