Day 12: Sutra 2: 11 The kleshas can be overcome through meditation Remember that ignorance is the major obstacle or klesha that gets in the way of connecting and acting from your true, eternal self and being peaceful. Ignorance means that we confuse what is impermanent, impure, painful and the small self or ego with the…
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Day 11: Why Your Mind May Be Freaking You Out – 21 Days of Sutras
Day 11: Sutra 2:3 Ignorance, egoism, attachment, hatred and clinging to bodily life are the five obstacles (Sanskrit = Avidya Asmita Raga Dvesha Abhinivesha Klesha) How can you be the architect of your own life and well-being? Patanjali gvies the above five obstacles (Kleshas) that must be overcome to make progress in your personal development…
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Day 10: How Willing Are You…? 21 Days of Sutras
Day 10: Sutra 2:1 Purification (effort), self-study and surrender to the supreme being are the foundations of yoga. The 196 sutras are divided into several books. Book 1 is about Contemplation and Book 2 is the Portion on Practice. Now we go into more detail about practice. How willing are you ...? It's not easy…
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Day 9 AUM: What it Means plus Aum Meditation – 21 Days of Sutras
Day 9 Sutra 1:27 The word expression of the supreme consciousness (Isvara) is the mystic sound AUM. The mantra Aum is well known and widely chanted in yoga studios and elsewhere, so I think it is good to talk about it now. Patanjali says that Aum is the expression of supreme consciousness or the creative…
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