In this video clip I want to talk about acquiring super normal thinking power according to the
system of Patanjali, the father of yoga.
Patanjali is very precise.
He says that you can get anything that you want to get though acquiring super normal
thinking power.
You are so powerful but then you need some tools and He is giving these tools in book
three of yoga sutras.
Book three of yoga sutras deal with super normal powers.
There is a specific meditation that he teaches in order to acquire super normal powers.
This meditation is called Samyama.
Samyama is a technique in which there are 3 steps: The 1st step is concentration you
just pick up an object for concentration it can be a house or a person, then go on concentrating
on that person or on that object it can be done also within a particular part in the
body maybe a liver that has gone bad or it can be on a chakra if you are a yogi wanting
to strengthen the chakra or get more information on the chakra or it can be on the 3rd eye
you want to know more about the 3rd eye.
So concentration on that object whether it is on a person outside or an internal organ
and that is step number one concentration.
Step number two is meditation first is concentration and 2nd is meditation you just meditate on
that particular object or person or bodily organ that you have chosen as your concentration.
How does concentration differ from meditation, meditation is an added concentration meaning
in meditation you make a lot more effort and allow the mind to remain on the object of
concentration you disallow all the other thoughts except this thought so the difference between
the concentration and meditation is only a matter of degree of concentration.
Concentration is preliminary and when you progress in your concentration it becomes
a meditation because it is more focused and plus you disallow all other thoughts.
Now the 3rd stage is called Samadhi in Sanskrit which is trance in English, trance is not
the right translation but that’s the English word that I can think of you are not anymore
in the “I” consciousness you have lost your “I” consciousness you don’t think
that you are existing then what is existing at this point only the object of concentration
is there you are not there only the object is there and that is trance or Samadhi so
you have concentration, meditation and trance Dharana, Dhyan and Samadhi.
Patanjali says you have to combine all the three in one technique called Samyama.
Samyama is a meditation in which you combine all the three, what he means by that is you
are concentrating on an object, you are meditating on an object in stage two in stage three you
have become the object itself or only the object exists and you don’t exist.
In Samyama what happens is when you are involved in all the three concentration, meditation
and only experiencing the object.
Samyama will reveal the multitude the many aspects of the object concentrated on let
me explain this more clearly when you are concentrating on an object you will only know
a certain things about the object because your understanding is linear you won’t know
the whole history and meaning of the object.
For instance if it’s an object you may know the form of the object or the name of the
object or the bio chemistry or the biophysics or the crystal nature of the object whatever
it is you can go and dissect it and look at it.
In Samyama you will know everything about the object at one stroke because Samyama takes
you to that space of omniscience where Samyama is no longer concentrating on the linear nature
of the object.
Linearity disappears and omniscience that dawns on you reveals the object in its totality.
Patanjali gives this technique out of His compassion for the human beings who are just
stuck in a state of mind that is ignorant.
His whole object is to develop omniscient mind so that we can be in freedom and not
in bondage.
I know I have given only a description of it in a nut shell, down the road I have a
very strange desire to do it in a course form so that I can illustrate take every one and
explain you examples give practice etc.