Light on Life: The Yoga Journey to Wholeness, Inner Peace, and Ultimate Freedom

dent ten years ago, the spontaneous recall of which may continue to trouble the present as latent, hidden impressions resurface. ...

such situations again by staying away. And in time laws and attitudes in those countries have changed so that others are no long ...

ever the consequences." Mind and memory reinvoke past experiences of pain and pleasure and equate them to the present situation, ...

ening and relaxing them. Through these conduits (nadi) there is a spread of awareness. Awareness is consciousness. Intelligence ...

them who are, as you will never notice any others. Yoga calls this mis­ perception, and it is a lot more dangerous and difficult ...

Kandasana Chapter 5 WISDOM The Intellectual Body (Vijnana) his chapter deals with the fourth layer of our being, the Intellec­ t ...

On the inner frontier of this fourth sheath lies the discovery of the individual soul (jivatman), that spark of divinity that re ...

wardly as well as outwardly. Touch is not only delicate, but intimate also. Do we not say about a moving experience, a book, a s ...

preying on them, but at the level of intelligence and consciousness, we are collaborating with them in a sacred rite, for the in ...

librium of the mind. We must now explore the nature of consciousness from the viewpoint of intelligence. The Lens of Consciousne ...

experience but tend to take for granted. Yoga says there is much to be learned from them as they too are patterns of thought wav ...

I have said that mind dances. It would also be true to say that mind leads us on a merry dance. If you want to get the best out ...

what the point is of studying them. Sleep is sleep, imagination is imag­ ination, and as regards the first two, well, sometimes ...

Discrimination is the knife edge of intellect, separating true from false, reality from unreality, using memory in such a way th ...

from the pleasure-seeking mind to the discerning intelligence, memory no longer digs pits of old habit for us to fall into but b ...

about words." The true poet had his feet on the ground. Never mind the idea, write it down. You can see how the five modificatio ...

dull after sleep, then that sleep has been tamasic. Disturbed, agitated sleep is rajasic. Sleep that brings lightness, brightnes ...

as soon as the moment is past. There is an old phrase "Sufficient to the day the evils thereof." It means we should contain even ...

gives rise to erroneous thought, words, and action. They are not harm­ less. Often, when we correct our misperceptions, we look ...

servient tasks, and that even if they did a man's job, they should receive less pay. Most people no longer believe this. The cli ...