PARROTING

  I have started doing some stories  and the moral conclusion out of it. I did one with Lord Krishna . Now I will do one that I heard about and it may or may not be true. I am sure some of you might have heard of the story ,but never thought it had some educational value.
  This is a story of Einstein. When he had published the theory of the relativity, he became very famous  and every university and every association wanted to call him and give a lecture . He was not very happy ,but he had to go for lectures . He was getting bored . So one day he had was invited for the lecture. He  was going to the place  and his driver was driving. He did not need to prepare for the lecture as he had given same lecture many times and he knew the subject as he was the one that had the theory published. So he was talking to his driver. The driver had also attended the lectures in the past  and he was smart . So when Einstein state that he was just tired of giving the same lecture over and again, he suggested that they can change the cloths  and Einstein can become the driver and driver can give lecture. Einstein agreed . They changed the clothes  and now Einstein was wearing the driver's uniform . When they reached the place , the driver went in as Einstein and gave the lecture. He had heard it many times  and he could rattle out the same words again without understanding anything.
    The lecture was over  and the driver was trying to get off the stage as he did not not the real thing . But the moderator wanted to have some Q and A session. So he asked if anyone had questions . One from the audience stood up and asked a question . The driver had stop and stay in his chair . He had no understanding of the subject  and so it was beyond his ability to answer  any questions . He was in trouble , but he was smart  and he stood up  and said .'The question is so simple that even my driver could answerer it ' and called his driver - Einstein ,from the audience.
   Let us for a second leave aside the possibility of such a thing really happening . Not very likely .But we do it all the time . We give comments based on what we have heard from experts  and we have not understood much . But it sounds good  and we can remember the answers. We do this all the time when we talk about the scriptures . We don't always understand nor we we follow the path. But we are ready to TEACH the others , only because we can remember and talk like parrot. 

THE DEVOTION

    To continue in this blog, I have decided to tell some stories that have some moral element to it  and these may be related to scriptures or otherwise. so let me start the first one with Lord KRISHNA.
    When Krishna was born . his parents were jailed  and the King Kaunsa was aware of the fact that the child born to his sister will kill him. But when Krishna was born, there was heavy rains  and river Yamuna was flooded. His father Vasudev decided to take the child out of jail . He was not too sure as to how he could do it . He put a child in a basket  and then the guards went in deep sleep and the jail doors open on own and then when he went to the river Yamuna , Krishna touched the water with little toe  and the river parted . He was taken to GOKOOL  and the new set of parents did the upbringing . They did not have  any child of own and they wanted to do big ceremony for KRISHNA . But they knew that the King Kaunsa will know so they did smaller ceremony. The priest performed the religious function and he then did shower in the river and had cooked his own food and then sat  and offered the food to the LORD / GOD . When he opened his eyes he saw baby Krishna eating the food . He was upset . He called the mother Yashoda  and told her to control the child  and did whole process again . Sower, cooking and then offering the food to Lord . He had closed his eyes  and the when he opened them he saw same thing , Krishna was eating food . He was locked in room and he still got out  and messed the food . The priest did this third time  and the same time happened.
      This time he REALIZED that he was offering the food to GOD/ LORD  and was not expecting that the LORD / GOD would eat it . But KRISHNA was the GOD and when offered, he was EATING the food .
      We often offer the Lord food -PRASAD . We always offer what WE like . We never for a second think that HE WOULD EAT IT . We decide the quantity based on how many guests we have invited ,not on how much God would like. We don't expect that GOD IS ACTUALLY GOING TO EAT IT..
We do not have FAITH in our own prayers  and devotions. So when the food is gone we are surprised  and this is the problem .We do religious ceremony for our own satisfaction and we do have unconditional love faith .
                                                WE NEED TO HAVE THAT!!!

ADDITION

    I have been writing on this Blog on Patanjali Sutra Yoga  and i have come to end .
I just wanted to let you know that I have started on KATHOPNISHAD IN MY NEW BLOG
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   I have also done a book on Patanjali Sutra Yoga which is available at Amazon books as E book as well as print form. It is little different than the Blog itself .
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KATHOPANISHAD KATHA UPANISHDA 1

        Since the PATANJALI SUTRA YOGA was completed , I decided to continue the same blog  and not changing the name . But I want to start on UPANISHADS. There more than 100 Upanishads  and some are considered very important . There are 10 or 12 Upanishads that are considered very important  and the Katha Upanishads is one of them . It is also very popular and has been discussed  and critique by many and one of the first one that I read many years ago. I have told the story of the Kathopanishada to many including non-Indians  and it is impressive . There are several reasons why I like it  and I will try to tell them in this first Blog.

