VIBHUTIPAAD -- SUTRA 19

                                    PRATYAYASYA  PARA  CHITTAM  DNYANAM

                              (UPON CONCENTRATING ON MIND'S OF OTHERS,)

                             YOGI CAN KNOW THE CONDITION OF THE MINDS

      In these Sutras we are told about the powers that one can achieve when he /she concentrates on certain things . So in the last Sutra we were told that when one concentrates on own life /mind , he can know the previous lives.In this one we are told that if the Yogi concentrates on the mind of others, he can know the the state of the mind .So when we see someone . they may be sad or distressed or angry, they can hide it. So normal person can not detect the state of the mind. But when we are able to concentrate and are successful in doing it perfectly, we can detect that status.
   Just by looking at the person . one can not know the cause for the status of the mind , but one can definitely know that the person is hiding his or her emotions .
    In the next SUTRA , we are told about this in different way .

VIBHUTI PAAD SUTRA--18

                       SAUNSKAR  SAKSHAT  KARANAT  POORV  JAATI   DNYANAM

                BY  CONCENTRATING  ON SAUNSKARA  ONE CAN  KNOW  ABOUT

                                                     PREVIOUS  LIFE  OR JANMA

In last few SUTRAS we are told about the various powers or the Sidhhi that one can attain when the concentration or the meditation is perfected . The word used is not meditation , but SAIYAM. So when one concentrates  on the Impressions or the saunskara he can know about previous life. In Hindu or vedic philosophy, every action has reaction and so every Karma or the DEED has impression and these impressions are stored and they will come back and they cause us to have a particular action . So if I have liking for the music and that made me do study , enjoy music , it will create the impressions and that will not go away when the physical body dies. So in the next life I will have desire to learn music and love music and I will start from where I left in the last life . But one can say that we don;t know or remember the last life, let alone the impressions from last life . So in this Sutra we are told that when one concentrates on the IMPRESSIONS (that cause our nature and the action in this present life), and we have perfected it , we can know the last life.
      The difference between the VEDIC or Hindu religion and the rest of the religions , is that we do not have depend upon the stories from profits, but we can our self get the same experiences that they got . So I don not have depend on some Swami or saint or such to know the powers that can be achieved with the meditation or the concentration. So as the impressions are carried from previous lives , when one concentrates on them , we can know the previous life  or what happened in previous life . 

VIBHUTI PAAD --SUTRA 17

           SHABD,  ARTHA,  PRATYAYA,  ITARA  ITARA  ADHYASAT  SANKARAH  TAT

                           PRAVIBHAGA  SAYAMAT  SARVBHUTA  RUTA DNYANAM

          WORD, MEANING AND IDEAS ARE CONFUSED TO BE SAME , BUT BY SAIYAM OR

           CONCENTRATION , ONE CAN ATTAIN THE KNOWLEDGE OF SOUNDS OF ANY                                                                         
                                                                 LIVING BEING

When a sound is produced , we can make a word out of it and there is meaning to it and then we get the Big Picture . If I say a word  Dog, the listener understands it . The sound which is produced by letters D-O-G make the word dog . And we understand what it means and we see a dog that we know.If we do not understand the English language , we will here the sound but it will not mean anything. So the sound -word is different than the meaning . For us to understand the word Dog we must have seen the dog and known about the Dog . So the three things are separate from each other, but when we KNOW the thing , we think all three to be same .

   We are told here that the three things are different and when we concentrate on these . we can get the difference between them . But moreover , we are also told that when we achieve the concentration, we can understand the sound produced by any living thing .

   I am not sure if this is the POWER or the SIDHHI that is achieved by the meditation . This would mean that the Yogi will be in position to understand any language and any branch -words from physics or chemistry -medicine -IT etc. would be understood . This is not limited to the human sounds ,but such Yogi can understand any sound -even made by birds or animals etc. Again this the power that is achieved by Yogi with great practice of concentrating on these sounds . 

