Patanjali's Yoga Sutras | Class 1 | Swami Tattwamayananda
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- The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali contain 195 sutras organized into four chapters: Samadhi Pada, Sadhana Pada, Vibhuti Pada, and Kaivalya Pada. It expounds Yoga philosophy, one of the six orthodox schools of Indian philosophy. The munitrayam of Yoga is Patanjali, Vyasa, and Shankaracharya. A deep and thorough analysis of the human mind, the psychology of samskaras and the method of Ashtanga Yoga are some of the many unique contributions of this text. Swami Tattwamayananda will be teaching these sutras in the light of the traditional Sanskrit commentaries. The recommended text for this lecture series is “Raja Yoga” by Swami Vivekananda.
This series of lectures is hosted by the Stanford Hindu Students Association and given by Swami Tattwamayananda, minister of the Vedanta Society of Northern California, San Francisco. These videos are being cross-posted on Vedanta Society of New York's TH-cam channel.
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Swami Venkatesananda, one of the direct disciples of Swami Shivananda Saraswati of Rishikesh, did a line by line translation of Patanjali's Yogasutra. He is very articulate and wrote it based on his own experience. This book is the best translation one can get from the recent past. I very highly recommend it.
There's a ton of translations out there for sure. Thxs.
vyasa bhasya is great!
Thank you Swami Tattwamayananda, Stanford Hindu Students Association, & Vedanta Society of New York. 🙏
Dear Vedanta Society of SF, please have someone revisit the technical sound aspect of the videos. The room has alot of echo & I think the sound quality could be greatly improved. These are precious & wonderful teachings & lectures; they deserve the highest quality. Thank you Sirs.
Agree with the OP. No reason for TH-cam videos to have bad audio in this day and age. This is a uniquely Indian trait to ignore the small details like line in recording. So much wisdom in videos like this but poor audio quality ruins the experience. And please let's not talk about how the wisdom is important, not the medium and how it's 'good enough'. Nonetheless, thank you for the lecture Swamiji 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
This is true
I’ve just listened and found the sound quality quite good. Maybe they fixed it up since you heard it.
Please improve the sound quality thankyou
@@sca8217 Stop bad mouthing and dragging India in everything 😒
Probably you ignored the detail that the all knowing and all perfect Vivekananda was from India itself.
There are fools everywhere...we didn't collect toilet papers in corona like Americans, does that make ALL American idiots?
Leave India and teachings of all Indians if you look down on it so much
Thank you Swami Tattwamayanda. I have immense gratitude to you and the Vendanta society for providing this opportunity for me to learn this incredible knowledge on the sutras. I’m eager to learn more and continue learning from these videos. My teachers are so far away from me that I feel disconnected from my own practice sometimes. This brought me a sense of comfort. Om hari om. Thank you.
Thank you so much... waiting the next classes... om hari 🙏💓🌱🕉
Pranam Maharaj. Thank you very much for starting this series.
Thank You for the valuable teachings 🙏🏼
Om shanti 🕊
Pranam Maharaj 🙏
Sound needs adjustment. Thank you for caring sweet ones.
great seva to society 🙏
Tattwamasi 🙏🏻
Swami ji is a veritable repository of ancient vedic/yogic knowledge. What a gem this series is. My pranams.. 🙏
Thank you so much for your time. This is invaluable. Look forward to many more sessions in the future.
Pranam Swamiji
हरी: ऊॅं 🙏🏻
Pranam Swami Tattwamayanandaji 🙏🏻
Thank you Vedanta New York 🙏🏻
Thank you Vedanta society of Northern California San Francisco 🙏🏻
Pranam Guruji 🙏
This was rich and perfect. Thank you 🙏
Thank you for this promising, helpful introductory lecture.
Pranam.. Excellent lecture, highly illuminating and will recommend this series to all my seeker friends. Thanks swamiji 🙏 and Vedanta society. Swamiji is so articulate and inspiring.
Namaste 🙏 Thank you for this series
Pranam Maharaj. Thankyou. I donot know how to express. This is great service to humanity.
Thank you
Brilliant and insightful.
Thank you so much.
thanks for sharing, 🙏🙏🙏
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Very interesting, but please get sound sorted out.
