YOGA SUTRAS: Commentary by a Modern Mystic. योगसूत्रचूर्णि:

The method of keeping control over one’s states (abhyasa) and the method of disengaging with them (vairagya) are the two inte...

I am writing this article on board the plane on my way to India where I shall visit Kumbh Mela. I am here without my favou...

As we have said earlier, Patanjali has singled out pramana, or “valid”, “true” knowledge, as the first vritti. However it str...

Let us proceed to discussing the two latter Vrittis mentioned by Patanjali: smriti and nidra .  In one of the previous s...

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

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

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