FROM THE LINEAGE OF PATANJALI🔗

Raghupati Yogi is from the lineage of Patanjali, who is the Father of Yoga and the founder of the yoga system. Patanjali is the first master that created a clear, logical, scientific system, to reproduce the experience of enlightenment. Until Patanjali, enlightenment was an accident. Somebody may get it or they may not get it. It was more like a gambling game; you have to play, but there is no guarantee that you will win. Patanjali was the first master, I can say spiritual navigator who really did the mapping and the complete directions. He created clear-cut directions, a step by step formula to reproduce the experience of enlightenment. Just as scientists create formulas to reproduce the understanding of the outer world experiences, Patanjali created a beautiful formula and technology to reproduce the experience of the inner world - enlightenment.

This yogi, Raghupati Yogi, mastered the whole science and not only the physical aspects of yoga like bending the body and all those things which we call asana or hatha yoga. Apart from that, he had mastered all other aspects of yoga; working with prana, working with the mind, working with visualization power and working with emotions. He mastered all other dimensions of yoga, all other aspects of yoga and had deep insights into the core truth. His insights were sometimes revealing, sometimes shocking and sometimes what Raghupati Yogi (and Patanjali) said even looked very contradictory.

I used to tell him, 'I am able to understand what is written in the book (the Yoga Sutra) by Patanjali but I am not able to understand your commentary and your explanation'. He would answer me in a beautiful way. He always used say, 'In the books or Yoga Sutra, only the verbal language of Patanjali is recorded, not the body language!' The experience of what he wanted to convey is not recorded, therefore, naturally much is lost.

For example, I say, 'Be Un-clutched'! Fortunately, we have a video recorder to record all that I am saying and the purpose for which I am saying these things along with the ambience in which I am saying them.. If you only take the verbal message and convey it to the next generation, after two hundred years, only the words 'Be Un-clutched' will be delivered. Someone might ask, 'What is the message of Paramahamsa Nithyananda?' The other person says, 'He always used to say 'Be Un-clutched'. Then the person will understand, 'Oh, to be un-clutched means that I should not drive any vehicle with a clutch. I should stop using cars'. The friend will say, 'Not only cars! You should not use anything with a clutch! That is the meaning of Nithyananda's teachings'.

We don't know what the difference will be between the original reason for which I uttered the words 'Be Un-clutched' and what kind of interpretation will be given after one or two hundred years! This is because only the verbal language is recorded and the body language is not recorded, or the purpose for which the word is uttered is not recorded.

Only a person who has experienced the consciousness of Patanjali can bring Patanjali back to life. I had the great fortune to be with this Master who experienced the consciousness or the same inner space of Patanjali. That is the reason he was able to reveal to me all the deeper level truths of the yoga science.