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Wow, the English subtitles are really surprisingly excellent! Highly recommended for people like myself who work harder at listening to accented English. Also helpful to see the Sanskrit words written out. Hope that helps someone. I absolutely love this series and this Swami. Highly recommended.
You will notice that Indian spoken English is consistently more easily transcribed by the TH-cam language algorithms, more so than British, American or Australian English. This is either because Indian English is accent neutral or because Indian origin engineers in Silicon Valley are messing with us big time .
thanks for sharing 🙏🙏🙏
Thank you
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Oh sorry sound does get better🙏🌸🙏
thank you swamiji very informative will follow through on this series ! however i am nit sble to meditate on a deity of form ! is it a problem ? alan east london s/a 19/08/21-1:46 am
I would love to listen to these, but I'm not sure if it's his accent or his delivery or just the sound, but I can barely understand him, and neither can the subtitles.
Pranam, lot of information he gave, explained beautifully.I have recently came across a term call Adhikari , related to students of vedanta. If i have understood a little bit of it , this term means to ask questions on such vast field - vedanta a student must qualify certain qualities. Can someone explain this, and how is it relatable/applicable in the present time for non monastic students of vedanta. Even I remember on of the vedantasara classes mahraj mentioned a term called samskaras. After samskaras one can ask qst. to the teacher. So does qst means only doubt ? 🙏❤
Student is qualified (adhikari), if he or she has these qualities :
viveka, vairagya, shad-sampat and mumukshutva
Pranam,
I have prepared the following answer using the words of Sri Ramakrishna, Swami Sarvapriyananda maharaj and other senior Swamis I have had the privilege to study under.
You are right! An Adhikari is one who is qualified for vedantic study.
Householders CAN realise God no matter how far the goal might seem and however much the difficulties we face.
Sri Ramakrishna says:
"SUB-JUDGE: “Sir, must we renounce the world?”
MASTER: “No. Why should you? A man can realize God even in the world.
You may ask, ‘If worldly life is so difficult, then what is the way?’ The
way is constant practice. At Kāmārpukur I have seen the women of the carpenter families flattening rice with a husking-machine. They are always fearful of the pestle’s smashing their fingers; and at the same time they go on nursing their children and bargaining with customers. They say to the customers, ‘Pay us what you owe before you leave.’
“An immoral woman goes on performing her household duties, but all the time her mind dwells on her sweetheart."
In order to become qualified, we have to practice these 4 things constantly.
1. *Viveka* - discernment/discrimination.
This is done by asking ourselves-
Q. "What is the real source of happiness? What is the real source of unhappiness?
A. The Atman/Brahman within is the real source of bliss. Unhappiness is due to identification with the body-mind complex.
Q. "What is permanent? "What is impermanent"
A. Brahman alone is permanent. All its appearances are impermanent.
Sri Ramakrishna says:
'Lust and gold’ is impermanent. God is the only Eternal Substance. What does a man get with money? Food, clothes, and a dwelling-place-nothing more. You cannot realize God with its help. Therefore money can never be the goal of life. That is the process of discrimination.
Consider-what is there in money or in a beautiful body? Discriminate and you will find that even the body of a beautiful person consists of bones, flesh, fat, and other disagreeable things. Why should a person give up God and direct their attention to such things? Why should a person forget God for their sake?
Q. "What is real?" "What is simply an appearance of the reality?"
A. Brahman is real. All the appearances of Brahman from Ajnana (ignorance) downwards are without substance - they are appearances of Brahman because they do not exist independent of Brahman. Brahman lends them their existence.
Sri Ramakrishna says:
"There is fire in the hearth; therefore the rice and pulse and potatoes and the other vegetables jump about in the pot. They jump about as if to say: ‘We are here! We are jumping!’ This body is the pot. The mind and intelligence are the water. The objects of the senses are the rice, potatoes, and other vegetables. The ‘I-consciousness’ identified with the senses says, ‘I am jumping about.’ And Satchidānanda is the fire."
Brahman lends existence to the world in the same way fire lends heat. Take away the fire - you cannot cook.
Further, Sri ramakrishna says:
MASTER: “Man experiences three states of consciousness: waking, dream, and deep sleep. Those who follow the path of knowledge explain away the three states. According to them, Brahman is beyond the three states. It is also beyond the gross, the subtle, and the causal bodies, and beyond the three gunas-sattva, rajas, and tamas. All these are māyā, like a reflection in a mirror. The reflection is by no means the real substance. Brahman alone is the Substance and all else is illusory.
