Jan 25, 2013

Sutras 1.5 - 1.9. Vritti: Pramana, Viparyaya and Vikalpa

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Having made sense of “ Drashtar ” category we can come back to analyzing the category of “ vritti ”. Let us remember that vritt...
Jan 24, 2013

Sutras 1.3 - 1.4. Drashtar. The Inner Observer

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Now that we have accumulated sufficient resource we can come closer to understanding Patanjali’s definition of Yoga as chitta-v...
Jan 21, 2013

Raga and Dvesa. The Issue of Emotions in Yoga

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In our previous article we have discussed the general aspects of the category of "klesha”. However I think that two of the...
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Jan 18, 2013

Sutras 1.5, 2.3. - 2.9. Klesha. A very conceptual article:)

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वृत्तयः पञ्चतय्यः क्लिष्टाऽक्लिष्टाः ॥५॥ 1.5. vṛttayaḥ pañcatayyaḥ kliṣṭā'kliṣṭāḥ The category of "klesha"...
Jan 15, 2013

Sutra 1.2. Nirodha. The Problem of the Practice Boundedness

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So the word nirodha that at first glance seemed to be so easy to understand has turned out to come with many surprises. Let us...
Dec 28, 2012

Sutra 1.2. Nirodha (continuation). The Problem of Motivation to Practice

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The problem of emotional content of words cannot be ignored as an insignificant one, and even if we no longer lose our sleep ov...
Dec 22, 2012

Sutra 1.2. Nirodha. The problem of emotional content of the practice

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Probably the fewest discrepancies and variant readings have been caused by the dictionary translations of the word nirodha (निर...