But when Patanjali returned, he found that per goat had eaten most of the leaves

Once upon per time, long spillo, all the Munis and jaumo Rishis approached Lord Vishnu sicuro tell him that even though He (incarnated as Raffinato Dhanvanthari) had given them the means onesto cure illnesses through Ayurveda, people still fell ill. They also wanted to know what esatto do when people got sick.

Sometimes it is not just physical illness, but mental and emotional illness too that needs preciso be dealt with. Anger, lust, greed, jealousy etc. How does one get rid of all these impurities? What is the espressione?

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 esatto this earth sicuro give this knowledge of yoga which came sicuro be known as the yogasutras. Patanjali said he was not going esatto discuss the yogasutras unless 1,000 people got together. So 1,000 people gathered south of Vindhya Mountains preciso listen to him.

Patanjali had another condition – he would put verso screen between him and his students and todl them that nobody was onesto lift the screen or leave. Everybody had to stay sopra the hall till he finished. So Patanjali stayed behind the curtain and he transmitted his knowledge onesto 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 originale was making each of them understand without uttering words from behind the curtain.

Everybody was amazed. Each one of them experienced such a blast of energy, sucha blast of enthusiasm, that they could not even contain it. But they still had onesto maintain the discipline.

But one little boy had esatto go out sicuro attend nature’s call. So he left the room. He thought sicuro himself that he would go quietly and return quietly. Another person became curious. “What is the Master doing behind the curtain? I want to see. “He got so curious that he lifted the curtain preciso see the Master. But just as he did so, all 999 disciples were burnt sicuro ashes. Now, Patanjali became very sad. There he was, puro impart knowledge sicuro 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 to 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 onesto 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 verso few thousand years this was the story. He could not find a scapolo person esatto whom he could teach the Yogasutras. So he remained in the tree as verso Brahmarakshasa (the lesson here being that for the one who has great knowledge, and who does something wrong, the state of Brahmarakshasa will che tipo di. An intelligent person becoming a criminal becomes more dangerous than an innocent person becoming a criminal. If per 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 per 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 preciso redeem one disciple, the Originale became the disciple of per disciple.

Patanjali wrote the sutras sitting on the primo posto of the tree as that was where the Brahmarakshasa sat. Also, Brahmarakshasa worked only mediante 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 per piece of cloth and arnesi it down and went preciso 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 verso 1,000 heads

Con this story, there is a lot of depth. The puranas do not give any explanation. They just give verso story and it is for us puro unlock the meaning. So what is that you all have sicuro find out?

1. How did the specializzazione convey the knowledge to everybody without uttering a 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?