Light On The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali – The In-Between Balance

III.9- Study of the silent moments between rising and restraining subliminal impressions is the transformation of consciousness towards restraint My understanding of this verse may be vague. However, the words like restraining and restrain seems to be too much of effort. If I may understand it correctly, the practitioner here by observing the moments between [...]

Light On The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali – 因果

IV.9 -”life is a continuous process, even though it is demarcated by race, place, and time. Due to the uninterrupted close relationship between memory and subliminal impressions, the fruits of actions remain intact from one life to the next, as if there were no separations between births” This verse reminds me of a session of [...]

Light On The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali – Disassociation

II.17 – ” The cause of pain is the association or the identification of the seer with the seen and the remedy lies in their dissociation.” My understanding of this verse is such that when we associate what we see with our inner-self, pain arisen. Pain, could come in many forms, it could be sadness, [...]

Light On The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali – Our Fluctuating Consciousness

I.4 “at other times, the seer identifies with the fluctuating consciousness” This sutra identifies itself with my daily efforts to move away from the consciousness. Amidst the everyday hours to settle “bread and butter” for myself and my daughter, I constantly notice the surfacing of ego, intelligence and analysis. When I find the time to [...]

Light On The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali – What is a ROGI?

( 11.46-48) I prefer reading the Sutras or Bhagavad Gita after doing my morning practice. After Savasana, I sat quietly and then let my fingers lead me to the ‘Sutra of the day’. The first word that caught me was Yogi. As I read the sentence backwards, I saw ‘Rogi’. I wonder how many of [...]

Bhagavad Gita – The Three Natures

Vol 2 Chapter XVIII Verse 37-39 (37) That which is born of the clear perceptive discrimination of Self-realization- that happiness is called static. It seems like poison at first, but like nectar afterwards. (38) That happiness which springs from the conjunction of the senses and matter is termed rajasic. It seems like nectar in the [...]

Bhagavad Gita-Yoga is no religion

Vol 2 Chapter VII Verse 21-22 (21) Whatever embodiment (a God-incarnate, a saint, or a deity) a devotee strives faithfully to worship, it is I who make his devotion unflinching. (22) Absorbed in that devotion, intent on the worship of that embodiment, the devotee thus gains the fruits of his longings. Yet those fulfillments are [...]

Bhagavad Gita – The Yoga Practitioner

Vol 2 – Chapter VI Verse 37-39, Verse 40 Arjuna said: (37)O Krishna! What happens to a person unsuccessful in yoga – one who has devotedly tried to meditate but has been unable to control himself because his mind kept running away during yoga practice? (38) Doesn’t the Yogi perish like a sundered cloud if [...]

Bhagavad Gita – ‘All Men and Women are actors and Actresses’

Vol 1 Chapter 3 Verse 25-26 (25)O descendant of Bharata (Arjuna), as the ignorant performs actions with attachment and hope of reward, so the wise should act with dispassionate non attachment, to serve gladly as a guide for multitudes (26) Under no circumstances should the wise disturb the understanding of ignorant person who are attached [...]

The Bhagavad Gita – Rambling Mind, Evil Omens..

Volume 1 chapter 1 verse 27,28-30 Be holding all those relatives arrayed before him, the son of Kunti(Arjuna) became filled with deep sympathy and spoke dolefully: O Krishna, seeing these, my relatives met together desirous of battle, my limbs are falling and my mouth is parched. My body trembles ;my hair stands on end. The [...]