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Tapai : svadhyaye   isvara  pranidhanani kriya yogai.

 Tapai  = the practice with the thought of the atonement , svadhyaye = the practice with the thought of knowing individual truth  , isvara  = core of God ,  pranidhanani = the practice with the thought of going devotion ,kriya = Activities , yogai = fruit of yoga  discipline or the yoga unification.

Tools for education of meditation :Translation: -  

Activities of the meditation practice with the thought of the atonement, the meditation practice with the thought of knowing individual truth and of the meditation practice with the thought of going devotion inside the core of God - profits fruit of yoga discipline or the yoga unification. /1/

Point of view : tools of the education of meditation 1.: -

 Activities of the practice as regards meditation with the thought of the atonement, the practice as regards meditation with the thought of knowing the individual truth and the practice as regards meditation with the active thought of the devotion inside the core of God - fruit of benefit of yoga discipline or of the yoga unification.

It is by activities of the practice as regards meditation with the thought of the atonement to burn all impurities of mind, the practice as regards meditation with the thought of knowing the individual truth of inward mind  and devotional surrender to the interior core of God that a master of the meditation can enter the foundation stage of the yogic discipline. It is by burning away all the impurities by kindling the interior Yoga fire that a master of the meditation can enter the opening stage of yogic discipline. Yogic discipline necessitates strictness, introspection and meaningful simplicity, devotion and surrender to the omnipresent core of God. Activities of the practice as regards meditation with the thought of the atonement, introspection and self-surrender to core of God are the main ingredients which constitute yogic discipline’s meditation stage.

In order to start and experience activities of the practice as regards meditation with the thought of the atonement, a master of the meditation has to become craving free in thoughts from the enjoyment of worldly pleasures and worldly pursuits. The physical enjoyment of worldly pursuits and pleasures is, however, not to be relinquished or abandoned. What is required to be relinquished and abandoned is the thought of craving for the enjoyment of these worldly pleasures. Further, it is essential that attachment or aversion or fear thoughts should be relinquished for the performance of karma actions pertaining to physical worldly pleasures. In the meditation practice with the thought of the atonement, it is the thought and craving for enjoyment of action that is to be relinquished in conscious mind. This is a very subtle subject. This subject comes under yogic self- discipline. The yogic discipline of self-punishment is the path of karma action. For treading on this path, personality, performance, senses, body and mind are to be disciplined. Whatever pain or suffering has to be experienced in the meditation practice with the thought of the atonement, whatever dispersions and obstacles and impediments have to be faced during this yogic disciplining process – all these have to be borne and undergone and treated knowingly as karma action given by core of the nature that is conscious mind. Both pleasure and pain are to be borne and undergone consciously as a grace of conscious mind that is integral part of core of the nature. This is the path of karma action. This is the path of activities of the practice as regards meditation with the thought of the atonement and this is the path leading to yogic activities of the practice as regards meditation with the thought of the atonement. During the state of activities of the practice as regards meditation with the thought of the atonement, both the body and the breath are to be made minimum moving and thoughts are to be made craving free with inspired willpower. The matter enjoyment of worldly pleasures is not to be given up or blocked but enjoyed consciously.

Self-concentration and self-meditation also comprise introductory yogic discipline of the the practice with the thought of knowing individual truth. Self-concentration and self-meditation necessitate introspection  with the thought of knowing individual truth. During self-concentration, thoughts of mind, which have been made craving free through activities of the meditation practice with the thought of knowing individual truth, are to be experienced, felt and comprehended in a state of introspection. Thereafter, these thoughts are to be restrained and made thought free and mental power free. The mind is to be purged from impurities, guilt and lack of Yoga knowledge about thoughts .The process of the meditation practice with the thought of knowing individual truth leads to the disciplining of lack of Yoga knowledge of thoughts. 

