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1、Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 6Discourses on the Yoga Sutras of PatanjaliTalks given from 01/09/75 am to 10/09/75 amEnglish Discourse series10 ChaptersYear published:During the early 1980s it was planned to publish the Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega volumes as Yoga: The Science of the Soul. Only
2、 the first three volumes were actually published, the title stayed as Alpha and Omega for the other seven volumes.Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 6Chapter #1Chapter title: A Life is a Mirror1 September 1975 am in Buddha HallArchive code: 7509010ShortTitle: YOGA601Audio: YesVideo: NoLength: 92 min
3、s35. WHEN THE YOGI IS FIRMLY ESTABLISHED IN NONVIOLENCE, THERE IS AN ABANDONMENT OF ENMITY BY THOSE WHO ARE IN HIS PRESENCE.36. WHEN THE YOGI IS FIRMLY ESTABLISHED IN TRUTHFULNESS, HE ATTAINS THE FRUIT OF ACTION WITHOUT ACTING.37. WHEN THE YOGI IS FIRMLY ESTABLISHED IN HONESTY, INNER RICHES PRESENT
4、THEMSELVES.38. WHEN THE YOGI IS FIRMLY ESTABLISHED IN SEXUAL CONTINENCE, VIGOR IS GAINED.39. WHEN THE YOGI IS FIRMLY ESTABLISHED IN NONPOSSESSIVENESS, THERE ARISES KNOWLEDGE OF THE HOW AND WHEREFORE OF EXISTENCE.Once it happened, I was in the mountains with a few friends. We went to see a point know
5、n as the echo point; it was a beautiful spot, very silent, surrounded by hills. One of the friends started barking like a dog. All the hills echoed it - the whole place appeared as if full of thousands of dogs. Then, somebody else started chanting a Buddhist mantra: Sabbe sanghar anichcha. Sabbe dha
6、mma anatta. Gate, gate, para gate, para sangate. Bodhi swaha. The hills became Buddhist; they reechoed it. The mantra means: All is impermanent, nothing is permanent; all is flux, nothing is substantial. Everything is without a self. Gone, gone, finally gone, everything gone - the word, the knowledg
7、e, the enlightenment too.I told the friends who were with me that life is also like this echo point: you bark at it, it barks at you; you chant a beautiful mantra, life becomes a reflection of that beautiful chanting. A life is a mirror. Millions of mirrors around you - every face is a mirror; every
8、 rock is a mirror; every cloud is a mirror. All relationships are mirrors. In whatsoever way you are related with life, it reflects you. Dont be angry at life if it starts barking at you. You must have started the chain. You must have done something in the beginning to cause it. Dont try to change l
9、ife; just change yourself, and life changes.These are the two standpoints: one I call the communistic which says, Change life, only then can you be happy; the other I call religious which says, Change yourself, and life suddenly becomes beautiful. There is no need to change the society, the world. I
10、f you move in that direction you are moving in a false direction which will not lead you anywhere. In the first place, you cannot change it - it is so vast. It is simply impossible. It is so complex and you are here only for a while; and life is very ancient and life is going to be for ever and ever
11、. You are just a guest; an overnight stay and you are gone: gate, gate - gone, gone forever. How can you imagine to change it?Sheer stupidity, which says life can be changed, but there is much appeal in it. The communistic standpoint has a deep appeal in it. Not because it is true - the appeal comes
12、 from some other source: because it does not make you responsible, that is the appeal. Everything else is responsible except you; you are a victim. The whole of life is responsible. Change life - this is appealing for the ordinary mind because no mind wants to feel responsible.Whenever you are in mi
13、sery you like to throw the responsibility on somebody. Anybody will do, any excuse will do, but then you are unburdened. Now you know you are miserable because of this man or that woman, or this type of society, this government, this social structure, this economy - something - or, finally, God is r
14、esponsible or fate. These are all communistic standpoints. The moment you throw the responsibility on others, you have become a communist; you are no longer religious.Even if you throw the responsibility on God, you have become a communist. Try to understand me, because communists dont believe in Go
15、d, but the whole standpoint of throwing responsibility on somebody else is communistic - then God has to be changed.Thats what people go on doing in temples: they go and pray to change God. Those people are all communists. They may be hiding in religious garbs; they are communist. What are you prayi
16、ng? You are saying to God, Do this, dont do that; My wife is ill, make her healthy. You are telling the whole, You are responsible. You are complaining; deep down your prayer is a complaint. You may be talking very politely, but your politeness is false. You may even be buttering him up, but deep down you are saying, You are responsible - do something!This attitude I call the communist attitude; by it I mean the attitude that I am not resp
