The title of the lecture :
Freedom and happiness. Vadim Zaporozhtsev.
Date: 2011.03.12.
Where: International Open Yoga University
Brief description : the Lecture is devoted to the theme “Freedom and happiness”. The lecture discusses the following topics. Four objectives of human life; Why be afraid of the holidays? How are Happiness and Freedom? Which of these concepts is more fundamental? What is the difference of relative and absolute happiness? What determines our happiness? What is the source of our happiness? Whether you want to pursue happiness?
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Today, March 12, 2011. My name is Vadim Zaporozhtsev. I taught yoga. This is a lecture of the International Open Yoga University. We are in Cultural Center “Enlightenment” in Moscow. All information on the sites www.openyoga.ru, www.yogacenter.ru, www.happyoga.narod.ru. All of our training videos, archival recordings of classes, lectures in our store www.shop.openyoga.ru.
Today we will continue our research in the field of analysis of the concept of Freedom. And how does it relate to yoga. And before we go any further, we ask someone to remind us what we were doing in the previous lecture. Do you wish?
Anna, gr.4: “the last lecture we began to consider the theme “Freedom and happiness”, tried to highlight these two concepts. It was voiced many different opinions. We came to the conclusion that, first, without a dictionary we can not do, second, we require the axiomatic of yoga”.
Vadim Zaporozhtsev: “Good. But before going further, let’s click on the crank button, and someone will praise myself”.
Catherine, gr.4: “all week I tried to use every second time the matter, I have expanded my freedom, I finally began to work on myself and most importantly, I have found myself doing now what I want to do and get enormous pleasure”.
Vadim Zaporozhtsev: “Here is a balm for wounds. My long experience in yoga shows that, unfortunately, the most painful obstacle in people who have embarked on this path is to find themselves in society in addition to yoga. I understand that this may be a legacy of the Soviet system, where you didn’t to do anything, everything for you has been thought through by the people and the party. Or is it a consequence of our reforms – are beginning to build capitalism, when it is already in the world. We all comes with a delay. Communism according to Marx built, and now capitalism, according to Marx build. The most sore subject when we share, here we have yoga, but life. From eight until five I work in low-paid work where no one respects me. And in the time remaining, I’m spiritual, doing yoga, exercising their inner freedom. During the Soviet system, it was justified. In the days of our beast of capitalism is also justified, not with the same hunger to die. But, friends, this is a temporary factor. Sooner or later everything will fall into place. And here is the question, find something in life or, as it is written in yoga, to realize the four objectives of our existence – Dharma, Artha, Kama and Moksha.
Four objectives of our life
Dharma is means to walk a spiritual path. But after this is Artha – this mastery is when you are so well woven into the society in the world that you are engaged in interesting and favourite business, you work, you like your job and at the same time your work is in demand and, consequently, well paid. Therefore, the concept of Artha is a reliable financial rears. For some reason all forget about it. Next comes the notion of Kama. The word Kama means pleasure. Now more the concept of Kama is associated with the infamous Kama Sutra, a compendium of sexual positions. This is actually the usual Western perversion of the highest moments came from the East. In another sense, you have absolutely natural ability to have fun. The fun does not have to rule you, but so cleverly done balance our body’s inner balance that if you go by the Dharma, if you do the Artha, you have every day naturally, without doping to a certain amount of Kama, pleasure, enjoyment of life. Not only sexual pleasure (although yoga is it has), but the enjoyment of delicious food, from what walked around the beautiful Park. There is nothing wrong, different, when we become slaves to pleasures, if they lead to the side. Finally, the concept of Moksha is the ultimate goal. That is, you go the path of Dharma, you succeed in life, you enjoy life and at the end of your life you reach a higher state of spirituality that go beyond this world and attain the highest state in yoga – Samadhi. So you see that yoga is very life-affirming, she says – enjoy your life, make this life anything you want and can do, but do it so skillfully that at the end of life, you made a spiritual breakthrough. So when one of you gets a job when he is needed by society, when it’s not a parasite and not a thief, but when he works and he gets the freedom, and the products of its activities reveal the freedom of others. For example, I always a lot of fun it becomes, because this is the point of yoga and not all these perverse doctrines that urge to do nothing, to sit on the neck of the people, not have to work etc. No, of course, there are episodes in life when you have to stand alone. There are episodes in life when you need a bowl for alms to go and ask for alms, it is also sometimes it is useful. But at the time, and it should be appropriate.
Now we again click on the crank button, and the next person will smile to us in a yogic pose.
