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

object. The breath changes its course, speech trembles, and even the movement of the bloodstream is affected. The temperature ma ...

perception of any kind. Inasmuch as for the jiva the individual perception means an externalised form of knowledge, and because ...

also is there, but it is indistinct—this is the tanmatra. ‘Tanmatra’ means the subtlety of essence of that which is to be subseq ...

he presses himself forward and has the boldness to attack us, and we cannot visibly perceive this background behind the object t ...

unities. It is, first of all, caught up in diversity, and in this consciousness of diversity it has forgotten the unity that is ...

object. What is this insight? It is the recognition of the fact that any kind of empirical relationship is brought about by the ...

incapacity to relate itself to any other similar object. There are many electrons— which means to say, they are divisible bodies ...

This impossibility of knowing the nature of consciousness arises on account of our trying to define consciousness in terms of th ...

timeless, infinite and eternal, it should follow that it should include within itself all the contents of experience, also. The ...

Drasta drisimatrah: The seer is ‘pure seeing’. That is the meaning. The seer is made up of ‘pure seeing’, and what we call the s ...

the consciousness—is superior to objects. The superiority has been undermined by the impetuousness of the senses. They have been ...

becomes a teacher, an enlightener, when it can also provide an insight into the causes thereof. Why is it that this experience h ...

the time of an experience. We know our mind, and we also know the object which has caused the reaction in our mind. If we are ca ...

proportions. We cannot know that it is made up of these components because of the emphasis we lay on the product alone and not t ...

is pleasurable, because we have not understood what it implies and why it has come to us. This is the ignorance aspect of the ex ...

process of evolution. Also, the very fact that we are aware of it shows that we have some connection with it. If we are totally ...

Hence, the perception of an object is of a very peculiar character. It is not merely a meaningless perception. It is a conscious ...

body, has fulfilled its purpose of the fulfilment of a set of urges, its work is over. Then it is cast out and there is the reco ...

dvesha go, and then everything goes—all bondage ceases. It is raga and dvesha that are the causes of the perception of things. W ...

Thus, in a highly philosophical sense, we may say that every perception is an attachment. And, it is held that a total absence o ...