YOGA SUTRA OF SAGE PATANJALI (Re-arranged)

Introduction Before we proceed with our sutra by sutra exposition, it is necessary to understand the underlying idea of Advaita in Vedanta. Creation is, always was, and ever will be. Creation, as we understand, stands for Param Satyam; therefore, no part of it is ever dissolved and no part of it does ever get created. There is no end nor beginning in Creation. It is always the same. Even in Creation we imagine states within Param Satyam (which is, in a way, false, but to be understandable and meaningful to the average intellect it has to be so spoken) and call such states Madhyama Satyam and Satyam. Then Satyam in its creative aspect we denote as Divine Wholeness, or Tapah, and further come down to the level of Janah, the Divine Fragments. We also state that there is no difference between Divine Wholeness and Divine Fragments, that it is not a state of multiplicity because each Divine Fragment can merge into and re-emerge from one another, as well as merge into and re-emerge from Divine Wholeness. So the Many from the One does not imply multiplicity and from Param Satyam to Divine Fragment -- each fragment also is Param Satyam -- there is no duality. The Advaita idea of Vedanta is not contradicted. So Param Satyam is made to assume the states of Madhyama Satyam, Satyam, Tapah or Divine Wholeness, and Janah or domain of Divine Fragments. Yet the entire Creation is One -- no duality at all exists therein -- that is Advaita. But the human mind is too small and yet not developed to hold immensity, so it desires to break down any type of immensity into fragments, for then only can it understand. To the human mind, it does not matter if thereby anartha is created of artha. For example, the one large body of water on the surface of this earth is broken into many oceans, seas, bays, gulfs, channels, straits, etc., though we know there is no break or demarcation in the world body of water anywhere. And our Earth is not even a pin-point in comparison to the vast Creation and Existence. Yet this is the only way with us! One fact stands out large and complete (and this thought is to be kept in mind) when we talk of Creation. Creation is absence of all that we know, think, imagine, feel or experience! Because in Creation nothing that we know of or are familiar with is required. In Creation, there is no form, no shape, no texture, no light, no colour, no sound, no electricity or magnetism, no laws (for there is none to follow or disobey them), no functions, no food, no air, no water, no energy, no prana, no sleep, no waking, no sex, no earthly conditions, no suns, no galaxies; there are neither nirmanakaya, sambhogakaya or dharmakaya, for there are no universes, nor brain, manas or buddhi. Nothing! Total absence of all pluralistic thought. This is the state of Turiya -- even to say this is false! Param Satyam prevails! Then what is Existence? In a tiny corner of Creation, a specially conditioned area is created by Divine Wholeness, which we know as Existence. Nothing is stable here, it is a constantly changing, ever in a flux, ever in suspense, unpredictable state or condition, where probabilities outweigh possibilities 1:1,000,000, and this state is brought about by the constantly changing `gunas' or `qualities', through their permutations and combinations. But again the question arises, whence came Existence? Then how did the order of Existence arise? The answer is: there is no Existence! This answer may not one satisfy because even the present human brain (of the 21st century to come) has not the courage nor the ability to think along this line. To make Existence understandable: in a tiny, microscopic point, Param Satyam filled it with the state of Existence, with a substance we call Infinite Mind or Chittie. From the human standpoint this cosmic mind is unimaginable, very potent, and all-knowing within Existence! We can in Existence call this mind as Divine Mind of God, but we must be clear what we mean by `God'. This cosmic mind exerts immense mind maya creative pressures on all that exists, irrespective of size or intelligence. This tiny point filled with cosmic mind, in which all the three universes of Existence, Bhuh-Bhuvah-Svahah, are floating, we understand as Brahmanda. All that is in Brahmanda is a mere condensation of cosmic mind, Chittie. But this tiny point is virtually immeasurable -- billions of light years cannot measure or fathom even the smallest universe Bhuh, the physical universe.