Patanjali
Patanjali
Patañjaliis a proper Indian name. Several important Sanskrit works are ascribed to one or more authors of this name, and a great deal of scholarship has been devoted over the last century or so to the issue of disambiguation...
harm feels steadfast
When you are steadfast in your abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward yourself and others, all living creatures will cease to feel fear in your presence.
The cause of suffering is that the unbounded Self is overshadowed by the world.
bliss failure permanent pure
Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self.
beyond born divisions farthest finest knowledge takes time
Knowledge born of the finest discrimination takes us to the farthest shore. It is intuitive, omniscient, and beyond all divisions of time and space.
yoga mind fluctuation
Yoga is the stilling of the fluctuations of the mind.
inspirational life opposites
The activities of the liberated soul transcend the pairs of opposites.
money greed wake-up
When there is firm conquest over covetousness, they who have conquered it wake up to the how and why of life.
yoga mind mindfulness
Yoga is mind wave quieting.
yoga moments present-moment
Yoga takes you into the present moment, the only place where life exists.
yoga purpose-of-life
Yoga is a practical method for making one's life purposeful, useful and noble.
mind identity achieve
Just as the pure crystal takes color from the object which is nearest to it, so the mind, when it is cleared of thought-waves, achieves sameness or identity with the object of its concentration.
yoga vision doubt
The obstacles that distract thought are disease, apathy, doubt, carelessness, indolence, dissipation, false vision, failure to attain a firm basis in yoga, and restlessness.
spiritual energy fantasy
Sexual activity, and the thoughts and fantasies of sex, use up a great portion of our vital force. When that force is conserved through abstinence, it becomes sublimated as spiritual energy.
spiritual yoga reading
The Yoga of action, leading to union with the soul is fiery aspiration, spiritual reading and devotion to Ishvara.