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

this motive is the liberation of the soul, though it is brought about by certain processes which are called experiences, or bhog ...

There is a partial experience of the soul in ordinary subjectivity. The soul is not located in our body alone. It is all-pervadi ...

The very same truth is now revealed by another sutra where Patanjali says: krama anyatvaṁ pariṇāma anyatve hetuḥ (III.15). The m ...

us, we will be taken to a surprising conclusion: there is no such thing as a meditator. The meditator does not exist, because wh ...

relationship with the future event that is going to take place. This is only possible by the loosening of the knot of asmita. Th ...

Chapter 96 POWERS THAT ACCRUE IN THE PRACTICE OF SAMYAMA The aphorisms of the Vibhuti Pada that follow, henceforward, pertain ma ...

Now, applying this technique, Patanjali tells us that we can control anything, whether it is visible or invisible, material or o ...

their presence in all these forms is hidden. It is these three gunas that, by some peculiar modification of themselves, enter in ...

These are, generally speaking, the objective powers that one gains. The subjective powers are mastery over the senses and the mi ...

laws operate in different countries. When one gains entry into a particular realm, one becomes one with the law that operates in ...

not even know that we have such powers. Only if we are rubbed hard will we know that the power is there. There is an anecdote wh ...

Suka was another, and so on. There are various kinds of yogis who lived in different conditions and circumstances, all wielding ...

of the two types of awareness and, therefore, we cannot understand what the difference is. Even the best of minds can fumble her ...

there is an abolition of all duration and time-consciousness. There is an extinction of the difference created by the time proce ...

absence of the consciousness of the distinction between the character of the mind and the nature of the purusha is called world ...

substance. One who has become the substance itself, as the substratum of all things, naturally gets endowed with this knowledge. ...

is moksha—sattva puruṣayoḥ śuddhi sāmye kaivalyam iti (III.56). These sutras have given us, in a concise manner, the principles ...

So is the case with these sutras. The Kaivalya Pada is a metaphysical disquisition of Patanjali, where we find his philosophical ...

we have evolved from the animal state? No. There is a change in intrinsic character. There is a transformation of quality. The h ...

senses and the ego. Where do these dangers come from? They come from certain encounters of the meditative individual. What does ...