VIBHUTI PAD SUTRA 16

                      PARINAM  TRAYA  SAYYAMAT  ATIT  ANAGAT  DYANAM

              BY  CONCENTRATING  ON  THESE  THREE  THINGS , ONE  ATTAINS

                                       KNOWLEDGE  OF PAST  AND  FUTURE

      From the Sutra 9 to 15 we are told about the three things -namely the Dharma,Lakshan and the Awasta. So we were told that there is a change in the everything . The example could be milk and the yogurt. One can not get yogurt from water , and one can not get ice from milk . So we are now told that when one concentrates on these thigs , and the concentration is perfected , he KNOWS, about the PAST (of yogurt) and the FUTURE (OF THE YOGURT-WHICH IS BUTTERMILK ) . This may sound simple and ordinary or common knowledge in case of milk or water , but then when one thinks of many things in this world , it becomes obvious that knowing past and future is not ordinary , and in spite of these things being common in our life , we do not know the past and future .Look at TV or computer or Fax machine .

        So the question arises as to how one can concentrate on yogurt and KNOW that it came from milk and can change in to buttermilk . The answer is in the thing called ANTAHKARAN. The ANTAHKARAN has 4 different , which are AHANKAR OR EGO, THE BUDHHI OR INTELECT , THE MANA OR THE MIND AND lastly CHITTA which has no English word for it .
       Simple example will explain the difference . We are walking on the road and see a mango garden. So 'I' want to eat and enjoy it . This i which thinks that I AM THIS BODY , is the Ego or the AHANKAR. The desire comes in the MIND or MANA . So I want to pluck it , but my BUDHHI or intelect. tells us that it is wrong to do it and if we are caught then we will pay for it . When i think about the mango I am doing what is called MANAN , which could be contemplation in English. But when I think about the God and repeatedly do it , it is called CHINTAN or meditating on it in English. The CHINTAN could of of anything . So so when the CHINTAN is perfected, we know the Thing perfectly and that includes the PAST state and the Future state .

     So in this Sutra we are told tat one can get this SIDHHI or POWER by perfecting the meditation or doing SAIYAM on it .

VIBHUTI PAAD SUTRA -15

                        KRAMA  ANYATWAM  PARINAMA  ANYATWE  HETUM

THE  DIFFERENCE  IN THE  MODIFICATION  IS  DUE  TO  DIFFERENCE  IN THE  CAUSE


     These Sutras are to be taken together . The Sutra is taking us to the powers or the SIDHIS that one attains when he has practiced the meditation perfectly. So the concept in Raj Yoga is the the nature is the basic stuff and it manifests as different things due to the modification of the basic stuff. In the Sutra 13 we were told that there are three kind which cause the change,namely the Dharma , Lakshan and the Awastha. So the change that happens is related to basic characters , time and the apparent state . So the seed becomes plant or tree and has leaves and the flowers and the fruits . All these things LOOK very different from one another , but they all came from the seed . But the seed changes in to a small plant , due to soil and water and the heat acting on it . The plant has flowers and the flowers turn in to fruits only with effects of cross pollination. But the basic seed has to have all these qualities in it . We can not grow a mango tree from a seed of tomato . Nor could we get a plant or tree out of a leaf. We know this . But there will be things in this world ,where by looking at it we can not know the nature and what caused the change  and what change would occur in them with time .
       When one has perfected the meditation , at a certain level of progress , he or she would get powers to this -the nature , the cause of the change and so on.

VIBHUTI PAAD SUTRA - 14

                    SHANTA  UDITA  AVYAPADESHYA  DHARMA  ANUPATI  DHARMI


                          DHARMI  IS  BASIS FOR THE PAST , PRESENT  AND FUTURE
                       
                                           DHARMA -PROPERTIES OR CHARACTER

           In this Sutra the word dharma is not used for religion . The Dharma is the property or the characters of the object . So when we say  why does  the wood float in water and the iron sink in water, we answer that it is the DHARMA or the character of the wood and the iron. When we talk about the snake stinging , we talk about the DHARMA of the snake being to sting. So in this Sutra we are told that DHARMA is the basis for anything that happens to object in past , present or future.
   