Remember that yoga does not recommend violence against them. When we do this or this, we need to experience joy, the joy of feeling, or the joy of overcoming themselves, but not violence. Violence is not effective, says yoga. For it you have to pay. Violence frustrating when you are raped, and then when you revenge your body that you raped him. Therefore, the issue of yoga – it is a matter of joy. Indirectly, you can check whether you have joy or not while performing yoga, if you can naturally smile in the most difficult position, not forcing ourselves to smile again not for the external viewer and to myself.
Allen, gr.4: “As I recall, the last lecture, we have not concluded, and we were asked as homework to look at the ligament of freedom and happiness”.
Vadim Zaporozhtsev: “I remind you that we have after the last lesson was the holidays. Friends, the holidays are the adversary of your negative karma. It is noticed that the students leave yoga after a long holidays, vacations. All different, all leave for different reasons, everyone has their own problems, but the statistics says this is only the outer shell. And the internal factor is completely different – at first glance, the rest, the downside of vacation is doing nothing. And when you’re in a state of idleness, you fall into a sleepy stupor, turned into jelly, and all sorts of thoughts stupid climb, and you don’t resist, you’re supposed to rest. And karma-that one negative canceled, and here begins, one stupid idea, then another, and now the head compote. And he himself doesn’t know who he is, what he is, where is, who are these people around. And all this is superimposed on the negative karma, and sometimes leisure, holidays are the worst test. Therefore, I urge you, forget weekends, forget holidays, forget holidays, forget vacations, moments of truth. All the negative that you were arguing it is in these moments and it is clear that the same can be transferred for training. Despite the fact that it was homework, but it is clear, holidays recaptured you have any desire to do it”.
Paul, gr.3: “In our last class, I put a sign of equality between freedom and happiness. Now I’ll tell you why. In fact you should always ask why. Now I’ll paint it. We had freedom, she will be the Foundation. As soon as there is freedom, what do we do? Are we unfortunately will strive not. We will strive to happiness, to positive feelings.
Vadim Zaporozhtsev: “Why of course, I can’t understand? I’m free, and maybe I’m just naturally flock to unhappiness. I have no preset knowledge, I never knew what happiness is, I have not tried it, but I know that it is a misfortune. I know, this I know, and I pick a new disaster or a new kind of suffering.”
Paul, gr.3: “Yes, it does. That is, we begin to try, and we have the experience, knowledge. And we see when everything is bad. And after that aspire to happiness, to when we feel fine.”
Catherine, gr.4: “last session we came to the conclusion that happiness is the absolute and the imaginary”.
Vadim Zaporozhtsev: “I will correct, we haven’t talked about imaginary happiness, but rather happiness, which then don’t need to pay misery and happiness, for which it is necessary then to pay in unhappiness.”
Catherine, gr.4: “That is happiness associated with the fulfillment of desires and happiness, independent from desires. That is, when we approach the absolute, and get rid of ignorance, in this case, happiness for us sveklovichnogo. And while we are in a state of ignorance, here I want to define happiness, I believe. Happiness is the fulfillment of right desires that lead us to greater freedom. And while we are in the dark, happiness and freedom are interconnected. And then I came up with the following idea. While we are in ignorance, the more we have freedom and knowledge, the more opportunities to make dreams come true. By desire, we become happier and freer, provided that the chosen desire to correct. Thus, with the right desire, we approach the absolute, and, consequently, to a state of absolute happiness. Here, we understand sverdlovini the definition of happiness”.
Vadim Zaporozhtsev: “Quite perfectly. Bravo! Who else wants to speak? Friends, do not hesitate. We must rediscover all the laws of the Universe. Just imagine, all the manuscripts were burned. The Indians all went to the call centers to work, to earn money, software, writing, yoga are all gone. Old yoga teacher has not found the disciples, deep in Samadhi. All yoga is lost. We are savages on a desert island. Yoga was once, now its gone. What we have to do? To reinvent – the sooner we will start to do it, the better.”
Anastasia, gr.3: “From the axioms we know that from the Union of consciousness and energy is obtained Prana. In yoga Triad to say the same thing, but in other words, from the Union of Shiva and Shakti (male and female) is born, pleasure, happiness. It is possible to draw a parallel between Happiness and Prana, you can even say that it is very close to identical things. And we know that Prana is the first manifestation of our self in Maya. And Freedom is the condition of our I am out of Maya. Accordingly, the conjunction of freedom and Maya following. Using their freedom, our I appears in Maya’s happiness.”
