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

resentment by the horse. If we apply force with a drug or any kind of stimulant—even a forced will is a kind of stimulant only, ...

We begin to say that the pot is shining; this is what we generally say. What is shining is the light, not the pot. But the ident ...

compel it to contemplate an external object, in which case the mind is something like a slave of the senses; the master has hims ...

they were previously moving. This is the meaning of the term ‘cittasya svarupanukarah’: the energy returning to the power statio ...

the operation of certain obstructing karmas. Otherwise, what can be the explanation for our defeat in spite of our effort to the ...

withdrawal? Many questions arise due to a mix-up of philosophical doctrines, as well as practical difficulties. Some of them are ...

What is it about? We cannot run about higgledy-piggledy without understanding it. The purpose of the withdrawal of the mind or t ...

The pratyahara process is a healthy and positive process. It is not brought about by compulsion, or due to certain impediments t ...

The pain involved in pratyahara is the result of a love that the mind has for that object towards which it is wrongly moving. In ...

mind has been consciously withdrawn, which aspect is pointed out in a verse of the Bhagavadgita: rasavarjam raso’py asya paraṁ d ...

THE VIBHUTI PADA BEGINS Chapter 82 THE EFFECT OF DHARANA OR CONCENTRATION OF MIND At the very commencement of the Vibhuti Pada o ...

they be aligned in a particular manner; immediately they re-group themselves to stand, or sit, or do whatever it is, according t ...

concentration is mild, we will feel nothing. It looks as if nothing is happening. It will be like pouring water on a rock—it wil ...

conscious or unconscious, such a group exists, and this collective force is what is disturbed at the time of the concentration o ...

Hence, in dharana, or concentration, a wholesale and thoroughgoing fixing of the attention will not be possible at the very outs ...

inside. Wherever space is, there the point also is, because a point is nothing but a part of space. Where is the point of concen ...

in a very inadequate manner. We must, first of all, find out the condition of the mind in which we are, and the way in which we ...

Chapter 83 CHOOSING AN OBJECT FOR CONCENTRATION Deśa bandhaḥ cittasya dhāraṇā (III.1). Tatra pratyaya ekatānatā dhyānam (III.2). ...

The particular attention that the mind and the senses pay to a given object at a particular time is an indication of the prepond ...

an equal reality and value present there. Then there is no question of ishta or devata here. If there can be another ideal which ...