Path of Fire and Light (09/11) Step 7: Commentary on Yoga Meditation

This series of videos is a commentary by Swami Jnaneshvara on the eight steps of Yoga Meditation as described by Swami Rama in his book Path of Fire and Light, Volume 2 (ISBN 0893891126). It was recorded at Swami Rama Center on the campus of the Himalayan Institute of Medical Sciences near Rishikesh (the location of Sadhana Mandir, Swami Rama's ashram) and Dehradun, India. These videos were made primarily for use by visitors to Swami Rama's ashram, which is beside the Ganges at the foothills of the Himalayas in Rishikesh, India, though I hope that all practitioners of yoga meditation enjoy them.

This particular video is commentary on step 7 of the 8 steps, the subject of which is inspecting your own thoughts, including seeing which of those thoughts are useful and which are not. This rests on the foundation of the preceding 6 steps, especially step 5, which is learning to let go of any distracting thoughts. The idea is that if you have learned to let them go, you then are prepared to call back individual thoughts for inspection. Through this inspection the deep habit patterns (samskaras--attractions/aversions-- which lead to playing out of actions and speech, or karma) are attenuated or weakened.

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• Yoga
• Meditation