Vadim Zaporozhtsev: “Bravo, friends. Bravo! I have a dream, to the axiomatic of yoga read women. I am personally happy that the correct conclusion was made here. Two big differences between the concepts of Freedom and Happiness. The concept of Freedom – a more ancient concept, a more fundamental concept than the concept of Happiness. About Nastya said, Paul, too, we were brought to this”.
Allen, gr.4: “I agree with Anastasia. Happiness is a manifestation of Freedom. Freedom is sverdlovini concept, but happiness is something that we can feel. As a conclusion, why happiness is something for which you need to pay and which not to pay. Because if the person does not see the happiness that this Sverdlovenergo beam from our higher self, he clings to any symptoms, so when they leave these symptoms, a person nothing left. But if he sees this true source, he doesn’t lose this feeling, it always remains with him, and accumulates and dissipates the dark.”
Vadim Zaporozhtsev: “Wonderful, Bravo! You see, I Wake up after a weekend after the holidays. A sleepy stupor leaves, life returns”.
Svetlana, a passive participant: “I will give you a simple definition. I think happiness is when you have everything that you want, and you remain free from material things, from the results of his work, from his emotions, from the dialogue of the mind, from your ego”.
Vadim Zaporozhtsev: “what about the saying – “Female happiness – there would be darling nearby”? Well, this is a provocative question.”
Gregory, passive participant: “I would like to give a definition of happiness. Happiness is a subjective sensation that occurs when you satisfy the very strong desire, that is, the stronger the desire, the more happiness when you reach that desire.”
Vadim: “what about the expression “quiet happiness”?
Gregory, passive participant: “it Means peaceful happiness, the desire, and happiness.”
Vadim: “So this is not a complete definition.”
Gregory, passive participant: “Happiness is an indicator of the availability of achievement, a willingness and the existence of freedom. That is, happiness is a three-part thing that occurs is subject to availability, willingness and availability of freedom. When all three are working, then there is happiness. For example, we have a desire, but no opportunity.
Vadim: “My father wanted to buy a house, but could not, my father could buy a goat, but didn’t. So let us drink to our desires coincide with our possibilities. Gregory, quite a controversial definition”.
Olga, gr.4: “I would like to add to what I said Nastya. Happiness is the natural state of our higher self, manifested in Maya. It is Prana, it has the three faces of Sat Chit and Ananda. Cat is a manifestation of energy. Cheat is a manifestation of Consciousness. And Anand is a consistent harmony between them. That is, linking consciousness and energy, we experience happiness. Experiencing happiness, we are expanding our freedom.”
Siora, gr.4: “I can say that happiness for me is doing. To clarify, in my understanding, happiness is a key in the bundle, and the keys a lot. And if we consider what happiness is in relation to our world, I think it’s kind of a seamy side, in the plane of logic is very hard to explain, it is inexpressible. In the last segment you talked about the fact that we have I, there is ignorance, and so our I believes himself his manifestations. If in respect of that axiomatic expression to go in the opposite direction, we do as we can, but we don’t ignore what we say. We accept happiness is not the result but the road that leads to happiness. And as a result we are for all transient feel something permanent, something sveklovichnogo, which brings us closer to understanding freedom.”
Vadim Zaporozhtsev: “Good. There are more practical algorithms for the approximation to happiness. That is, if all that comes to us from the outside and causes happiness is, indeed, as the keys themselves do nothing. They simply open the safe, where lies the happiness. And safe we are, and the source of our happiness – our higher self that is outside the normal world. Here is a very good method, that is one of the methods, feeling a transient happiness, to choose from it the component which this prehodyaschest independent, and try to concentrate on it. This is such a powerful yoga like Karma yoga, the yoga of Visualization”.
Elena, gr.4: “I Have two comments. The first is a quote from the book Rami Blekt “10 steps to happiness” that happiness is in the modes of tamos is the first nectar and then poison, and happiness in the modes of sattva, it first the poison, then nectar”.
Vadim Zaporozhtsev: “In fact, a dubious assertion in the second part. In the first part, Yes, in the modes of tamos, indeed, first a glass of vodka, and then a headache the next day. But in the modes of sattva, there is little we can say we are trying to approach the plane outside of cause and effect, there is simply no this mechanism – money in the morning, evening chairs, evening the money, the chairs in the morning. So let’s leave this statement on conscience of the author”.
Elena, gr.4: “There was meant that you need to work hard to achieve happiness”.
Vadim Zaporozhtsev: “But it is rather by the modes of rajas, without difficulty not catch fish from the pond. Good.”
Elena, gr.4: “Etymologically, one of the origins of the word happiness – the feeling of being a part of something, that is, happiness as complicity. Perhaps it is the feeling part of the Universe, part of the absolute, when there’s this insurmountable boundary”.
