Science of Focus by Pravrajika Divyanandaprana @ IIT Delhi (Session 2)

[Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] see he asked a very interesting question more light on sunscars can it be possible that our british are not good but sanskas are okay no no no no from the beginning your virtis have generated your sand scars according to yoga psychology consciously are you catching this point you say consciously that becomes important and sanskas a yoga may they are studied in thoroughly in a big way see at least your grandparents at home must be telling you you must have good sanskars it's natural in this culture so all this is meant not to restrict your freedom or to dominate upon your freedom or anything like that it is only meant to generate certain traits in you good sanskarako janam dalain if you understand this you will yourself adopt it so that is why i am giving you all knowledge of sanskasi without all this knowledge you cannot handle your attention although that is all you need without understanding the background that is the sheet or you can say the substratum the foundation upon which your attention is built foundationally as i it's not functioning properly how will you build attention on that isla evrithi sanskar yes you must pay attention to it this is the groundwork stabilizing the chitta then building attention building focus people who are very agitated in mind can they build focus tell me can they hold attention on anything we don't have to go anywhere sometimes our mind will behave in such a way impossible to stop it or control it so you cannot build attention at that moment so that is why i am giving you all of this knowledge connected hey attention say now you see the next slide will tell you all the types of sunscreens your impulses your knowledge based thoughts desire based thoughts effects of actions even the sleep niro sanskar joke and of course the higher experiences of life spiritual experiences all of these i have been given different names of sanskas these are all sanskars so your impulses are called kaleshas then there are vidyasan scars becoming your sanskar so next class it is easier to do all this work because you have created the sanskas required so that they are called vidya sanskars then there are books and scars all emotion related experiences british becomes books and scars then karma is your hair which is the effect of action any action you perform it will have its impact on your mind so usability when there is no special activity or thought then also a kind of abhow pratya is there the content of the british there is no actual content so that is called a nero the sanskar then spiritual experience based sanskas are there bhakti pragma all these are higher sanskra so a whole lot of sanskars are there in human life now depending upon your conscious thought a particular sanskar will grow up application of mind and conscious thought process are the most important things that is why apn ah and achitara if you actually have get higher awareness through yoga practice and all that pragma scar will grow so depending upon where you invested vital energy and your thought your sanskas go on growing in your system you are responsible for your life and destiny please know this don't blame it on anybody tomorrow you know when you grow up you will have a number of people to blame say yes no no no the fact of the matter is you alone are responsible for your mind through your conscious thought process where you applied your mind how conscious you became and where you used your thought energy will decide what kind of sanskas you create you say vibe you are the creator of your destiny be aware of your thoughts your thoughts verily make you what you are unique take care of what you think for your thoughts will create you your thoughts create your destiny so no use blaming a parent teacher government no use a self-development module you must learn the importance of self-knowledge and how responsible you must be for your own life see this is giving you this wealth of knowledge about your own mind yes depending upon where you expose yourself what are the learning what kind of learning you have what are your perceptions what have been your cognitions where did you invest emotion your sanskas get created accordingly what action you performed what friends you made what associations you made but i mean having fun accordingly will be your marks according will be your sanskars hannah importance of taking charge of our mind this is what they are telling us you create your virtis and sanskas so have proper thought mechanism proper thinking positive thinking and positive feelings easily a service is part of life it is not option it is part and parcel of a good life if you want a really good great life you will make this part of your life aapke sanskar then let us zoom into a single thought what is one thought you see from the point of the mechanics of thinking of yoga psychology now we have gone into one thought abdespar you will understand the concepts of vritti and pratyay very clearly the mental fluctuation modification of your mind is what is called vriti vojo green hana wahapa that's the modification your mind is undergoing but the content is maybe you are thinking of your home you are thinking of your house so use content now in any thought there is a modification due to the due to the content of your thought if you are thinking of physics a modify suddenly you remembered you fought with your friend bus immediately do shri tara modify hua kyuki the pratya changed the prathaya became you fought with your friend i will take revenge so it changed because your pratyai changed so the modification of your mind changed so the content of your virti is pratyai together they make one thought now we are going very deep into your mind a thought what is the content of your thinking will create the modifications of your mind so when you have very erratic modifications going on in mind you must understand your content is not good good enough violent cheeses yeah you are indulging in something which is very violent and negative your mind will become very agitated and restless decay even babies you can they have tracked this baby k mind may be a scene of violence will put it into agitation and wrote a runelectric so you see your virtis are getting modified as per your pratyai the content of your thought so how should your content be now if you want kaam vritti's abco you don't want donkey mind monkey mind butterfly mind you want akagra state and nirundha state so then what should be the content of your briti it should be