YOGA SUTRAS: Commentary by a Modern Mystic. योगसूत्रचूर्णि:

It was the very same period the year before that Iwas in Varanasi  and in this blog of mine I was blissfully and deliberately reflecting u...

In scope of discussing sloka 1.17 about samprajna and its relation to vritti-nirodhah I’ve been asked a good question about the mechanism...

For those readers who in this multitude of articles might havelost the general thread and the logic of YS doctrine exposition Ishall put...

I hope the reader remembers that the lines 1.12-1.16 were dedicated to abhyasa and vairagya. In particular, the line 1.15 gave an extens...

Notwithstanding the apparent simplicity of the sloka 1.17 it has a fundamental value in scope of Patanjali’s concept of Yoga and in under...

Let us come back to the text of Yoga Sutras. The sloka 1.17 introduces the category of Samprajna(ta). वितर्कविचारानन्दास्मितारूपानुगम...