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Hurdles on the Path of Yoga
Patanjali Yoga Sutras- Knowledge Sheet 24 Contd. from knowledge sheet 23 What are the obstacles on the path to discovery? They add up to nine. "Vyadhistyanasamshaya pramadalasyavirati bhrantidarshanalabdha bhoomikatvanavasthitatvani chittavikshepaste ... -
Free your mind
Is practice alone enough? Patanjali says that abhyāsa (practice) and vairagya (dispassion) need to go side by side. What is vairāgya? dr̥ṣṭānuśravikaviṣayavitr̥ṣṇasya vaśīkārasañjñā vairāgyam ॥15॥ दृष्टानुश्रविकविषयवितृष्णस्य वशीकारसंञ्ज्ञा वैराग्यम् ॥१५॥ ... -
Live in the Moment
Patanjali Yoga Sutras- Knowledge Sheet 13 Contd. from knowledge sheet 12 Dispassion does not take joy away from you. Dispassion gives you joy that nothing else can give you. There is a verse in Shankaracharya’s composition Bhaja Govindam: Kasya sukham na ... -
The states of meditation
Contd from Knowledge Sheet 13 vitarkavicārānandāsmitārupānugamāt saṁprajñātaḥ ॥17॥ वितर्कविचारानन्दास्मितारुपानुगमात् संप्रज्ञातः ॥१७॥ In the state of conscious awareness or saṁprajñātaḥ samadhi, special logic is accompanied by thoughts, by bliss and the ... -
The Enlightened One
Patanjali Yoga Sutras- Knowledge Sheet 11 Contd. from knowledge sheet 10 Often people who have dispassion keep blaming the world. They are afraid of the objects of senses and keep running away from them. They think it is a big temptation. How can somethin ... -
Honoring the Practice
Patanjali Yoga Sutras- Knowledge Sheet 8 Contd. from knowledge sheet 7 The moment is free, fresh and full. Being here this moment totally is abhyasa. The mind might try to go to the past, to smruti, or may try to go off to sleep and it can try to bring s ... -
Dealing with Modulations of the Mind
Patanjali Yoga Sutras- Knowledge Sheet 7 Contd. from knowledge sheet 6 Are you looking for proof? Debating within yourself? Are you hanging on to 'wrong knowledge' of how things are? You do not know how things are because the world is fluid. The ... -
Purpose of Yoga is to Be One With the Self
Patanjali Yoga Sutras- Knowledge Sheet 5 Contd. from knowledge sheet 4 Vrutti sarupyamitaratra You identify yourself with the modulations of the mind all the time.- Patanjali Yoga Sutra #4 What this means is that your mind is engaged in the outside world ... -
Story of Patanjali and the Gift of Yoga Knowledge- Part 2
Patanjali Yoga Sutras Knowledge Sheet 2 Contd. from knowledge sheet 1 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 to see the Master. Just as he did so, all 999 d ...