something noble something positive something good enough worthy of you henna are you understanding see nobody will give you this analysis in today's world i am telling you what you will get in these classes this is absent from today's world that is why things are functioning the way they are if you do not understand yourself first how will you manage the world tell me s what i am about what this mechanism is what this mind is how will you handle other people properly so clashes will be unavoidable unless you train your mind so you see this is how your thought is working as per your vritti and pratyai you radiate vital energy prana but image if you are thinking positive thoughts mind and body are united so your aura is totally decided by your thought process what do you radiate if you are trying to impact society you must first become impactful you must first become so very positive and you can say the the charisma required for making changes comes only by this when you are able to understand identify and correct every thought make it powerful essay positive thoughts no they are like weapons s you must have heard of stories about this they thought and it happened so how it happened because the thought became like a missile you know cheese the energy milgauss go so take care take care your thought mechanism creates everything for you you know your environment also since you radiate that level of prand through your thought the environment you create around you the surroundings the circumstances all are consciously or unconsciously created by you how does it choose that which body it will come which family it will come according because there you know you are not going to choose and select and all that but your it should match your resonance so you see radiate it will depend on what you are thinking within yourself so make your thought process very positive very good aligned there you will see the virtis are going at a constant fluctuation at least so this is a concentrated mind like in this is not our normal state you know i want to see our normal state yes let me start from the normal you see see this is your normal state every thought is different from the previous thought so this is called the ordinary mind which has not yet learned to concentrate concentration gradually you start producing you see now see what i have written under that unstable virtis plus dissimilar pratyayas is the ordinary mind clear but if you have stable virtis and occasionally dissimilar pratis you know you are bringing mind into then it is called a focused mind or concentrated mind and non fluctuating virti is rising and falling at same point and same prathaya is what is called the meditative mind so a lot of information from patanjali yok sutras has been condensed into this slide pages pages pages what is the ordinary mind what is the mind coming into focus what is the focused mind or the concentrated mind and what is the meditative mind all dependent only on your virtis maintaining one prathai it is to be practiced to get concentrated and meditative mind otherwise always content of thought is means which means only thought is flitting from one object to another your thought is moving my concentration is the art of putting attention on one single thing alone do srishi is naiva so you see the way to generate a concentrated mind is through the power of attention attention helps you to generate stable virtis and similar practice thus building focus attention is nothing but your awareness come to the forefront and the receding of your thought process the rise of awareness to the forefront is the culmination of the initial meditative practice with more practice attention gets riveted this is the heart of yoga see let me explain this a bit hamare mind me writing content is always different so your mind is restless thinking of many things at a time as you go on concentrating pratyas will get limited to one pratyai and vritis will modify in the same manner you understand so same type of vritis and same pratya then you are coming into deep focus as you deepen this there will be only one british not even moving at the same point rising and falling same point with the same now what has happened your stupid thought process is gone to the background and awareness has come to the forefront you have become deeply aware rather than identified with your silly thought a state is high attentive state you have become deeply conscious and attentive now thought process has gone to the background awareness has come to the forefront so much me are i only when you attain this you will understand how stupid i was cheese you will naturally think like that your silly worries fears unproductive memories and passions all this carry away your energies so easily a meditation important you see it will help you build attention when this state is achieved now what has happened awareness has come to the forefront and thought has receded no no no you have become deeply conscious but thought process is under control it is in the background you have become deeply aware so attention can definition hua it is nothing but a beam of your awareness directed by your will attention definition according to yoga psychology it is a beam of your awareness directed by your will so awareness forefront menu attention build up hoga that is why you must practice yoga so that this carried away being carried away by thought process stops that is why it is so important you become more aware than identified you become more conscious than stupid and you will become very very attentive at that point so the very definition of attention by definition attention is they carry a power of attention attention is a steady beam of your mental awareness generated by your will and it is through the power of attention that you focus and concentrate your mind it is the concentrated attentive mind attention it is like a laser focused you can you know you can do delicate eye surgery with laser the most delicate surgery agar attention is aho so you can do anything the most delicate things of life will be very easy for you or other attention second picture just aho no beam at all utterly scattered then even if you give 24 hours a day to the task you are performing nothing will happen nothing serious will happen in your life so power of attention you must understand and the ability to build attention bring it like this into focus this is something this is the purpose of this course no use just knowing a few concepts now you will generate that level of attention in these classes and you will apply them further on practice in theory see