Showing posts with label Yoga Sutras. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Yoga Sutras. Show all posts
Jul 23, 2016

Krakow Lectures 1. Yoga and Siddhis. Dominik Wujastyk

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I've made up my mind to write a number of articles dedicated to lectures given at Yoga Darsana, Yoga Sadhana conference in Krakow. I b...
Jan 27, 2016

Sutra 1.34. Breath control as a method of gathering chitta up

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The next line of Yoga Sutras does not involve any difficulty for translation, as well as for commentary and understanding.  प्रच्छर्दन...
Sep 22, 2015

The archetypes of wholeness and “energy loss”

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In the previous article dedicated to psychosomatics in Yoga Sutras I draw reader’s attention to the association between the state of “c...
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Jul 8, 2015

Sutra 1.31. The concept of psychosomatics in Yoga Sutras

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The next line of Yoga Sutras has also been in a way neglected by commentators, probably due to the fact that its translation is rather sim...
Jul 4, 2015

Sutras 1.29 - 1.30. «Obstacles to Yoga» and defence mechanisms of psyche

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The next two sutras of Patanjali, the lines 1.29 и 1.30, are dedicated to the so-called barriers in yoga:  ततः प्रत्यक्चेतनाधिगमोऽप्यन...

Sutras 1.27 - 1.28. The mechanisms of mantras effect (continuation)

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In addition to and in confirmation of the foregoing I shall adduce a popular article in which they give the results of the latest speech ...
May 29, 2015

Sutras 1.27 - 1.28. Sanskrit and mantra-yoga

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The following two lines of Yoga Sutras are dedicated to mantras and power of the sound. तस्य वाचकः प्रणवः ॥२७॥ 1.27. tasya vācakaḥ...

Sutra 1.25. Ishvara and the world tree. The metaphysics of plato

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The line 25 of Yoga Sutras compares Ishvara with a seed that contains omniscience (sarva-jnana-bidja): तत्र निरतिशयं सार्वज्ञबीजम् ॥ २...
Mar 24, 2015

Sutra 1.26. Learning from the universe. The problem of yoga schools classicality

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The next line of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras that we shall today consider continues the theme of Ishvara. स पूर्वेषामपि गुरुः कालेनानवच्छे...
Feb 2, 2015

The Fundamentals of sanskrit grammar

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Whenever someone suggests that you translate Yoga Sutras using only a dictionary and without knowing enough about Sanskrit grammar – don...
Aug 29, 2014

Sutra 1.23. Ishvarapranidhana

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In the last dozen of my blog posts I have somewhat deviated from the linear and sequential expansion of the Sutra commentary. Many is...
Apr 8, 2014

The Lessons of Mahabharata and “Traditional” Values

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Have you ever paid attention to the fact that allgrand classic epics are utterly tragic and their endingsare worlds away from those hap...
Feb 16, 2014

The Arabic Translation of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras made by Al-Biruni. The Problem of Yoga Impact on Sufism

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“And when these [Hindu] books were read to me letter by letter and I comprehended their contents, my conscience could in no way have...
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