Samskaras – The Subtle Registers of Your Being, How to Access Them, How to Change Them

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hi today krishna my name is gary daridas and welcome back to my channel and today the topic is a very important topic in yoga philosophy especially if you're into the yoga sutras patanjali's yoga sutras which is a topic of some scars and it's going to explain to you what a samskara is and why you should learn about it why it's important so some scars are subliminal registers we have it would be the little bits of information that are held in our unconscious and the idea that patanjali explains in the yoga sutras is very interesting because he says that according to your some scars according to what the totality of your being one of these some scars will come up to your consciousness and that will form a thought and that thought will then form other thoughts and actions and every one of those are causing more some scars and that way you're in a process of a constant transformation which is actually not too different from what modern neuroscience is because neuroscience tell you that every second every input your brain gets changes your brain so the idea is somewhat there and also very important that this will let you know how transformation takes place why you can change why you can become a different person and again yoga and neuroscience are lined up very nicely like that because they both explain yeah that you know according to what you're doing what you're thinking what you're saying these things are changing of course neuroscience says the brain yoga says the self these things are changing who you are and therefore you can act differently and do their and think differently in the future because you're changing who you are right now so this is a good way for you to understand the some scars imagine you have this large bucket and in this bucket i'm putting in little small balls of different colors to keep it simple let's say i've got red white and blue okay i've got red and white and blue little balls little plastic balls inside a big bucket now if i have let's say 90 percent red balls and then i have five percent white and blue if i just dip my hand into there they're all mixed up right if randomly i just randomly pick out a ball it's probably going to be red right so that means that that nature of mine that's what's going to come up and when that ball comes up then it gets placed there again and you get more of red inside now it's going to be a little harder to get white and blue but now let's say that you start purposely conceiving of blue thoughts so you're creating more blue thoughts so it's you're eliminating it because you have a fixed number of thoughts so you're eliminating red and you're putting in a blue so if you keep focusing and working on blue after a while you're going to have let's say 50 blue and then only 30 red or 10 white you know so now you're changing the mix so now when you randomly a thought comes up it's going to be more you know there's a more chance it's going to be blue it needs to be like 90 red do you understand so as you change you can change anywhere in the system so the idea that yoga is presenting is that look if you take control of your mind now and you start focusing on the right things now to your choosing which you now consider to be the best things to focus on that will slightly and gradually change who you are so this of course in yoga what we're talking about is transcendental thoughts so thoughts that are going to free you from the samsara because there's some scar and there's some star they're kind of similar words samsara means the wheel of birth and death right and some scars are these registers we're talking about here so the more you focus on let's say you're doing a meditation you're doing your prayer you just focus your mind on krishna on radha krishna you're uplifting your mind transcendental divine thoughts you're focused on your so the more you're doing these yogic things focus on dharma and the here and now and the divine the more you're creating these registers of these moments which are then substituting the other registers you had there in the past and so potentially uses this term burning you you kind of you you burn this materialist register and you substitute it with a transcendental register a rest or transcend so what does that mean and that's what we experience as we progress and you can experience this maybe you have already and i certainly have and potentially describes this in the yoga sutras as you invest every day sadhana every day you're investing your time your focus you're uplifting your thoughts you're directing your mind you're in control of your mind so you're focusing it's mantras and prayers that changes who you are so that as time goes on you more naturally every day every you more naturally have yogic impulses what comes up unbound from inside you more and more becomes transcendental desires transcendental focuses transcendental action and thoughts you see you get more and more yogic because you're changing yourself gradually by forcibly creating such registers which will then add up to the to the big bucket of your unconsciousness of who you are also if you stop practicing if you let your mind wander every time your mind is wandering in materialness away from your divine self then you're creating more of the old you know egotistical registers of mundane reality so then you become more mundane again and that's why patanjali says in the yoga sutras as well that there is no like you know there's no time off he says either you're progressing or you're degrading yourself there is no middle point which is a really interesting concept no middle point either you're you're you're making yourself better or you're making yourself worse at every moment because of this because your thoughts either will be transcendental yogic or not and if they are yogic then you just became a little more yogic that's like the who you are your bucket is a little more yogic and if they're not then you just made it worse again so it's a very important concept of some scars and a very practical point of view i like you to give you that hope that of change of transformation how you can do it and how it seems so difficult in the beginning so you can understand in the beginning you have this giant bucket of your own consciousness and of course you go and you do a retreat or you know you've been doing a mantra meditation for like a week or a month it's great but you know that's a big bucket there with a lot of little some kind of register balls there so you know when you add like you have a million balls and you add five little balls it's not going to do much right but if you stick to it and you keep doing it and you increase your your practice you get more and more and you advance more and more and that's also why in again in the yoga sutras in potential yoga and also in bhagavad-gita but in the yoga sutras especially patanjali says the more you practice the more intense your practice the quicker you will advance it's just you know how many little balls can you put in there are you going to put three a day or 30 a day so that's your intensity of practice if i just you know purposely elevate my mind for five minutes a day that's okay great you know i just put like five little balls there of transcendence into my big bucket of my unconscious but if i you know put some effort and put like two hours three hours four hours then all of a sudden i'm pouring in like a lot of transcendental some scars into the bucket of my unconsciousness so more naturally i'm going to transform i'm going to change who i am and more naturally my mind will be yogic so very important cause it's fascinating it makes total sense fascinating concept i hope you understood let me know if you understood leave me if you have any questions let me know and please don't forget to share this video and as well because it really helps get the channel out helps youtube understand the content is worthwhile so i appreciate your help in that sense so thank you very much have a wonderful day krishna