Yoga Sutras of Patanjali Quotes
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“The Bhagavad Gita”
“Self Actualization”
“b. Union or at-one-ment.”
“a. Consciousness and form.”
“The Ageless Wisdom Teachings”
“a. Meditation, and its stages”
“b. Twenty-three results of meditation”
“Glory unto those who have realised their own nature! May their blessings be on us all!”
“Wikipedia: Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”
“Time, which is the sequence of the modifications of the mind, likewise terminates, giving place to the Eternal Now. (Sutra 33)”
“The most striking thing in it is the emphasis laid on the Commandments, which are precisely those of the latter part of the Decalogue...”
“5. The darkness of ignorance is: holding that which is unenduring, impure, full of pain, not the Soul, to be eternal, pure, full of joy, the Soul.”
“Therefore Patanjali, like every great spiritual teacher, meets the question: What must I do to be saved? with the age-old answer: Keep the Commandments...”
“29. From this repetition and reflection on its significance, there come a knowledge of the Spirit and the absence of obstacles to the attainment of the end in view. (Book I, Concentration)”
“"Before the soul can see, the harmony within must be attained, and fleshly eyes be rendered blind to all illusion....” From The Voice of the Silence”
“This book is meant for sincere students, and especially for those who have some glimmering of what Krishna meant, when in Bhagavad-Gita he said, that after a while spiritual knowledge grows up within and illuminates with its rays all subjects and objects. (Preface)”
“The translation is not literal, and is not an exact definition of each original Sanskrit term. It is an attempt to put into clear and understandable English the exact meaning, insofar as it is possible to do so through the medium of that non-elastic and unimaginative tongue.”
“The purpose of life, therefore, is the realizing of that prophecy; the unveiling of the immortal man; the birth of the spiritual from the psychical, whereby we enter our divine inheritance and come to inhabit Eternity. This is, indeed, salvation, the purpose of all true religion, in all times.”
“2. This Union (or Yoga) is achieved through the subjugation of the psychic nature and the restraint of the chitta (or mind).
The follower after union has two things to do: 1. To gain control of the "versatile psychic nature, 2. To prevent the mind from assuming the many forms it so easily does.”
“6. Self-assertion comes from thinking of the Seer and the instrument of vision as forming one self.
... To translate this into our terms, we may say that the Seer is the spiritual man; the instrument of vision is the psychical man, through which the spiritual man gains experience of the outer world.”