Introduction Thank you. My Self esteem is much better now that I know you care about the teaching.
Verse 1 A. Education “Leading Out” –Student Phase -.
I’m a Student of Life -I need to know why I’m on earth in a body.Why do I pursue objects? (I want freedom from want.) I’m a seeker in a zero-sum world.– Every upside has a downside. Getting imples ungetting. (I wanted you once, now I want to get rid of you). I need to know the defects of seeking happiness in experiencnes.
1. Pleasure is mixed with pain . 2. Acquiring produces dissatisfact. lThe more I I get what I want the more I want. 3> It Creates bondage i.e.attachment
B. Household Phase – Implementation of Phase Karma Yoga I need provisional identity with a new dharma. I need to implement the do’s and don’ts,
A. Nishkama Karma – cumpulsory duties for spiritual growth that don’t depend on your likes and llikes but based on Vedas with whole hearted compliance. Five Sacrifices (worship God, ancestors (gratitude for your existence) rishis, social service, environmentalism
B. Sakama Kama Karma sacrificing the fruit of desire prompted action
C. Nishkama Karma – standing up to Desire.
Verse 2 Wandering in the Forest Discipline, Upasana Yoga – (presupposes a quiet spiritualy orientd mind that needs to become an intense desire for freedom.
Implementation. (1) by associating with wise, not worldly, peopnle, and a yogic lifestyle that actualizes six Inner Powers. (Qualificatioins) The Power of kNOW- Focusing on Isvara or the Chakras. Developing Powers 1.Control of Mind, 2. Conrol of Senses, 3. Restraining the mind, 3. Standing up to the pinpricks of life, 4. Faith 5/ Prolonged one pointed conentration, scripture is the guru.
Verse 3 – Knowldge Yoga
Introduction. A Teacher is required, exceptions notwithstanding. Quick and easy. A qualified living teacher is a brahmanishta and a shrotriya. You need to serve the teacher because you can’t read your way to freedom and you need someone who can point out the inconsistencies in your thinking and the application of non-dual thinking. Faith pending the result of inquiry is hard because it contradicts experience. There is no logic to it. Service protects you because you can see if the teacheer walks the talk. And the teacher can tailor the teaching to the level of the student. Faith develops gradually by developing rapport. The benefit of mutual dislike that neither wastes time. If you are qualified you know that enlightenment is Self knowledge.
Knowledge Yoga is listening, resolving doubts and assimilating the knowledge.
A. Listening: Knowledge of Jiva (5 sheaths). B. Knowledge of Isvara (3 Bodies) C. The identity of jiva and Isvara. Pure existence and pure consciousness are non-different.
Through systematic analysis, we discover that consciousness is the essence of the individual, existence is the essence of the world and that consciousness and existence are non-different. Everything is myself, unborn existence shining as ever-full bliss.
