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

anything?” He threw the pot on the head of Siva and went away. Then it seems, a voice came, “Foolish man! You had not the patien ...

The inability to perceive the true state of affairs, the absence of an understanding of the correct relationship among things, c ...

the cause of cognition, experience, etc. notwithstanding the fact that they are evolutes. They have come further than the origin ...

your likes, etc. The reason is that we as individuals are constituted of certain forces which do not relate themselves directly ...

Paticcasamuppada, which finally amounts to saying that we are only to take the first step in the direction of a mistake, and the ...

Why are these reactions set up at all? Because of something inscrutable in this process, this reaction is mistaken for a desirab ...

of our sufferings is an ignorance with which we are perpetually associated, which is our constant friend, and whom we can never ...

called society, we keep quiet. But sometimes we become vehement, and then so many consequences follow—inwardly as well as outwar ...

These conditions are mentioned in this sutra, prasupta tanu vicchinna udārāṇām (II.4), which enumerates the four conditions of t ...

called desire. This desire is nothing but the urge of one individual to unite with another individual. This urge is what is refe ...

It is not true that we have perpetual love for a thing, and it is also not true that we have perpetual hatred. It depends upon h ...

binds the individual to phenomenal experience. There are principally four ways in which it works, though in detail it can work i ...

for years. All these are phenomena, no doubt. They are phenomena, not noumena— not realities. This incapacity on the part of the ...

value in objects of sense; the perception of joy in the contact of the senses with objects—these are the ways in which ignorance ...

higher mind has to come into operation. How it comes into operation, we cannot say. Sometimes it comes like a flash and opens up ...

confusion between two types of character: the character that belongs to Pure Consciousness, and the character that belongs to wh ...

It is not possible to deny all relationship, because of the fact of perception. If I am completely oblivious of the existence of ...

The absence of the consciousness of the infinitude of oneself is not an absence of all kinds of consciousness. It is an absence ...

project itself in a different manner altogether. So, the way in which this refracted medium functions determines the nature of o ...

Therefore, the individual sense, the asmita tattva, is a complex manufactured product. It is not an indivisible unitary being, a ...