Harmony of Four Yogas Swami Nikhileswarananda Harmony of Four Yogas by Swami Nikhileswarananda Published by Ahmedabad Management Association Core-AMA Management House • Torrent-AMA Management Centre ATIRA Campus, Dr. Vikram Sarabhai Marg Ahmedabad 380 015, INDIA Phone: +91 79 2630 8601 • Fax: +91 79 2630 8606 Email: [email protected] • Website: www.amaindia.org Printed by Shree Ambica Traders, Rakhial, Ahmedabad 380 023 2 Foreword 3 Contents Day One 1 Day Two 22 Day Three 43 Day Four 67 4 Day One ú ¥„¼¢ï }¢¢ „e}¢² J ¼}¢„¢ï }¢¢ Á²¢ïç¼x¢ü}¢² J }¢ëy²¢ï}¢¢ò ¥}¢ë¼æ x¢}¢² JJ ú ࢢ狼: ࢢ狼: ࢢ狼: JJ Dignitaries present here, dear friends. I am extremely happy to meet you all this evening. It is always a pleasure to talk to the enlightened audience of AMA. As you have heard the subject for the four day lecture series, is Harmony of four Yogas – for bliss and peace. The modern man is in search of peace. Just now as you heard that most of the people are in tention, irrespective of age, caste, creed, color, nationality, whether India or abroad, whether developing country or developed countries, whether the parents or students, all are under stress and tension and all are in search of peace of mind. This is the very marked phenomenon and the rate of suicides is increasing at an alarming rate all over the world. So many books are getting published, and they are becoming best sellers. Derek Humphrey has written a book, The Final Exit. It is not available on the book shop. With great difficulty I got a copy from a Book Fair and wanted to see what is written there. Do you know what is written there? How to Commit Suicide and the book is selling like a hot cake. The best seller book of Japan is The Complete Manual on Committing Suicide – 3.5 lakhs copies sold in one year. Some people committed suicide while taking the book in their hand and dying in the manner in which it was told in the book! France’s best seller book is Suicide Users’ Manual. They all want to commit suicide and the rate of suicide is much more in the developing countries - which annuals as - our equation as ‘h’ is directly proportional to where ‘m’ where h = happiness, and m = money - rather wherever per capita income is more the rate of suicide is more. The rate of suicide among Schizophrenia patients is more. According to the National Institute of Mental Health, on an average at least one person from every family regularly goes to a psychiatrist, 25 per cent of the people in America are going regularly to psychiatrist. Lot of different types of mental diseases is coming out. We have never heard the names of those diseases. Those diseases are coming up in America and other developed countries and they are gradually in filtering. Affluence has come, Lugen Norosis, drug addiction, violence are spreading like wild fire. Special conferences on stress management are coming up, special courses on happiness is coming up. Now America has discovered a new thing, - that is so far we have been talking about GNP – but now they are talking about GNH. This means gross national happiness. Gross National Happiness survey, which they have taken it from Bhutan that development index, does not depend upon GNP, but GNH. So now Brazil has taken the lesson and they have started these conferences on happiness and peace and from all over the world they have got experts. And you know there is recession in America and in India it is receding slowly. In America still it persists. But one industry is flourishing wonderfully. That is happiness industry. So many conferences, programmes on happiness and they are all in great demand, because everyone is under stress. So it is a special industry – happiness industry, where it is a 5 Golden Age for those who can give happiness. If you can give instant happiness you will have a very good market. So happiness industry is flourishing. According to the estimates of psychologists and the economists and sociologists, within the next five years, this happiness industry will be the fifth largest industry of the world! Not chemical industry or other industry but happiness industry. So people are badly in search of peace of mind. But all the methods described and prescribed, they do give them happiness; give some relief from the tension. But these are all temporary measures. Even the western model of stress management called Woo do dose, Hectaries, punching backs, etc. these are all not working. That is why now they are going for long term happiness, peace, and they are coming to meditation and yoga all over the world. The Vedantic method of stress management is if you really