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32nd Sutra of the vibhūti pāda is
मूर्धज्योतिषि सिद्ध॑दर्श॒नम् ॥ ३.३२॥
Mūrdha jyotiṣi siddha darśanam.
Performing samyama on the mūrdha jyoti, the brilliance, the light at the mūrdha, mūrdhanya siddha darśanam. Visibility of the siddhas. mūrdha jyotiṣi siddha darśanam. By performing samyama on the mūrdha, mūrdha is the top of the head, the position when we perform the śīrṣāsana, and it is on that portion mūrdhanya it is called, mūrdha, performing samyama there and the light there, siddha darśanam, vision of the siddhas. And seems to be a very typical Sutra to understand, but the radiance, the brilliance at the mūrdhanya and performing samyama there, the vision of the siddhas will come, this is how the Sutra says. And there's a careful understanding is needed here especially to understand the various words in this, that the experience is well cognized in the yogic circles in the advanced practices of the yoga. And the mūrdhanya is a very important part of the body. In a small newborn baby, maybe up to few months, you can see that very soft and smooth, and very carefully if we touch on the top of the head close to the front portion, frontal portion of the head above, you can feel the thumping, throbbing sensations, and that is the mūrdhanya place. And of course focusing and performing samyama there gives the vision of the siddhas. Of course it is said that that is also termed as the brahmarandhra technically in our tradition, but how the samyama there gives the vision of the siddhas is really a surprising and astonishing feature expressed by Maharishi patañjali. But it is a door to the spiritual enlightenment, spiritual vision and the attainment of the siddhas who have experienced the siddhis. The vision and the blessings will be there, that is how the Sutra is to be understood. And traditionally various images, various sounds are felt and experienced by the samyama in that particular place, and that is the important sādhana given, mūrdha jyotiṣi siddha darśanam. By performing the samyama on the illumination situated at the apex of the cranium, the subtle pranic vibrations, in fact even the light is a continuity of vibrations, colors are the continuity of vibrations, various colors or various wavelengths and frequencies, and by the practice of the samyama on the mūrdhanya, patañjali says that siddha darśanam.
Then the 33rd Sutra is another wonderful Sutra,
प्रा॒तिभा॒द्वा स॒र्वम् ॥ ३.३३॥
Pratibhād vā sarvam. Samyama on pratibhā, sarvam, everything is gained. pratibhā is the, in english there is no correct exact translated word for it, but it can be expressed in english as a discriminative knowledge, an intuitive knowledge. And that intuitive knowledge and intuition comes out of experience supported by knowledge and discrimination. So intuitive experiential discriminative knowledge, that is pratibhā. Pratibhād vā pertaining to, connected to samyama on pratibhā, va or sarvam, everything, and the full import of the word “or” is very much important which says that it summarizes the entire Sutra here, everything, samyama on pratibhā, the sādhaka understands, gets all the knowledge of the subject, the entire knowledge of the subject. That is an intuitional, inspirational potentiality, whether it is an art, whether it is a literature, whether it is a music, whether it is a science, whether it is a sports, that flash is an expression of this pratibhā, it is, the brilliance combined with efficiency and accuracy, the flashes of expertise, that is pratibhā. And performing samyama on that, that pratibhā connected to the particular subject of excellency, everything will be released, revealed, and again and again all that which supports that will be revealed. All the inner contents of the particular subject gets opened up because the samyama is on the pratibhā and on the latent potentialities. When the samyama is performed, all that is supporting knowledge, all that supporting information, all that supporting faculties gets revealed, opened up in front of, or comes as an experience to the performer of the samyama on the pratibhā. So the possibility that it may mean literally all the devotees of all the nature of the knowledge gets expressed in front of him because the word used is sarvam, everything. And of course having pratibhā on each subject, on each object, on each skill is different, but the basic pratibhā which is the underlying, an inner flow of all common samyama on that gives the sarvajñatā, the knowledge of the all. Ādi śaṅkarācārya has that sarvajñatā, the kanchi Paramacharya Shri Chandrasekharendra Saraswati Shankaracharya Mahaswamigal of the Kanchikamkoti pitham, the amount of knowledge which he has on varied subjects is simply amazing, pratibhā, uncomparable, unparalleled pratibhā he has, and that is the samyama on that sarvajñatā comes. The samyama on the pratibhā, the result is sarvajñatā, and that is the Sutra which is very very important in this vibhūti pāda of the patañjali yoga sūtras. Let us see the other Sutras.
Om 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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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
