Encounter the Enlightened

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In a milieu, where life is seen as toil, Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev opens an

entirely new possibility to play with life whichever way you want,

to live life intensely but go through it unscarred.

Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev, is an enlightened master, yogi and

profound mystic of our times. In this book, he approaches the reader

through rational thought and nudges one beyond the limitations of

rational thinking to begin the journey of discovering the Self,

to discover the unbounded and singular nature of all existence.

"You can go through life untouched, you can play with lifewhichever way you want and still life cannot do anythingto you, life does not leave scars on you. That is the miraclethat we are working to manifest in everybody's life."

"Anybody who sits with me for one moment sincerely- he cannot go untouched."

"Being a master and being a butcher are not far away.He must be that kind who brings things up lovingly

and then slaughters them when it is necessary."

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At the Masters Feet

At the Masters Feet

The Master-disciple relationship: very intimate, very subtle.


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Ireally want to do some big energy experiments with you, but I dontknow if we sufciently impressed upon you sixty to ninety days ago

that the physical body has to be in a good shape. I dont know if it

has been sufciently impressed upon you. The whole purpose of

why we want to go on a high-energy trip is because only when your

energies are really high, you have total control over your needs. All

the petty needs, which are important now, do not matter anymore

when your energy is high. You are sitting here now and there is a

strong need to stretch your legs. If you dont fulll this need life

becomes a misery. This is a very, very small need, this wanting tostretch your legs. It is such a small thing in your life, but it can change

the very way you experience your life today. When the energy is high

enough, these small needs like food, sleep, eating, standing, do not

matter; they are not important anymore. Only when a person is able

to transcend these small needs, then we can look at something else,

something totally different. When I say different, I am not saying

something different from the reality. Reality is something different

from the illusions that you have woven around yourselves. You have

built a whole cocoon of illusory experiences around yourselves. Usingthe sense organs and the mind, you have built a very nice coating

around yourselves, which makes you believe that nonsense because it

is experientially true. Your hunger is experientially true, but that is

not the truth. To break the whole cocoon that you have woven around

yourself, to transcend that one of the very rst steps of sadhana is

to transcend the sense organs themselves, not using the sense organs

and the motor organs. There are ve for each of these two. The sense

organs are the eyes, ears, nose, mouth and skin. The motor organs

involve movement: the legs, the hands, speech and all the other

movements in the body.


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The rst step to transcend these illusory experiences is to limit these

ten organs both sensory and motor that is the whole purpose of

sitting. For someone who is not aware, sitting down simply for hours

together during meditation may seem boring and dull, but once you

stop these ten functions totally, then the reality opens up. Once thisopens up, the person is in a totally different level of consciousness

where there is no comfort or discomfort. That is the rst goal or the

rst step that you have to take. Now if you want to limit the functions

of your sense organs and motor organs, one thing is the body has to

be t and another thing is your energy has to be sufciently high.

Why a triangle within a circle has been chosen as the symbol for Isha

is because this is the most fundamental yantra. Yantra means a certain

form, which has a certain vibration. A fundamental yantra means the

basic yantra. In both the tantric and the yogic cultures it is said that

the whole existence is created out of this yantra. First it was

nothingness. This nothingness became sound. The rst form that was

created was this, and from this all beings and all existence were

created. There is a scientic basis for why it is so, but right now let

us look at it symbolically. Let us look at it as a symbol.

What is this yantra? This yantra describes you; in the center there is

a small dot. This is supposed to be your being, whatever you call it.

In some schools of philosophy, they call it a being and in some othersthey call it a non-being. They call it the atma, soul or whatever you

want to call it. That is the basis, it is emptiness, but because people

wont be able to see it, we have put a dot. I thought it would be better

to put a small circle; it suggests a little emptiness. And inside there

is a triangle. In the triangle, the left side of the triangle, the slanting

line is the body. The one on the right is mind. The bottom line is

the prana. Now that segment of the circle which is in correspondence

to the bodyline is your physical activity which includes the sense

organs and the motor organs. The segment of the circle which is in

correspondence with the mind line is the thought process, the whole

range of mental activity. The bottom segment is the life process or

the pranic activity within the system. This yantra or this symbolism is

supposed to represent a whole human being.

We rst start our work with the body and the bodys activity, then the

mind and the minds activity and lastly the prana and the pranic

activity. If we have some amount of mastery over these three aspects

of activity, the bodys activity, the thought process and the pranic

activity to some extent if you have some mastery over them - then

the gates will open to the inner dimension. If you know a little bit

of engineering, then you will know that the triangle is the most stable

form. Of all the forms that you can create, the triangle is the strongest

form. If you build an aircraft, everything is a triangle inside it, the

structural part of it. It is understood that the triangle is the hardeststructure even by your engineers. So the fundamental yantra is a

triangle. The way your body, mind and pranic system are made comes

from that. It is very rm and tremendously strong. If you use it

properly, you can do incredible things with it.

Now with the asanas and the simple stretching stuff that we are doing

here, the body seems to struggle. You will see after a weeks time that

the body is capable of coping with not only this but a little more and

more and more. Once a person stretches this body there is no limit

to it; he can go on stretching it.

One example that I would like to talk about is Malladi Halli Swami

from whom I rst learned my yogic practices. In his sadhana he used

to do four thousand and one surya namaskars every morning. The

body can be pushed like this! When he was at his peak, he was doing

these four thousand and one effortlessly. He could have done more

but only for lack of time he was stopping there. Otherwise, he would

have stretched himself to ten thousand also. Just because it took too

much time, he stopped at four thousand and one.


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