Patañjali

The Regal Way to Realization

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  • Bakhyt Kadyrovahas quoted5 years ago
    The position [must be] steady and comfortable.
    47. By way of relaxing of all [tension] and meditating on ānanta [one has a comfortable position.]
    48. From this [right position,] no assault by the pairs of opposites.
  • Bakhyt Kadyrovahas quoted5 years ago
    When [the yogi] becomes firm [in] non-possessiveness, he has knowledge of the why of re-birth.
  • Bakhyt Kadyrovahas quoted5 years ago
    The action (karma) of the yogi is neither white nor black, while it is threefold in the others.
  • Bakhyt Kadyrovahas quoted5 years ago
    doing saṁyama] on the center of the navel [one gains] the knowledge of the constitution of the body.
  • Bakhyt Kadyrovahas quoted5 years ago
    Concentration (dhāraṇā) is to fix the citta on one point.
    2. To be fixed uninterruptedly on this point is meditation (dhyāna).
    3. The same [meditation,] when it takes only the essential form of the object and not that of its mental representation, is called samādhi.
  • Bakhyt Kadyrovahas quoted5 years ago
    Egotism (asmitā) corresponds to the identification of the seer with the power of seeing [with the instruments of contact.]
  • Bakhyt Kadyrovahas quoted5 years ago
    That state of concentration called argumentative (savitarka) is mixed with speech, idea (meaning) and knowledge.
    43. When memory is purified and the mind loses its form and only the real knowledge of the object [of concentration] shines, one has the state of concentration without argumentation (nirvitarka).
    44. And thus are explained (referring to the two prior sūtras) also the argumentation and the without argumentation states in which subtle objects inhere.
  • Bakhyt Kadyrovahas quoted5 years ago
    Non-attachment is conscious mastery on the part of he who has stopped thirsting for visible and audible [revealed] objects.
    16. The supreme [detachment] is represented [also] by a complete freedom from the guṇas as the result of the awareness of the puruṣa.
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