Renunciation Through the ego is not Saiyam
This saiyam is considered a word of the Lord. Look where people have taken the meaning of the word saiyam today! They have brought down a word of the Lord’s language to such a low standard. They have brought the Lord’s spiritual language down to a worldly level. What people consider as saiyam today cannot be referred to as saiyam; it is considered control. People lack control; that is why they have to practice control.
Animals alone have control. Humans are the only ones who have ‘decontrol’ (no control). They have no awareness (bhaan) of the Self at all.
Questioner: If we remain in control with the understanding, then is that saiyam?
Dadashri: All these people remain in control, they do not get out of control. That is not referred to as saiyam. Saiyam is a different thing altogether; such a person is referred to as saiyamdhari (one who remains in saiyam). The one over whom Yamraja (the mythological God of death) does not have a grip is referred to as saiyami! The Lord has praised the saiyamdhari. One should do darshan of the saiyamdhari, the one who has subdued Yamraja!
Questioner: In what way has he subdued Yamraja?
Dadashri: Yamraja is considered to have been subdued when one is not afraid of death. When one does not feel that, ‘I will die, I am in the grips of Yamraja,’ that person is referred to as saiyamdhari.
Questioner: The meaning of saiyam that you gave is the highest, but the world has a very different meaning for saiyam.
Dadashri: What is it?
Questioner: To control something, to control one’s own inner tendencies (vrutti), to come into celibacy (brahmacharya) is saiyam.
Dadashri: But that is hatha yoga. There is only expression of control over the mind, it is just expression of the ego. Saiyam should look entirely different. Everything that is done through the ego is all renunciation (tyaga). The Lord has referred to control over sexuality as renunciation (tyaga); He has only referred to control over anger-pride-deceit-greed as saiyam. Where there is control over angerpride-deceit-greed; that is called saiyam. It is only through control over anger-pride-deceitgreed that one is freed (from the world, life after life); with the lack of control over anger-pridedeceit-greed, there is bondage.
This saiyam is considered a word of the Lord. Look where people have taken the meaning of the word saiyam today! They have brought down a word of the Lord’s language to such a low standard. They have brought the Lord’s spiritual language down to a worldly level. What people consider as saiyam today cannot be referred to as saiyam; it is considered control. People lack control; that is why they have to practice control.
Animals alone have control. Humans are the only ones who have ‘decontrol’ (no control). They have no awareness (bhaan) of the Self at all.
Questioner: If we remain in control with the understanding, then is that saiyam?
Dadashri: All these people remain in control, they do not get out of control. That is not referred to as saiyam. Saiyam is a different thing altogether; such a person is referred to as saiyamdhari (one who remains in saiyam). The one over whom Yamraja (the mythological God of death) does not have a grip is referred to as saiyami! The Lord has praised the saiyamdhari. One should do darshan of the saiyamdhari, the one who has subdued Yamraja!
Questioner: In what way has he subdued Yamraja?
Dadashri: Yamraja is considered to have been subdued when one is not afraid of death. When one does not feel that, ‘I will die, I am in the grips of Yamraja,’ that person is referred to as saiyamdhari.
Questioner: The meaning of saiyam that you gave is the highest, but the world has a very different meaning for saiyam.
Dadashri: What is it?
Questioner: To control something, to control one’s own inner tendencies (vrutti), to come into celibacy (brahmacharya) is saiyam.
Dadashri: But that is hatha yoga. There is only expression of control over the mind, it is just expression of the ego. Saiyam should look entirely different. Everything that is done through the ego is all renunciation (tyaga). The Lord has referred to control over sexuality as renunciation (tyaga); He has only referred to control over anger-pride-deceit-greed as saiyam. Where there is control over angerpride-deceit-greed; that is called saiyam. It is only through control over anger-pride-deceitgreed that one is freed (from the world, life after life); with the lack of control over anger-pridedeceit-greed, there is bondage.
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