Day 14: Sutra 2:30 - Yama Yama and Niyama are like a moral or ethical code or system of behaviour. When we incorporate them into our lives the mind will not be disturbed. Together the five yama and five niyama are like the Ten Commandments of Christianity and the Jewish faith and the ten virtues…
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Day 13: Magic Eight – 21 Days of Sutras to Heal Your Soul
Day 13: Sutra 2:28 & 2:29 By the practice of the limbs of Yoga, the impurities dwindle away and there dawns the light of wisdom, leading to discriminative discernment We're more than half-way. Just 8 days to go. Thank you for sticking with this... It is not just meditation that can help us to connect…
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Day 12: Confusion – 21 Days of Sutras to Heal Your Soul
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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