Master Your Senses | Patanjali Yoga Sutras 106 | Nithyananda Satsang | 30 Jan 2011

In this morning's discourse, Avatar and Enlightened Master Paramahamsa Nithyananda explained this sutra from Patanjali Yoga Sutras on Ashtanga Yoga that your senses are the door through which you experience not only the world but even your identity.
Through this translation, Paramahamsa Nithyananda gave the intention of Patanjali, what Patanjali intended to express through this sutra, "I want all of you to understand this-whatever you think as you, not only in the outer world, even what you think as you in the inner world; even that, you experience only through the senses. For example, Rajasic food, junk food consumed because you are restlessness, if you have mastered your tongue, you will reduce the quantity of the food and increase the quality of your food.
If you have mastered even one sense, your very understanding of yourself will change. This is the sacred secret of this sutra. When you master one sense, your own understanding about your own identity changes. Parama, when the ultimate opens up in you, when the inner light opens in you, when the Kundalini is awakened in you, all the senses just relax themselves into the sweetness of Parama. Vashyata doesn't mean you going and mastering, it means relaxing and surrendering.
Paramahamsa Nithyananda didn't follow the traditional interpretation of the sutra as "mastery of the senses". "The word mastery has an underlying violence and arrogance. I will use the word, sweet dissolving. The senses are to dissolve sweetly into your inner space. It's not like you'll control your senses, with difficulty, will, etc. It's not that you'll fight with your senses, if you don't want to remember the monkey, you will remember only the money. Suddenly by the simple flow of your mind allows it to dissolve into the sweetness."
Continuously unclutch, try to master even one or two senses, the idea you carry about your will, will change, the identity will change. Mastery of the senses has got nothing to do with the outer world, it has to do with the inner world. Suddenly you will realize you were always enlightened. Somehow by mistake, you have taken the wrong identity. The vashyata indriyanam-the senses dissolving into the sweetness will happen in you. All you need to do is intense unclutching.
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