Jnanis & the Path They Teach, Part One

Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:18]Good morning everyone.

[00:00:23]We are starting with merging with Shiva chapter 46 titled Yianis and the path they teach and it is from 1984.

[00:00:40]Lesson 316 the holy path to Shiva's feet.

[00:00:47]So many in the world are unaware of the great joys that are the reward of a religious life lived well.

[00:00:57]That's a nice sentence. Read it again.

[00:01:01]So many in the world are unaware of the great joys that are the reward of a religious life lived well.

[00:01:11]They seek their fulfillment outside of themselves and fall short time and time again.

[00:01:18]One day they will conclude as you all have that it is the inner life, the spiritual life that alone brings eternal unchanging happiness.

[00:01:32]This outer world and consciousness can never bring the soul real contentment, real fulfillment or you can find a temporary happiness but it will be followed by its opposite in due course.

[00:01:48]The outer consciousness of the material world is by its very nature a bondage.

[00:01:54]It binds one through karma, binds one through maya, binds one through ana or ego identity and ignorance.

[00:02:06]That is the nature of the world to bind us.

[00:02:12]Then a comment yoga sutras verse two 15 meaning chapter 2 verse1 15 presents the same idea to the discerning ones all is indeed sorrow whether from the suffering caused by impermanence affliction some scars or the turmoil of the goona's activities ities.

[00:02:44]Well, my comment on this verse reads, "An ordinary person focuses on the transient enjoyments that come from experience.

[00:02:53]A wise man, however, looks beyond the moment, knowing that all experience is impermanent and thus cannot bring lasting joy."

[00:03:04]So that's the idea that Gurva makes too is that it's not that the world doesn't provide some happiness but it doesn't last very long. Thus the point that's made in the yoga sutras say therefore the experience is actually one of suffering though it starts out with temporary joy.

[00:03:30]Back to the text. When the soul has had enough experience, it naturally seeks to be liberated to unravel the bonds.

[00:03:40]That begins the most wonderful process in the world as the seeker steps for the first time onto the spiritual path.

[00:03:49]Of course, the whole time through all those bursts and lives and deaths, the soul was undergoing a spiritual evolution.

[00:03:58]but unconsciously.

[00:04:01]Interesting point. The soul has always been undergoing a spiritual evolution, but initially it's an unconscious one.

[00:04:10]We don't realize it's happening. Now it seeks to know God consciously.

[00:04:15]That is the difference.

[00:04:17]It's a big difference.

[00:04:21]And yoga sutra commentary chapter 2 verse 18 states the same idea as follows.

[00:04:30]The perceivable world characterized by illumination, activity and inertia. The three goonas consisting of the elements and the senses exists to provide both experience and liberation.

[00:04:50]In other words, the experiences we have in the world prior to consciously pursuing spiritual unfoldment are needed to cause us to finally pursue unfoldment.

[00:05:03]So purpose of the world is twofold experience and liberation.

[00:05:09]The text by this conscious process of purification of inner striving of refining and maturing the karmas come more swiftly.

[00:05:21]Evolution speeds up and things can and usually do get more intense.

[00:05:26]Don't worry though that is natural and necessary.

[00:05:30]That intensity is the way the mind experiences the added cosmic energies that begin to flow through the nervous system.

[00:05:42]So here's the soul seeking intentionally to know who am I? Where did I come from?

[00:05:48]Where am I going?

[00:05:50]A path must be found. A path that others have successfully followed. A path that has answers equally as profound as the seeker's questions.

[00:06:02]Savvite Hinduism we have such a path. It is called the svenary the path of Shiva.

[00:06:08]It is a wide and unobstructed path that leads man to himself to his true self that lies within and beyond the personality lies at the very core of his being.

[00:06:31]I want to speak a little about the inner path today. You all know that it is a mystical path full of mystery.

[00:06:40]You cannot learn much of it from books.

[00:06:43]Then where to look?

[00:06:46]Look to the holy scriptures where the straight path to God is described by our saints.

[00:06:52]Look to the great masters, the siddas or perfected ones. Look to the sakurus who have themselves met and overcome the challenges that still lie ahead for you.

[00:07:04]Look to them and ask them to help you to look within yourself.

[00:07:10]Much of the mysticism which is the greatest wealth of Hinduism is locked within these masters who in our tradition are known as the Sakgurus, the sages and the Siddhas.

[00:07:23]There's much to say on this. As Yoga Swami told us, the subject is vast and the time is short.

[00:07:40]Lesson 3:17, four stages of evolution.

[00:07:47]Let me begin with something that may at first come as a surprise to you.

[00:07:52]All men and women on the earth are doing exactly as they should and must do.

[00:07:59]People complain, "I wish I were rich. I wish I lived somewhere else. I really should be a doctor if only things were different.

[00:08:09]But in the final analysis, we are all doing exactly as we want, as we must, doing what is next on our personal path of evolution.

[00:08:20]Nothing is wrong. Nothing should be that is not. Even the drunk, even the thief is part of the cosmic dance of God Shiva.

[00:08:31]Not that you should ever think of being a thief for there is much difficult karma there. Just realize that he too is evolving. He too is Shiva's creation and what he does is for him somehow necessary.

[00:08:48]Just look at the world. Warriors have to fight their battles. Priests have to take care of their temples. Businessmen must sell their goods. Farmers must grow their crops and tend their flocks.

[00:09:01]Teachers must pass on knowledge. Each one has to do what he has to do in the great cosmic dance of Shiva. Each one follows the path of service leading to devotion which leads to spiritual disciplines of yoga.

[00:09:22]Finally that yoga culminates in the attainment of truth or god realization.

[00:09:27]These are the four margas leading the soul to its very self.

[00:09:34]For Hindus, the pathosine is divided into four stages or phases of inner development. Some say karma yoga, bakti yoga, raja yoga and yana. Others say charara, ka yoga and jana. Either way, it is basically the same progressive stages followed by the soul in its quest for God.

[00:09:57]We are speaking here of the way the ancients attained their realizations.

[00:10:01]How they lived their lives, suffered, went through mental pain and their tapas, walk the samara path through life, chara yoga and jana and in that process unwound the karmmas of the past.

[00:10:14]Learn to live fully in the present.

[00:10:17]Abash the person of themselves to be the soul of themselves.

[00:10:24]They practice true yoga to obtain release from rebirth moia which only the realization of the absolute truth can give.

[00:10:34]There is of course no action too great to render to persist on the path of enlightenment once the path has clearly been defined.

[00:10:51]Oh commentary there's a very useful term that is an alternate name for susedanta tommo word nalupyum it literally means cyism of four stages nalu for bad stage sym cyism the concept of nalibum directs our attention to the practices of cy sedanta which of course are the four pas of chara yoga and yana. Universal lexicon defines nalupatam as the doctrine that the initiate should pass successively through charara ka yoga and yana stages and then subtain moka.

[00:11:45]Isn't that a tur statement of our philosophy?

[00:11:49]very nicely done and it even says initiate brings in the idea of initiation. So nalibum really captures it in very clear way.

[00:12:01]Thank you very much.

[00:12:05]Wonderful day.