96. You are learning from the purest Source🔗

I want to stop here to say something about the subtle truths which are being revealed here.

Listen: these are the thoughts, the ideas, the truths expressed by human beings when they first started thinking, when they first started visualizing, when first they started experiencing. This is the fresh, alive, truth as it is, not altered for the sake of the vested interests of the outer world, or for the sake of marketing, or for the sake of an organization. Please understand, if any organization is funding R&D in a particular area, naturally the organization will have some benefit out of it. So the direction in which the R&D goes, and even the results, are bound to be influenced by that organization which is funding it.

In the same way, even with the inner sciences, if the religious R&D is being funded by some organization, naturally it cannot be pure; it will not be completely based on truth. The, the group which is standing, The influence or shadow of the organization which is funding it will continue to be there on it.

Fortunately, these truths were revealed at a time when there was no organization to fund the R&D, when there was no organization to threaten, when human beings were doing this conscious R&D completely independent of organizational structures. It was a pure research which happened in the universities located in the deep forests.

India's first university R&D is Naimisharanya, the sacred forest where the seer Veda Vyasa taught the Vedas and Puranas to his disciples. It was a forest. The Registrar of the University, Vaishampayana, has recorded whatever was happening there. There were thousands of professors, scientists, research scholars, and millions of students from all over the world. Our great scriptures are the result of the R&D which happened there. And as I said, a similar university was there in Chidambaram also, where Patanjali created a forest community to keep these truths alive and spread them to the whole world. He created a beautiful temple which expressed the way in which he experienced the cosmos. The Cosmos is not a thing, it is a continuous happening, an intense happening, an intense explosion, an intense expansion. That is why Patanjali describes God as a dancing Shiva, dancing auspiciousness. The way he experienced, he visualized Shiva and created a temple and a community.

So understand that you are learning these truths straight from the Source. It is the original truths in its purest form Neither fear nor greed existed in Patanjali's inner space when he was doing this R&D and revealing these great secrets.. There was no need for any alteration, manipulation or interpolation. Since they came out of that pure inner space, these sutras are leading us to that same pure inner space.

I don't even want to say that these truths are only for spiritual life. If they are understood and internalized, any life will become juicy. These truths can add juice to any kind of life.

CONTEMPLATION

Since they came out of a pure inner space, these sutras can lead me to that same pure inner space.

Sutra 15

The conscious withdrawal from the objects of the senses at the levels of body, mind and being leads one to a state of awareness which is called vairagya.