MAHAYANA SUTRA

The eighth lecture - "The Five Accumulation of Grasping, Mahayana and Hinayana"


The stream of yoga in principal

Yesterday, I had finished the basic idea of the stream of Yogas in principal which began from the first day. Today, let's look them back in brief and go on to "the five accumulation of grasping".

First I told you that the process of the spiritual practice of Yoga of Mahayana is different to that of Hinayana. However, the process of the four steps and the four results were the same no matter if it was Hinayana or Mahayana. The first step "to enter the stream of the truth" was the state when one had depended themselves upon the holy stream. And when one could completely depend himself on the holy stream, it is called, "the result of entering the stream of the truth". The step on its way is called, "the step to enter the stream of the truth".

Those who once come down to this six realms of desires and go up to the Astral world are called "the step to come once" and "the result of coming once". Those who has no necessity tocome down to the six realms of desires from the Astral world are "the step of non-return" and "the result of not returning". "The step of Arhat" and "the result of Arhat" is the state when once can understand the reason and the result in the Astral world.

The practitioners of Hinayana can enter Nirvana at this point, but the practice of Mahayana still has the long way to go. One should go on to the process of Raja Yoga. If one sees Three Gunas based on the strong power of will, it is the attainment of Raja Yoga.
The attainment of Kundalini Yoga which comes after that is to fly to the Astral world or to the Causal world by rising the life energy. And to know the three worlds of the phenomenal world, the Astral world, and the Causal world. Since we can obtain thorough knowledge of past lives as well, we can understand that every relationship in this world such as parents and children or husband and wife all occurs by the karmic connection.

To understand this means that he had already prepared for observing things equally. When he is ready to observe things equally, he practices Jnana Yoga. And when he completely obserave and analyse the reason and result in this phenomenal world, and when he could understand everything in this world, he attains Jnana Yoga. He goes on Mahayana Yoga based on the mind of equality which he had cultivated by this attainment.

The three practices of Mahayana Yoga was to love, to feel compassion, and to praise. This eradicates all adversary, and he will be praised and loved by all people. With this great merit, he goes into Astral Yoga. Astral Yoga can be interpreted as "the Yoga of emptiness".

In Astral Yoga, he uses the body of reward so as to exchange information in the world of image. This is the information which which is made from the information which came down from the Causal world. In the end, he exchanges the information in the Causal world, become the completely clear state, and enter Mahayana.

The structureof the whole world and the birth of the attainer

Then let me explain the state of ultimate enlightenment after the perfection of the Causal Yoga. Let's say that you are here and you can listen or can understand the state of the six realms of desires. Simultaniously, you can understand the state of the realm of form. Not only that, you can understand the state of the realm of non-form. And what's more, there is a consciousness (the consciousness of the true self) which is observing them from aside. When these four worlds of consciousness existed simultaniously, he is Buddha.

Samadhi doesn't mean to detach from the physical body and to fly somewhere else. The real Samadhi is the state when one obtains the consciousness of the six realms of desires, the consciousness of the realm of form, the consciousness of the realmf of non-form, and the consciousness of the true self. This is the state of the ultimate enlightenment. On the contrary, the consciousness of this physical body will be lost in the state of Tamas-dominant. Or lose the consciousness for the Astral body, or the consciousness of the Causal body. Could you understand this?

The fact is that we should obtain all these consciousness. I shall say it once again. The person is a Buddha if the four worlds of consciousness existed simultaniously. For the person who hadfinished up to this point, he can freely reincarnate into the six realms of desires, the realm of form, or the realm of non-form. Or it is free not to reincarnate in neither of these three worlds, because he can attain Mahayana.

Here is the essense of the law of the truth

The attainers who had attained Mahayana donot come down to this world since they know everything, and experienced everything. However, there are cases when they intentionally reincarnate in the world of rough dimention in the level of the body of manifestation. His Holiness, Dalai Lama is one of those examples. And those who had came down from Mahayana as the body of manifestation naturally obtains the body of Dharma, the body of reward, and the body of essence.

Then in which worlds do they activates? First, there is the realm of non-form which is connected to Mahayana. Please consider the realm of non-form as the synonym of theCausal world. It is a world with nothing but mind, which exists below Mahayana. From one third below the highest part of the realm of non-form, the Astral world (the realm of form) is overlapped. It is overlapped. And the phenomenal world exists overlapped by the Astral world and the bottom one third of the Causal world. So you should understand that this phenomenal world is made of threefold structure.

And the body of manifestation activates in the Astral world which is overlapped to this phenomenal world (the lower Astral world). The body of reward works in the high Astral world. The body of reward appears at the time of Astral Yoga. The body of Dharma works in the part which is overlapped to the phenomenal world and the lower Astral world (the lower Causal world) and the part which is overlapped to the high Astral world (the middle Causal world). The body of essence works in the upper Causal world. And the body of Vajra is the true self.

If I were to correspond this to each Chakras, it is as follows; the body of manifestation in Manipura Chakra, the body of Dharma in Anahata Chakra, the body of reward in Vishuddha Chakra, the body of essence in Ajna Chakra, and the body of Vajra in Sahasrara Chakra. The atttainment to Mahayana isthe state when one can simultaniously use all five bodies of the body of manifestation, the body of Dharma, the body of reward, the body of essence, and the body of Vajra. So the true self who had attained to Mahayana can freely come down to lower worlds by using necessary body.

Generally, the body of essence and the body of Dharma is invisible because they are made of consciousness. So they always use the body of reward in order to go down. The Great Lord Shiva whom I meet in the Astral world is using the body of reward. And the people who had made the perfection uses the body of manifestation if they were to come down to this phenomenal world.