     The meaning of the Upanishad is 'sitting next to '.The typical format of the Upanishads is to start with a prayer  and then there is a story and the story has the 'teaching ' by the teacher. This is a conversation between the GURU or Teacher  and the SHISHYA or disciple or student. The story itself has teaching and that is the way it differs from the ISAP NITI OR PANCHTANTRA. (For those who are not familiar with the Isap Niti -Isap was a slave  and he has these famous stories where he could Understand the language of the animals  and that created the story  and at the end of the story was 'moral teaching. In Panchtantra there were animal stories  and that had again the moral teaching)
   In Upanishads we have knowledge of  BRAHMAN-so it is Brahma Vidya.The scriptures are always complicated  and written in mystic form. This is true for the Vedic religion and also for the other Abrahamic religions , namely Christianity , Islam and Judaism. From Adam and Eve story to statements like You chop off your arms  and then I will receive you to I am the only God that you should worship - are all the examples of things that are open to interpretation and misunderstandings and then the fights.  So this Upanishad is straight forward . It also deals with Life and Death.We do not know what happens to us after the death (of physical body) and so we are concerned and we are curious  and afraid. But the Death as we know is death of physical body  and not our True Nature or SELF. So this Upanishad addresses it as to what happens after the so called DEATH.
    We have had discussions on reincarnation and so Vedic religion believes that we have several lives  and we are reborn and the BIRTH AND DEATH ARE CYCLES  and there is o end to it unless---?.
So this Upanishad does affirms the idea of reincarnation.
    We have also heard in our life about the Gods doing this  and that  and we often give HUMAN qualities to the Gods . The God is merciful and God will forgive  and God will get mad  and God will punish etc. But then on other hand we also talk about the PURUSHA which has no Gunas  and he is independent observer . So what is the Truth . Is there a God of that has these qualities . Is there a GOD OF DEATH the YAMA or YAMARAJ ? This Upanishad has the answer  and the YAMA the God of death is teaching about LIFE  AND LIFE AFTER DEATH !
    So I will try to start the real verses in my next blog .

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    THE PATANJALI SUTRA YOGA IS DONE WITH. I AM STILL TRYING TO GRASP IT AND MAY BE ONE DAY DO A E BOOK OUT OF IT  AND I AM WORKING ON WHAT I WROTE FOR LAST FEW YEARS.

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KAIWALYA PAAD SUTRA- 34

PURUSHARTH SHUNYANAM GUNANAM PRATIPRASAVAH KAVAILAM SWARUPA

                                     PRATISHTA VA CHITTISHAKTER ITI
SINCE (3)GUNAS ARE DONE WITH IT'S FUNCTION,THEY REGRESS TO IT'S PREVIOUS

STATUS AND THAT IS THE KAIVALYA STATE (LIBERATION) AS PURUSHA DOES NOT   

                                     UNITE WITH TENDENCIES OF MIND
          This is the last of the SUTRAS of this chapter and also that of PATANJALU SUTRA YOGA . We started with control of mind  and the the tendencies  and then we are told how to control and then what we get as POWERS or SIDHHIS when we are successful, At different levels of achievements , we experience the different powers. These are the SIDHHIS.But the purpose of the Meditation is not to get the SIDHHIS or the powers, but is to have the liberation of the SOUL . The soul is the reflection of the SELF which has identifies with body. The enjoyment of the SELF when it identifies with body is through GUNAS. So the purpose of the GUNAS is to provide pleasure. The Gunas have the origin from the NATURE or Prakruti. The SELF is independent observer. When the SOUL identifies with BODY,is gets entangled in pleasure  and sorrow. So when the SELF IS FREE of DESIRES, there is no work left for the Gunas  and then when there is no job or function left for the Gunas, they regress to the NATURE or Prakruti. If you recollect at the beginning of the Universe , The SPIRIT - PURUSH which has no desires comes in contact with NATURE or PRAKRUIT which has desires  as it has GUNAS, come together and the LIFE starts or Universe is born . We represent microcosm of the Universal Macrocosm. So for the YOGI, who has gotten rid of desires  and is without GUNAS, is free and has realized the SELF  and that is the LIBERATION OR KAIVALYA.

KAIWALYA PAAD SUTRA- 33

                KSHANA PRATIYOGI PARINAM APARANTA NIRGRAHYAH KRAMAH

       KRAMA IS FLOW OF KSHANA (OR SMALLEST PART OF TIME), IS DEPENDENT 

                                  UPON PERCEPTION OF END OF EACH MODIFICATION 

         When the time is divided in it.s smallest units, in Sanskrit it is called Kshana.The series of the KSHANA makes the TIME. One moment ENDS AND THE OTHER starts  and then the next one ends  and next to it starts . So the previous KSHANA  and the next one can not coexist with each other . One has to end  and then  the other starts. So the changes are related to 3 Gunas. We were told that the Gunas or their effects ceases when the Yogi achieves the level of TURYA Samadhi status. So then the question is why doe Yogi continues to LIVE?
     Everything in the physical world changes every second whether we can see it or not. The iron rots, the flower blossoms and we do not notice the change even when we watch daily. So the changes happen  and that is due to the 3 Gunas. So the question is when the Gunas cease to have effect why does the physical body continues to survive.
      For the Yogi when he achieves the KAIWALYA,the Chitta is transcendental and the for him the time  and space stops. But he still has the effects of previous Karma  and so that has to continue . Then new Karma will not cause the effects  as there is no GUNA causing the Desire  and there is no new impression. But the physical body has to FULFILL the effects of previous Karma - previous to achieving the Turya Samadhi level.