MAHAYANA SUTRA

The fourth lecture
"The Attainment and the Perfection of Jnana Yoga"


The thorough knowledge of past lives which leads us to the truth

Today I shall begin from the supplement explanation of Kundalini Yoga which was the topic for yesterday.

By Kundalini Yoga, we recognize the existence of this phenomenal world, the existence of the Astral world, and the existence of the Causal world. In other world, he recognize that the whole world is made out of three wolrds of the phenomenal world, the Astral world, and the Causal world.

Of course we can recognize these existence in Raja Yoga, but it is difficult to recognize the causal world since the basement of Raja Yoga is will. Unless we passes through the process of will, we can not understand the Causal world. Raja Yoga is the state when one can control your sight, hearing, touch, or smell which is little more rough than that of the Astral world.

However, it is not the case with Kundalini Yoga. One will be able to undrstand the Astral world and the Causal world. And we need to know what kind of changes can it happen to him when he could do so. The Kundalini Yoga is the process which I had written in "Beyond Life and Death". So the practitioner will take the process of "Bardo Yoga", "Yoga of Dream", "Yoga of Illusion", and "Yoga of Light".

The person on this person begins to see various dreams about his past lives. This is the thorough knowledge of past lives. He begins to see variety of his past lives. Then, he recognizes that the human relationship in this life has no reality, because the human relationship is different in each lives.

I often hear about the offering toward the ancesters or about worshipping the dead, but in fact they are the idealistic religions which was made by the powerless spiritual practitioners. They are not the truth. The truth is to understand that even the relationship between parents and children, or brothers, occured by one's karmic connections, and that there will be the different type of karmic connection in the next lives.

The grownt of the real equality

So, there will be no one but Guru who is necessary for the ones who had attained the Kundalini Yoga. However, even the Guru has no reality. Guru is only the guide for this person to go up the stair of the truth.

How will he going to observe this world in such case? He will be able to see in calm the attached people such as lovers, parents, children, and so forth, as equal as other people.

Here comes the "equality" within "the four immeasurable minds".

The partial points of view which he used to have will disappear.

There will be the ability to observe everything in equal manner.

There will be the ability to observe everything in cool manner.

Then let's say that he saw everything in equal and cool manner.

What kind of benefit can he recieve? He will obtain the ability to observe this world in pure manner. Do you remember that the condition of Jnana Yoga was to have non-partial point of view?

So now we have had the conditions to have non-partial point of view. In other words, the real mind of equality appears only after the attainment of Raja Yoga and the attainment of Kundalini Yoga.

By the way, Mr. Joyu, Ms. Miyakozawa, and Ms. Yamamoto are doing their extreme effort on their spiritual practice in almost completely isolated space. One of them had attained Raja Yoga, and one of them had attained Kundalini Yoga, in other words, the same spiritual level as Khema-Taishi.

However, if I took them out from their intensive practice as attainers, I will have to let them practice the same things as other general staffs are doing in this seminar. That is why I let them practice separately, so as to let their spiritual stage pulled up as high as possible. All it is necessary is for me to take a little burden.

If they come out, they should practice hard to keep their present spiritual stage while doing service acticities to you such as Khema- Taishi or Shanti-Taishi. It has a lot of difficulties. So I tell them to do spiritual practice now as much as possible. Perhaps they practice more than 10 hours everyday according to the program which I had given to them..