The unconscious mind adopts unaware thoughts on various subjects or objects, which have been seen or heard or read. Such unaware thoughts are in imagined forms in unconscious mind. They constitute false thoughts and give rise to false cognition. The unconscious mind that is exterior part of conscious mind keeps on repeating a variety of countless thoughts. All these thoughts are to be made craving free. They are also to be restrained only after realizing Yoga knowledge of attachment, aversion and fear embodied in them. This is the path of yogic discipline. This is the path of Yoga knowledge. The meditation practice with the thought of knowing individual truth is the path of  attainment of Yoga knowledge about the lack of Yoga knowledge of thoughts .The thoughts are to be felt and experienced and awareness is to be realized about them. At the end of the  meditation practice with the thought of knowing individual truth, yoga practice is to be made to swim with only one thought at a time. This is the yogic discipline of self-concentration and meditation.

The meditation practice with the thought of going devotion inside the core of God is another constituent of yogic discipline. It involves entry into one reality and one true essence that is non-dual and one. It also involves entry into  Yoga unification and Yoga knowledge of self-conscious. By making the thoughts of the mind craving free and restraining them and nullifying them, the conscious mind thereafter is to be gathered, collected and focused on the thought of the interior core of God. It is only then that effort is to be made to enter into the state of Yoga unification. This is called the yogic discipline of self-surrender to the oneness of core of God. This is the path of devotion. In this path, thoughts of mind are to be controlled and regulated as per the oneness of core of God’s command and control. The oneness of core of God’s name indication in matter form liked is to be constantly repeated with devotion and awareness.

Yogic discipline comprises gaining entry into interior formless soul and core of God. Merger with core of God is possible only after  Yoga unification. The insight vision of core of God is felt in the wake of  Yoga union. Having insight vision of core of God is the goal of all living beings and embodied souls. The insight vision is obtained in the form of grace of God’s kindness and benevolence. It is obtained through inculcation of faith, contentment, patience and a long wait. So long as the insight vision of core of God is not obtained, a master of the meditation is to keep on swimming and floating in the love of core of God.

 He is to consciously keep on floating in the bliss, serenity and tranquility of this love in a spirit of contentment and in a craving free manner. He is to consciously keep on floating in this bliss, in a pure, clean and in guilt free, thought free and intellect free state of conscious mind. The master of the meditation is to keep on continuing in his practice of swimming and floating in the bliss of God’s love. This is also the meditation practice with the thought of going devotion inside the core of God. The practice of yoga is to be undertaken in a disciplined manner. The practice of introductory yogic discipline precedes the practice of non-meditation yogic discipline. 

The Great Sage Patanjali has divided the practice of meditation yogic discipline into eight limbs. They are YAMA (restraint); NIYAMA (cultivation of culture); ASANA (posture); PRANA (regulation of psychic breath); PRATIHARA (withdrawal of senses); DHARNA (concentration); DHYANA (meditation) and SAMADHI (Yoga unification). The Guru has given a detailed exposition of these disciplines in the following steps. The first five limbs of yogic discipline  are  to be disciplined and perfected through  the practice as regards meditation with the thought of the atonement in the conscious mind. 

. It is only after disciplining and perfecting the path of the practice as regards meditation with the thought of the atonement, the practice with the thought of knowing individual truth that the Tools for education of meditation two limbs ( DHARNA and DHYANA ) of yogic ladder of ascension are to be perfected. This is the yogic discipline of concentration of the self-sense. It is also the path of Yoga knowledge of  knowing individual truth  It is only after the perfection of the path of  knowing individual truth  that entry is to be made into the eighth limb of yogic discipline that is SAMADHI or Yoga unification with self-conscious that is exterior part of soul. This is the path of devotion to core of God.

 The meditation practice of yoga after the perfection of these eight limbs enters into the state of practice of non-meditation yoga. The state of non-meditation yoga is also known as seedless Yoga unification. It is beyond the grasp of brain and intellect and thought process of human beings.  Patanjali says that first the body, the breath and the mind are to be disciplined through activities of the practice as regards meditation with the thought of the atonement . Thereafter, the body, the breath and the conscious mind are to be separated consciously from true self that is self-conscious. The thought of craving for the enjoyment of sensual pleasures is first to be experienced and felt and then relinquished. When the craving for the enjoyment of sensual pleasures appears in the thought, it is there and then that such a craving is to be relinquished with determination. Thoughts are to be restrained when desires in it get restrained and the unconscious mind becomes purified, guilt-free, static, stable and happy. It is then that the thought of interior core of God is to be collected, gathered and concentrated in the conscious mind.

