Capítulo 14: Become an Ascetic
"Priya! Let us practice Yoga together." Veer called Priya who was floating in the sky and laughing loudly.
Veer was sitting in a meditative posture. Priya looked back at him from the above and smiled.
"Stop it Veer! Yoga practice is so boring. Let us enjoy each others company and be happy." Priya said.
They are among the clouds and wind is making a howling sound around them and her voice is resonating in the vicinity. Veer looked helplessly at her and sighed and said "Priya! Not just for a few decades but I wish to stay together with you for thousands of years. Priya! Help me, please. Please let us practice together."
Seeing the helpless expression of Veer, Priya came floating toward him and sat beside him and said emotionally "Why are you being sad? I was just joking. Do you have to be so sad because of just a few words from me?" Her eyes turned misty.
Veer pulled her in his arms and sniffed her sweet scent and said "Don't. Please don't shed any tears. I really want to see you smile always. But I want to practice Yoga so that we can be immortals. This way we will be truly free from the limitations of life and death."
Priya separated herself from his chest and said while looking into his eyes "Can we really?" Seeing Veer nodding her eyes brightened and she said "Then that is for the best. Let us do that. As always, I love you the most" And she suddenly brought her face to his and caressed his lips with hers.
She left the arms of started Veer while laughing and disappeared in the clouds soon and her voice came to him "I will also practice Yoga. I will show you when I will come to meet you again. Don't disappoint me Veer!"
Veer opened his eyes slowly and found himself sitting in meditative posture on a rock. His love for Priya is deepening every day and also his inclination toward Yoga is also increasing. Now he does not feel anxious when he wakes up from his dream of Priya. Those dreams only leave him with more love and more motivation.
He has been practicing the concepts of Restrain, Regulate and Asanas for almost one year now. He also practices meditation. While meditating unknowingly he will enter the sleep but it is not like normal sleep. He felt like he has left his body and he could see his own body sitting in meditation and could wander around and will be able to come back. He can feel many things in this state which he can not sense through the body.
Sometime he will go into meditation and will wake up after a few days. He asked his Guru about what is this stat and why does it feel so addicting. His Guru just laughed like a madman but did not respond to him.
They walked upstream along the Ganges river for a few months and they reached in the Himalayan region. In the next few months Guru and his disciples reached the place in Himalaya which is known as Tapovan. From his Guru, Veer has known that this will be their place of seclusion. This will be the place where they will make their hermitage and practice Yoga.
Once they saw the Tapovan which is also known as the forest of penance from the top of a mountain, his Guru laughed and said "We have reached the divine land of sages. This is the place where great sages reside. This is the place where immortals were born."
His Guru bends on his knees and bowed toward the land and his two disciples also did the same. Veer felt deep reverence toward this place due to the way his Guru described it. "Could there have been someone in the past who became immortal in order to look for his beloved person" Veer thought.
His Guru laughed at Veer's expression and said "Life and death have always been a fascinating thing for Yogis and many people who joined the path of Yoga are the people who wanted to understand those secrets." and he smiled and said "Your reason is not a unique one. There are not many reasons in the world anyway." His Guru sighed and said while looking like a dazed person "After losing their beloved person, there are only two ways for worldly people. That is to follow them in death or try to understand about life and death."
Veer and his senior brother lived at Tapovan and spent days living as a Yogi and recluse. Their Guru did not stay with them in Hermitage but wandered in Himalaya.
Veer felt like he has really won over his wants and emotions. The world felt like nothing but a mirage and he found himself like a spectator. The only thing he felt in his mind is calmness. He has been practicing Yoga for more than five years and Veer can feel changes in his own thoughts and temperament.
It has been exactly six years. One day Veer is sitting in meditative state. He is sitting in lotus posture keeping is waist straight and his both palms are in his lap, right palm on left. His eyes are closed.
Veer concentrated his thoughts inside himself and looked in the Chakra point between the eyes. He found himself lost in the void of Chakra point. He wandered in the void and looked around and found himself in the vast expanse of the universe.
He found himself looking at different galaxies. Every galaxy seems to be consisting of many different solar systems. With a thought, he neared a milky-way and entered it but did not find what he was looking for. He kept searching in different galaxies.
He could look farthest. He would reach any place he would will for. Even he himself is surprised about his speed. He felt like he has become a fish in water. He can stand in a place in the vast universe and can see the creations and destruction happening. He can see different planets, suns, solar systems. All these things feel so divine and captivating.
