Yoga Sutras (04/85) Swami Rama

(04/85) (Lecture 1 of 8, Part 4 of 8)
Eight lectures by Swami Rama on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali emphasize practical advice on the methods of Yoga and Meditation. The 13 hours of talks have been divided into 85 parts of 10 minutes or less.

Lecture 1 of 8, Part 4 of 8 includes:
path of enlightenment, here begins yoga exposition, wrote 5,500 letters to know the definition of yoga science, never got any replies, language is shallow, words are empty, knowledge you have read is based on dark words which is ignorance, forget what you have learned, now begins yoga, not about soul but about thinking mind, control over modifications of mind, with yoga you attain wisdom, control over mind and modifications, control is not the right word, direct your mind, mind is force between mortal and immortal self, body and breath is one unit, individual soul is different unit, mind is between and is obstacle for ignorant and means for wise, obstacle of mind can be used as useful tool provided you know mind, Patanjali method is accurate, training body will not know truth, Patanjali goes directly to mind, understand experiential knowledge, many kinds of knowledge, sense perception, instinctual knowledge, active in animal kingdom, animal is close to nature, human being has own mind, few animals die in lightning, knowledge through mind, before action is subtle argument in mind, should I do it or not, choice, manas, if not trained buddhi than cannot decide, understand and train all modifications of mind, understand their relationship, then easy, decisions will be accurate, intellectuals have problem of not deciding to do things on time, decisiveness discrimination and judging

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Education

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• yoga
• sutras
• swami
• rama
• meditation
• raja
• ashtanga
• patanjali