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

A time comes when we have to give a reply to it. It is a point which we reach, where a final settlement has to be made with this ...

will find that we have to face our own selves. Whom are we facing and encountering there? We are facing and encountering and fig ...

You first have to cease to be an ordinary human being. You have to be a little more than an ordinary human being to be able to f ...

there is no externality at all. Hence, there is no seeing, and the senses cease to function. No seeing, no hearing, no touching, ...

remember. That we are not prepared for it will be known at the last stage only, and not in the earlier stages. Every sadhaka is ...

Generally, we are afraid because we see something frightening. But when there is nothing to see, even then we are frightened. Th ...

concentration, meditation and samadhi have been defined in a single word by the author of the sutras—samyama. He does not use an ...

foot bodily individuality, which he has up to this time been regarding as the total reality of himself, he now exceeds the width ...

Thus, the meaning of this sutra, tajjayāt prajñālokaḥ (III.5), is that there is an identity of knowledge and being in the experi ...

observation of the details of the features of a personality is different from merely being acquainted with a person, even if it ...

This is all we can conceive when we cast our eyes on a government’s currency note. It is, for the non-critical attention of the ...

Now we go deeper still. Is there such a thing as wooden pulp? It is nothing but a heap of chemical substances. The wooden pulp i ...

tremendous gulf is created by the mind in its definitions. The definitions have so much meaning. What is a definition? It is not ...

from the associations that we have created in respect of it by thinking of it as lovable or not loveable, pleasurable or otherwi ...

Chapter 90 GENERATING THE MOOD FOR YOGA The eight limbs of yoga, beginning with yama and ending with samadhi, have been classifi ...

are the terms used by Patanjali to indicate the types or kinds of transformation which the mind passes through in its processes ...

Thus, there is this conflict going on inside when we start yoga practice. And nobody will know what is happening; only we oursel ...

from morning to night? Never! Always the mind is agitated. Though we may be thinking of some particular object or a work on hand ...

the restlessness, or the external vrittis, is the mood of yoga. We should be always in a tendency to meditate, just as there are ...

becomes primary; all that we do throughout our life, throughout the day, from morning to evening, becomes a contributory factor ...