Patanjali says that the final goal of all living beings is merger with interior core of God. So long as this final goal does not get attained, all living beings keep taking on new life in living bodies after their death. The kind and the type of body of a living being, its life span and its position of rest in the matter natural world , is given by core of the nature that is conscious mind to each living being for the physical enjoyment of the fruit of his karma actions. The path of different kinds of life is endless. Innumerable living beings and lives are moving and perambulating on this life path in subtle and matter world of core of the nature.

 There are innumerable living beings and so are their kinds, their names, their colors, their individual unconscious minds, their thoughts, their conscious minds and they’re past lingering subliminal karma impressions. On this single path of life, some living beings are moving in a straight line – some at a tangent and some in a crisscross manner. Every living being has his different way of life in natural world  of true core of the nature. There cannot, however, be one way for merger with core of God. All living beings cannot be given one definite way or one method for merger with core of God.

 Patanjali says that the path of life can be divided into three main parts. It can be divided according to nature’s three attributes. These are Sat Vic (serenity and luminosity); Rajas (passion of motion and action) and Tam sic (inactivity and inertia). It can also be divided into the path of worship, the path of knowledge and the path of karma action. The condition of the path of life of an embodied soul and its state keep on manifesting itself in the Nature’s state of its attributes through his natural bent of conscious mind and inclination. The practice if yoga is to be started according to the natural bent of conscious mind and inclination of the master of the meditation.

 A master of the meditation whose inclination is towards surrender to formless or any form of God, for him the path of devotion is most suitable. The path of devotion is for those who are inclined towards surrender to core of the God . Persons who are academic, who are proud and arrogant, for them the path of  the thought of knowing individual truth  is the most suitable .For those who are after enjoyment of sensual pleasures and are inclined more towards attachment, aversion, fear and carnal pleasures, for them the appropriate path is the path of meditation with the thought of the atonement.

The karma action is to be performed in the yogic discipline, the knowing individual truth to be attained about the fruits of action and the worship of core of God to be undertaken –all these three are to be consciously undertaken after purging the conscious mind of its impurities. It is through activities of the practice as regards meditation with the thought of the atonement that the mind is to be purged and it is by consciously experiencing the the thought of knowing individual truth that an interior oath is to be taken for gaining entry into the core of God. The pledge in conscious mind, in this regard is to be taken with meditative imagination. The physical enjoyment of the worldly pleasures and pursuits is to be undertaken consciously by getting beyond their auspicious and inauspicious, merit and demerit, action and non-action, good and bad aspects.

Patanjali says that the interior core of the god path is also spherical. The exterior layer of this globular path is the path of karma action. It is with the purification of the path of karma action and through activities of the practice as regards meditation with the thought of the atonement, which a master of the meditation undergoes in yogic discipline that entry is gained in the interior layer, which comprises the path of knowing individual truth. As such the first priority is activities of the practice as regards meditation with the thought of the atonement, which has to be undergone. Thereafter, the purification of the path of the path of knowing individual truth is to be carried out through the yoga of concentration and meditation of the self-sense. It is only after undergoing this procedure that entry is gained into the path of worship of interior core of God

. It is only with the purification of the path of karma action of atonement and knowing individual that the final gate of interior core of the God path is reached. Beyond the gate of core of the God path lies the realm of non-meditation yoga. This type of yoga is beyond the grasp of words, language and intellect. It is only on experiencing these that awareness is felt after the conscious mind becomes intellect-free. Intellect, as such, cannot comprehend true knowing individual truth that resides in the interior layers of conscious mind. It is only by constant and sustained practice and by becoming thought free and desire free that a master of the meditation realizes self conscious and knowing individual truth. It is only by entering into Yoga unification and by crossing beyond stage of unconscious mind that is stationary and formless self conscious the true Yoga knowledge is felt.

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