Philosophy of Life (Part - 2)

 

•             The joys and sufferings or any incidents in the past, present and future in our life are determined by our imprints in the genetic center.  Our memory shows past and present, and astrology mirrors the future as well.

•      What is suffering? What is pleasure? The end of pleasure is suffering and the end of suffering is pleasure.  The barrier to our enjoyment is the source of our suffering.  The freedom to do what we like is the source of our pleasure.  But the realization of self with the atman, the knowledge of who I am is the source of eternal happiness called bliss. 

•             All except the enlightened are sinners.  Freedom, Privacy, Money, Power, Favorable circumstances and the influence of Genetic Imprints make sinners.

•              Sensual pleasure, whatever the quantity is, whoever gives it, how long it persists will never give satisfaction to the soul, rather increases the appetite and leads to suffering.

•      The thing or person or action that gives you pleasure now will not give you the same.  At one stage ceases and starts giving pains.

•      When the quantity or time or age changes, sorrows start from the same things or persons that gave us joys.

•            The lust by what will destroy towards what will destroy is rubbishy.  The piety by what will destroy towards what will not destroy is outstanding.  The love by what will not destroy towards what will destroy is divine.

•      An object or a person's value is not within but is supplied by external factors like one's knowledge, religion, power, etc., 

•       Sensual appetite is harmful to 1.body, 2. peace of mind, 3. money, 4.relationship, 5. reason,  6. character and 7. valuable time.

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SURIYA NAMASKARA AASANAS

Suriya namaskara is a combination of 12 aasanas done continuously:
1. Pranamasana:  Stand on a mat with feet close together and palms of the hands joined and kept near chest.  Watch the breathing with closed eyes for few seconds.

2. Hastha Uttanasana:  Take both hands back at stretched condition breathing in gradually and try to turn your body back as much as possible.

3.  Padha Hasthasana:  Turn your body front gradually breathing out and keep your both palms at the either side of your foot.  With forehead, try to touch your knees.

4. Aswa Chanchalana aasana: Take your right leg back at stretched condition breathing in gradually.  Your eyes should view straight at the front.

5. Thuvi padha ashwa chanchalana aasana: Stretch both your legs back and balance your body standing on both hands.  The breath inhaled should be retained in at this aasana.

6.  Ashtanga Namaskara:  Bring your body close to the earth breathing out gradually. But only your forehead(1), chest(1), palms(2), knees(2), feet(2) touching the ground and your buttocks raised higher.  (Eight parts of the body (ashtangam) should touch the ground.

7.  Puchagasana:  Keep your chest and head upwards gradually breathing in.  Keep your stomach and the remaining body on the ground.

8.  Atha Muktha Savasana:  Take your hip still higher gradually breathing out and bring your head towards ground.  Your body now should look like A.

9.  Aswa chanchalan aasana:  Take your right leg front and keep in between your palms gradually breathing in. (compare stage 4)

10.  Padha Hasthasana:  Stand as in stage 3 gradually breathing out.

11.  Hastha Uttanasana:  Come to stage 2 position gradually breathing in.

12.  Pranamasana:  Come to stage 1 position.

The Requirements for Moksha

The following lead to moksha that is but achieving 'thoughtless mind' as proposed by the father of yoga Patanjali in his samathi patham - " yoga - sidha viruthi nirothaya".  (for further details, read the specific articles entitled so):
1.  Purity of Genetic Center (making the sinful imprints inactive)
2.  Purity of Action
3.  Purity of Thought
4.  Meditation
5.  Introspection (our constant attempts to purify ourselves)
6.  Truth consciousness
7.  Contact with the Enlightened (by reading their books or staying with them, etc.,)
8.  Detached Attachment ( not mentally attached to worldly affairs but living with worldly people)
9.  Eradication of all other unnecessary commitments (those which will not help to attain moksha)
10. Adhering Guru's Words.
      

Yoga and the Three Imprints

Throughout our life, we think, speak and act, but our thinking, speech and actions are having their root in our imprints.  Whatever we think or do, they are recorded in our genetic center being processed through our brain cells.  From our three years of age, up to now whatever we thought or did are in our genetic center and they are called as 'praraptha karma' in yoga.  As we came from our father and mother, we get a xerox copy of their imprints during our birth - this includes not only our parents' imprints but also our forefathers (our father's mother and father, our mother's father and mother, and their fathers and mothers).  In this way up to the origin of man, it is counted and even goes back to animals from whom man evolutioned.  These imprints are called as 'sanchitha karma' in yoga.
     Our present character and knowledge is but the sum total of these imprints.  Our ability to act and think is rooted in these imprints.  Personality in true sense is these imprints only.  These two imprints produce desires and thoughts laying the path of our life before us.  Our desires and actions based on these imprints lead to the third type of imprints called 'Aakamiya Karma'.  'Kamyam' means desires.  So we have millions of imprints in us.  According to the right time, age, situation and need, they emerge from us as actions.
     Every thought becomes an imprint and every action becomes an imprint, and these imprints again become thoughts and actions. Thus our life goes on.  We have both good imprints and evil imprints.  A person with
50 %  good imprints and 50% bad imprints is called a normal man leading mundane life.  He experiences a chain of joys and sorrows depending upon the emergence of imprints within him.  One who has 90 % good imprints and 10 % bad imprints is recognized as 'mahatma' or 'a virtuous soul'.  One who has 10% good imprints and 90 % imprints is criticized as 'a wicked fellow' or 'a heartless criminal'.  These imprints are but our destiny in some way or , to say, they feed our destiny.
     Though we have millions of imprints, only some prints are active now and about the large number of imprints  are inactive.  In our daily life, our activities, thoughts and  habits substantiate these active imprints.  Once we change our habits and activities, these active imprints become inactive.  Our joys and sorrows are in our thoughts and actions which are from our imprints which came into existence because of previous thoughts and actions.  What a great play of natural law!
     Yoga aims at thoughtless state of mind which leads to no imprints.  The mind of yogi that mingles with 'brahman' (the almighty everywhere) which is formless becomes formless and thoughtless.  This state is called 'samathi' (equal to 'aathi').  A yogi is not affected by imprints and he makes all evil imprints inactive.  At the final stage, he is away from all imprints, mingling with god.  He first moves from body consciousness to universal consciousness from which he finally moves to god-consciousness.  He is away from all joys and sorrows since he is away from all imprints.  His heart is with everlasting peace that results in ecstasy.

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