Vadim Zaporozhtsev: “how, then, happiness is a witness, not only partner, but also a witness. That is, not in terms of energy to participate, and, for example, in the yoga of Love when the very idea that the object of love simply exists that such a being is in the Universe itself leads us in an extreme state of happiness. But I’m not going to torture, I’m a provocateur. Because you have to learn to think for themselves. You never know who you said, you never know what I’m saying here. You have to reinvent yourself. Yes, of course, it will take time, but we must learn now.”
Andrew, gr.4, part-time student, Sosnovy Bor, Leningrad region: “If the absolute has given us absolute freedom, are we free from your higher self as his face, are we free from its manifestations I?”
Vadim Zaporozhtsev: “Good axiomatic question. Of course, this is not the topic of our lecture. If I start now all that out, we will go into such a jungle, of which we can not deal with the rest of our lectures. I therefore in the first approximation refer to the axiomatic of yoga, the benefit of the group four it yet.
But as a first approximation, the concept of I is just a word. What am I? Can I not be myself? There are suggestions-trap, is when the projection Sverdlovenergo shadow falls on the plane of logic. For example, the expression – I’m a liar. Think about it, this expression does not make sense. If I say I’m a liar, then implied that I was lying, and the expression itself – “I am a liar” is wrong, then I’m telling the truth. In the end, one after the other is turned out, and we stop.
Similarly, in this statement, may I be free from myself? To answer this question, we need to formulate what exactly is my higher self? And, coming to his formulation, we understand that only the wording of the higher self is what we can’t not be. Another conversation, do we recognize ourselves. But again, these are barely noticeable velvety modulations, which we uskolzaet, and we do not understand, about what speech. But the question is really valuable in the future, the group of four will be to take it apart”.
Nastya, gr.3: “I Have two observations about happiness. First, happiness has nothing to do with achievements and desires. I often see that when a person has some kind of strong desire, is committed to him, but reaching him feels somehow empty. Most that I have analyzed, or joy, or satisfaction.”
Vadim Zaporozhtsev: “But even as a lightning flash. At least for a moment yet no other thoughts except one – well, finally. In the next split second, I agree, it might fade”.
Nastya, gr.3: “This is the first and the second one is also a very interesting observation. If a person found your path in life and goes on this way, even independently of desire, achievement, success, he is constantly on some not very explicit, not very noticeable on any background feel happiness. If the person has clearly found his destiny, working on his favorite work, lives in the beloved family around him for some state of happiness poured. And it does not depend on the desires and achievements.”
Vadim Zaporozhtsev: “When we think that something is happiness, and we seek and obtain it, it is happiness flares up quickly and dies instantly. And sometimes, when we are not seeking ostensibly to happiness, and just go by their Dharma or execute the algorithm, we were talking about – doing things you love, popular, healthy, happy and, in the end, dissolve into a rainbow, the very this path, even without the pursuit of happiness sometimes leads us to that happiness arise. Was a good movie, there Leonov was filmed, it was called “33” is about how uncle was in the mouth 33 tooth and it began to explore, he may be some kind of Martian. And in this film he was asked, tell me, what is happiness. And the hero said that happiness is when in the morning I want to work, and in the evening want to go home. In fact, such an indirect phrase expressed the concept of Dharma or way of life. That is when we do what you came to this Universe, even without a goal to achieve some sort of transcendent happiness, strangely enough, are starting to experience. In fact, even the concept of Dharma in one of the free translation means the path that protects against misfortune and a way of giving happiness. That is, it turns out that you just have to do their job, to play fair, to live a full life, to strive for the highest spiritual, and the rest, as the concept of happiness, suddenly the natural background will be coming, even if we don’t, especially to him and wanted.”
Elena, passive participant: “I noticed that when we are in a state of happiness, joy, we completely devoured, and we cannot look at ourselves in this moment. In contrast to some negative emotions, such as anger, sadness, it is possible to look at ourselves, to move away from these emotions, and the impression that it’s some kind of alien emotions. From this I concluded that happiness is our natural state, and everything else is not.”
Vadim Zaporozhtsev: “What I want to say, you already Dakine, if you can angry to look at ourselves, it’s a half-step in order to fly through the air. If you in anger realize that some part of you is angry, and some part is watching as she is angry, i.e., you have not lost to society. What is the danger of anger, anger we are unable to observe oneself from the outside, we just all live in.”
Gregory, passive participant: “Happiness is an indicator of harmony with the outer world and inner world. Smile is indicator of happiness.”
