The 29th Sutra is the result, effect and the benefit of ॐ - tad-japas tad-artha-bhāvanam. Very beautiful Sutra in which new word has been added by Maharishi Patanjal. The 29th Sutra Samadhipada
त॒तः प्र॒त्यक्चे॒त॒ना॒धिग॒मोऽ॒प्यन्तराया॑भाव॒श्च ॥ १.२९॥
tataḥ pratyak-cetanādhigamo'py antarāyābhāvaś ca || 1.29 ||
tataḥ pratyak-cetanādhigamo'py antarāyābhāvaś ca ||
tataḥ pratyak-cetana adhigam-api-antarāyā-abhāvaś-ca - tataḥ for that means, from that japa and artha-bhāvanam. From that pratyak is inwards, backwards to the starting point. You start from somewhere, go to a particular point, and you return back towards the starting point, that is called as pratyak. Cetanā is awareness. Adhigama is attainment, attaining. Api of course is also. Antarāya is a new word, antarāya is hurdle, impediment, obstacle. Abhāva, abhāva is disappearance, absence, totally removed. Ca of course means And. So tataḥ from that, pratyak inwards, cetanā is the awareness, adhigama is the attainment, api of course is also, antarāya is the hurdle, impediment abhāva is the disappearance or absence. So the meaning goes like this from that inward movement towards cetanā and absence of hurdles. So by chanting and the artha-bhāvanam, what happens? You go inwards, towards the awareness, and you attain that state of awareness, and second one is all the hurdles and impediments are removed, they are simply disappeared. So the first manifestation of the repetition and the thinking of the ॐ tatarthabhāvanam is that the power of introspection will come, or the power of introspection will be manifested. The person or the sadhaka becomes introspective pratyak, it is inward, introvert, and more and more introvert. Because he will be moving closer and closer to the Ishwara īśvaratvam. And all the mental and physical obstacles will begin to vanish and disappear. All the physical and mental hurdles, about this the next sutra comes, what are the physical and mental impediments.
So the two benefits given In this sutra are - inward journey And removal of hurdles. Pratyak-ātma internalization, in the Kathopanishad, we find this beautiful word pratyak-ātma, an inward direction. Āvṛta-cakṣuḥ, the cakṣuḥ - the vision was turned inside, inward vision. It is a very nice word. Generally we see outside, outward, outlook, but practice of ॐ - japa makes us to look inside. Look inside means it is not physically looking inside. That externalization of the vṛttis, the outward going of the vṛttis and indriyas, that is reduced and they get settled in their places, in their states, where they are before rising upwards. There is another beautiful two words there in Kathopanishad - one is pravṛtti and nivṛtti. Pravṛtti is outward vritti. Nivṛtti is inward vritti, that vritti which makes us move inwards, inwards,\ means going towards the source, Going closer to the roots. Now when the sound is coming from where the sound is coming. As we have seen in the earlier sutra that parā and paśyantī level, that awareness, cetanā is the word used here. Cetanā of the pratyak that is important, and that is the attainment. So outward projections, externalizations, extra words that will be reduced and removed and an inner movement, inner direction, inward understanding that comes. Practically if we have to say, in all our practical relationships, practical transactions in this normal world outside, we try to find out always the cause, the reasons outside, we hardly look within, and try to see what is our reactions, what is happening to us at the psychological, mental and deep inside us. ॐ -japa Japa makes us that. This is one of the benefits pratyak-cetanādhigamī api also.
Another benefit is what? Antarāya-abhāvaḥ All the impediments are removed, all the impediments are removed, washed out, abhāva it is, absence, disappearance. Means all the obstacles and impediments in the practice of yoga, all the obstacles, impediments and hurdles in our understanding of the Ishwara those hurdles will be removed, they will go by the Japa and arthabhāvanam of the ॐ - praṇava. See how important the ॐjapa is. It is a withdrawal from all external, withdrawal from all the disturbing pulls and pushes, Withdrawal from all the objects and that is how the ॐ - japa helps. This is a beautiful, nice benefit japa-phalam and tad-arthabhāvana-phalam. Phala of the japa phala of the artha-bhāvanam, the benefits of ॐ chanting, the benefits of ॐ japa is that we become inwards and inward awareness and awareness moves inwards. Tataḥ pratyak-cetanādhigama - that is attainment, api also antarāya-abhāvaś ca, antarāyāḥ - all the hurdles have been removed. And what are all these hurdles? What are all these antarāyāḥ? That will be the next sutra. The sutra number 30 of the Samadhipada that we shall see.
Oṃ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ.
ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः||
To Be Continued.. ----------------------------------------
These are transcription of session delivered by Vice-President of Vivekananda Rock Memorial & Vivekananda Kendra, Sri M. Hanumantha Rao Ji.
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Freed from attachment, non-egoistic, endowed with courage and enthusiasm and unperturbed by success or failure, the worker is known as a pure (Sattvika) one. Four outstanding and essential qualities of a worker. - Bhagwad Gita : XVIII-26
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