Patanjali Yoga Sutra - 49

Something different from all we know
Shruta Anumana Pragnyabhyam Anavishaya Vishesharthathvat
This knowledge that is rooted in the truth of consciousness is distinctly different from all that we know through hearing and other sense organs or by inference. What is the true self that we are? Anything that we see is not our self. Anything that we hear is not our self. Anything that we touch is not our self. Anything that we taste is not our self. Anything that we smell is not our self. Anything that we may know about through inference, is also not our self. Inference is the word Anumana. If there is thick smoke coming somewhere from the depths of a forest, we infer that probably there may be a fire. If a child gives brilliant answers to questions in class, we may infer that he may have got the intelligence genetically from his parents. But inference is also not the truth. The ultimate knowledge that is based on truth is simply an inner experience which can never be described with words, names and forms. Swahilya Shambhavi

Pic: Forms, names and symbols take us to the truth, but they are not the ultimate truth. It is an inner experience. (Swahilya)

Patanjali Yoga Sutra 47-48

Intelligence shines with consciousness

Nirvichara Vaisharadye Adhyatma Prasadaha

Ritambhara Tatra Pragnya

When an individual becomes proficient in this state

of being where there are no thoughts to deflect the consciousness, he or she naturally becomes an expression of the stillness of the soul. Consciousness is like the sky, well almost. We are that consciousness. When a thought passes by like a cloud, we, who are actually the sky, forget the fact and begin riding on a limited thought or thoughts. When the time of the thought ends, we awaken to the reality that we are the sky and not the cloud.

For one who has managed to identify himself as the sky, then the consciousness distributes itself to all around, usurping the place of the human ego.

Bearing the truth fully and becoming the truth in this manner, the intellect gets firmly rooted and completely identified with this consciousness. - Swahilya Shambhavi. Pic: Deoria Tal.