The talk on terms: Manas, Chitta, Atma

How could you define some words, Guruji?

What is Manas, what is Chitta?

Guruji: Manas is mind. Mind in totality including subconscious and conscious and everything.

Guruji: Chitta is also mind.

Мужчина 1:What is the difference between manas and Chitta ?

Guruji: No difference.

But also Chitta means spirit also in Sanskrit. And it is used for mind also. And it is used by the person who knows for atma also. Chitta means atma

Мужчина 1: and what is atma?

Guruji: Atma is your immortal substance inside, from where the feeling of being comes. That “yes, I am”, from that where that feeling is coming that is Atma, self-awareness.

Guruji: Budhi is a person’s mind, which discriminates, tells you what is good and what is bad, and what you should do and in certain situations it is called Budhi

Мужчина 1: intellect?

Guruji: (No), discrimination, I think, is more nearer. Intellect you could also use.

Guruji: Which will make you understand what is good and what is bad and in situation what you should do. And most of the time Budhi depends on the past memories. And this Budhi when developed with the practice of yoga is called Ritambhara

Guruji: yes, you have written it already. A special Budhi, highly developed intellect. It is Ritambhara

Мужчина 1: And what is in Hindi, is there a special word for willpower?

Guruji: Chashakti

Мужчина 1: what is Indria?

Guruji: Indria means your sense organs. Even your nose is also called Indria. There are five gross Indria: nose, ears, eyes, all these things. And then subtle Indrias they are called GjanIndria which will they tell you what you see is what and what you smell is what. That is it. Five Indrias

Мужчина 1: And Indra?

Guruji: Indra was the name of the god, king of the gods. But as a description I used the word “Indria” is female, “Indra” is male. So, who is controlling all indrias? Your mind is controlling all that. So I just named it in Indra ALSO

Мужчина 1: Just, but Indra god who used to be DIFFERENT?

Nadhi?

Guruji: Nadhi - two meanings. Nadhi means that time is frame of twenty four minutes. Word Nadhi means time of twenty four minutes. And Nadhi means channels also inside the body.

Мужчина 1: Like nerves?

Guruji: Nerves, yeah, you could call them nerves.

Мужчина 1: Is it the same as nerves, Nadhi

Guruji:even pulse is called Nadhi here.

Мужчина 1: is Nadhi only inside your body or outside also?

Guruji: Only inside the body.

Мужчина 1: Is there any something like Nadhi outside of your body?

Guruji: No. But that time frame of twenty four minutes is outside of your body.

Девушка: person have energetic channels outside, no?

Guruji: But they are connected to the body. It is a reflection or experession of your own body, of what is inside your body.

Девушка: what is the main of these channels?

Guruji: Your spinal cord and your mind, brain. That’s the base.

Мужчина 1: Could you define word Pracriti ?

Guruji: Pracriti is nature.

Мужчина 1: and Purusha?

Guruji: Purusha is the male principal in nature. Sometimes the Indian philosophers call Purusha to the god or to the Ishvar

Девушка: You can call Purusha even to the brain?

Guruji: You can call Purusha the brain also and body as Pracriti, yes. That is also means Shiva is Purusha and Shakti is Pracriti. And around here they say that Krishna is Purusha and all the Rada is Pracriti

Мужчина 1: Paramatma

Guruji: Paramatma is the creator of your atma, who creates atma.

Мужчина 1: What is atma?

Guruji: Atma is your soul, spirit.

Мужчина 1: what is the difference between atma and soul? Is it the same.

Guruji: I think they are not exactly the same, because the word “soul” signifies something else and the word “atma” is something else. Atma is your feeling of being. That is atma. Your substance of life, your immortal substance of life. You can call it soul also.

Девушка: Sorry, atma is a part of soul?

Guruji: atma is soul.

Девушка: but there is little difference.

Guruji: only in language. Because in Hindi spirit is also sometimes called atma. But in English spirit is different, soul is different.

Мужчина 1: what is the word Brahmarandhra

Guruji: it is a certain place here. And you know it, because when you see a young born child, here it is empty.

Guruji: And Brahma is actually the mind. That´s why it is called Brahmarandhra

Мужчина 1: Brahma is mind and Brahmarandhra is как замок.

Мужчина 1: and Abhjasa ?

Guruji: It is practice.

Мужчина 1: practice of Krija or any practice?

Guruji: or any practice.

Мужчина 1: Any practice.

Vajragja ?