Vadim Zaporozhtsev: “A sarcastic smile?”
Gregory, passive participant: “When we look at natural, normal smile, but a sarcastic smile is not, then we can absolutely confidently say that a person has harmony”.
Vadim Zaporozhtsev: “you Know, Gregory, I’m looking at our politicians, they I did not cause, but a smile, and sometimes such Homeric laughter.”
Gregory, passive participant, “I mean a true smile of bliss, which is an indicator of happiness. And all of this type of Comedy club, that’s another smile.”
Vadim Zaporozhtsev: “If everyone voted, then let’s have the Council, the General Assembly, what we conclude from all these arguments.
First, we came to the conclusion that the concept of Happiness and the concept of Freedom, strictly speaking, different concepts; the concept of Freedom is more fundamental, more profound and more fundamental than the concept of Happiness.
Yes, indeed, the concept of Liberty includes any condition as a state of happiness, and neutral state, in the same way you in a state of freedom can valishvili to be in misery.
Here is the continuation of this theme. In yoga there are fast methods of yoga. It is a complex of practices, techniques, teachings that are not entirely clear to us principles. So, all these quick methods are just begin with the fact that man accepts the Third Principle of yoga. In other words, he is sometimes called the Vow of renunciation of suffering. And also help all other living beings to overcome suffering. The idea is that with this fundamental plane of freedom is actually a state of happiness or state of unhappiness, or the state of the monotony of everyday life – it’s all superficial, and it is all subject more fundamental to the principle of freedom.
Was this literary character of the 19th century, his name was Kozma Bars. Kozma Prutkov was a famous set of aphorisms, if you find a book of aphorisms – a review. So, for example, his aphorism: “when you throw a stone into the water, watching the circles formed by the add-on, because otherwise this activity will be empty fun.”
Quite intricate his aphorisms, but one of them is very simple and not elaborate: “I Want to be happy – be happy!” And in fact – this is the Third principle of yoga.
From a position of freedom you can build whatever its manifestation, or rather, its manifestations you can get form your Universe, your inner world, your outer world, whatever. The concept of freedom more fundamental. And if ever you want to build a world without the concept of unhappiness, but with the concept of happiness, you can easily build. More precisely is not easy and not simple, and sometimes long and painful, in the sense that to abandon their delusions is always painful. Principle of the ban, such a fundamental law of nature that says: “No, this can not be in principle!” – it is not. The concept of “freedom” too fantastic.
You now live each in his own world, all of you came to this lecture, all of you today that I awoke, something to do all day, I hope useful, before it was a week of holidays too, I hope the time was not wasted. You have some world. Your world. And statistics show that your world he is not always in pink tones are painted, sometimes there are moments and misfortunes, and suffering. And sooner or later, every person asks: “And why is IT in my life? Why not I became rich, happy, the only Scion of an oligarch?” Each has its own claim to life. It turns out a very interesting thing – all that you have, you have done yourself. You have the potential for freedom that allows to reshape your inner world, your outer universe as you want. And the fact that in Your life there is something grim and dark that you don’t like it, in fact, an echo of your previous aspirations. Or you voleizyavleniya the existence of such laws that, as a consequence, and bring unhappiness to you. For example: “Myself-then I certainly do not want unhappiness, but I want my enemy was worse and more painful”. But how would you establish laws in common with your enemy of the Universe.
The fact that you have in the universe is the enemy, says that you have the point of intersection of your inner universe and the inner universe of your enemy. Because, if there were no intersections, you about it wouldn’t have even known. But if you wish him misery, you set the rules in their internal universe, here’s a plan that, in principle, possible unhappiness, even for the abstract enemy.
Setting some kind of law, it starts as a sharp sword mutually, to act at once in all directions – both for you and for your enemy. What you wish your enemy, you will sooner or later feel on their skin. Maybe not in this life maybe after. And so was formed the world in which you now live. You like it – you are free to continue it as long as you want. You are free. No uncle who would say: “Everything, will suffice it to suffer.” Nobody in your freedom does not. None of you will not solve. The universe is waiting for you to realize the principle of Kozma prutkov. This is the first step on the path to realize their freedom. Yes, I have used your freedom before it somehow ignorantly, irrationally, and as a result are now living in the world that I don’t like. But I’m just as free to make it different. I’m free. The concept of freedom is very large.
Now in terms of a more detailed axiomatic. I really liked that you attract the heavy artillery axiomatic in addressing such issues. Because it is axiomatic like mathematics in science. You can speak bezsvyazanny, for example, about the flight of the rocket:
– Well, it’s so big…Urggg…Zhzhzhzh…and there it Boo…you know, right?!!
