VIBHUTI PAAD SUTRA - 48

           TATO  MANO  JAVATTWAM  VIKARANA  BHAVAH  PRADHAN  JAYAHCHYA

           (BY MASTERING THE SENSES,  BODY  CAN  MOVE  WITH  SPEED  OF  MIND ,

                (MANO JAVITTWAAM )  AND HE  CAN  PERCEIVE  WITHOUT  SENSES

               ( VIKARAN  BHAV )AND  THIS  LEADS  TO CONTROL  OVER  PRAKRUTI  -

                                       NATURE  (PRADHANBHAV )

        There are three things that are described in this SUTRA that happens , when one has reached certain level in meditation . They have been telling us about the control over senses and the mind  and what powers one gets . So now we are told that when one has achieved this level , he can move his physical body with speed of MIND . We know that the speed of mind is more than physical body and probably has no limit . I can sit here and think of India and I can be there mentally, in fraction of  a second . But my physical body is not in India . But when the Yogi gets this power , he can get his PHYSICAL BODY in India in fraction of  a second -with speed of mind .

      One might have a question as to how is it possible as according to rules of physics , when the speed increases, the weight /mass increases and nothing can travel with speed of light. The answer is hat one can not equate the rules that apply to  NATURE /matter or PRAKRUTI,  to the spirit , which is ENERGY and so the energy is LIGHT and so it can move faster than matter.One other explanation  is that by Paramhauns Yoganand. The Yogi can change matter in to energy and the energy can move with speed of light and the energy again materializes-gets converted in to matter.

       The second power is that of perceiving without the SENSES or even the mind. Ordinary person can not smell or taste or touch without the object and the senses intact.In a way we need the actual contact of the object to be evaluated, and it can happen only in the 'PRESENT TIME'. So if there is pizza and I can not eat it , I can not taste it I will not be in position to tell how it tastes. So unless my tongue touches the Pizza , I can not taste it . Also if some one wants to know about how it tasted yesterday, when I did not taste it yesterday, I can not tell. I could not tell how it would taste in future . So there is a limitation on our ability -senses must come in contact and second -it can happen only in PRESENT TIME..But with this power the Yogi does not need the senses or actual contact of the senses , and the TIME limitation is not there, So Yogi can perceive the taste -or for that matter any senses without actual contact in PRESENT -PAST OR FUTURE TIMES . This is called VIKARAN BHAV .(One must realize that the senses are just the instrument and THEY do not do the job PERCEIVING.Something much subtler doe the perceiving.)

       The entire universe is made of matter and the spirit . The matter has all the QUALITIES or the GUNAS and the SPIRIT  has none . The matter CHANGES and the SPIRIT is unchanging.But the matter or the PRAKRUTI has no energy or SPIRIT and so it needs SPIRIT to create anything.So with this  power , the YOGI has control over the NATURE or the MATTER .This is called PRADHANBHAV .

VIBHUTI PAAD SUTRA - 47

GRAHANA  SWARUPA  ASMITA  ANWYAYA  ARTHAWATTA  SAIYAMAT  INDRIYA  JAYAH

                 BY CONCENTRATING  ON THE INDRIYA -SENSE ORGANS  AND THEIR

                 NATURE AND THE THE EGO  (WHICH IS THE ORIGIN OF THEM )  AND

                 THE THREE  GUNAS  AND THEIR  PURPOSE  IN FORM  OF ENJOYMENT

                           AND ACTION  YOGI  ATTAINS  MASTERY  OVER  THEM .

         This one Sutra is interesting as it is little confusing . One could have said that when you concentrate on the senses , one attains the control  over them.'.But here Sage Patanjali wants us to remember other stuff as the external Indriya or the senses ARE NOT THE CONTROLLER !

        So again there is tracing back of the origin of the universe. But to start with the first word is GRAHANA- ,which means different things for different sense. The Eyes see and the Ears hear the Sound and the Skin has touch and the Tongue has taste and the Nose has Smell. But if one looks at it carefully . he will realize that the eyes DON'T SEE and the Skin does not have the sensation of Touch and the Ears don;t hear and so on . When the Light rays or the photon particles hit an object , they are reflected all over and when they enter the eyes and travel to Retina , the nerve endings of the optic nerve has some reaction and the Impulse is transmitted to the Occipital  ital are of the bairn and there is  a chemical reaction and one knows that he is seeing an object -say a dog. But who is really seeing - not the eyes as sometimes when we are lost in thought we do not See an object even though the object is in front of our eyes and the photons reflected from the object do enter out eyes and the optic nerve does it's job of taking the impulse to occipital area in brain and the neurons there . But we do not PERCEIVE ! So it is beyond the Brain and it is the ANTAHKARAN . The 'I'  is not doer and is independent observer. So the grasping is the GRAHANNA of  the SENSES and the real nature beyond it is the SWAPUP .So when I see a dog , my brain recognizes as dog  bases on my previous experience . But the Intellect tells me that it is particular dog. So the MIND and the Intellect are also involved . So when I recognize the dog to be say MY DOG -called DUKE ,  number of things are involved and the General knowledge is that it is a Dog . while the special knowledge is that it is a particular dog.

