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

operates—and we cannot go outside the universe. We are inside the universe wherever we are. We may go to any realm or plane of e ...

very forbidding and formidable indeed when we look upon it as an observer from outside. The solution does not lie in observing t ...

Chapter 103 PUTTING AN END TO REBIRTH The attainment of liberation is equivalent to the cessation of the bondage of karma. It is ...

And, if we can remember a sutra that we studied earlier, we have already been told that everything is a modification of prakriti ...

same meaning in that object which it saw earlier, and then there is a different attitude of the mind in respect of the object. T ...

With this attitude of the mind, with this knowledge that is gained about the nature of the object in its essentiality, one shoul ...

future. There is no such thing as that. Who has made this compartment of past, present and future? There are no such compartment ...

asana, pranayama, dharana, dhyana and samadhi—which are only stages of the confronting of the problem at different levels of exp ...

position of an object in space, the isolated existence of the object—is regarded as a kind of temporary presentation before the ...

Patanjali tells us that it does not mean that the mind which is aware of an object creates the object. The object is not manufac ...

In every mental cognition there is a twofold activity that takes place simultaneously. In India, in the schools of Vedanta, for ...

sristhi—God’s creation. God creates the world, and the world that is created by God, or Ishvara, is the real nature of the world ...

objects. The light of the purusha is reflected through the minds of individuals, and the reason behind their perception of an ob ...

Chapter 105 ABSORPTION INTO UNIVERSAL SUBJECTIVITY While the mind is a very valuable instrument in the acquisition of knowledge ...

operations of the mind. The presence of something which is absolutely independent and transcendent to the mind has to be accepte ...

Also it is said, in another sutra, that the mind cannot perform two functions at the same time: ekasamaye ca ubhaya anavadhāraṇa ...

The yoga process is a very hard job because it is difficult to get over the limitations of the mind. All effort that we usually ...

and tell us, “My dear friends, you are not human beings.” But we will say, “We are human beings only; what else are we?” If some ...

For this a novel method has to be adopted, and that novel method is the very same one that was adopted by the cub in knowing its ...

It is a very peculiar situation in which the mind is placed. We are pulled from the earth side as well as from side of the heave ...