Raja Yoga: The Path of Meditation (Part 12) | Swami Sarvapriyananda
Raja Yoga: The Path of Meditation (Part 12) | Swami Sarvapriyananda
Raja Yoga: The Path of Meditation (Part 12) | Swami Sarvapriyananda |
Raja Yoga: The Path of Meditation (Part 12) | Swami Sarvapriyananda
where entire grammar is packed into it now it needs to explain nation it needs explanation commentary on that to explain the sutras
so the
masters of Sanskrit grammar day studied the original panini sutras
with Patanjali commentary, Patanjali wrote that commentary it's
called maha Harsha the great commentary,
so the story goes Patanjali was the treatment, was about to teach give it to
humanity and he had a thousand students,
so they
would gather in a huge Hall thousand students of Sanskrit grammar he
would gather and Patanjali would teach Sanskrit grammar but he had a
rule and
so that
he would teach on a big stage raised platform and there would be a big curtain which would cover it said when the class starts the curtain will be closed and from behind the closed curtains he will
teach and
when the class is over then the curtain will be pulled and then he comes out now the students were delighted with the class they were amazed a thousand students and they each felt that the teacher was speaking to their own questions and they were speaking to them personally and they were delighted with it but students are always students mischievous
when the class is over then the curtain will be pulled and then he comes out now the students were delighted with the class they were amazed a thousand students and they each felt that the teacher was speaking to their own questions and they were speaking to them personally and they were delighted with it but students are always students mischievous
Raja Yoga: The Path of Meditation (Part 12) | Swami Sarvapriyananda |
Raja Yoga: The Path of Meditation (Part 12) | Swami Sarvapriyananda
so one of them thought many of them thought what's going on why is the old man hiding behind a curtain when he's speaking what's going on behind the curtain and he has strictly said during the class nobody should lift the curtain nobody should peek one student couldn't contain himself any longer
so when
the class was going on the sort of crept up to the stage and him
lifted the edge of the curtain and him looked inside and inside he
saw that the stage is not there anymore it's the entire universe
stars and you know planets and all constellations and the whole thing
is covered by this terrifying this huge serpent with enormous fangs
and you know the thousand heads flame emitting from the flame of
destruction cosmic destruction emitting from the tongues of the
thousand heads of this serpent the Cession Agra the cosmic
serpent and he got terrified and he fainted and the curtain fell back
that little corner but he lifted the little corner
so the
spark of that cosmic fire is from that and immediately a thousand
students were reduced to ashes they burnt up immediately and poor
Patanjali he regained his human form and he lifted the curtain and
jumped out of the stage in and he cried out alas alas alas not for
the students what will happen to Sanskrit grammar alas at this moment
one boy came to the room and said sir may
Raja Yoga: The Path of Meditation (Part 12) | Swami Sarvapriyananda |
Raja Yoga: The Path of Meditation (Part 12) | Swami Sarvapriyananda
I come in I think he'd gone out for a washroom break or something like that, that's my theory
so
that's why he was not burnt to a crisp and Patanjali was delighted
aha grammar is saved come and he embraced him and it gave him all his
all Sanskrit grammar now story doesn't end here there's a somewhere
it's going
so when
this boy was ready to graduate he had learned entire Maharashtra and
caught all the notes nowadays it's all computers and mobile I saw but
in those days you have to write down and on palm leaves hard work
Raja Yoga: The Path of Meditation (Part 12) | Swami Sarvapriyananda |
Raja Yoga: The Path of Meditation (Part 12) | Swami Sarvapriyananda
so he was ready to graduate, he said I will go back to my village and start the first Sanskrit school and Patanjali was very happy now I have given grammar to humanity and they can speak well now this boy goes on his way back to his village and then it's a hot summer Indian day so he wants to rest under a tree
so he
goes to rest under this tree in the shade of the tree and he keeps
the bundle of notes on leaves now this goat was grazing nearby and he
sees those nice leaves
so he
starts munching on them luckily this boy wakes up with a start and
his shoes away from the goat oh my god she was shoes away from the
goat and he can't get it back again remember no backup no cloud he
can download it from because Patanjali has gone back to the cloud
he's gone back to his real the state as Shoshanna
so he
rescues the notes but a part of it is irrevocably lost and
Raja Yoga: The Path of Meditation (Part 12) | Swami Sarvapriyananda |
Raja Yoga: The Path of Meditation (Part 12) | Swami Sarvapriyananda
so that is called the goat eaten commentary the Gaggia bucket of Harsha
so act
actually the whole fanciful story I think has been invented because of a
part of the commentary is not available anymore
so
that's why I wonder if the goat became a grammarian after that's the
story of Patanjali there's the story of here in Nagoya and
potentially what they thought became the first manual
of meditation and see how popular it is today even
today all over the world the vast amount of Buddhist meditation
we see those are specially developed developments in Tibet later on Japan in China but the sources from India this is what he learned Buddha himself learned from the sunken teachers and he modified it he developed it further but the source is there, in fact,
I found an interesting article I was visiting London if I wanted to see a library obviously
we see those are specially developed developments in Tibet later on Japan in China but the sources from India this is what he learned Buddha himself learned from the sunken teachers and he modified it he developed it further but the source is there, in fact,
I found an interesting article I was visiting London if I wanted to see a library obviously
Raja Yoga: The Path of Meditation (Part 12) | Swami Sarvapriyananda |
Raja Yoga: The Path of Meditation (Part 12) | Swami Sarvapriyananda
so the British Library in London and I became a member of the British tab the interesting system they have absolutely free they don't charge a single thing within 15 minutes I was a member of the British Library
I said to me
have only two hours here said okay you can just go and see without
being a member you can't see the collection
so I
went and
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