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Category Archives: The Yogasūtras of Patañjali
The Yoga Sutras: Epilogue
iv. 31-34 Final Release from all Obstructions
4.31 All Mind Obstructions now cessated, Total-Gnosis is conferred as the yogin need not do anything more—fait accompli.
Recurring Impressions; Dharmamegha Samādhi
iv. 27-30 Recurring Impressions/Dharmamegha Samādhi
4.27 The subliminal impressions stored in the Alaya-receptacle can rise again due to lapses in the Recollective Resolve.
The Mind of the Perceiver
iv. 23-26 Gradations of Perception
4.23 The Observer, the field of knowledge, and knowledge itself are conjoined in the mind of the perceiver.
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Thought vs. Self
iv. 18-22 The Self is the Master over all thought-constructions.
4.18 The changeless Selfhood of spirit is Master over the churning of incessant thoughts.
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Where The Wild Things Are
iv. 12-17 The Characteristics of Things
4.12 The Past and Future exists with the momentum on the playing field of Prakriti (the full spectrum and fundamental (natural) matter of Mind materialization).
Karmic Triggers
iv. 7-11 The Dance of Karma
4.7 The Advanced Yogin is Free from all Karmic Obstructions; all others experience a mix- match of good and evil.
Thought Transmutations
iv. 4-6 Consciousness Expansion
4.4 The “I” Consciousness expands only the Individuated Ego.
The process of Individuation is ego-centered (Nirmana chittani—individualized mind-stuff) and ultimately results in bondage to material-thought constructions. Thus, all meditation practices (sadhana) that attempt to cultivate Samadhi through any ego-centered fabrications are forever doomed to fail. An example of this is various New-Age type elements that only attempt to enhance and glorify the false-material-image through whatever means possible.
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Self-Completion
The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali
Book IV: Self-Completion
In Yoga the world is Real (not illusory, as it is for example in the Vendanta). Nevertheless, although the world exists and endures, it owes this to the “ignorance” of the spirit: The innumerable forms of the Cosmos, as well as their methods of manifestation and development, exist only to the degree to which the spirit, the Self (purusha), is ignorant of itself and, by reason of this ignorance of a metaphysical nature, suffers and is subjugated. At the exact instant when the last Self shall have found its freedom, the whole of creation will be reabsorbed into the primordial substance. (Mircea Eliade)
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Some Limitations
Completion of Book III
iii. 50-55 Avoidance of Spiritual Downfalls
3.50 Dispassion towards the Siddhic Powers must be assured lest the yogin succumb to the pride of a grandiose spirit.
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Diamond-hard Compactness
iii. 46-49 Spirit-Body Ascending
3.46 The Diamond Body has an adamantine hue that harnesses strength.
As the yogin steadily advances in practice, each cell of the body is refined in the fire of spiritual-perfection. The yogin’s body is now a “spiritual-one”, adamantine—as hard as a diamond—the Diamond-Mind-Spirit-Body. This Body yields to no-thing whatsoever in the created order of existence; as written elsewhere within these blogs: