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Gyana Yoga, The Path Of Knowledge

A spiritual discourse on the spherical nature of the universe and the journey through the layers of self.

"Already, before 10,000 years, everything in the universe, what is existing, is round."

"Mokṣa, liberation, ātmajñāna is when this jīvātmā frees from the causal body."

Swami Maheshananda (Swami Mahesh) delivers a teaching, weaving ancient Vedic cosmology with the subtle anatomy of the five sheaths (kośas). He explains the spherical nature of all existence and details the profound, sequential journey of consciousness beyond the physical, energetic, mental, intellectual, and causal bodies, emphasizing the necessity of Guru's grace and precise spiritual practice like Sudharṣa Kriyā to transcend these layers and attain liberation.

Filming location: Wellington, New Zealand

Already, before 10,000 years, everything in the universe, what is existing, is round. Our Earth has always been mentioned by the yogīs and the ṛṣis, the great seers. It is round. It has been said that the energy, the form of atoms, is also round. Water, light, everything is compared with the zero. The importance of the zero was not understood by people for long, but in Vedic yoga vedānta, the Vedānta mathematics, they solve the mathematical problem by putting one point, śūnya, zero. Now, in Hindi or in Sanskrit, zero is called śūnya. And it is said the entire universe, the endless universe, is śūnya, zero. And therefore it is said śūnyākāśa. Vedanta, Ādiguru Bhagavān Śaṅkarācārya declared the Ghaṭākāś, Maṭhākāś, Hṛdayākāś, Cidākāś, Ākāś, Mahākāś, and finally the Śūnyākāś. So it was those great ṛṣis, seers, without any instruments, without any help of material things, how did they discover all this and give the wisdom? It is not a fairy tale. It is true. And it is written in the Śāstras. Unfortunately, nowadays, those books of the wisdom, the science, Jñāna Vijñāna Tṛpta Ātmā, Bhagavān Dīp Nārāyaṇa Mahāprabhujī said in his Vijñāna Dīpa Gītā, Jñāna Vijñāna Tṛpta Ātmā, the knowledge and science, in that Ātmā is paripūraṇa with this. But, Śiṣya, the disciple, is sleeping in the sleep of ignorance and tamo guṇa and rajo guṇa. They went through their astral body, and once our beloved Satguru Dev Swami Madhavānandjī said to me, "Mahesh, even the astral body cannot approach that point, what we call..." It's a very interesting point, what I'm telling you, Gurujī said. The astral body is limited and has its abilities, or approach to that border of this solar system. It means what we call the universe of our sun system. And that means, until where the light of this sun approaches. That is a level border of the astral beings. Even the astral being cannot enter into the sun. There is one beautiful experience in meditation written by Latter-Srahira to me. One Indian, and you have this book, and he said that his experience was that Devapurī is beyond this sun, meaning you have to go through the sun to approach him, and the gate, the door, the gate to that light, to that, there is... The sitting, the light of Mahāprabhujī, only you can enter through this. It says, by that person, what was his name, I have forgotten, it is a beautiful book written in English and handwritten in Hindi, fantastic, his experiences. Rare yogīs or disciples will have such experiences. Which he had, so it is that the astral body has limitation till this, and therefore it is where Rāvī means the sun. But still, he couldn't go there to bring the message here. But the ṛṣis, those yogīs who lived thousands of years ago, at that time without any techniques, without any instruments, without anything, through what did they go? Through their energy and perfect guarding of the Guru Kṛpā. Perfect. Then you have to be free from the energy loka. But the energy, prāṇamaya kośa, is easy to maybe come over. But manomaya kośa is stronger than the annamaya kośa, the physical body. Prāṇamaya kośa is very, very difficult to get free of. You are present in the prāṇa-maya-kośa. In prāṇamaya kośa and manomaya kośa, sorry, I want to correct me, manomaya kośa. Manomaya kośa is very strong, so it is a gentle way. Annamāyā kośa, it will be free very soon, whether you want it or not. You will die, getting older day by day. One should not do what one says, that one makes the suicide to become free from this body, which is not good. But how are you going to be free from that energy? It is that annamaya kośa, prāṇamaya kośa, yours, everyone's, that disturbs you, troubles you. This is that prāṇa energy. Now, somehow you overcome following the sāttvic way of life and many things, and you come above these desires and this, but then another heaviness comes. That's what you call the bulletproof. There is no bomb or atom in this world which can break through your manomaya kośa. And there, sudharṣ kriyā, what Devapurījī gave me just now, sudharṣ kriyā, through that gently you can pass through. And from the manomaya kośa, when you are free, more difficult and more heavy is the jñānamaya kośa, your intellect, your thoughts. Manche toh aap paar ho gaye, lekin ab tumhārā buddhi jo hai, vivek jo hai, usmeṁ lagā huā jo hai, wo aapko chhoḍegā nahīṁ. That always, those thoughts of your intellect are torturing you day and night, day and night. Though it is unreality, so you can't be free. It's a network. It is difficult to free oneself from the annamaya kośa, and more difficult from the prāṇamaya kośa. Difficulty then is called manomaya kośa, and now, my dear, vijñānamaya kośa: intellect, doubts, arguments. Okay, you get free from that too. Another one is coming where it is impossible to come out: causal body. Causal body means the cause of all, and that cause of all... Is that causal body pushing you back to your annamaya kośa, the physical body, again? All karma, all destinies, all links