The Axis of the Universe and the 2 Dimensions of Yoga

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The Axis of the Universe and the 2 Dimensions of Yoga

Whatever the experience of life, whether it’s light or sound or taste or smell or sensation, whatever the form of experience of pain or pleasure, every experience that you have is essentially conducted through your spine. The spine is taken away or what passes through the spine is in some way dislocated, that’ll be no experience. Human beings symbolize the spine as the axis of the universe because essentially you know the universe only from the context of your experience. There is no other way to know it. You do not know anything in this world without the context of your experience. Do you understand what I’m saying?

It’s only by what’s happening within you, you know or you think you know. You know the existence only by the context of your experience and the basis of your experience what is being conducted through your spine. Right now spine is seen as the axis of the universe. Today we know that the whole solar system is just a small blurb in this cosmos. Tomorrow morning, if this whole solar system evaporates, there’ll be no great vacuum. Just one little empty space. The rest of the cosmos will not even notice it. That’s how insignificant it is.

In yoga they were in 2 different dimensions inside. Your spine is the axis of the universe. They’re not saying this because they believe that you’re in the center of the universe. You are capable of knowing the universe only from the context of your experience and the basis of your experience is in your spine. If any individual has to truly determine the nature of his experience on this planet 100%, then having a little bit of mastery over the spine becomes essential. Only that one. Who anyway determines the nature of his experience will dare to explore the full potential of his life because he wouldn’t hesitate to step into anything.

If your experience is determined by anything other than yourself, naturally you’ll try to avoid a few things and will go after a few things. Whatever you consider as those which instigate or stimulate pleasant experiences, you go after that. Whatever you think will create unpleasant experiences, you’ll go away from that. Once this division happens in your consciousness that you divide the existence into 2, knowing the ultimate unity becomes unnecessarily difficult. Why so much stress and joy, love, blissfulness is simply because of this so that your experience is not determined by something else.

If you sit here and you think this tree creates pleasant experience for you and that tree creates unpleasant experience nor you, naturally you’ll never step in that direction. You’ll only hang around here. That is what is happening right now. That’s what is happening with every aspect of life. Once you divide the world … People have been telling you silly things that you should love your enemies. I don’t know why you have to make your life so hard. First make enemy out of somebody and then try to love him. It’s very difficult. Isn’t it very difficult? If you don’t make him your enemy it will be easy.

You make him your enemy and then you try to love him. This is an impossible condition. No? They always want to set impossible things for you so that you’ll constantly go there. Let’s look at the possibilities. Unless you do not divide the world, it’s very difficult to embrace the world, isn’t it? In your consciousness if you divide that this is mine this is not mine, then trying to grab everything is very difficult. Either everything is mine or nothing is mine. Simple. Nothing is mine. This is one way it is okay, or everything is mine this is okay it’ll work. These are workable solutions.

You’re my enemy but I love you. This is very, very difficult. It’s a torture. The fundamental for dividing the world is somewhere one entity causes pleasantness another entity causes unpleasantness within you. That’s why you divide the world, isn’t it? It is essentially a survival mode. You know if you go here it will be unpleasantness. You know if you go there it will be pleasantness. Slowly you start going there, there, there, not here. After some time you can not go there at all because you know the level of unpleasantness that happens within you.

Only if you’re determining the nature of your experience, you can keep it pleasant within yourself no matter where you are. If people cause unpleasantness they can do only around you. Never within you. Once this freedom is there it’s only then you can truly be inclusive. Otherwise you get stuck. Every little sound that you hear, see if you can conduct it through your spine. Everything that you see, see if you can conduct it through your spine. Right now, I’m speaking. The sound itself is not flowing through this wire, but in the form of electrical impulse. It is going through to the speakers and boom.

If I cut this, that’s not going to work, this is not going to work. Spine is just like this. Spine itself doesn’t know anything but it is conducting everything. Only the one who understands that all this bunch of wires out there can manage the sound properly how it should be. We’ve been having some trouble you know because too many wires. Only if you understand every wire that’s out there you can manage the sound just the way you want it. Otherwise in between so many things will happen. The same with this one. If you have a little mastery or how it’s being conducted that you can insure what kind of experience you’re producing for yourself.

Otherwise, everything becomes accidental. Once the very experience of your life is happening accidentally, once you’re very aware of being in accidental, if you’re existing here accidentally then that’s like being a potential calamity. Just to fear, “What will happen to me. What will happen to me,” destroys everything. The beauty and the gracefulness of being human will be completely lost once the fear of what will happen is there in my mind. Animals are doing quite fine. A lot of the temptations. Any number of philosophers have gone into the forests, watch the quiet gentle … Can’t say gentle. The quiet natural life that animals are having, people have been hugely drawn to it and they’ve tried to move into the forest and live just like them. Simple.

This draw is big time because of the chaos of human societies. What you need to understand is it’s never going to work because the sense of peacefulness that an animal has is coming from a certain level of unawareness. A certain level of unconsciousness. You cannot fall back there. Do what you want. Do what you want, you cannot fall back into the unconsciousness nature of an animal. Nature has pushed you on into this level of consciousness.

You try as hard as you want. You can try hard and become conscious. You cannot try hard and become unconscious. At least this much nature has taken care for you, that you can only move forward not backward. Philosophers and others, various types of people have tried as simply as animals live hoping that life will become okay, but it has not worked. It is not the complexity of external situation which is doing this. It is just that we’re not determining the nature of our experience within ourselves.