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...
life heart self
The heart and mind can find peace and harmony by contemplating the transcendental nature of the true self as supreme effulgent life.
dream heart giving
Peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart.
kindness heart healing
Where the heart is full of kindness which seeks no injury to another, either in act or thought or wish, this full love creates an atmosphere of harmony, whose benign power touches with healing all who come within its influence. Peace in the heart radiates peace to other hearts, even more surely than contention breeds contention.
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.
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.
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.