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

whatever we call it, is a very peculiar situation that is created, and not a substance, as such. It is a condition which is brou ...

devolve upon this attitude of the mind. Any affirmation of independence on the part of an individual is the cause of the sorrow ...

philosophical background, or we may call it the psychological exposition, of the cause of pleasure and pain in life. Now, the su ...

This perception of a so-called solidity or substantiality in things is the cause of the running of the mind and senses towards o ...

individual. This is the lesson that we are given by the significant term ‘parinama’ as the source of the transient character of ...

There is a parinama, or a consequence of unhappiness, that follows happiness. This is something very strange. How can unhappines ...

us; it is only giving what we asked for. But, unfortunately, time has elapsed to such an extent that we have completely forgotte ...

everything is made up of these complexes called the klesas. They have also motivated another peculiar law, which is called the l ...

The way in which one reacts to the external conditions of life, normally speaking, is the nature of one’s person—and it is this ...

and not one will like us afterwards. So is the nature of the mind. When it likes a particular thing, the whole of the mind will ...

Chapter 64 DISENTANGLEMENT IS FREEDOM What is attempted through the practice of yoga is to gain an insight into the misconceptio ...

Then, we come to a distinct consciousness of our being something—at some place, in a particular manner, for a particular purpose ...

those objects which are within the purview of the mind, so there is a limited perception instead of cosmic perception. When the ...

The endeavour in yoga is to properly gain an insight into what has happened, what sort of involvement has taken place, and what ...

Therefore, a detached attitude—a scientific attitude, we may say—may be necessary for the purpose of knowing if there is any def ...

very perception of an object is erroneous, basically rooted in some mistake, the experiences that follow from that perception ca ...

frees itself from the urge of desire, for whatever reason, there is a temporary settling down of itself in itself, and we experi ...

so that no object can be in any particular state. When there is a preponderance of any particular aspect in an object, the corre ...

The purpose of this object is to bring about experience in the individual, and then liberate it from its clutches by the gradual ...

of exhausting the past karmas. That is called the agami karma, the kriyaman karma. Then this apavarga will not come. When even i ...