-And where is LJ? As a jig? Where is Buch?
– Well, it is. Far fell.
– How far is it? How much?
You know, like primitive tribes: “One, two, many”. It turns out the conversation about anything. This is a conversation that can be interpreted and so to turn and remove the commercials, and everyone will understand in their own way. Axiomatic dramatically narrows the possibility of error, misinterpretation. And so, of course, well, when we into consideration the most common situations this yoga mathematics – axioms imposed. Less likely to make a mistake.
Let us analyze the concept of “freedom” and “happiness” from the Yoga sutras of Patanjali. There was a man of ancient Patanjali. It is known that he wrote the treatise. More precisely, we do not know much he wrote treatises. Just one reached us and enjoys a great respect, called it “the Yoga sutras of Patanjali”. A very concise treatise, just a few pages he takes up, is unclear. If you are in the subject, absolutely do not understand what this treatise. In particular, there is a very interesting position – achieving the highest stage in yoga or the last stage in yoga. Patanjali break down yoga into eight stages and the last stage of the eighth he was called Samadhi. This is what leads everything. All previous stages, including the physical exercises of Hatha yoga, breathing exercises, etc., And to explain how this is achieved the state of Samadhi, in other words the Highest state of Freedom; you can safely put an equal sign between the concept of “Samadhi” and the concept of “Freedom”. He is given a strange expression: “It occurs when the disconnected Self and Sattva”. Under the Self means the Higher self, Atma, in other words. Or what we are.
Here today was a question: “can we take the freedom to valishvili not be yourself?” Very difficult to consider the issue. And now in your own words: we have our own Higher self is actually we are ourselves and in this Universe we appear with what is called Prana, what to remember, what is Prana, she penetrates everywhere. Now, we of the highest transcendent heights of our Higher I throw some thread of manifestations, which penetrates our world, our material universe and starts here as something to do. And in fact the man – he arms, legs waving – in fact, it is the action that threads of Prana that animates the body. The body actually from the dust came, into dust and leave, but something makes it live, some flow of energy, I eat well – better arms, legs jerk, ate bad – I can’t. But there are more subtle threads that run these coarse threads. Prana is the subtlest thread, it can not in any way neither to fix nor to measure – she is too thin.
It turns out that when the Prana is manifested in our world, when the higher self in a state of liberty is manifested in our world due to, the material world, we experience the state of Ananda, happiness, happiness of being. It does not depend on anything. It is a natural manifestation of the fact that the thread of Prana entered. All. That’s enough to be happy. Enough of your own Prana in order to be happy. But it’s just the level of Prana, the manifestation of the level of our bodies, of our bodies. And our higher self, the source of this Prana in the state of freedom is higher than the concept of Prana and, accordingly, the concept of happiness. Our I is higher than the concept of happiness. But at least as would be intuitively to imagine what it is there is a condition can be extrapolated, just imagine that you’re a lucky man, and now my happiness multiply by a thousand, then another thousand, and so hypothetically in the mind of such a multiplier multiplies, multiplies, multiplies. And how many would not have multiplied you, the ultimate state of freedom of our higher self is immeasurably superior to all that. So it turns out that on the one hand, a thread of happiness we can use to reach their Higher self in a state of freedom, but it is only in one case if we understand where the source of happiness.
And here we will find a series of obstacles. First of all, we consider ourselves a body. Body well, I feel good. The wild dog ate happy, eyes glowing, happy, tail wagging; not eaten, there is no happiness. We have already more or less well-fed – we are just not getting through, not enough for us to go to a restaurant and eat, we can in the restaurant to mourn over their own destiny and to experience unhappiness, give us something more subtle: “if my work will increase; but if I Nobel prize…” there is “if.”
Here the opinion was expressed that it is not a panacea. Usually, there is a desire of the word “if”, then a long hard path to its implementation, then the implementation of this desire, then a moment of some kind in mind that this pig thoughtlessness surprise that here it is all finished. Yes, a fraction of a second we experience something similar to this happiness, but then after that we get used to it, we have something else you want. For any one you want, begin the implementation on the horizon loom other desires and other implementation. It turns out that we begin to leave, we begin to grasp at illusory milestone. Each of these milestones, it’s like a key opens a little happiness, inherent in us, but it is quickly spent – opened, used – everything was gone. Again, it is necessary for a new key to run. And people foolishly begins to identify his happiness with the keys by which this happiness inside can be extracted. For this reason, there is drug abuse, alcoholism, all bad habits. We consider ourselves not what are we don’t know your device.