      So as we can see there is more to the whole process . Our reactions are based on our experiences . So if one sees  a steak ,vegetarian will have no desire to eat it , while the meat lover will start salivating. So our MIND and Intellect and experiences or the SAUSKARAS are involved in our reaction..Our reaction and action is bases on the balance or the imbalance of the 3 GUNAS. So if we see gold neck less, depending upon our nature we will ACT and React . The Yogi does not want it , the other people will want it. So ONE gets full control over the senses when on gets FULL control over all these things including mind, intellect . ego and 3 Gunas .

       In the beginning, when the universe came in existence , the AHANKAR or the EGO arouse. The three Gunas , which were in balance get imbalanced and the Satwic Guna and Ego. make the DNYANENDRIYE or the SENSE organs , the RAJASIC Guna and the EGO , make KARMENDRIYE or Organs of Action ,and 5 PRANAS and  TAMASIC PART OF THE EGO goes to form the TANMATRA or the changes PANCHAMAHABHUTE or 5 big elements .

    So when one goes back in the precess upon concentrating on these things there are 2 paths . With one path Yogi gets BHUTAJAY and the other oath goes to have INDRIYA JAY or control of the sense organs and the organs of action -which are the INDRIYA. 

VIBHUTI PAAD SUTRA- 46

             RUPA  LAVANYA   BALA  VAJRA  SANHANANATWANI  KAYA  SAMPAT

                (BY ACHIEVING  MASTERY  OVER ALL THE ELEMENTS  YOGI) 

        GETS  BEAUTIFUL AND  GRACEFUL  AND  STRONG  BODY  WHICH  HAS     

                 ENDURANCE  OF VAJRA -STRONG WEAPON -THUNDERBOLT

          This is continuation of the previous SUTRA. When one achieves the mastery over the ELEMENTS, the physical body shows some changes and that is what is described in this Sutra . So the YOGI'S body looks beautiful and one with shine . He also looks strong and has ability to withstand any thing and has endurance that is unparalleled.

        The physical body is made out of Elements and so when there is control over the elements , the body looks beautiful and has glamour and becomes strong . The endurance is greatly increased.In the autobiography of YOGI, there is one story. Paramhauns Yoganand was understudy and his Guru is out of town and then the train is late . So Yuktekshwar - his guru comes back very late .Everybody is waiting for him to come as they have not had lunch. The guru come back . So everybody now is ready to eat. But Yukteshwarji goes to take bath and then sits for meditation. By then it is 3 or 4 pm . Yoganand is hungry and wants to eat . But lunch will not be served till GURU has started eating . Finally the time comes when Yoganand gets the food . He complaints to the Guru that he was very hungry and would have dies if there was anymore delay in getting food . Yukteshwar answered to him that he was in train travel for more than 2 days and he has  not had any food for 3 days ! The average physical body needs regular food and that to frequently. But once one has control over the body , one can SUSTAIN the life without the food . For average human being the energy comes from food that we eat . For the Yogi , the energy is from the GOD - SPIRIT and they do not need to dependent on regular food all the time . The body continues to thrive and continues to be strong . 

VIBHUTI PAAD -SUTRA 45

TATO  ANIMADI  PRAADURBHAVAH  KAYA  SAMPAT  DHARMA  ANABHIGHATACHYA

THEN (BY MASTERING THE ELEMENTS ,) YOGIS  ACQUIRES (SIDDHIS -POWERS LIKE)

ANIMA ETC  DEVELOPS  PERFECTION  OF THE BODY  UNOBSTRUCTED  BY FUNCTION


                  There are several powers that one attains when he has control over the physical body . there are 8 such powers that are described in the scripture. they are -

1 ANIMA - one can shrink the physical body as small as ANU OR ATOM .

2 MAHIMA-He can make physical body HUGH .

In Ramayana HANUMAN became HUGH when he had to go to Lunka. He also became very small when needed

