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

are aware of the existence of the world. And so, we are controlled by the laws of this world, and the world is not merely a phys ...

Chapter 70 THE SEVEN STAGES OF PERFECTION Tad abhāvāt saṁyogābhāvaḥ hānaṁ taddṛśeḥ kaivalyam (II.25): The absence of ignorance w ...

way we can think. There is no other way of thinking. Our life should be a continuous process, aviplava, of the manifestation of ...

joys of the world, one day or the other. The first step is the awareness or discovery that pain is present and it cannot be avoi ...

there is a dismantling of the house of the gunas. As I mentioned, all the material of the house of this individuality is pulled ...

the sunlight cannot enter the rooms of a house if all the doors and windows are closed. Even if the sun is blazing outside, we m ...

Thus, these limbs of yoga—the eight limbs especially mentioned in Patanjali—are the eight degrees of mastery which consciousness ...

Chapter 71 THE EIGHT LIMBS OR STAGES OF YOGA Yogāṅgānuṣṭhānāt aśuddhikṣaye jñānadīpṭiḥ āviveka-khyāteḥ (II.28): The practice of ...

being, so that we are trying to tread a path which is far removed from the common ways of the man of the world. This is the reas ...

capable of producing reactions, as happened in the case of many saints of the past who were mortified by society on account of t ...

imply thereby that the qualities which are not dominant are totally absent. Every stage of yoga is every other stage, and so we ...

outside oneself; and we know very well that there is nothing outside the Real or the Ultimate Truth. These insistent urges are t ...

characteristic of human nature. As a matter of fact, they are the ways in which we become actively conscious of the vulnerable s ...

this wonderful instance. But all that failed. It did not work because we cannot protect a person like that, by putting them in a ...

conditions should be chosen, the social atmosphere should be properly selected, and a proper mood of the mind also should be the ...

The worthwhileness of a thing does not depend upon our mere notion about it. One has to pass through it by experience. This expe ...

conditions outside, and an absence of a proper spiritual guide. We have all these problems, so how are we going to take up the p ...

Īśvarapraṇidhānāni niyamāḥ—are less important than the yamas, as the yamas are more difficult to practise because they lay the f ...

be absolute—which means to say, there should be no proviso or conditional clause. There is no limitation of these principles eit ...

prophylactic that is provided so that the instinct may not come at all. It is not that we should treat the disease after it has ...