Through yoga, you will sooner or later and will overcome and will reach spartanii level where you can be in a state of manifestation of Prana in its untouched form. Just a state of pure happiness unaffected. This happens only when the person is in the modes of Sattva. When it is in his own manifested form of Prana, and the Prana Satchidananda. We experience a rush of consciousness, rush of energy, a surge of Ananda, of joy, of happiness that everything it as it should be. This is a very high status, friends, is extremely high in yoga, to which we are to go on and on. But this is not the last step in yoga. The last step is when you recognize that there is a difference between being in this state of Sattva, i.e., when you are in a state of complete happiness, that we with you can not even understand, but still realize that this state of happiness, about which we average people can not even think, lower compared to the next step. This next step is freedom.
To do this last step, the leap from a state of happiness to a state of liberty this is precisely the ultimate goal of yoga. As a condition of gaining unconditional state of happiness is only an intermediate step. Should we pursue happiness? Yes, you do! If we properly aspire to that state, and so we are waiting for. But if we are wrong to strive for that state of happiness, we will only be deleted moreover, we will only harness the running in a circle, when fulfilling one desire, another arises, then another and another, more and more, but there is no happiness.
Here is a fine moment to build a chain of finding their happiness. I mean, how to live so that you become happier and happier, but only that for every SIP of happiness then came a reckoning. In fact it is yoga. Yoga is the approach to freedom, seriously considered building a system of carrots and sticks, incentives in finding happiness. Competently build a system of incentives to achieve, may even be a relative of your happiness, will go on the path of Dharma and sooner or later, if everything will be fine, will reach a state of freedom. Wrong build – will be a frenzy to fight for every next portion of happiness, and when it will understand that something escapes you that something else is not enough. And moreover, will become slaves to their desires, slaves of the desire for incorrectly informed understanding of achieving happiness, and freedom you get. Questions?”
Julia, gr.3: “I want to discuss the very phrase – “we need to pursue happiness”, but I think that we are intuitive by default seeking for happiness, but how we do it, because everyone has their own concept of happiness can be. Hitler also probably had their own concept of happiness if it’s with all the prana launched such horrific events, perhaps he, too, in your ignorant understanding sought fortunately. I think we should seek the Dharma, the cessation of this ignorance to come to an adequate true happiness, and not to what may seem imaginary happiness.”
Vadim Zaporozhtsev: “Great. Who else wants to add?”
Larissa, gr.4: “Now there was a phrase that happiness has no plural, but the concept of “misfortune” is plural. What it can be connected in your opinion? There is an expression: “fell so many misfortunes”.
Vadim Zaporozhtsev: “You provoke me now to leave in a thoughtful philosophizing on the subject of, in yoga, everything that is the unity that renounce the duality or multiplicity, seeing something common… Probably the way it is. When we see many for United, we enter into confusion and begin to wander in the wrong direction in which to go.
This is a good topic of Mantra-yoga, we had a seminar on Vedas. Vedas literally Packed with such conceptual points. Why the Vedic language, all breathy studying, considering this is the greatest spiritual practice. Because the linguistic analysis of words, their origin, their relationship, everything in its place to become. Fortunately, Russian language is very close to the Indo-European language group, very close to the proto, Braskem, Nostratic and is a lot of overlap with the ancient Vedic language and as a consequence with the Sanskrit. So who are we to interfere with you to analyze the origin of words such as “happiness” or “unhappiness”.
It is very interesting to analyse when certain words are endowed with male, female or average from. Unfortunately, our friends the British, with their modern form of language, deprived of this happiness, as you know. They are there just a few words that, a priori, have pronounced the floor. In the Russian language is pronounced coloring, color energy, color of consciousness – he or she or it. Similarly, the uniqueness or multiplicity. But in the English concept of “happiness” too, probably, does not stack, not multiple, abstract. While all the thinking, let us remind anyone yoga decision algorithm”.
Mary, gr.4: “Initially, we recall that we are free, then we remember the debt, then we remember the First Principle of yoga, then we recall the Second Principle of yoga, then again we are remembering that we are free. Further, if we are unable to come to any decision, we bring to the discussion with the people, if we again are unable to make a decision, then we ask some competent person in this matter.”
Vadim Zaporozhtsev: “All a bit messy and inconsistent. Who in one breath will say?”
Elena, passive participant: “First, we remember that we are free, then we remember that we have a duty, then we check according to the First Principle, the Second Principle of yoga and on the Third if we did, then we ask the opinion from some competent source, the Teacher, if we have the chance or just have a competent source in this area, then we ask the opinion of a large number of people, and again remember that we are free”.
