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The fifth sutra, sutra number 5 of the Kaivalya Pāda is
प्र॒वृ॒त्तिभे॒दे प्र॒योज॒कं चित्तमेकम॑नेके॒षाम् ॥ ४.५॥
Pravṛtti Bhede Prayojakaṃ Cittam Ekaṃ Anekesām
Pravṛtti is the tendency, bheda is the difference, differentness, variation, variation in pravṛtti, variation in tendencies, pravṛtti bheda it is. Prayojakam, the driving force, Cittam, of the citta, Ekam Anekesām, ekam one, anekam many, not ekam, Ekam is one, anekam is not one, that means many. So pravṛtti bheda, differentiation in the tendencies, prayojakam, the driving force in one and the many cittas, cittam, ekam, anekam, Eṣām, it is there. Cittam, anekam, eṣām, Eṣām is of course for the plural. The rough meaning of the sutra is: Though the activities of the different created minds are various, the one original mind is the controller of them all. We have seen the nirmāṇa citta. Though there are very many various minds and each one has its own tools of instruments, the indriyas, but all are controlled by the original, the driving force, the prayojakam behind the different created cittas, pravṛtti bhedas of the citta, is the original citta, ekam, of the anekam, of the yogī.
If the sādhaka, an advanced sādhaka, yogī, can duplicate the minds at different places and the action rises, Maharṣi Patañjali is proposing that a yogī, an advanced yogī, an advanced sādhaka, can create, can duplicate various minds and can work through them.
How are these activities of all these artificial minds, nirmāṇa citta created? They are coordinated and controlled. This particular sutra says that these activities and functions of these artificial minds, whatever their number may be, they are all directed, controlled by the one natural mind of the yogī, the creator controls. The creator is the controller of the creation. You can understand very clearly the artificial minds are only instruments of that one natural mind and they obey automatically. It is as if a very efficient person, a person of a sterling character, a sterling personality, an evolved person inspires, influences positively many people and brings them closer to him or her and out of that inspiration and influence and by his sterling character and personality they follow him, they listen to him, they get committed to him, they get devoted to him and that one person becomes the center of many people. All the minds get inspired, all the minds get intuitively connected and the center person, whom we can say for our understanding, the leader or a guru, an evolved person, an inspiring personality, gets his works done through them, gets his mission completed through them, gets his positive desires, gets his mission accomplished through them. It is not his limitation that he cannot do it, but he gets it done through them, gets the mission accomplished by these various minds so that the accomplishment of the mission is done in a specific period of timeline. We see great organizers, masters of organizers they are all divine personalities. The amount of work turned out, the amount of result produced by them, like the personalities of Ādi Śaṅkara, Śrī Rāmakṛṣṇa Paramahaṃsa, Svāmī Vivekānanda, Mahatma Gandhi, and many of the leaders in the society, this is what this particular sutra says - प्र॒वृ॒त्तिभे॒दे प्र॒योज॒कं चित्तमेकम॑नेके॒षाम् ॥ ४.५॥, that one citta is the driving force of all the aneka cittas. Though they are different, the guiding principle, the inspiring principle, the principle of intuitiveness is one and the same. This is the wonder of this particular sutra. It is possible, that is why all great people whom we say inspire us all have this quality of yogittham, achieved some deep sense of and that is how this particular sutra is very much closely connected to all of us in our own day to day life activities. When we feel closeness to somebody and when we listen to someone, when we express our humility to somebody, when we become obedient to somebody, that means that person is inspiring us, may be influencing us, of course in a very positive way.
Svāmī Vivekānanda wonderfully concludes this particular sutra in his own immutable way. Wonderfully he says: “The material out of which that manufactured mind is created is the very same material which is used as the macrocosm. It is not that mind is one thing and matter is another thing, but they are different existences of the same thing, Asmita, Egoism is the material, the fine state of existence out of which these made minds, made bodies of the yogī will be manufactured. Therefore when the yogī has found the secret of these energies of nature, he can manufacture any number of bodies or minds, but they will all be manufactured out of the substance known as egoism, amista. A guru creating a huge organisation and all the disciples following one man's diction, one man's direction, one man's command, that means that one person is acting through various minds and bodies, gets his mission fulfilled, the mission accomplished. That is how we can easily say and understand that creators of organisations, masters of organisations, the master organisers, a yogī is really a master organiser. A master organiser, yes, has a glimpse and a shade of a yogī. Let us see the next, the sixth sutra of the Kaivalya Pāda.
Om śāntiḥ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ
ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः||
These are transcription of session delivered by Vice-President of Vivekananda Rock Memorial & Vivekananda Kendra, Sri M. Hanumantha Rao Ji.
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To Be Continued.. ---------------------------------------
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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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