Guruji: Vajragja it is losing interest in other things, in everything wordly. That is Vajragja And also looking at it from another point of view, Vajrag is called anger. So that means when you absolutely go beyond anger you are in the state of Vajrag. And another definition is that there is not a single attachment to the WORDLYworthy things. That state of mind is also called Vajragja

Мужчина 1: Could you define in one –two sentences the word Samadhi?

Guruji: Samadhi ? I don’t think I can define it. Samadhi is an absolute awakening of your mind. When subconscious becomes conscious. And your consciousness crosses the limits of your physical body. That state of mind is called Samadhi

Мужчина 1: what is Ritambhara ?In one or two sentences.

Guruji: I just told you that specially developed Budhi is called Ritambhara

Мужчина 1: What does it mean Sampragnjat ?

Guruji: Sampragnjat means to know something specially.

Мужчина 1: Sadhana ?

Guruji: Sadhana is also like practice Abhjas.

Мужчина 1: what is the difference between Sadhana and Abhjas ?

Guruji: Sadhana means when you are trying to master something is Sadhana Abhjas is just when you are simply practicing.

Мужчина 1: Sadhak Is thouse who practice Sadhana ?

Guruji: yes.

Мужчина 1: what is Maya and what is Lilla ?

Guruji: well, ??? ??? ???, which is not, but it appears to be there, that is called Maya like magic of a magician. Illusion of something is called Maya

Мужчина 1: and what is Lila ?

Guruji: Lila is play.

Мужчина 1: A play of God or any play?

Guruji: Any play can be called a Lila

Мужчина 1: So even in casino, is it a Lila?

Guruji: Yes. When they are enacting a drama from her it is called Ramlila. Every drama is Ra(m)lila

Мужчина 1: what is Dharma?

Guruji: Dharma which carries you through is called Dharma

Мужчина 1: which carries through?

Guruji:which carries you through life is called Dharma

Мужчина 1: is it sort of a target or destiny?

Guruji: it is not a target. It is a description of state of something. The earth is Dharma because she is carrying us. And carrier is also Dharma, because it carries you through.

Мужчина 1: what is Dhjana ?

Guruji: Dhjana is the state of mind when you are almost touching Samadhi

Мужчина 1: so it is sort of meditation, Dhjana ?

Guruji: No I will not agree on that. Meditation word means something else. The word Dhjana is a yoga term and it is, say, the 7th level of yoga achievement. It is a Dhjana

Мужчина 1: It is a Dhjana?

Guruji:Yes. And I will say two more sentences here. “Jan” means a vehicle. For a space ship we call АНТРИЧИЯН For a plane, for an airplane we call ВАЮЯН For a ship, we call ДЖАЛЬЯН And for the vehicle of the mind we call ДХЬЯН

Мужчина 1: But Dhjana is not meditation?

Guruji: No.

Мужчина 1: Vasudeva How can you define this word “Vasudeva”?

Guruji: Vasudeva There are two meanings of it. Ordinarily from Indian religious point of view the son of Vasudeva is called Vasudev So it is one of the names of Krishna. And from yoga point of view, it is the immortal soul inside you. Your atma. It is called Vasu You can consult Sanskrit dictionary for that. So then we are trying to pay respect or trying to invoke our own soul, we call it Vasudeva So it is a yoga term. Or generally people take for Krishna, because he was the son of Vasudev

Мужчина 1: In your comments to Gita you don’t mention Mahakala.

Мужчина 1: you sometimes in some way you put them together, Shiva and Mahakala.. Could you just …?

Guruji: Actually Mahakal is one of the names of Shiva also. And Mahakal is the name of one of the chief assistants to Shiva also. Mahakal is great time also. And here in the central India there is a big temple dedicated to Shiva, which is called Mahakal Temple also. Shiva is Mahakal He is death of death, time of time, he is Mahakala In direct meaning it is Shiva himself.

Мужчина 1: How could you define Soma?We were talking about it a lot. I want to have it together. How could you define the word “soma”?

Guruji: Soma, again, is the name of Chandarma, the moon. And soma means Nektar also. And soma is the name of a sertain herb

Мужчина 1: And what is Amrita?

Guruji: Amrita is something which is called “without death”. No death.

Мужчина 1: No death?

Guruji: Yes.

Мужчина 1: Is it sort of immortality, Amrita?

Guruji: Well, it is written in our ancient books that Amrita is some sort of a substance, a liquid, you drink it and you will become immortal. And most of the gods are supposed to have drunk it.

Мужчина 1: Amrita, to be immortal?

Guruji: Yes.

Девушка: Guruji, you also told that soma is also not to drink something as a result of Khechari Mudra

Guruji: Yes, in yoga terms it is exactly that. You are right.