But when Patanjali returned, he found that a goat had eaten most of the leaves
Once upon verso time, long ago, all the Munis and Rishis approached Lord Vishnu onesto tell him that even though He (incarnated as Nobile Dhanvanthari) had given them the means sicuro cure illnesses through Ayurveda, people still fell ill. They also wanted sicuro know what to do when people got sick.
Sometimes it is not just physical illness, but mental and emotional illness too that needs onesto be dealt with. Anger, lust, greed, jealousy etc. How does one get rid of all these impurities? What is the frase?
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 onesto this earth preciso give this knowledge of yoga which came sicuro be known as the yogasutras. Patanjali said he was not going preciso discuss the yogasutras unless 1,000 people got together. So 1,000 people gathered south of Vindhya Mountains esatto listen sicuro him.
Patanjali had another condition – he would put a screen between him and his students and todl them that nobody was onesto ascensore the screen or leave. Everybody had onesto stay durante the ingresso till he finished. So Patanjali stayed behind the curtain and he transmitted his knowledge to 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 specializzazione was making each of them understand without uttering words from behind the curtain.
Everybody was amazed. Each one of them experienced such per blast of energy, sucha blast of enthusiasm, that they could not even contain it. But they still had esatto maintain the discipline.
But one little boy had onesto go out onesto attend nature’s call. So he left the room. He thought puro himself that he would go quietly and return quietly. Another person became curious. «What is the Specializzazione doing behind the curtain? I want to see. «He got so curious that he lifted the curtain puro see the Specializzazione. But just as he did so, all 999 disciples were burnt to ashes. Now, Patanjali became very sad. There he was, sicuro impart knowledge to 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. But the student had violated the law and Patanjali was not willing esatto forget that. So he said, «since you have violated the law, you will become verso Brahmarakshasa, verso ghost and hang on the tree.» And the only way he could liberate himself from the curse is esatto 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 giammai choice and for per few thousand years this was the story. He could not find a scapolo person onesto whom he could teach the Yogasutras. So he remained con 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 quale. An intelligent person becoming a criminal becomes more dangerous than an innocent person becoming verso criminal. If a person, who knows all knowledge and then turns verso 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 a student esatto Brahmarakshasa who told him all the sutras, which Patanjali wrote on the palm leaf. The story goes that to redeem one disciple, the Specializzazione became the disciple ciò che è spiritual singles of a disciple.
Patanjali wrote the sutras sitting on the vertice 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 a 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 a piece of cloth and set it down and went puro 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 a 1,000 heads
Mediante this story, there is verso lot of depth. The puranas do not give any explanation. They just give per story and it is for us esatto unlock the meaning. So what is that you all have puro find out?
1. How did the master convey the knowledge to everybody without uttering verso 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?