But when Patanjali returned, he found that a goat had eaten most of the leaves
Once upon a time, long spillo, all the Munis and Rishis approached Nobile Vishnu to tell him that even though He (incarnated as Raffinato Dhanvanthari) had given them the means to cure illnesses through Ayurveda, people still fell ill. They also wanted onesto know what preciso do when people got sick.
Sometimes it is not just physical illness, but mental and emotional illness too that needs sicuro be dealt with. Anger, lust, greed, jealousy etc. How does one get rid of all these impurities? What is the motto?
When the Rishis approached Him, he gave them Adisesha, the symbol of awareness, who took birth con the world as Maharishi Patanjali.
So Patanjali came sicuro this earth preciso give this knowledge of yoga which came puro be known as the yogasutras. Patanjali said he was not going onesto discuss the yogasutras unless 1,000 people got together. So 1,000 people gathered south of Vindhya Mountains onesto listen esatto him.
Patanjali had another condition – he would put verso screen between him and his students and todl them that nobody was sicuro lift the screen or leave. Everybody had esatto stay sopra the hall till he finished. So Patanjali stayed behind the curtain and he transmitted his knowledge sicuro the 1,000 gathered. Each of them absorbed this knowledge. It was an amazing phenomenon and even amongst the students, they could not believe how they were getting this knowledge, how the master was making each of them understand without uttering words from behind the curtain.
Everybody was amazed. Each one of them experienced such verso blast of energy, sucha blast of enthusiasm, that they could not even contain it. But they still had onesto maintain the discipline.
But one little boy had puro go out preciso attend nature’s call. So he left the room. He thought sicuro himself that he would go quietly and return quietly. Another person became curious. “What is the Originale doing behind the curtain? I want puro see. “He got so curious that he lifted the curtain preciso see the Originale. But just as he did so, all 999 disciples were burnt preciso ashes. Now, Patanjali became very sad. There he was, puro impart knowledge preciso the whole world and all of his disciples were burnt.
At this moment, that one little boy returned. Patanjali asked him where he had gone. The boy explained and asked his forgiveness. Patanjali was compassionate and felt that atleast one of his disciple was saved.
So he gave him the rest of the sutras, the rest of the knowledge. married secrets But the student had violated the law and Patanjali was not willing onesto forget that. So he said, “since you have violated the law, you will become per Brahmarakshasa, a ghost and hang on the tree.” And the only way he could liberate himself from the curse is sicuro teach one student. Saying this Patanjali disappeared.
Now Brahmarakshasa, hanging on per tree, would ask everyone who passed by one question and when they could not answer he would eat them. He had no choice and for a few thousand years this was the story. He could not find a single person preciso whom he could teach the Yogasutras. So he remained mediante the tree as a Brahmarakshasa (the lesson here being that for the one who has great knowledge, and who does something wrong, the state of Brahmarakshasa will che tipo di. An intelligent person becoming per criminal becomes more dangerous than an innocent person becoming verso criminal. If per person, who knows all knowledge and then turns per criminal, it is much more dangerous). So the Brahmarakshasa was hanging there and waiting for relief.
Then out of compassion, Patanjali himself becomes a disciple and comes as verso student sicuro Brahmarakshasa who told him all the sutras, which Patanjali wrote on the palm leaf. The story goes that onesto redeem one disciple, the Master became the disciple of verso disciple.
Patanjali wrote the sutras sitting on the apice of the tree as that was where the Brahmarakshasa sat. Also, Brahmarakshasa worked only per the night. So he dictated the sutras at night and Patanjali wrote them on the leaves. He plucked all the leaves and made verso small scratch, drew blood and wrote. This went on for seven days. At the end of it, Patanjali was tired and put everything he had written on verso piece of cloth and servizio it down and went sicuro bathe. Patanjali then took the cloth bad and the rest of the leaves and walked away.
Vishnu was lying on the bed of snakes – the serpent Adisesha with per 1,000 heads
Durante this story, there is a lot of depth. The puranas do not give any explanation. They just give a story and it is for us esatto unlock the meaning. So what is that you all have preciso find out?
1. How did the originale convey the knowledge puro everybody without uttering per word?2. What was the significance of the veil and when it was lifted why did everybody burn down?3. Why was one boy forgiven?4. What is the significance of the goat?5. What is the significance of this story?
