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This garland of yoga scriptures, woven together as a collection of yoga insights, can be easily worn around the “neck”. This concise statement makes this yoga scripture comparable to a sutra in many ways.
Furthermore, this concise statement also exemplifies the relationship between the ocean and a drop, and the tree and a seed. Just as the ocean contains a drop and the drop contains the ocean, and the tree contains a seed and the seed contains the tree, the same applies here. It is like this - the composition of the ocean is the same as the composition of a drop. The elements that are present in the ocean are also present in each drop in the same proportion. The elements that are found when analyzing the entire ocean are the same elements found when analyzing a single drop in the same proportion. The entire ocean has a certain taste, and each drop has the same taste. Tasting a single drop is like tasting the entire ocean. That is why it is said that the ocean contains a drop and the drop contains the ocean. Similarly, the composition of the entire yoga scripture, which is like an ocean, is the same as the composition of this concise, rich, drop-like yoga scripture. The spiritual elements that are present in the ocean of discourse are also present in this drop-like yoga scripture in the same proportion. The elements that are found when analyzing the entire ocean of scriptures are the same elements found when analyzing this drop-like yoga scripture in the same proportion. The entire yoga scripture ocean, which is an undivided, non-dual, supreme, nectar-like, ocean of consciousness, has a supreme, nectar-like taste, and this drop-like yoga scripture also has the same taste. Whoever tastes this yoga drop has tasted the entire ocean of scriptures. Thus, the entire “ocean of discourse” has been condensed into this supreme, nectar-like, “drop” of scriptures - it has been condensed, making its taste accessible to all. The wise saying of Shri Rajchandraji is:
“Just as the ocean of discourse is condensed into a drop,
So too is the attainment of the fourteen previous births.” - Shrimad Rajchandraji.
The composition of a tree is the same as the composition of a seed in miniature form. The limbs and branches of the tree, which are manifest, are represented in the seed in an unmanifest form. The tree produces the seed, and the seed produces the tree - this is the eternal cycle. The essence of the entire tree is contained in a single seed.
That is why it is said that the tree contains a seed and the seed contains the tree. Similarly, the entire scripture is like a vast tree, and this concise, essence-filled yoga scripture is like a seed. The composition of the yoga scripture tree is the same as the composition of this concise yoga scripture. The limbs and branches of the yoga scripture tree…