The Path of Yoga

path of meditation words have to be left behind. Nations, religions, scriptures, languages have to be left behind and man has to become innocent, freed of words. When you are free of words there will be no imagination, and when there is no imagination you can face truth. Otherwise you will go on creating.

One of the oldest Yoga aphorisms is: Die every moment so you can be reborn every moment. Die every moment to the past, throw off all the dust that you have collected and look afresh. But this has to be done continuously because next moment the dust has gathered again.

If you ask Patanjali, he will not say that these sutras have been created by him. He will say, “These are very ancient – sanatan.” He will say, “Millions and millions of seers have seen them. I am just a vehicle. I am absent and they are speaking.” If you ask Krishna, he will say, “I am not speaking. This is the ancientmost message. It has been always so.” And if you ask Jesus, he will say, “I am no more, I am not there.”

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Patanjali says there are things which you do not know, there are things which your logic cannot infer; you have to take on trust. Because of this third source, the guru, the master, becomes a necessity – someone who knows. And you have to take the risk, and I say it is a risk because there is no guarantee. The whole thing may prove just a waste, but it is better to take the risk because even if it is proved to be a waste, you have learned much. Now no other person will be able to deceive you so easily. At least you have learned this much.

But Patanjali says that right-inference is that which gives you possibilities of growth. It is not a question whether the logic is perfect or not. The question is your conclusion should become an opening. If there is no God it becomes a closing. Then you cannot grow. If you conclude there is some hidden hand, the world becomes a mystery. And then you are not here just by accident, your life becomes meaningful, you are part of a great scheme. Then something is possible, you can do something, you can rise in awareness.

is the first basic source of right-knowledge: when you know something and you need not depend on anybody else.

Those who have gone beyond the mind have also gone beyond personalities. They have also gone beyond forms. If Jesus and Buddha are standing together, there will be two bodies but one soul. There will be two bodies but not two presences, only one presence.

But when you are not asking anything and Buddha is sitting under his bo tree, he is neither ignorant nor a knower. He is there. Really, there is no difference between the tree and the Buddha. There is a difference, but in a way there is no difference. He has become just as if a tree; he just exists. There is no movement, even of knowledge. The sun will rise but he will not know that the sun has risen. Not that he will remain ignorant – no, simply that is now not his movement. He has become so silent, so still, that nothing moves. He is just like the tree. The tree is totally ignorant.

Sanity will be this: you will become aware that you are not centered. So the first thing to be done is to get centered – to have a center within yourself from where you can lead your life, from where you can discipline your life; to have a master within you from where you can direct, you can move. The first thing is to be crystallized, and then the second thing will be not to create suffering for yourself. Drop all that creates suffering, all those motives, desires, hopes which create suffering.

You become like a sword: you can always cut whatsoever is wrong, you can divide whatsoever is right from the wrong. And then a clarity of mind is achieved. That clarity can lead you towards meditation. That clarity can become the basic ground to grow – to grow beyond.