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

beings that will revolt, because a wrong does not mean wrong done against a human being merely. It is not the violation of a soc ...

Though physically we have not done something, mentally we have committed a violation that will bring retribution. Actions which ...

her Mother Nature, she’s a very severe mother, not an ordinary one, and will not exempt us from any of our wrong deeds. Duḥkha a ...

should be also positivity, which means to say there should be affection. Even if we do not do harm, we may not be doing any good ...

atmosphere in which one lives begins to be felt. The sutra in this connection is: ahimsāpratiṣṭhāyām tatsannidhau vairatyāgaḥ (I ...

by everyone. Even inanimate things will know what this language is. It is the language of nature itself. It is not Sanskrit, or ...

everything. It is the asking for things that is the bane of life, because asking for a thing is the restriction of our demands t ...

objects and that there the matter ends, and nothing else is happening. This is not the case. When we cease thinking of objects b ...

themselves in the mind—all things with which it is really connected, even the past. Even the previous lives through which one ha ...

elimination of rajas and tamas to that extent. There is, therefore, a consequent manifestation of sattva, and immediately concen ...

they evaluate things, and the reactions they set up in respect of their perceptions. All this is what is known as ahara, or the ...

type of joy in oneself, because they indicate that one is progressing correctly. The powers that we acquire and the energies tha ...

These three methods—tapas, svadhyaya and Ishvara pranidhana—are really the training of the will, the intellect and the emotion. ...

The result that follows is a resting of the mind in itself, inasmuch as the omnipresence of God prevents the mind from going to ...

Likewise, there are certain conditions to which we are subject, and if we are completely ignorant of the presence of these condi ...

necessities which call for other necessities of a similar nature—namely, the position of the emotions, thoughts, volitions, memo ...

strike a via media where there is a little bit of effort in keeping the body in position, and yet not as much of an effort as re ...

thinking nothing, let there be merely sitting. That itself is an achievement. The usual opinion of teachers of yoga is that if w ...

prayatna saithilya, or the relaxation of the system. The effort should be relaxed so that we do not feel the effort in sitting. ...

meditation that we are speaking of here, but a mood that the mind is expected to develop by a sense of satisfaction that it has ...