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

and is not merely the goal of only one child. This is what the mind has to understand. But it will not understand. The objects i ...

yoga is the remedy unless we know what our problem is? So, what is the problem? What is the difficulty? What is the trouble? Why ...

properly understood, we will know how and why the object of concentration should be our ishta, because it is ‘that’ which can fu ...

First of all, the predominant thoughts have to be screened out from the various muddle and hotchpotch of ideas that occur to the ...

that there are no desires at all. When we live in a secluded place, absolutely alone for months and years, with no contact with ...

person. Likewise would be the condition of a person who takes to deep concentration and meditation without knowing how to conduc ...

level, called the svadisthana. Then it is that they get fired up with the desire for world uplift, the idea of bringing heaven o ...

on the conscious level, does the whole being operate, unless we are frightened out of our wits. If lions begin to attack us from ...

has also, correspondingly, very little control over the object. So, where can there be implementation? Where can there be materi ...

Taila dhara is the flow of the oil from one vessel to another. A continuous stream is there, and such should be the stream of th ...

When there is water in two tanks which are beside each other on the same level of ground, there is no movement of water from one ...

maintained. But how can there be only one object before us? Is it possible? Have we seen anywhere only a single object existing, ...

consciousness, what is known as asmita in yoga parlance—called the ego-principle, usually—is what obstructs this unity. There is ...

but will not allow the unity of the substantiality of the subject with the object because if that could be achieved, there would ...

the object, where is the question of desire? It is very strange—a psychological truth. We like something and we are bent upon br ...

psychological sense. Die to live. This is the great dictum of the master. If we have to live in the eternal, we have to die in t ...

experience—will cease in an instant, the moment we commune ourselves with things. There is a fear that joy will vanish and sorro ...

house, we run here and there, and run to the police and tell people, “Some thieves have come at night and stolen... .” We will f ...

be effected—we turn back and say, “No, goodbye” to the object. There is a peculiar fear, a suspicion and an adamantine self-affi ...

Likewise, in this condition of spiritual communion which is the goal of samadhi, there is a sinking of oneself into the bottom o ...