want to get peace of mind, No. 1 is that we must know what we want in life. Everyone wants happiness and peace. And we think if we get a particular object we will be happy, but after we get the object, we again become dissatisfied. We want some other object. Once we get that object, we again become dissatisfied. This circle goes on and this is quite natural for every human being, why? Because thousands of years ago, our Rishis have declared man cannot be satisfied by finite things. He can never be satisfied. He can be only satisfied by infinite fulfillment and infinite happiness is the happiness and peace that every human being will be searching for. You cannot have it otherwise. ²ã ±²ì |¢ê}¢¢æ ¼¼ì „é¶}¢ì J Ý¢ ¥ËÐï „é¶}¢ì ¥S¼è J |¢ê}¢² ±¢ï S¢é¶}¢ì JJ How can you get real happiness and peace? By reaching the infinite alone you can get infinite happiness. Till you get infinite happiness and peace, you cannot fulfillment and satisfaction and you will be always searching for more and more peace of mind. Infinite alone and why so? Because our very nature is infinite, our nature is bliss. So unless and until we get bliss, we cannot get peace, because our very nature is bliss. You take a fish out of water and it becomes restless to go back to water. This is the proof. Why are we restless? Because we have come out of our nature. Our nature is to remain immersed in “Sat Chit Ananda”. Inside every human being there is a center of cautiousness, that is called Atman , and its very nature is Sat Chit Anand. This is what Vedanta says – our basic nature is Sat Chit Anand. Infinite existence, infinite knowledge, infinite bliss. That is our true nature. Says katoupanishad , inside every human being there is a center of cautiousness, irrespective of caste, creed, colour, religion, nationality, gender, etc…. »¯: S¢±ïü¯é |¢é¼ï¯é x¢é‡¢¢ï ¥¢y}¢¢æ Ýì ÐíÜU¢à¼ï J Îíà²¼ï ¼x¢Ú²¢ì Ϣ銲¢ S¢éÿ¢}¢²¢ S¢éÿ¢}¢ ÎÚçÿ¢|¢è JJ There is a center of cautiousness, Atman, but it is not visible. If it is not visible, then what is the proof, what is the evidence? The modern man wants evidence. So the next line says it ‘Drishyate’. Some people have seen it. Some people have realized it. That is its documentary evidence. Drishyate. Shlokas… but who have seen it…Sholkas.. 6 Those who have got one pointed intelligence not the ordinary intelligence, who have got that fine intellect. The fine intellect is different from the ordinary intellect. Now the modern science has come to a SQ what is ‘Sooshmaya shooshma budhi’, - five years back we could not explain what is meant by the Rishis when they tell ‘Sooshmaya shooshma budhi’ - now we know it. The latest discovery of the modern science is SQ (Name of a person) – has written a book SQ – Spiritual Intelligence – the Ultimate Intelligence – where neurologically, biologically and psychologically, physiologically, from every point of view there is a concluding evidence that there is something called SQ which is a basis of both IQ and EQ. What is IQ? Intelligent quotient, what is EQ? Emotional quotient, Emotional Intelligence what is SQ? Spiritual quotient, Spiritual Intelligence. What is IQ? IQ will tell you how to play the game of life. What is EQ? EQ will tell how to play the game of life under changed circumstances and changed strategies. What is SQ? SQ will tell you whether you can play the life or not. That is your choice. What is the meaning of life, what is the purpose of life? Why are we here on this earth? What is the ultimate aim of our life - this is all SQ. Another discovery of the modern science is IQ is available with all the species including the computers, EQ is available only with a few species, but SQ is available only with the human beings. Whatever ancient scriptures say, out of 84 lakhs of species, only human being can have spiritual knowledge or spiritual realization, or self realization. Now the modern sciences know not 84 lakhs, there are 125 lakhs species. Of course now cloning is done, so it might have multiplied. But not much difference. Without any microscope they could discover 84 lakhs of species. Now the modern science says 125 but they also say out of 125 lakhs, only one that is human beings can have SQ. Nobody else. No other species can have SQ. So this SQ ‘Sooshmaya shooshma darshibhi’ only human beings can have got and that is its proof. Some have seen it. Drishyate. That is the documentary evidence. Narendranath Dutt, a college student in Kolkata wanted to know the truth, realize the truth; he read the books of all western philosophers like Stuart Mill, Kant, Hager, Spenar, and Johns and became an agnostic.