nobody will give you this definition of attention you know casey definitions psychology attention ability to remove other things from the mind that is not enough positively what is it from the first person standpoint what what is it it is nothing but your own mental awareness come into complete fruition and focus and directed by your will so attention depends on your willpower so the undercurrents of attention then that also you should know the undercurrents of attention will be your awareness and your will if awareness is not there in the mind only your silly thought process is going on attention cannot be built if will is not there to build attention attention cannot be built so these are the undercurrents of attention so take charge of yourself and also you should remember there is no point in learning attention concentration all this if you cannot focus it on worthy goals you know hitler was very concentrated guy hitler yahoo sun scars and a very pointed mind you will really do good as a mechanism like in the ground work should be very good the foundation upon which you build attention you must possess good sanskas fundamentally in life then on that you build everything good exposures good reading good habits in life right now you make it part and parcel of your life tabi this level of attention will really help you this is yogic attention you know otherwise ultimately you will focus this attention on something silly so easily a remember awareness and its investment in your thought process is but at least you should know this awareness and will are the undercurrents of your attention these two must come to the forefront in your mind and your thoughts of fear anger hatred whatever that should recede that you should try to obliterate as far as possible then attention can be built up to this level because if by definition it is nothing but the it is your mental awareness directed by your will its a beam of your mental awareness now if you actually watch the practical scenario you will see most people only know thoughts awareness they have no idea awareness we are only identified with thought but what is it that enlivens your thought it is awareness awareness that is why your thought means something to you now your job is to bring awareness to the forefront and put thought behind meditation you become more aware than identified with the thought process when you are able to do this attention will peak peak attention means peak performance in anything mechanics now how do we actually apply this i can give you any number of examples for this state example then i say oh yad yapko you know there is another incident of this kind of a complete yogic concentration vivekananda life encyclopedia so somebody told him that how how how can you his own disciple actually he had come and he asked him that swamiji how have you read so many volumes so quickly swamiji nika you please ask me whatever you want or uh by the power of attention see when you actually are in a completely attentive state you will lose sense of time and space yes i don't know how many of you are in the phd many times i have found my phd students saying this is a huge study of this process especially awareness attention their connection it is being studied the world over the insight i am giving you is the insight of yoga psychology like in vahabar subject matter they are studying it as they call it flow it's a it's a word coined by zika mihaly mihali sikh mahali ah he has coined this word called flow which means you are wrapped in some object on something you are studying or anything and you lose sense of time and space spontaneously music you got so totally involved in the music you don't remember anything when you are playing a game of chess kitne or kelter no no time for chess okay few of few places so chesmar climax you forget naturally you're totally you are riveted because you have to win so there are states in your everyday life where you experience this flow jump naturally time space drop and your attention becomes unmoving qksr climatic situation here now the point is you must learn to generate flow even when there is no challenge because flow is considered a its actually a function between challenges and skills if you are very skillful in something and as a real challenge in front of you flow is generated like mathematical problems could tackle karnakisme this happens a real challenging situation and you are skilled enough then completely you will dive into it so if you are able to generate flow without even a challenge that is yoga which means this is your normal state of mind where your attention remains on the object does not flip from there whatever you are doing a habit hojai tell me what will stop your success in life so that is why the power of attention is the secret of success be a successful person there is a book called seven habits of highly effective people stephen covey i don't know how many of you have read it you will see any successful person has this capacity for unmoving attention he is absolutely committed he doesn't move from there so unless that state is manufactured generated maintained continuously you will lose this capacity after a few years you see um yog you have to do it within 30 years they say the the higher reaches of yoga because they are only showing you the highest reaches of your own consciousness let me tell you one more thing with age this capacity goes say is umar may if you miss it you have missed it for life are you seeing the seriousness of it only in this age you can do it after this age it it it will ripen if you have manufactured it correctly otherwise it is difficult so practice now is important this is part and parcel of your entire study process better attention better study it's not another thing or a course a credit career i do not have such silly ideas it's part and parcel of studies attention manufacture now next what i'm going to teach you is the actual process of patanjali yoga the states of dharana dhyana and samadhi suna haina is k barime do you want to know in detail about it then only i will do it otherwise i won't do it must know in detail about it a character is at the highest reaches of your own mind and of your attention this is what they are going to tell you and by that esco actually which means on a single object you will know what you are capable of and then you will understand your donkey mind or monkey mind how silly it is to live like that don't distract yourself pay attention yes once you understand this the science of yoga is actually telling you every we are ordinary people in our life at least