The Unshakeable Yoga

Yoga is of two types – shakeable (Kampit ) and unshakeable (Avikampa). You get joy practicing your religious routine, but the joy is gone when you stop or miss it. You meditate and slowly attain mental calm and attain the state of Samadhi. This is very good, but the state of Samadhi will not last forever. You will come out of meditation. Then you will see the world in all its vagaries and your yoga (union with God ) is shaken.

Behold the world but keep reminding yourself of the Supreme Lord in the depth of the manifest world. Theis is unshakeable yoga, Avikampa Yoga. When I am alone, I am absorbed in meditation; I am blissful here as well. I go through the normal actions and transactions, all for carrying out the will of the Lord, as all is He. Just as the sweetness of sugar permeates a sweet meat, so also behold the Absolute Truth-Consciousness and Bliss in all that you see. Know that the sapidity in water is that of the Lord (I am the sapidity in water, O Arjuna); if you see light, behold the Lord in it – I am the light in the moon and the sun; -I am the sacred syllable ‘Om’ in all the Vedas; -I am the sound in ether, and virility in men. Come to Jnanayoga in this way. One practicing Dhyana yoga or meditation may start contemplating divine knowledge. As sweetness permeates sugar, ether permeates objects and individual, so is the consciousness all-pervading.

There was saint who had scaled great spiritual heights. He would practice penance in a cave at Gangotri for as ling as twelve years at a stretch. People from for off villages used to come for his darshana. When their faith increased, the devotees said, “Babaji! Children come to their father. But the father too should pay a visit to the children once in a while. Is kind bless us with your darshana.”

The sincere aspirations of the people made the saint accede to their request, and he said,” “Ok, I shall come.” The date was fixed. The villagers made elaborate arrival. People from nearby villages also gathered at the venue.

In a crowd of devotees, there are usually some naïve, thoughtless people. While jostling for Babaji’s darshana, one of them stepped on Babaji’s foot. Babaji was wearing wooden sandals and he was wearing shoes. The pain angered Babaji but he soon regained his composure. Nevertheless he declared, “ I will not come to villages henceforth. My sādhanā has not yet attained perfection. I will perfect my sādhanā and then only come to the villages.”

Some old men of the hills cautioned him, “do you want to go back to the cave for perfection your sādhanā? Where there is no disturbance, you will attain steadiness in yoga, but you should aim at a state where your bliss remains intact even in the midst of disturbances, noise, and jostling by stupid people like us. Not in the cave.”

How great was the wisdom of those householders! And equally great was the simplicity of the saint. He didn’t go to the caves, but turned to where there was disturbance. This bears testimony to what Lord Kiishana says:

‘He … becomes established in the unshakeable yoga of devotion; there is no doubt about it.’ (The Gita 10.7)

Do engage yourself in meditation and Samadhi and attain an elevated state,and perfect it by living in solitude; but the consciousness of the elevated sate should not desert you even if you are in depraved outer conditions. You should be capable of not being affected by the outwardly poor circumstances. Even in an outwardly lowly state, your inner being should be in the same elevated state.


In the beginning, it requires constant practice. Suppose, you have cut a branch of a tree and you are holding it in your hand. If you leave it, it will fall down. Now you plant the branch in the earth. It takes roots and becomes a tree, or otherwise it gets fixed to the ground. Now what do you do? You don’t have to hold it up. Now, it stands by itself. In fact, if you need to pluck leaves, flowers or fruits, you bend the branch and it goes back to its position as soon as you release it.

I got enlightened by the grace of my Gurudev. Yet I lived in solitude for some time and the enlightenment got matured. Now I bring my mind to the world, but as soon as the requirement is over it goes back to the same state. You do not have to meditate. Suppose you visited a place as a guest and while coming hack, forget to bring back some highly precious object of yours. Now you have left that place, but while traveling or shopping or doing any other thing, it is constantly in your mind that your precious object is lying there and you will get it. Similarly, after attaining Self-Bliss and getting established in it, one is spontaneously and effortlessly reposed in God even while engaged in worldly activities. This is the state in which you get the real joy of living. This state is described by Saint Kabir in the following words:

‘O Saint Kabir in the following union is best.
I shut not my eyes,
I close not my ears,
I don not mortify my body,
I see with eyes open and smile,
And behold His beauty everywhere.’

This is called perfect realization, the state of liberation while living- the state of a perfect soul! Blessed are the great souls who have attained perfection and blessed are those hearts which are imbued with faith and devotion to them!
v It is a grievous sin to question the motive behind the Sadguru’s actions.
v Devotion and seva to the Sadguru are the two oars of the boat of sadhana, whicfh help a disciple cross the ocean of worldly bondages.
v It is impossible to judge a Sadguru. One himself needs to be a vivekanada to recognize another Vivekananda. It takes Budha to appreciate another Buddha to appreciate another Buddha. The mystery of Rama Tirtha can truly be realized by another Rama Tirtha alone.
Therefore, stop trying to test a Sadguru; just accept Him to be fuly acdomplished, the ultimate God, the Supreme Being. Then and only then, will you attain true will-being in life.
v Regain your lost divinity and transcend all dualities such as sorrow and happiness, birth and death, etc. through the practice of Gurubhaktiyoga. yoga.