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

The sutra which follows tells us about a new aspect of this very same process that takes place in the mind: sarvārthatā ekāgrata ...

What are the vrittis? They are not substances. They are not things to be seen with the eyes. They are only energies of the mind. ...

mind?” Sometimes we are more judicious in our judgement over ourselves, whereas at other times we are stimulated to give a long ...

and the subject is the subject; that they are two different things. We feel, “I like the object. Where is the point in liking th ...

But in this ekagrata parinama, this difficulty is obviated. We enter into the deeper layers of the object, so that its external ...

Even if one is a very happy person, one need not be in a state of yoga. Even if one’s mind is very calm and not disturbed by out ...

It is not somebody else that has caused this sorrow or pain to us. It is the reaction of the law that has taken its shape in the ...

be reborn even without our asking for rebirth. We are not asked whether we would like to be reborn. Nobody is going to ask us an ...

Every character, every process, every activity is a modification of certain aspects of prakriti. Therefore, inasmuch as prakriti ...

product, or evolute. That everything is in the form of a child of that original mother of things is a thing not known to anybody ...

the law every moment of your life, and then it reacts upon you and compels you to follow that law, which is the cause of your ex ...

Before we can understand the method of samyama—the practice of yoga proper for the solution of this mystery—an analysis is given ...

The property which is inherent in the original substance is the cause for the variety of things which is visible to the senses. ...

of stone? Infinite—no number—because anything can be carved out of it. Likewise, infinite capacities are present in the original ...

The way in which this obstruction in the form of the ego is removed is twofold— subjective as well as objective. The subjective ...

The relationship of the mind to the objects is a very important thing to be taken into consideration at the time of the practice ...

The yoga process here, in this great endeavour known as samyama, attempts to cut at the root of this problem by a direct focusin ...

mind, or which is its motive—just as an artist has a particular pattern present in his mind before he paints a picture with ink ...

time, and we will be thinking that we are another person—this person has gone. We were another person in the past, we are one th ...

It is very surprising how consciousness can assume such a shape—a shape which is really not there, and which is totally unsubsta ...