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Last Update: Sun Jun 7 11:52:09 2009

- 2.7 sukha anusayi ragah - Iyengar: Pleasure leads to desire and emotional attachment Taimni: That attraction, which accompanies pleasure, is [...] pleasurable experiences At first glance this sutra appears to say we shouldn’t experience pleasure. Iyengar says...

- 2.6 drk darsanasaktyoh ekatmata iva asmita - Iyengar: Egoism is the identification of the seer with the instrumental power of seeing. Taimni: Asmita is the identity ...

- 2.5 anitya asuci duhka anatamasu nitya suci sukha atma kyattih avidya - Iyengar: Mistaking the transient for the permanent, the impure for the pure, pain for pleasure, and that which is not ...

- 2.4 avidya ksetram uttaresam prasupta tanu vicchinna udaranam - Iyengar: Lack of true knowledge is the source of all pains and sorrows whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted or ...

- 2.3 avidya asmita raga dvesa abhinivesah klesah - Iyengar: The five afflictions which disturb the equilibrium of consciousness are: ignorance or lack of wisdom, ego, ...

- 2.2 samadhi bhavanarthah klesa tanukaranarthasca - Iyengar: The practice of yoga reduces afflictions and leads to Samadhi Carrera: They help us minimize the obstacles and [...] is practiced for attenuating Klesas and bringing about Samadhi Klesas mean afflictions in Sanskrit. Samadahi means...

- 2.1 tapah svadhyaya isvaraparnidhanani kriyayogah - Iyenagr: Burning zeal in practice, self-study and study of scriptures, and surrender to God are the acts of yoga [...] to Isvara constitute preliminary Yoga. Carrera: Accepting pain as help for purification, study, and surrender to...

- 1:4 Vrtti sarupyam itaratra - Iyengar: At other times, the seer identifies with the fluctuating consciousness. Carrera: At other times (the Self ...

- Interpreting anatomy: Spine tingled. February 28/March 1, 2009. - Getting beneath the muscle, to the bone, can be a strain to the brain. Most of the time it's worth ...

- How to Study the Yoga Sutras - For about 45 minutes before Patricia Walden’s Friday night class in Cambridge, we study the yoga sutras. We do this ...

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