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Continuing our understanding of the various vibhūtis presented by Maharshi Patañjali, we shall continue with the Sutra No. 24 and further on. These are all the powers, capabilities, possibilities which are hidden, unknown, unexpressed, unmanifested within us as we as a human being are a symbol of the entire creation as a microcosm.
The whole world is a macro. We are the micro what is there in the world is there in us. And what is there in us is there in the world. We are the reflection of a vast creation. And in this reflection, in this manifestation, whatever powers are there in the world they are there with us.
Beautifully Swami Vivekananda's famous quotation, “Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest the divinity within. And that expressing of the divinity within, the omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresence powers.” As we said earlier, inexplicability doesn't deny the availability. Inexplicability doesn't deny the presence. But as we have seen, there is a systematic order and the law behind it. And one sādhaka, once the yogi knows that, trains his mind and performs saṃyama as a technique, application of the saṃyama after the science of the meditation, the science of the concentration and the samādhi, dhāraṇā, dhyāna, samādhi is known completely. Then applying it, the whole process as saṃyama, all the various things available within him and outside of him. And that application of the science and then the outcome, the results which come out are the vibhūtis. And let us pray our obeisance to Maharshi Patañjali who is trying to suggest, point out that every individual has an immense power within us by showing what can happen, what will happen and what can be done outside the body and the mind by mastering within ourself and placing in a systematic order the powers of our own mind and citta. What an amount of transformations, pariṇāmas it can bring out outside of our body and the mind. And these expressions, sutras, statements are all the wonderful pointers, a powerful passages, statements, theorems, revealing and as we saw just now, pointing what a hidden potential energies are packed up within ourself. And by performing the saṃyama, we can unravel them, we can open up them, unzip them. And transform what is there outside and what is inside. So these vibhūtis are all like that. The potential powers within us are made into an expressive manifestation. And saṃyama is the technology of the application. And this application is the most important. And as a sādhaka, as a yoga practitioners, what are all the condensed form of energies, śakti saṅghāta is within us. It is really surprising, astounding and abstract powers within ourself. And that is how each sutra keeps on narrating, keeps on hammering that all powers are within us.
With this understanding, let us see the further coming sutras. The sutra number 24 is the sutra which says that
बलेषु हस्तिब॑लादी॒नि ॥ ३.२४॥
Baleṣu hasti bala ādi ni
Baleṣu on bala, bala is the might, the strength, the power, baleṣu on bala means performing saṃyama on bala. What will happen? Hasti bala ādi, hasti is elephant, bala and ādi. By performing saṃyama on the power and strength, one gains strength equal to the hasti, elephant, ādi, etc. It means all the strength, all the powers are unfolded, gets manifested, comes under the control by performing saṃyama on the faculty of the strength. Strength in the body, strength in the hand, strength in each cell, strength in each muscle, strength in the mind, the strength of the decisions, strength of the character, all these are hidden and by performing saṃyama then the strength, the powers get manifolded, multiplied, gets concentrated and as an example it gives it that the power, the strength of an elephant and ādi and such other minds. Elephant is a symbol of strength and the strength within us, the strength in the elephant and the strength in a bull, strength is same, maybe quantifying is different, but that quantification also oozes out, springs out from the faculty and the tattva of the strength and performing saṃyama on that the basic and the foundation of the spontaneity, the spring of strength. We gain, the sādhaka gains, the yogi gains, the strength of an elephant. That is the sutra, baleṣu hastibalādīni – hastibalādīni, ādi means etc.
Swami Vivekananda again wonderfully, Swamiji summarizes this particular sutra beautifully - “When a yogi has attained to this saṃyama and wants strength, he makes a saṃyama on the strength of the elephant and gets it. Infinite energy is at the disposal of everyone if he only knows how to get it. The yogi has discovered the science of getting it.” That is the saṃyama. The yogi who gains direct contact with these principles is therefore in touch with a source whose potentialities are unlimited. As far as we are concerned can gain the strength of any animal by saṃyama on it. If you perform a saṃyama on a tiger, the strength of the tiger will come. The unique specific strength of the tiger. Saṃyama on the lion will give that. It is not actually performing saṃyama sitting in front of the lion. The lion, the pratyaya of the lion. The powerful qualities of the lion.
That is how this particular sutra emphasizes and states that saṃyama on the bala gives bala or the strength and power equal to the elephant, etc. Let us see the next sutra.
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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सिद्धयसिद्धयोर्निर्विकार: कर्ता सात्त्विक उच्यते ॥१८.२६॥
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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