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

helplessly, as it were, driven forward by forces of which we have no consciousness, then it becomes a blind activity, a kind of ...

Thus, there is no abolition of personality, at any time, throughout the processes or series of births and deaths of the individu ...

towards the objects. We are not aware, even now, that the mind is gravitating towards objects, because we have become one with t ...

forcefully, so powerfully, that we cannot have even the idea that there is another realm existing. When we are liberated from th ...

years together, even towards the fag end of one’s life if the power of the will is strong enough. But even Homer nods, as they s ...

impression created in the mind by the power of the meditation which we have been practising at other times. If the meditation ha ...

directly face and confront the powers of nature. That is no use because, after all, nature is the face of God. The forces of nat ...

hurdles we have to pass through in the practice of yoga. They are all epic descriptions of these obstacles we have to face and t ...

properly. The presence of the physical body obstructs the union that we seek with the object, which is the reason for this searc ...

Chapter 108 INFINITY COMING BACK TO ITSELF We are now about to conclude our study of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali; and the Kaiva ...

downpour with dark clouds and wind from all sides. It will look like a new life has come, as if a person who has been suffering ...

object, or the jurisdiction of the existence of the object, gets restricted, the extent of knowledge is correspondingly expanded ...

ignorance, or avidya. The dirt is kama, krodha, lobha and other vrittis of the mind. All these get eliminated automatically on a ...

were, if we would like to call it so, so that the objects become nil. There is no object in front of consciousness. Prakriti has ...

towards this end that the consciousness is driven by the experience of dharma- megha samadhi. Chapter 109 THE CONDITION PRIOR TO ...

We have studied so much about this practice, but when the last point is reached—the question of liberation is raised—masters and ...

abolish the individuality, because prakriti seems to have tied itself into several knots before it became what the human individ ...

require us to undergo. There is such a thing called sadyo mukti—an instantaneous liberation. This also seems to have some point ...

A moment is a part of time, and the counterpart of it is the time taken (again, we have to use the very same word, because nothi ...

of the succession of events, and was always subjected to the modifications of its own vrittis and was shifting its attention fro ...