we must practice in such a way we are able to generate the state which will give us whatever we want in life yogyo s that may not be our intention but the state of mind required for the highest attention for meditation that you must be able to manufacture otherwise you are missing life i am telling you this distracted us state is no life jitna mind distracted hoga utna you are wasting vital energy in the concentrated states of higher awareness you will understand the meaning and beauty of life energy and vital energy all the more alive all the more aware double of life experience you will get isn't it in fact you are trying to do that through the senses but who say naivety very sorry you are trying to increase life by more sense exposure more sense titillation if you double the level of your vital energy you will have a better double the experience of life far more vitality so this is only possible through yoga though how to enhance life not how to run away from life yogurt how to enhance life you enhance your life energy you will become more alive in mind more vitality greater attention bigger chunk of life you will have so this is what this science entirely is about you must remember this whoever has practiced yoga in the right way has found not just concentration and focus but you they have found deeper happiness in life work you how how are they related concentration how does it make me automatically more happy you know awareness and happiness are related there is a equation happiness is an exponential function of your awareness the more aware you are from within more clarity will be in the mind so higher will be your degree of happiness more cluttered the mind lesser the awareness the lesser the happiness is this true yo ke dwara this same state is being enhanced tremendously the state of uncluttered clarified awareness so you see it is not some supernatural state awareness it is available to everyone if they do it correctly and it is available anywhere because it is a universal law of life you do it in america also you should get it you do it in himalaya also you should get it you should do it correctly yet easy so the magic of yoga is it is the science of your consciousness it is showing you the highest reaches of human consciousness explore it like that and don't go into any other kind of occultism regarding yoga only as a science hamlet study karen it is a science i told you vivekanda said it is the rationale of all your practices and worship and all that it is the reason behind whatever you are practicing in fact you know yo ke madhyam say the the amount of research that has gone on what yoga results in finally it is tremendous it's not just about building focus and attention it will give you such an amount of joy happiness and stability in life that you are okay okay how this is happening it is only because your mind has been brought into a very stable state awareness has become dominant thought process has see thought can be of various kinds isn't it if thought recedes your awareness is dominant and perpetual you are assured of happiness then whether there is anger hatred worry whatever cause for whatever you will remain in a very balanced state so this is the beauty of yoga when it is practiced and how it is related to happiness i told you the more the awareness in your system the greater the happiness this is not synthetic joy synthetic joy you know you need this object to be happy that person to be happy that is synthetic joy this yoga is original joy awareness pure joy your discretion your discrimination will be only very limited between two small lines pleasure and non-pleasure that's all such a small idea of happiness you will have there is a huge range of happiness available to you ladder of happiness it is also iit talk ladder of happiness n r c v channel p so it will tell you there is a range of happiness available to you only if your awareness comes to the forefront if you lead a stupid donkey life then your only joy will be coca cola milani ice cream milani tv milani addictions this will be your only level of joy you become addicted only when you don't have real joy in life then you fall for pleasure you know that true see everything i am telling you is true when you do not have real joy in life you will fall for pleasure and addictions so you know that's the message of bhagavad-gita you lift yourself by yourself from all these states in order to get the real taste of life where you are not dependent on people and objects to keep you happy isn't it a wonderful thing h.i.a sukhi rakhine khali it's a wonderful thing to say i am happy by myself so this is only possible if awareness comes to the forefront thought recedes and attention is built to this level so that is why i am telling you everything in your life is related to yoga if that is missing yoga is missing life is missing life is missing just gathering a hundred thoughts and concepts and connections is not enough that is not called learning that is written that is important for survival to earn money to work in this world very important but for your happiness your balance your stability you require this knowledge self-knowledge so that is why now we will plunge into the heart of this what is called samyama in yoga which is actually understanding the states of dharana dhyan and samadhi but you know pre-condition is very huge for this so in classical fundamental disciplines for a good life so i will go into this a little more when we actually i wanted to do this in your guided meditation class that you get a a good conception of this this entire thing yum indian lake patani i really don't know because we are we are short of time just now so i will just give you some some basic ideas about this these disciplines and then we will go into the main thing so you see they are social observances or ethic ethical disciplines actually patanjali has classified them under ahimsa is non-violence a non-violent attitude of mind is important this level of attention manufactured no use building attention better you remain distracted so that you won't cause so much havoc at least so ahimsa should be a fundamental trait for the yogi fir satya truthful see if you are not truthful in speech in thought you will not reach the truth it is so simple mind or reach if that mind is giving out false output how will it touch the truth so satya very important discipline the third discipline is brahmacharya see don't get frightened by this the whole point is vital energy level that is brahmacharya which means you keep your vitality in your hands you don't give it in the hands of other