The Study And Practice Of YogaAn Exposition of the Yoga Sutras of PatanjaliVolumeII

TTHHEE SSTTUUDDYY AANNDD (^) PPRRAACCTTIICCEE OOFF YYOOGGAA (^) AN EXPOSITION OF THE YOGA SUTRAS OF PATANJALI VOLUME II – SADHAN ...

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Chapter 52: Yoga Practice: A Series of Positive Steps SADHANA PADA Chapter 53: A Very Important Sadhana Chapter 54: Practice Wi ...

Chapter 52 YOGA PRACTICE: A SERIES OF POSITIVE STEPS The great adventure of yoga is not easy for those whose minds are distracte ...

Thus, a thing in this world is neither good nor bad. We cannot make any remark about any object in this world wholly, unlimitedl ...

The famous exhortation on moderation in the sixth chapter of the Bhagavadgita is to the point. Yuktāhāra-vihārasya yukta-ceṣṭasy ...

life is the Absolute, and not the relative. The experience of the relative, the attachment of the mind in respect of the relativ ...

The Self, or the atman as we call it, is a principle of identity, indivisibility and non- externality or objectivity. It is that ...

The percentage of attachment that you have towards these things also has to be properly understood. What is the percentage of lo ...

and quality, as would be necessary under the conditions of one’s own personality in that particular stage of evolution, with the ...

objects of sense. If this leakage is blocked and prevented, the energy wells up within like the waters of a river that will rise ...

The mind needs variety, no doubt, and it cannot exist without variety. It always wants change. Monotonous food will not be appre ...

connection wherein he points out that self-control—the control of the senses, austerity, or tapas—together with svadhyaya, or st ...

accumulated by the soul. There should not be a doubt whether it will yield fruit. We should not expect fruit in the way we would ...

His supremacy—constitute a very important sadhana by itself, which is the meaning of this single sutra: tapaḥ svādhyāya Īśvarapr ...

pressure of practice, abhyasa, and the accompanied vairagya. Samādhi bhāvanārthaḥ kleśa tanūkaraṇārthaśca (II.2) is the sutra. F ...

This is what we are all in—everyone, without exception. It looks as if we are crowned king now, and we are in a very secure posi ...

forest; and why not us? We have to go to the forest. No one can escape this great, terrific passage of the soul towards its ulti ...

go to the objects. Before trying to be positively healthy in our body, we have to see that we do not become worse in our sicknes ...