Sadhguru: One meaning of Hata, which we’ve already looked at is… means tenacity.
To reshape the body,
to… In a way, to reengineer the whole system in a very fundamental way, takes a certain level of tenacity.
This is not for… This is not even for God, because it seems he took a holiday on Sunday. Yes.
Shiva didn’t, but from where you come, most of you, God took a break on Sunday, so he is not a Hata yogi,
he cannot be (Laughs). Hata yogi has a tenacity, there is no Sunday, Monday for him, he’s on and on,
because if you don’t do that, you cannot recreate a body which has already become an adult.
This is recreating the body, means… First time your body has been created, largely from an information
that has come from your parentage, what memory their bodies carried.
What was one, two come together and a more complex memory system is formed every time a child is born.
So the shape of the body, the tone of your… how your system is, everything, largely shaped from this memory.
Now, if you're in a certain way… There are ways to do this, we can actually set up long-term experiments
if somebody’s willing to fund and do, we can show… Right now you trace back, let’s say five generations ago,
‘My great grandfather… great, great, great grandfather was a great guy, he was very intelligent, very physically
fit and capable of many things. I want to become like him.’ We can do certain type of yoga so that we are able
to largely take that part of the memory in your system. Maybe your father was a weak man, you don’t want
to be like him, you want to be like your great, great grandfather, there are certain types of yogas
to identify that memory and activate that memory to the maximum; that'll not be the only one,
but that will dominate. So yogic system looked at it this way, or another way is generally the yogic system
follows this when the Sapta Rishi’s sat in front of Adiyogi, their only aspiration was, they wanted
to become like him. They were not interested in fathers and grandfathers. So he said ‘We’ll obliterate every other
memory and you work on this.’ So the first step, even today people who take sanyas, take is there are
certain processes to distance yourself from your genetic memory which comes from elsewhere because a little
distance suddenly allows so much flexibility in the system. But if you take away the genetic memory,
if you successfully alienate yourself from the genetic memory, you must be very conscious to
reshape yourself the way you want. You must have the necessary sadhana, otherwise no memory,
no consciousness, this will go… People may die soon, it's possible.
If one distances himself from his genetic memory and does not do the necessary work
that is needed to rebuild the system, his system may collapse within a certain period of time
because it's the memory that is in the genetic substance which holds the body in a certain level of integrity.
Why one person’s body seems to be much more integrated than another, naturally, is essentially
because of the type of memory that they carry. So in Hata yoga we are not trying to… at least
at this stage of doing things, we are not trying to distance from the genetic memory, we are trying to take
the best that is there in us. There may be all kinds of people.
Let’s say if you look back next… last twenty-five generations, the family tree if you look at it,
if you look at the immediately previous generation, you're only concerned with two people,
your father and your mother. But if you look little further, there are hundred-and-fifty guys who are contributing
to your memory. Now, all these people, we don’t know what kind of people they are.
Some might have been very strong, some weak, some diseased, some healthy, some very focused,
some all over the place; there could be all kinds of people in this tree.
From what do you draw is an important thing, or how to draw the best from all this is an important thing.
‘Hata’ means- ‘Ha’ means sun, ‘ta’ means moon.
To draw directly from our parentage, essentially our parentage is sun and moon and planet;
these are the three. The planet is the womb, sun and moon in some way are impregnating and
this is happening. If there is no sun, there would be no life. If there is no moon, life wouldn’t be the way
it is right now, it would be probably some other way. So these three dimensions are playing an important role.
So one aspect of Hata is to keep our parentage aside. ‘My father, my grandfather, my’
all these people you keep them aside, because ultimately all their lineage goes to sun and moon;
you want to draw straight from that. That is what Hata yoga means you bring such a balance
that this intermediate transmission is lost and you draw directly from that, as life was made.
On the way so much corruption has happened through millions of generations – you want
to eliminate that and you want to draw straight from your father and mother.
Sun is seen as the father moon is seen as the mother.
As we have been many times looking at this, our mothers… I have… had the eligibility to become
our mothers only because they were synchronized with the cycles of the moon; otherwise they wouldn’t
have… they would not be eligible to become our mothers. They could bear children only because of that.
So to directly associate with the original mother and the father, in-between…
In yoga we say in-between is all corruption (Laughs).
All mix-up, genetic and other memories, you know, all kinds of things happened.
Some might have been good, some might have been bad, all kinds of mixtures, we don’t have
control over that. So to draw directly from ha and ta, that is the sun and the moon.
So the nature of Hata yoga is to gradually connect with the sun and the moon, rather than… You must...
You must check this after you… after two-and-a-half years of practice sounds too long?
Everyday, two-and-a-half years if you practice, if you simply close your eyes like
this, you must be able to say what phase of moon is today, because it's so manifest in your system.
A Hata yogi, if he closes his eyes, he must be able to say what phase of moon.
There are other aspects of the sun one can know, which is more complex, but at least the moon phases
one must know within himself. This is completely absent in people, that means totally dis-aligned with the original
source of our physical manifestation. So physical is important if you want to do things in the world.
If you just want to realize yourself and leave your body, there are other ways to do it.
Simply (Claps) like this we can have you pop, but don’t do it in the ashram, okay (Laughter)?
If it is just a question of realization, it can be done in so many ways.
You want to be realized and you want to live powerfully, then Hata becomes an important aspect.