“The knowers of Brahman say, further, that it is the identification of the soul with the body that creates the notion of duality. In that state of identification the reflection appears real. When this identification disappears, a man realizes, ‘I am He; I am Brahman.’ ”
2. *Vairagya* - dispassion
With the conviction that Brahman alone is worth pursuing, as non-monastics we have to give up all other attachments mentally. At the same time we need to have attraction for the spiritual path.
"MASTER: “Tell me, what is the meaning of renunciation?”
M: “Renunciation does not mean simply dispassion for the world. It means dispassion for the world and also longing for God.
MASTER: “You are right."
"The householder may be a ’hidden’ yogi. None recognizes him. The householder should renounce mentally, not outwardly.”
3. *Shad sampatti* - six fold treasures to sustain our spiritual question
- shama - restraint of the body
- dama - restraint of the mind
- uparati - withdrawing from distractions
- samadhana -after withdrawing from distractions, staying focused on vedanta
- titiksha - fortitude - putting up with what life throws at you and continuing to study and apply Vedanta.
Sri Ramakrishna said:
1. Je shoi sei roi je na shoi sei naash hoi - ""forbear! Forbear! Forbear! One who forbears wins all. One who doesn't is destroyed."
2. Look at the anvil of a blacksmith -how it is hammered and beaten ; yet it moves not from its place. Let men learn patience and endurance from it."
- Shraddha - having a working faith that your teacher is not going to deceive you and approaching vedanta with due reverence.
Sri Ramakrishna said "Once a person has faith he has achieved everything. There is nothing greater than faith."
4. *Mumukshutvam* - Longing to be free.
Sri Ramakrishna says:
M: “Under what conditions does one see God?”
MASTER: “Cry to the Lord with an intensely yearning heart and you will certainly see Him. People shed a whole jug of tears for wife and children. They swim in tears for money. But who weeps for God? Cry to Him with a real cry.... Longing is like the rosy dawn. After the dawn out comes the sun. Longing is followed by the vision of God."
Hint: all 4 qualifications are causally linked. Viveka --> generates Vairagya ---> generates shad sampatti ---> generates mumukshutvam
We may not have all these qualities, but we have to start studying vedanta anyway. The fact that you have started studying vedanta itself indicates that you have the seeds of these qualities. These seeds will flower by -
1. *Karma Yoga* - Selfless action - overcomes selfishness.
Sri Ramakrishna says:
M. (humbly): “How ought we to live in the world?”
MASTER: “Do all your duties, but keep your mind on God. Live with all-with wife and children, father and mother-and serve them. Treat them as if they were very dear to you, but know in your heart of hearts that they do not belong to you.
“A maidservant in the house of a rich man performs all the household duties, but her thoughts are fixed on her own home in her native village. She brings up her master’s children as if they were her own. She even speaks of them as ‘my Rama’ or ‘my Hari’. But in her own mind she knows very well that they do not belong to her at all.
“The tortoise moves about in the water. But can you guess where her thoughts are? There on the bank, where her eggs are lying. Do all your duties in the world, but keep your mind on God.
2. *Bhakti Yoga* - devotion to God overcomes unhealthy emotional attachments
Sri Ramakrishna said:
"Bhakti is the only essential thing. One obtains love of God by constantly chanting His name and singing His glories.
God reveals Himself to a devotee who feels drawn to Him by the combined force of these three attractions: the attraction of worldly possessions for the worldly man, the child’s attraction for its mother, and the husband’s attraction for the chaste wife. If one feels drawn to Him by the combined force of these three attractions, then through it one can attain Him.
3. *Raja Yoga* - meditation overcomes a scattered unfocused mind.
Sri Ramakrishna said:
"By meditating on God in solitude the mind acquires knowledge, dispassion, and devotion. But the very same mind goes downward if it dwells in the world.
As it is very difficult to gather the mustard seeds that escape out of a torn package and are scattered in all directions, so it is not a very easy affair to in gather and concentrate the mind which runs after worldly things in diverse directions."
The final step of the ladder is the problem of ignorance.