3 GARIMA-He can make the physical body very HEAVY

    In one other stories when the Garuda- the eagle - Lord Vishnu's VAHAN, vehicle-thought that he was the best and strong - Lord Vishnu asked him to bring in a monkey who was damaging the garden . When the Garuda tries to catch and get the monkey that was in reality the HUNUMAN - he can not lift him as he is too heavy , Similar story is of BHIMA from MAHABHARATA . Bhima thinks that he is the most powerful and so when he is crossing a bridge he sees a monkey who has his tail in the path of Bhima. . Bhima asks him to move it . The monkey tells him that he is too old and can;t lift it and tells Bhima to push it out of the way. As the Bhima tries to lift it with his finger he can't and then he tries more and more energy and he can't .The he realizes that that MONKEY is Hunuman..

4LAGHIMA- To make physical body as light as cotton .

5-PRAPTI-Power to touch anything -no matter how far it is.

6PRAKAMYA-Whatever one desires - will happen

7.EESHITWA-Control over all the creation . (inanimate )

8 VASHITWA-Control over all the living things.

         One may have a question as to how can Yogi do this and then other animals or living things will have no control over their own desires . The answer is that when a Yogi has achieved the level of obtaining such powers , he has no desires to do or use of any such powers . We have heard that some Yogis , when they meditated in jungle , wild animals came , but did  not harm or attack the Yogi. Sometimes snake will show up and will not sting the yogi. 

VIBHUTI PAAD SUTRA - 44

STHULA  SWARUPA  SUKSHMA  ANVAYA  ARTHAVATTWA  SAIYAMAT  BUT  JAYAH

               BY PRACTICING SAIYAMA  ON GROSS FORM, BASIC NATURE,

           SUBTLE FORM , PRESENCE  OF THREE GUNAS OR NATURE AND

                          HOW THIS CAME FROM MAHAT TATTWA ,

                                 YOGI GETS VICTORY OVER THEM

     This Sutra is related to the oirgin of the universe. The BHUTAS or t'THINGS'  in this world came from the PRAKRUTI  or the NATURE and the SPIRIT. So the universe started when the spirit and the nature come together. All the things in universe, have PANCHAMAHABHUTA or 5 BIG ELEMENTS. and 3 GUNAS OR QUALITIES acting on them .

       To understand the so called evolution of these things from basic NATURE , we should consider simple change that we see in every day life . The example is not exactly what happens, but we can understand the similar process. If we take dry soil and add to it water , it becomes mud and then we can do a pot , but then we can bake it and a earthen pot . So there are 4  different External APPEARANCES or stages . Grossly the Pot and the original soil look different . So if we break the pot and then powder the pieces , we will get dry soil and then we can add water and then the same changes can be seen .
       So the GROSS appearance is done by our Eyes and then the other qualities or SWARUP is known by other sense organs -heavy or light , hard or soft , smooth or rough etc. But to know that the Pot has soil and water and the heat that was required to make a pot etc is the SUBTLE or SUKSHMA  stage, In the universe when the GROSS 5 Big Elements or MAHABHUTE  are there at the beginning. But they have to be acted upon or changed . The resultant is called TANMATRA  and these are the one that have the qualities of the 5 elements , namely the AKASH OR SPACE , VAYU OR THE AIR , THE TEJ OR THE ENERGY , THE AAP OR THE WATER , AND LASTLY THE PRUTHWI OR THE EARTH . As one can see the names are similar but there is change from original 5 elements. The 3 Gunas or the 3 qualities , namely the Satwic , Rajasic  and the Tamasic are there in these TANMATRA or altered elements . This is called ANWAYA. This happens from the original MAHATATWA  and change that occurs in it  .This happens due to energy or may be spirit acting on the Nature . This is called ARTHAVATTA ..