people so a certain amount of purity in life this is the actually the essence of social disciplines you know social observances that there is self-control in the person fir astaya which is a non-stealing non-covetousness non-stealing not asking for others positions no greed basically and then a parigraha which is non expectation of gifts from others it compromises your energy you know vitality so these are some of the observances of yama then it is nium niyama means showcha which is purity again of body and mind then santosha these are all personal observances please see santosha is contentment of mind then you have tapas austerity as a spirit of your karnak you must be very willful about it a feeling of inner contentment is required for the practice of yoga which means you must study scriptures a bit good some of you are doing it what will happen is your mind will be raised to a particular level by doing that so swadhya is important and ishwar pranidharan which means you take refuge in god you believe in a supreme power which will help you in this path so all these are helpful these are fundamental practices for before you start all this samyama you know so eh is a it they should be inbuilt in us this is the fundamental requirement asan asan means the ability to sit manipulated if you are prepared come for the course and you must be able to sit still up still live at rio you must be develop the capacity of remaining still you know why initially that will still your mind also if you practice stillness of body stillness of mind will come naturally if the body itself is very restless mind will become restless so asana is that comfortable position where you can maintain stillness for long periods of time s is quietness is awareness you will become naturally conscious you know anywhere we sit if you sit absolutely still but fully conscious still come with love fully still and fully conscious if you sit you will reach these states naturally then pranayama pranayama when we have the guided meditation i will teach you the simplest form of two pranayamas one is for yoga practice one is for your general health physical and mental health anulam villain i will teach you and brahmari pranayama i will teach you and then you we have the practice of pratyahar which means you withdraw your mind from other things in order to concentrate on one thing today practice cause see just now here in this room if you are thinking of class so stopping this withdrawing your mind from other things and concentrating bringing it to concentrate on one object so this pratyahar till here it should be a practice for you to enter into dharana and then dhyan and then samadhi this should be part and parcel of life philosophy is part of life then easily you can attend to this level of attention and concentration so after this only begins the three states of dharana dhyan and samadhi these are very powerful states not to speak of samadhi and all that sir objective you will generate tremendous power in your system just dharana and if you come to dhyan if it actually you are getting absorbed in the object in a deep way and you have become fully aware that's a tremendous state to attain or samadhi though it is complete absorption in the object so these are all spectacular states of very deepened awareness and absolute attention even a bit of this will give you tremendous power in your personality it will give you the focus you require for success it will make you a real man otherwise distracting and running after this and running after that even practice will make you something you know you will stand apart from the crowd it is through yoga that most people have realized vedant you must understand this is about the nature of your being the self it is possible through this yoga mechanism of yoga so that is why this is actually the purpose of yoga is that transcendental knowledge the knowledge of the self but it puts out so many positive effects in our life that you can use them in your journey in life so that is why we are studying it so before i enter samyama i want to tell you that the satisfaction of these few principles ensures your entry into samyama and without this you will falter there many people don't succeed in yoga yoga matlab wasn't [Music] it is only meant to stabilize your body and to heal certain things in your body but the yoga which we are going to talk about the raj yoga the principles of mind management and attention this is the real yog these are the higher reaches of yoga where your awareness itself is being brought into complete fruition into complete manifestation so esco honey lia for this to happen in the system you must be established in this a precondition i cannot proceed without that easily at least when you are taking this course be very concentrated about these things and actually when we do the practical you will practice some of these things egg cheese hair you must always remember those who take up this path they are taking it up with very clear discretion or discrimination because i want something of this knowledge because it is science of my own life if i know what is happening on jupiter and saturn and what is a voyager doing but i do not know what is happening in my own system what is the point so learn to manage your system first apnea may stabilize then you go on your exploratory road the infinite ocean of knowledge will be open before you because you will not have silly distractions and your vitality will be beaming a present vital energy will get doubled so how will be your experience of life enthusiasm in all your excitement of life if that gets doubled that will be that is what yoga does your vitality just mounts so easily but yeah preconditions you should remember ah nato serve theory if if you don't follow some of these moral disciplines and if you don't understand the value of pratyahar and all this a theory it will not happen in the system so take care of this and i will go i will proceed to the next slide oh time is up already time is already up i just take two minutes decay yaha is slide maybe i'll come to this slide again tomorrow so don't worry dharana dhyan and samadhi have been put into one slide just for you to comparatively study the three states and i am using a particular paradigm i meditating on an object say the object is ohm this we will be studying we will take it up tomorrow don't worry i will come back to the same slide and show you many more slides so that you get a thorough knowledge of yog we'll stop here because time is up you

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Published: Sat Aug 27 2022