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

to manifest. These weaknesses are those which pertain to the senses and the ego. The senses vehemently assert the reality of an ...

through the practice of yoga. Whatever be the perceptions, whatever be the delights that may present themselves, they have to be ...

Thus, great caution is given by Patanjali himself that one who is not sufficiently equipped with the requisites of vairagya will ...

THE KAIVALYA PADA BEGINS Chapter 99 THE ENTRY OF THE ETERNAL INTO THE INDIVIDUAL We are now at the Kaivalya Pada, which deals wi ...

certain vibrations in the system and stimulate the nerves, and allow the concentration of the mind. This is a very peculiar way ...

How this happens is mentioned in the next sutra: jātyantara pariṇāmaḥ prakṛtyāpūrāt (IV.2). The powers of nature are permanently ...

Thus, what is yoga? Yoga is nothing but an endeavour in the direction of the increase of sattva in oneself and a decrease of raj ...

mind. These two reactions cease, and something new altogether arises and comes into play when we become as natural as prakriti i ...

these subjects, inasmuch as they are references which pertain to higher experiences and are completely practical, and are not th ...

exhaustion of them by a quick experience. This nirmana citta is a term which signifies many aspects of this method adopted by th ...

Hence, these two sutras tell essentially this much: that the artificial minds created by the yogin, known as nirmana cittas, are ...

‘not white’; akrsna means ‘not black’. The karma of a yogin is neither white nor black, which means to say, it has no ethical ch ...

things as human beings do—and expect salvation. That is not possible. Salvation cannot be had unless we transcend the human cons ...

supporting agent which is called alambana. These four come together and produce a situation that is what is called karma. The ca ...

capacity to stir the senses into activity, that would have been a different thing altogether. But the objects are not such inert ...

earlier sutra: jāti āyuḥ bhogāḥ (II.13). These are the three consequences that follow from the action. What is this jati, ayuh, ...

place immediately. Yet the possibility is kept inside and our name is registered, as it were, to be taken up one day or the othe ...

asraya and alambana. The cause of all this trouble is our ignorance of Truth. I am repeating what I said already. What is ultima ...

The sense of agency in action arises on account of the asmita, in the language of Patanjali. These results of action follow from ...

feelings and intentions may be able to reveal the type of evolution which one has reached and the distance that one maintains at ...