One little boy had to go out to attend nature's call. But they still had to maintain the discipline. Each one of them experienced such a blast of energy, such a blast of enthusiasm, that they could not even contain it. They could not believe how the master was making each of them understand the knowledge without uttering a single word from behind the curtain.Įverybody was amazed. It was an amazing phenomenon, and even amongst the students, they could not believe how they were getting this knowledge. Patanjali stayed behind the curtain and he transmitted his knowledge to the 1,000 gathered, and each of them absorbed this knowledge. Everybody had to stay in the hall till he finished. He said that he would put a screen in- between him and his students, and told them that nobody was to lift the screen, or leave. So 1,000 people gathered south of the Vindhya Mountains to listen to him. Patanjali said that he was not going to discuss the Yoga Sutras unless 1,000 people got together. Hence Patanjali came to this earth to give this knowledge of yoga which came to be known as the Yoga Sutras. When the Rishis approached Him, He gave them Adishésha (the symbol of awareness), who took birth in the world as Maharishi Patanjali. Vishnu was lying on the bed of snakes - the serpent Adishésha with a 1,000 heads. Sometimes it is not just physical illness, but mental and emotional illness too that needs to be dealt with. Anger, lust, greed, jealousy etc. How does one get rid of all these impurities? What is the formula? They also wanted to know what to do when people got sick. Once upon a time, long ago, all the Munis and Rishis approached Lord Vishnu to tell him that even though He (incarnated as Lord Dhanvanthari) had given them the means to cure illnesses through Ayurveda, people still fell ill. We will begin with a story, the greatest and most effective way of conveying knowledge.
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