Sri Ramakrishna said:
" A person cannot see God on account of the barrier of māyā. Just look: I am creating a barrier in front of my face with this towel. Now you can’t see me, even though I am so near. Likewise, God is the nearest of all, but we cannot see Him on account of this covering of māyā."
If we study Vedanta and listen carefully, reflect on the teachings and meditate on these truths with such a purified mind, the truth will be revealed in a flash.
Sri Ramakrishna said:
"If the matches are dry, you get a spark by striking only one of them. But if they are damp, you don’t get a spark even if you strike fifty. You only waste matches. Similarly, if your mind is soaked in the pleasure of worldly things, in 'lust and gold’, then
God-Consciousness will not be kindled in you. You may try a thousand times, but all your efforts will be futile. But no sooner does attachment to worldly pleasure dry up than the spark of God flashes forth.”
TRAILOKYA: “What is the way to dry up the craving for worldly pleasure?”
MASTER: “Pray to the Divine Mother with a longing heart. Her vision dries up all craving for the world and completely destroys all attachment to ‘lust and gold.'"
To sum up - Adhikari is a student who is willing to transform themselves in order to manifest their inner divinity.
In answer to the second part of your question about Samskaras, Swami Vivekananda said that:
"Samskara can be translated very nearly by "inherent tendency". Using the simile of a lake for the mind, every ripple, every wave that rises in the mind, when it subsides, does not die out entirely, but leaves a mark and a future possibility of that wave coming out again. This mark, with the possibility of the wave reappearing, is what is called Samskara. Every work that we do, every movement of the body, every thought that we think, leaves such an impression on the mind-stuff, and even when such impressions are not obvious on the surface, they are sufficiently strong to work beneath the surface, subconsciously. What we are every moment is determined by the sum total of these impressions on the mind. What I am just at this moment is the effect of the sum total of all the impressions of my past life. This is really what is meant by character; each man's character is determined by the sum total of these impressions. If good impressions prevail, the character becomes good; if bad, it becomes bad."
As the result of having wholesome and beneficial samskaras, we become interested in spiritual life and study Vedanta😊
@@shrinivasyuvan31 thank you very much for taking your time to ans. my questions 😊🙏
@@whories72jannah46 thanks a lot for taking your time to ans my doubts. 😊🙏
Smartly to say.
Mahavasya.
Antar jwali yatra.
Recourse.not the course.
Question: in both examples, namely digging a canal or carving a statue, a person knows very clearly from the very beginning what he or she wants to achieve and how the ultimate result should be/look like. While embarking on the path of yoga, does one also know what is the ultimate result except for the kaivalya? Even though the idea of kaivalya sounds attractive, it is still ambiguous.
Kaivalya means when our highest self that is pure consciousness is realised through meditation. It is not knowable beforehand because it is not an object. You cannot grasp pure consciousness, everything cognizable is an object illuminated by consciousness, consciousness itself is not cognizable. But it can be experienced in a state of kaivalya. The verse 2 and 3 of yoga Sutra says: yoga is the cessation of the modifications of the mind, then the seer (consciousness) is established in its natural self. Realisation of that through meditation is kaivalya.
@@joytothewild many thanks for taking your time to explain. It's appreciated 🙏
@@oliverazivanovic492 most welcome 🙏🏻
@@joytothewild This is well explained ❤
What translation is he using of the yoga sutras?
Well there aren't very many words so it probably doesn't matter much. He's a great scholar and teacher so we presume he is using his own knowledge and experience to riff on the Yoga Sutras rather than focusing on one translation. This sect publishes a translation.
This first of the series is hard to understand because of not-understood words and technical breaks in the recording. The result is incomprehensible for the lay student.
Do you have the English dub turned on? I found that very helpful. Also there are all sorts of online dictionaries to get definitions but so far he's doing definitions upon definitions in the talk. Maybe read the book. It's very short. Get a version with the English and a good section on translating the words.
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Is he sitting on a chair? Just curious.
Hindi me bhi bataao koi ......80% indian undertand hindi.yaar...
The oldest scripture of ved is found 600 year old don't spread fake news
And Brahman Patanjali never exist in this India it is like Chanakya who never existed
Yoga is Buddhist tradition every Buddhist statue in yog mudra
And every Hindu God is with weapons they never done yoga
Where and with whom did Buddha study meditation?
Neo buddhist are everywhere now ig, they can't restrain from spreading misinformation :/
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