Kaivalya-pāda (Introduction)

Osho explains^[1] the method to understand Kaivalyapāda.

He says,

“The problem is that the whole humanity exists as if under a certain hypnosis. It is as if you have all been hypnotized and you don’t know how to get out of it. All our life-styles are insane, neurotic. They create more misery than they create happiness. They create more frustration than they create fulfillment. The whole way you live brings you more and more, closer and closer, nearer and nearer to hell. Heaven is just a desire; hell is almost a reality. You live in hell and you dream about heaven. In fact, heaven is a sort of tranquilizer: it gives you hope–but all hopes are going to be frustrated. The hope of heaven simply creates a hell of frustration. Remember this; only then will you be able to understand Patanjali’s last chapter, Kaivalyapāda.

What is art of liberation? The art of liberation is nothing but the art of de-hypnosis, how to drop this hypnotic state of mind, how to become unconditioned, how to look at reality without any idea of creating barrier between you and the real; how to simply see the reality without any desires in eyes; how simply to be without any motivation. That is all yoga is about. Then suddenly which is inside you, and always has been inside you from very beginning is revealed.”