Vadim Zaporozhtsev: “And how do we do that?”
Elena, passive participant: “As you wish. How to decide”.
Vadim Zaporozhtsev: “And now let yourself someone praise”.
Segrey, gr.3: “I’m done! Recently, I started to understand the structure of creating and editing websites.”
Elena, gr.4: “the Question is not on topic, but who has long tormented. You always pay attention to the fact that we at the University are not Teachers, and teachers. In this regard, I would like to ask, did you have a Teacher or teachers?”
Vadim Zaporozhtsev: “I have only one was not. Teachers and professors, and the instructors were. You have to understand that the concept of “Teacher” is very high and it is very personal. The one who my Teacher with a capital letter, one for the right neighbor and the left neighbor can be absolutely a Teacher and a mediocre teacher, or, as evil tongues say, the yoga instructor. Remember, the film was: “You are not outstanding, but just famous…”.
Of course, friends, Teachers are very hard to find, the Teacher is like a mirror of your self, if someone behind you has helped you to better understand yourself. And if this establishes a link, then Yes, it’s the Teacher. A criterion that about him thousands of fans, or is it in Indian clothes goes, it may or may not be proof for others, this is a very intimate side of any yoga practice.
As for us in the Open Yoga University, you realize that even if there was a Teacher on the Teacher and the Teacher drove, so brazenly, calling to announce that we’re navels of the earth, it at least will scare away sane, even if it was. And since we don’t have that, we humble teachers, each has its own drawbacks. You know, when Karl Marx was asked, he replied: “Nothing human is alien to me”. Here is all the teacher we have nothing human is alien.
And threaten for more, this first will not match reality, and secondly, immodest, and thirdly, anti PR. Well, what normal sane people. Remember, as Ostap Bender was on the poster: “Came the priest. A favorite of Rabindranath Tagore…” For some of the audience is going to cheer. I see these grandmothers who run, buying some electronic miracle healer, pills. This whole business rests a large, sustainable. But it was the poor people, well, on the wretched laugh.
Gregory, passive participant: “you mentioned Satchidananda, this is joy, Ananda, it is almost happiness, it indirectly turns out in our nature. But since we through ignorance may not realize it, we are in pursuit of goals. And objectives are carried out once a year or every ten years, it turns out, when we achieve, we short-term are in a state of happiness, three seconds, and then fall into a state of unhappiness and then five or ten years in a chronic state of unhappiness. So, to solve this problem you just have to constantly realize that happiness is inherent in our nature.”
Vadim Zaporozhtsev: “I’m sorry, you reminded me not a very good joke when one young man says that he loves a new year more than sex – it often happens.
Come, friends, do not configure themselves, that we have happiness is rare. Here we have some achievement, and we think that if I achieve that, I will be happy, but who keeps you all is divided into stages at certain milestones.
Suppose, you dream to be a rich man, sitting and thinking about how to get rich. Well, you sit down and write a plan of action: number one is to get a good education. And start to go this way, get an education, put a tick allocated for themselves happiness because you realized that you approached. Whatever it was self-deception.
Unfortunately, there is a flip side, when we start as the Fox and the grapes, we criticize what we cannot achieve, or the reverse situation, when we begin to praise, as in that joke when the little boy came to the Pope and said that he five cents saved, and the Pope asked: “How?”. And the boy said, “I the bus was running, could buy a ticket for five cents, but did not buy, I fled.” Dad gave him a slap and said: “Fool, it was necessary for a taxi run, it would save money.”
So you can go in soveshanii is when our aspirations, thoughts off, as if the consciousness of the energy, our vision, our views, our visualization from some sort of impacts on our senses by means of matter. And here it is normal to break this to some degree and so we reached, and the happiness itself will come, because we know we don’t deceive ourselves, it is true. Then you go to work, to school and you realize, Yes, it is hard, but the day I lived today, put a tick. I might this day in innuendo to be in idle idleness, and I go my way, even a small step, but still in the right direction to me, anything real I did today. And oddly enough, this setting of the living leads to the fact that we begin to perceive, as inner keys work. In the end, Patanjali also broke the goal in yoga Samadhi at least eight steps. Quietly, polegonku, so no, that would be all right. That kind of logic.
Our next reflections will be in the continuation of today’s topic is “Freedom and the Third Principle of yoga”, and to come to the third Principle, we are going to talk about Freedom, the First Principle and Second Principle of yoga. Friends, everybody.