         So the MILK is the DHARMI of the yogurt and the Gold is the DHARMI of the golden bracelet and the Water is the DHARMI of the ice. So what we see has to be present in the DHARMI. So the past DHARMA changes to PRESENT DHARMA and then the present DHARMA becomes past and changes in to FUTURE dharma . The seed becomes plant and then there are flowers and then the fruits . The characters of the seed are different than the plant and they are different than the flowers or the fruits . So we can not see the character of the fruits or the flowers when we look at seed. But the character can not appear out of no where . So they must be there in the seed and then they appear with ideal time and circumstances. One which has disappeared is SHANT DHARMA , the one which is current is the UDIT DHARMA and the one that Will happen in the future is the ANUPATTI DHARMA .

         So what we are told is that the change occurs in DHARMI with time and the ORIGINAL thing remains same . The DHARMI does not change The change only deceptive . So we may see a table made out of wood , which came from the tree , which came from the seed and so on . But once we know the DHARMI we will know the changes and the in next couple of SUTRAS , we will be told about the SIDHHI or the power that are achieved with the SAMADHI or the concentration that we can do on any object . So if one looks at the Gold chain , he will not only know the chain , but will also know the gold that it came from and the other things that has happened or the changes that has happened in between .



 

   

VIBHUTI PAD SUTRA-13

                      ETENA  BHUTA  INDRIYESHU  DHARMA  LAKSHANA

                                 AVASTHA  PARINAMA  VYAKHYATAH

BY  THIS (WHICH  WAS EXPLAINED  IN LAST  SUTRA )THE  EFFECT  OF  THE  DHARMA

(CHARECTER) ,LAKSHANA (TIME) AND  AVASTHA  (STATE )  ON THE BHUTE (PEOPLE)

                                                  AND SENSES ARE EXPLAINED

        This Sutra is little difficult to understand as the meaning of the usual words is different when used in this conection . So there are three different words that  are used in this Sutra. namely DHARM , LAKSHAN AND THE AVASTHA.
     When we use the term Dharma we use it as religion. So when we say my DHARMA is HINDU , we refer to our religious belief. But we also use the same word for the description of the nature . The snake is going to sting as that is it's dharma  or nature . So the same word has different meaning when used in different relationship. In this Sutra it tells us about the characteristic of the DHARMI. So if we would consider gold. It could be a gold coin or a gold ring or gold neckless or a gold pot . So the DHARMI is the gold and all the different things that we are seeing are related to it .
     LAKSHAN is related to time .So the change that occurs with TIME in the gold is the Lakshan . So the DHARMA is the modification that occurs with time .

     The AVASTHA is the effect that occurs with the time. But this is subtle. The change in gold from the gold as a metal to a gold as ring, is the change of DHARMI . But the change continues to occur in the the gold even when we think it is not changing .This is called AVASTHA.
      The PARINAM is the result of these things or the effects.

      So the few more words .
ANGAT LAKSHAN PARINAM. When we have basic stuff -in case of gold ring is GOLD or in case of pot , it is soil in case of a pot, is the ANGAT LAKSHAN PARINAM . (ANGAT is one 'which is in it '   or past .

VARTAMAN LAKSHAN PARINAM- So when earth or the soil is converted in to a pot , or when the gold is converted in to a gold ring , it is PRESENT TIME CHANGE or VARTAMAN PARINAM .

 ATITA LAKSHAN PARINAM -This refers to past , So when the gold ring becomes simple gold or the pot becomes the earth or the soil , this the ATITA PARINAM.
     Now that we know these words , let us use the CHITTA instead of gold or the earth/soil. So the CHITTA is the DHARMI and then when one does practice the meditation or the SAMADHI , there are changes in it in relation to the TIME. So the CHITTA before the SAMADHI is one state -which would be ANGAT LAKSHSN PARINAM , ,the CHITTA in the SAMADHI state is the VARTAMAN LAKSHAN PARINAM, and when the samadhi is done with and the chitta is back to the usual state , it is ATITA LAKSHAN PARINAM .

    So we are told that in the previous SUTRA, that the changes that occur in PERSON -BHUTA and the senses or INDRIYA have been explained . So YOGI is different as a person and the senses BEFORE samadhi , DURING samadhi and AFTER the samadhi .