Shiva Sutras
Sukhaduḥkhayorbahirmananam
So
I'll read the direct translation and then we'll go a little further.
The Yogi experiences joy and sadness, just like an object
as a fluctuation of consciousness
and independent
of the Yogi's being
independent of the Yogi's being.
Rather, the Yogi's being is independent.
But let's go a little further because this is actually a great
sutra to understand
how we create our personal reality.
So
I think we can say a little
expand a little further on what has been said
in the commentary to the Yogi.
the
experience of opposites is actually
the experience of complementarities.
All experience, all experience is through contrast,
sadness, happiness,
sharp, smooth, hard, soft birth, death, sound, silence, on, off
light, dark.
So
all experience is through contrast, every experience
has its opposite experience. And actually
every experience
is
a mental and perceptual event.
There's no difference between mental events and what we call objects.
No difference between mental events and what we call objects.
Why? Because both mental events and
so-called objects, including the object that we call our body.
So-called objects are
actually
perceptual activities
that have filtered through
the divided fragmented self.
And so there's no difference between a mental event and
an object seen outside the body or as the body,
an object seen outside the body or as the body.
There is no difference between
those objects. This object
and mental events
because
all
objects are also perceptual events.
So there's no difference between mental and perceptual events
other than a different frequency of vibration.
So all so called objects, this hand, this body, these glasses
all so called objects are actually space time events
in the same way as thoughts are spacetime events, as imagination
or images are spacetime events
or as feelings are space time events
and all spacetime events, whether they call them objects or the body or whatever
are an alchemy of sensations
that are modified forms
of
the self as that.
So the mind is
sensations, subtle sensations,
emotions are subtle sensations,
images are subtle sensations.
OK? We can try an experiment right now.
So close your eyes and
imagine a rainbow.
Now imagine snow
clad mountains.
Now imagine
a piece of rock,
imagine looking at the face of your friends
or your mother,
see every image
that is created
is destroyed before the next image is created.
So the form and formless are also complementarities.
So if all experience is complementarity and
what we call life is a continuum of experiences
and that continuum of experiences includes the fluctuations
that we call mind, intellect, ego.
It includes the fluctuations that we call the energetic and physical body.
It includes the fluctuations that we call the world. They're all
different frequencies of the self, they're all objects of experience.
And there's only one subject of experience
experiencing itself as innumerable objects of experience
through instruments of experience, which are also the body mind.
But there are also fluctuations
of the self. The self knows itself
in infinite ways.
But leave that aside. Now let's go back to Lakshmanjoo.
and the Shiva Sutra
says, the Yogi having realized that everything is
the Yogi's creation, the mind is the Yogi's creation. The body is the
Yogi's creation
and the physical world is the Yogi's creation.
And all these creations are alchemy
of sensations,
sensations, sense perceptions, images, feelings, thoughts
by shifting the vibrancy,
the vibratory frequency of sensations and the alchemy of sensations.
The Yogi
knows how to create everyday reality
as the alchemy of sensations
and the
the deeper understanding that the sensations
of fluctuations of the self,
all
one needs is to be established in the Self. And then consciously
choose the alchemy of sensations to create the reality you want,
including the reality of your personality,
the reality of your mind,
the reality or experience reality
of your mind, the reality of your imagination, the reality
of your body and the perceived reality of the world.
Because what we call the world is also
the alchemy of sensations.
For most people, they're born into this interpreted alchemy of sensations,
only the awakened Yogi
knows
that
it's a constructed alchemy of sensations through the recycling of culture,
tradition, religion, history,
and evolution.
But once you wake up,
you're not subject
to those rules.
So become a conscious observer and then
become a conscious participant
in the alchemy of sensations.
And you can create
your own reality
but integrate it with everyday reality.
Otherwise, there's a thin line between SAGES, psychotics and geniuses.
OK. My friends, I hope you enjoyed that Sutra.