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The Yoga of Patanjali

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130 Lessons on <strong>The</strong> <strong>Yoga</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>Patanjali</strong>scriptures 5,000 years ago and we are reading and meditating.When, concepts are received in this stage <strong>of</strong> awareness theystand in the minds <strong>of</strong> the public through thousands <strong>of</strong> years toshow the way. Every pr<strong>of</strong>essor <strong>of</strong> Economics is busy with histhousands <strong>of</strong> plans but they escape into the winds. Karl Marxhad one scheme and it lives now to find the place <strong>of</strong> manrearranged in society. This is because it was given from theplane <strong>of</strong> meditation. It is called the craeative plane. All the otherplanes hitherto are only psychological and supra-psychologicalbut not creative. Thoughts come anad go in those planes butconcepts received on the creative plane will go on creatingfollowers among the people. Concepts take flesh and blood inthe form <strong>of</strong> ourselves. <strong>The</strong>y belong to the category <strong>of</strong> “<strong>The</strong>word made flesh”.(8) <strong>The</strong> next step is called Attainment (Samadhi) Whenthe concept stands in time it is called meditation. Whey you,the observer, disappear into it, it is called Attainment. I call itattainment not because you have attained the required thing,but because it has attained you. <strong>The</strong> goal reached you whileyou made the attempt. When you are engaged in seeing a cinemain the T. V. all these steps take place automatically. At first youbegin to see it. After a little while you do not exist and henceyou do not remember that you are seeing the picture. <strong>The</strong> pictureexists. If you are not there in the room and the picture is runningin the T. V. in an empty room, then the picture does not exist.Existence is to someone else to get that someone absorbed.God exists to us because He wants us to get absorbed in HIM,to get contemplated, to go into meditation and to be attainedby HIM finally. If it were not for this purpose the creation wouldnot have existed at all. God might have existed to Himself andhe would have been a non-entity since He sleeps. Similarly thecinema in the T. V. exists to you and you get lost in it. Many

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