Yoga Sutra 1.06 right knowledge, illusion, logical construction, sleep, memory

Sūtra II.42 From contentment, attainment of unsurpassed happiness So it is said: ‘Whatever sex pleasure there may be in the world, whatever supreme happiness may be enjoyed in heaven, they cannot be accounted a sixteenth part of the happiness of destruction of craving.’ (From a Pūrāṇa – Madhusudana) So it is said: ‘Whatever sex pleasure…

Sūtra I.24 Untouched by taints or karma-s or their fruition or their latent stocks is the Lord, who is a special kind of Puruṣa The taints are Ignorance, I-am-ness, desire, hate, and clinging to life. Karma-s are good and bad. Their fruition is the results they bring. The corresponding latent impulses (vāsanā) are the latent…

Sūtra III.1 Dhāraṇā is binding the mind to a place Dhāraṇā is binding the mind to a place. It is binding the mind, as a purely mental process, to the navel circle, the heart lotus, the light in the head, the tip of the nose, the tip of the tongue, and other such locations; and…

Sūtra III.49 Having simply the knowledge that (mind-)sattva and Puruṣa are different, one has omnipotence over all beings and is omniscient One whose mind (buddhi-sattva) has been purified of the taint of rajas and tamas so that he is now in the highest purity and in the consciousness of mastery, firmly set simply in the…

Sūtra II.47 By relaxing effort and by samādhi (samāpatti) on infinity The words ‘it comes about’ are to be supplied at the beginning of the sūtra. By withdrawal of effort, a posture is perfected, in which the limbs do not shift. Or when the mind is in samādhi on the infinite, the posture is perfected….

Sūtra IV.21 If it is to be seen by another idea, further and yet further ideas will be required. And there will be confusion of memories If the idea is to be seen by another idea, then by whom is that idea of the idea known? It would have to be known by another, and…