This fluid, literal rendering of Patanjali's masterful Yoga Sutras is fully annotated. The notes not only refer to the original Sanskrit words, but contain profound and illuminating explanations of the many obscure concepts and experiences to which they refer.
The perfect companion to the book Yoga Decoded with its more colloquial transliteration, and to Yoga Unveiled with its extensive commentary on the same rendering.
note 20 to sutra I.17: rupanugamat (connecting with the form of) is the first phase of intimacy, which flowers through samapatti (becoming one with) into paridrishtu, (seeing through) which dissolves the perceived split between subject and object, self and other and flowers into Self-realisation
note 27 to sutra I.18: samskara : unconscious traces left over from unresolved past experiences that uphold the split between self and other. the energy concentrated into a subliminal imprint can be intense, and is responsive to mental activity or sensory input that resonates with it. this resonance allows its buried charge to mobilise and rise from the subconscious. the potency of this rising charge generates a subconscious impression that gathers and focuses the resonant energies that summoned it. this creates a momentum of subconscious thought or feeling that eventually becomes conscious as a feeling, image, idea, thought or action which is often completely inexplicable in terms of our conscious intentions.
note 44 to sutra I.41: samapatti dissolve into, become one with, each other: the second phase of intimacy between rupanugamat and paridrstuh
note 62 to sutra I.51: sarva-nirodhan: total letting go, or surrender, can never be a practice, but is always the spontaneous expression of mind letting go of its concerns fully enough for the subject/object split of dualistic perception to close. it fulfils itself by way of the deconstruction of mental activity that takes place as mind relaxing spontaneously into its own activity peaks in the illuminate darkness of Consciousness without condition, within which there is neither object nor subject to be experienced, while the Intelligence of Consciousness is embodied as the illuminate darkness of lucid unknowing.
note 230 to sutra III.51: kaivalya: the being state within which there is no sense of self or other, no sense of separateness, no need for purpose, no resistance to what is. the yogic equivalent of Buddhist enlightenment. its possibility rests on all seeds of resistance (samskara) having been seen through (paridrishtu) in the clear light of non dual awareness (vivekajam jnanam).
note 237 to sutra III.53: vivekajam jnanam: the intelligence of Consciousness is not intrinsically constrained in the oppositions of duality, and can be released from that learned restraint through the realisation of the representative nature of linear time, and the intrinsic simultaneity of past, present and future within the instantaneous singularity of Consciousness.
The pdf file will automatically download to your library, from which you can access it whenever you wish.
The perfect companion to the book Yoga Decoded with its more colloquial transliteration, and to Yoga Unveiled with its extensive commentary on the same rendering.
note 20 to sutra I.17: rupanugamat (connecting with the form of) is the first phase of intimacy, which flowers through samapatti (becoming one with) into paridrishtu, (seeing through) which dissolves the perceived split between subject and object, self and other and flowers into Self-realisation
note 27 to sutra I.18: samskara : unconscious traces left over from unresolved past experiences that uphold the split between self and other. the energy concentrated into a subliminal imprint can be intense, and is responsive to mental activity or sensory input that resonates with it. this resonance allows its buried charge to mobilise and rise from the subconscious. the potency of this rising charge generates a subconscious impression that gathers and focuses the resonant energies that summoned it. this creates a momentum of subconscious thought or feeling that eventually becomes conscious as a feeling, image, idea, thought or action which is often completely inexplicable in terms of our conscious intentions.
note 44 to sutra I.41: samapatti dissolve into, become one with, each other: the second phase of intimacy between rupanugamat and paridrstuh
note 62 to sutra I.51: sarva-nirodhan: total letting go, or surrender, can never be a practice, but is always the spontaneous expression of mind letting go of its concerns fully enough for the subject/object split of dualistic perception to close. it fulfils itself by way of the deconstruction of mental activity that takes place as mind relaxing spontaneously into its own activity peaks in the illuminate darkness of Consciousness without condition, within which there is neither object nor subject to be experienced, while the Intelligence of Consciousness is embodied as the illuminate darkness of lucid unknowing.
note 230 to sutra III.51: kaivalya: the being state within which there is no sense of self or other, no sense of separateness, no need for purpose, no resistance to what is. the yogic equivalent of Buddhist enlightenment. its possibility rests on all seeds of resistance (samskara) having been seen through (paridrishtu) in the clear light of non dual awareness (vivekajam jnanam).
note 237 to sutra III.53: vivekajam jnanam: the intelligence of Consciousness is not intrinsically constrained in the oppositions of duality, and can be released from that learned restraint through the realisation of the representative nature of linear time, and the intrinsic simultaneity of past, present and future within the instantaneous singularity of Consciousness.
The pdf file will automatically download to your library, from which you can access it whenever you wish.