are until that. So, the jīvātmā has the border till the causal body. And the causal body is connected to the entire sun system. Mokṣa, liberation, ātmajñāna is when this jīvātmā frees from the causal body. Then you come, then there is no more jīvātmā, there is no more. Then you can proceed to the different lokas beyond this. And there, ātmā. But my dear, Gurujī said something like your smuggle. Your vijñānamaya kośa in the ātmā, how will you do this? Memories, collecting the information, you need the knowledge. And for that knowledge, you need vijñānamaya kośa, but vijñānamaya kośa you freed, you deleted. Then you say, "Okay, I am ātmā." Okay, you can go anywhere. You say, "I am ātmā." And what should I do with you? Okay, you are ātmā, good. Go and swim? No. That time is a very, very important point. There is a decision that yogic consciousness, it is that one guru kṛpā. At that time, you will understand what that guru is. And that time makes you alert. So it doesn't matter how much you are making philosophies and talking and giving opinions and this and that. All is a zero. You know, in the computer there is also garbage. This paper box, you know, you press the button and all posts go inside into the garbage. This all is nothing. What we are arguing, talking, this is a zero. Beyond this, even not a zero. So at that time, the Ātmā comes with that jñāna, and that jñāna is not of this material world, not a parāvidyā. Parāvidyā and Ātma-jñāna, Ātmā, so the jñānamaya kośa, the intellectual body, is completely different than the Ātma-jñāna. And when ātmā jñāna is divine voice, there is divine call, then that yogī, that disciple, that incarnation, that will be able to come beyond. And when you see there is again śūnya, zero. And from this śūnya, what does that mean? You have to cut your ego completely away. Jīvatahi murdasam reve, nai siddha nai pīra. Swāmī deep avadhūt avaliyam mahā vīran kaviyam. The same thing is written in the Bible. You have to die to live. And what does it mean to die? You have to kill your ego. You have to kill your own enjoyment. Your own everything, surrender, oh Lord. Then it is, "Lord, Thy will will be seen." Where I am and how I am doesn't matter. I don't care myself, because I am not anymore. You are only one. Then you can enter in that house. A coward has doubts. That mind is a coward. Should I? Should I not? Sura Deva Śiṣ, the hero, that can give this. What a surrender of them. Sura Deva Śiṣa Arpaṇa Jakāre, Prem Kā Mārga Banākare. So this is a beautiful bhajan. So then we enter into the śūnyakāśa. When you enter the śūnyakāśa and you are still in that ātmā jñāna, then you can bring the message, otherwise not. But as soon as you cross the borders of the universe, thousands, millions, what we now call the galaxy, which the Vedas taught already, how long the life of the sun will be, when it has started, everything. At that time, your jñāna is also melted. No wish, no icchā. And when there is no icchā, you don't care what it is. It's dust. You were in the world, whatever you did, it was like you were working in the dust, and now you clean your hands. That was a beautiful lesson what Gurujī taught. It was in 1973, Gurujī gave me this. We were sitting in Ahmedabad ashram. Under the banyan tree, beauty, only me and Gurujī around. It was all fields, now the big city. There, I remember, when I remember, then my heart, my eyes are full of love and tears. It was so beautiful, a picture made of one wooden bed. Gurujī was sitting there, and it was hot, so he took his shirt off. He has this undershirt, and I was sitting beside him. So, this Sudhāra Kriyā will lead the aspirant that far if continued, and if you have energy, but it... Will not lead you further till you do not purify your pañca kośas. Little doubt, you are out. Every game, you know, when you see the Olympic Games, and they are very beautiful young kids, they are playing or jumping and dancing and on a wooden plate jumping, you know how they are like just a rubber toy? How hard they work. They are training every day, hours and hours and hours, and a little mistake, and they are out. Only one toe was moving on this side; they said that was a mistake. Oh, God. So that was a little doubt, you are out. Then they said, the ṛṣi said, "Don't make traffic on the way, you are out." Let others go. So, others, we are sitting, and another is coming. So Sudhara Kriya is something you can learn, you can see, but it is not easy, meaning that you have to fast or this or no. It is very, very simple but very precise. And that's why for that Mahāmṛtyu, the Mahāmṛtyu has manifested, and this is explained in the Ṛg Veda. In the Ṛg Veda, it is described about this, and in the Atharva Veda. And so Mahāmṛtyu, they appear as a Rudra, and then it was manifested, realized that it is Śiva. And that Shiva, at that time, Sudhara he gives, and how. So, there is a... We will begin, and we have here for all of you here, you know, who were with us in the different... So, either we decide to go through, or we decide to be here. That's all, our decision. Half-half doesn't function. No compromise in quality, no compromise in knowledge. And that's why yoga and daily life have no compromise. It's a quality system. If you are mixing and you think, "Yes, now you know everything, and you will add something, you are a master," then you will become confused. Only the name itself, when you understand this, each and every blood cell of the body, every atom of the body, awakens like a thirsty bird, or the person was searching, dying for water, and suddenly rain came, and begins to catch the drops from that. That is the Sudharas. So all the best, and wish you the blessings of Mahāprabhujī and, from my side, Dev Puruṣa Mahādeva, Mādhav Kṛṣṇa Bhagavān, Sanātana Dharma Kī, Om Śānti.

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