It seems at this position, there is no light, no darkness and it all seems so eternal. There is a resonating sound of OM which feels like coming from everywhere. This place looks the ideal place to meditate and feel the universe and be one with nature. Veer sat there cross-legged and started meditating. Gradually he forgot about time and himself.
It has been almost one year since Veer has entered the meditative state. His Guru and senior brother are standing in front of the rock on which Veer is meditating.
His senior brother looked at him in that position and asked his Guru "Teacher! It seems Junior brother has entered the state of cognizance directly. It is a great improvement."
"Yes, it is. He has unknowingly entered the state of cognizance but he does not understand it. He did not practice retraction and perception to perfection and directly took a big leap into cognizance. It should not have been possible but his mental state and emotion to meet his loved one have forced his consciousness to break that boundary." Guru said calmly.
Bhartri Hari said "Teacher! I have been practicing Yoga for more than 100 years but I am still in the retraction stage. How is it possible for junior brother to leap up like this without perfecting prior stages?"
Guru smiled at his senior disciple and said "You are practicing Yoga by understanding the steps and practicing them with a proper plan. Your junior brother has taken a risk because of his love toward that girl. He could not control himself and jumped to that level. Now he has created his own path which is driven by his own emotion of love." His Guru laughed and said "This boy was too anxious but I do not have to take care of his lover after a few years. He has really surprised me."
After saying that Guru looked at his senior disciple and said "You don't have to be anxious or competitive toward your junior. You are my sole heir now because your junior brother has taken his own path. For your junior brother attaining the final stage of abstraction will be difficult until he meets his lover and calms his emotion of love but that is his own choice. Your progress will be slow and steady but you have your path planned and you are my inheritor." Guru smiled and said "It's not bad to have two disciples who are going to walk on two different paths in Yoga. One is the path of emotion and another is emotionless."
Bhartri Hari looked at his meditating junior brother and asked "Teacher! Junior brother has been in the meditative state for more than one year. He has not yet perfected retraction. How is his body able to survive without food or water?"
Guru laughed and said "That is the new way your junior brother has invented. I can see what is happening. His body is not receiving nourishment from outside but it is receiving nourishment from his soul directly. It is absorbing the elements from the universe directly and not from the mortal world. You might have seen the body of your junior brother first turning old, hairs turning white. You can see they are turning back to young skin and black hair again. Can you tell me, how is it happening?"
Bhartri Hari looked at his junior brother calmly. There was no envy, no emotion at all. He then looked toward his Guru and said "I think his consciousness has left his body and has reached some place in the vast universe and it is wandering and absorbing the elements there. As body and consciousness are still connected, the body is being revived after getting used to that bond. Initially, as the body was not used to receiving energy from that connection, it withered slowly but with time it got used to it and started attaining its original state."
Guru laughed and said, "Yes, your understanding is not wrong at this point." And then Guru went into some contemplation and then said after few moments "But I believe, he does not understand the concept of coming back into the body. His body is connected to him but he can not sense the bond and he does not know where the earth is in this vast universe. Currently, he is so fascinated by the feeling of the universe that he is meditating there but once he starts looking for a way to come back, he will feel lost and become anxious. Ho Ho Ho."
Disciple looked at his Guru who is laughing at the predicament of his own disciple and asked calmly "I never understand what is teacher thinking. Even I am worried about the junior brother and wish to help him but the teacher is laughing like it is nothing."
Guru laughed and said, "I have already told you both, the concept of these things but it is still to be seen whether he can apply them in practice by himself or not."
Seeing the curious gaze of his disciple, Guru laughed again and said "This whole universe is the body of nature. Our soul or consciousness is a part of this body. If we wish to reach anywhere or wish to do anything, we just have to will it and it will happen. Now I will tell you the eight steps of Yoga in the main four principles. Every two step can be joined to create one of these four principles. Listen and learn them."
Bhartri Hari became calm and he closed his own eyes while trying to think in the standing posture itself. His mind reverberating from the voice of his Guru.
"The first Principle is 'Learn It and Know it'"
"The second principle is 'Try it and Test it'"
"Third principle is 'Feel it and Be one with it'"
"Fourth and Final principle is 'Will it and it will happen'"
"At the final step, you would truly Become an Ascetic and truly become one with it which is nature"
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Kritdeo
Kritdeo Concepts of Yoga are really not complicated and are easy to understand but still I needed to read some books to write it in some easy words.
I am proud to say that these definitions I have presented about Yoga here are my own understanding and I believe are correct.
Our Veer has taken a leap on path of Yoga. Now let us see how he looks for Priya.
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