MAHAYANA SUTRA
The second lecture - "The Attainment and the Perfection of Raja
Yoga" THE MOST IMPORTANT PRECEPT WHICH IS PROHIBITED

Through all I had talked, I think the most important thing is "not
to tell passive lie". The first thing you should do is "to
practice what you have decided or what you have said".
I recently practice 98%, but it seems that I speak 2% of lies
because I am too busy. There are 1 or 2 weeks of delayance for the
realization.
For example, I had promised to members that the Kyushu Branch
Center shall open at the beginning of September. Since the
contract will be at work from October 15th, it proves my weakening
of will for 45 days. The plan for building the headquarter at
Shizuoka is also being delayed because the price of the land is
extremely high.
Why do I announce such things to you and try to practice as it is?
I am trying to practice what I had declared. Since I give Shakti-
pat, there are possibility that my power of will is getting weaker.
Actually, there is influence of Shakti-pat manifesting. So I am
trying to recover the present state with all my effort.
OFFERING AS THE BASEMENT OF MERIT
What I had been talking about is the precepts so called Yama, the
prohibision. I am sure you know about the Niyama, the
recommendation. They are three types of offerings.
The first out of three offerings are the offering of money and
goods. There are three parts in the offering of money and goods.
The most meritorious offering is when you offer to the stream of
the truth. By this offering, you are sure to meet teh truth in
your next life. The practitioners of the truth naturally practice
the salvation activities. So they will give you power to overcome
hardships when it comes.
There are third type of offering which will not be so meritorious
to you. It is the social offering such as offering toward school,
public institution, or welfere. Some people think that it is
effective to give offering to-+ welfare organization. But the fact
is not so because such money will be used as the administration of
the organization like.
Now, the first was the offering of money and goods. Second is the
offering of comfort. To listen to other's suffering and to give
comfort to people at the time when one is most suffering by oneself
is the best type of offering of comfort. By this merit, somebody
is sure to appear in front of you to listen to your annoyance when
you are really suffering.
It won't be so much merit even if you listen to other's suffering
and give people the comfort when you are happy. I am not saying
that you shouldn't do it. I am saying that you should keep
practicing the offering of comfort even when you are suffering by
yourselves.
The third comes the offering of the law. The good offering of the
law is to transfer the truth directly, because there are
possibility to give wrong information if you put your own
comprehension to it though you haven't attained enlightenment yet.
So the best way is to let them read or listen to the books which
describes the truth such as "Initiation", "Beyond Life and Death",
or monthly magazine of AUM Shinrikyo. Or you can let tehm listen
to the cassette tape which speaks about the truth. These things
are the basement of offering of the law. The offering of the law
is the best merit of all.
If you thoroughly accumulate merit by these offerings, and observe
precepts which I had mentioned, your spiritual practice is sure to
develop in fast speed and the attainment of Raja Yoga will come to
you.
THE PROCESS AFTER RAJA YOGA
After the process of the perfection of Raja Yoga, one goes on to
the process of Kundalini Yoga. People who went into this process
is very energetic. Will is also strong.
In Kundalini Yoga, what is important is energy. In other words,
how one can preserve life energy.
Generally, the ones who had entered the spiritual practice of
Kundalini Yoga has strong sexual desire. This sexual desire is
equal to the desire to live. One will rise the energy of "the
desire to live", and break through the Sahasrara Chakra at the
crown of one's head. And the attainment of Kundalini Yoga is the
state when the energy had attained to the Causal world, and then to
Mahayana.
The Kundalini Yoga will be perfected if one kept widening the path
after that. At this time, there will be the state when there is no
lack of energy at all. At the same time, energy stimulates the
cerebrum and creates the special genious type of brain.
Shanti-Taishi (now, Sona-shi), Khema-Taishi (now, Maha-Khema
Seitaishi), or Rakushmii-Taishi (now Sakra-Seigoshi) say that they
used to be genious when they were small.
Then goes on to the process of Jnana Yoga. Here, one starts to
analize everything in the state of transcending sexual desires.
The true victor Sakyamuni attained self realization by analizing
everything in this universe, and attained enlightenment.
Today, I explained mainly on Raja Yoga. Tomorrow, I am planning
to give the explanation in detail about Kundalini Yoga. Let's
discuss about Jnana Yoga once again on day after tomorrow.

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