          The universe is formed and dissolves periodically . How long each cycle lasts is told in details . There are 4 YUGAS and each one has predominance of THE GOOD , THE BAD  AND THE UGLY -so to say . So when the universe has dissolved it becomes a SINGULARITY ,all the BHUTAS  are there . The 3 GUNAS are in balance and none is dominant. So there is complete CALM . When the universe is to start , there is DISTURBANCE in the singularity and it is called GUNASHOBHINI. -
disturbance in the 3 Gunas which were in perfect balance till now. Then there is rise of EGO and then there are 5 MAHABHUTAS . The way in which each one comes back to existence is the AKASH OR SPACE FIRST , FOLLOWED VAYU  OR WIND , FOLLOWED BY TEJ OR ENERGY  FOLLOWED BY WATER OR AAP AND THEN LASTLY THE EARTH OR PRUTHWI . These are related to 5 sense organs. So the AKASH OR SPACE is related to EAR or hearing .The beauty is that each one of these MAHABHUTAS OR elements have the qualities of the previous one .So the SPACE or AKASH can not be felt or seen or tasted or smelled .The next one is VAYU or WIND . This is related to SKIN OR TOUCH and it can be felt and heard . The next one is TEJ or ENERGY . This is related to EYES or can be seen .or felt . The next one is AAP or WATER . This is related to TASTE or tongue .This can be seen or touched or has space . The next one is PRUTHWI OR EARTH . This has all five characteristics, it can be seen , felt, tasted etc. But one must understand that the ELEMENTS have changed and they are not MAHABHUTA ,but are the TANMATRA.
      When there is singularity, there is no separation between the GUNAS and MAHABHUTAS and  evrything else . But when there is imbalance the NATURE  afflicted with imbalance of GUNASA becomes MAHATATWA.The nature or the spirit are not EXPRESSED till then , So when one tries to concentraye on WHAT IS NOT EXPRESSED he gets lost as one can not concentrate upon something that is not EXPRESSED. So while tracing backward ,one has to concentrate on thr process.
      So now one can see when one tries to concentrate on each one of the things we can trace back to the origin and then that will take us to the VICTORY ON BHUTA -BHUTAJAY .

     

VIBHUTI PAAD SUTRA -43

                         BAHIR  AKALPITA  VRUTTIH  MAHAVEDAHA  TATAH

                                       PRAKASH AWARANAH  KSHAYAH

THE  PERCEPTION BY MIND  OR CHITTA  EXISTING  OUT SIDE  BODY  WITHOUT ANY

IMAGINATION  IS CALLED GREAT  BODY LESS STATE WHICH REMOVES  THE

                    IGNORANCE  WHICH OBSTRUCTS THE LIGHT ( OF WISDOM)

      We are so used to feel that the body and mind or CHITTA  are always together . We can not imagine the two being different. We think that if there is no mind there is no physical body . Even if the mind is confused , like i  patient with delirium or dementia , there is still a MIND. So as long as there is body there is mind . So under ordinary conditions the mind can not be without body and body can nor exists without mind. We can  imagine the body without mind - or may be we can SEE the body without mind . This is called KALPITA or imagined . but we can not FEEL the mind to be independent of the physical body.

     When one starts doing meditation and then can understand the separate elements of the body, which includes physical and the astral and the causal body,then one KNOWS that the mind and the intellect and the ego are separate from the physical body . The CHITTA is 'mind stuff' So when the CHITTA or mind stuff -which is more than what is called mind in English , can see itself without the physical body , that is called 'MAHAVIDEHA' state . MAHA is big and the VIDEHA is without body. In this state one does not have to IMAGINE but one knows that the Mind is different than the physical body and so this is called AKALPITA-one which is not imagined .

    The reason one can not see the CHITTA being separate from physical body is due to ignorance . So when one can perceive the mind being different and separate existence for the body , the ignorance is removed . This ignorance was obstructing the light of the wisdom . 

VIBHUTI PAAD SUTRA - 42

      KAYA   AKASHAOY  SAMBANDHA  SAIYAMAT  LAGHU  TULA  SAMAPATTEH

                                                   CHA AKASH  GAMANAM

BY PRACTICING  SAIYAM - CONCENTRATION -ON THE RELATIONSHIP  BETWEEN 

PHYSICAL  BODY  AND   AKASH OR ETHER - AND THEN CONCENTRATING  ON

                           LIGHT OBJECT  LIKE COTTON, YOGI  CAN FLY

      In this Sutra  we are told about yet another SIDHHI or power that can be achieved by perfecting meditation . So we are told that when one one concentrates on the relationship between physical body and space or AKASH or ETHER , one understands that the physical body needs space and this space goes everywhere where the body moves . The space occupied is same , no matter wherever the body is . So These two are inseparable. There is nothing in this world  that is physical and does not need SPACE OR AKASH OR ETHER.Now you bring in the light physical thing like cotton ball or cotton . When one can perfectly concentrate on the body-space and cotton , he can make his body very light. So light that he can fly.As it is common experience that when we throw a stone , it comes down . But when we throw cotton , it floats at least for short time . So the lighter substance can 'fly' easily.So by concentrating on lighter object like cotton , one can fly.

     AKASHGAMAN is flying in SPACE or flying in AKASH.