Tag: drashta
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On Four Aspects of Practising Yoga (6)
Previous ★★★ Index ★★★ Next Yoga, referred to as the process of stopping the thinking mind or the stream of psyche, as the exploration of one’s own self and independent transcending of one’s limitations until one attains the state of pure, translucent consciousness: this is a typical image conveyed by this first simple word. Aspects…
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On Consiousness-Related Phenomena and Their Restraining (Sutra I, 5-11) (5)
Previous ★★★ Index ★★★ Next Now let us proceed with the study of the first anga, i. e. class in the studies of yoga. It is going to be a path containing verses or aphorisms from the fifth to the eleventh, inclusive of the last one. We will get to know the basic concepts of…
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Dikshan. How One Starts Practising Yoga (4)
Previous ★★★ Index ★★★ Next If you carefully study the whole textbook of Patanjali, entitled “Yogasutra”, you will notice that the classical collection of teachings on pursuing the path is divided into four parts or series of teachings. It turns out that all traditions and spiritual schools, starting with Egypt and ending with India, divided…