Patanjali’s Kriya Yoga & the Three Treasures of Patanjala #211
There are several versions of Kriya Yoga in the world today, but being focused in on matter, the body, and the physical nervous system alone, they are inferior to Patanjali’s original Kriya Yoga. In his excellent teaching, three elements of the ten yamas and niyamas are extracted out, then combined to make for a well-rounded and effective way of destroying ignorance. It is as if to say, love God, live in an austere way, and study the teachings of the seers, and all will be well. Everything else will come to the seeker via such a regimen.
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Patanjali’s Nine Levels of Awareness in Aspirants #305
For those who enter into spiritual life, progress is made in stages. It all depends upon the abilities of the individual. Some do not follow through, and quit the path after a few obstacles crop up. Others continue, but do not give it a lot of effort. Whatever the case might be, spiritual teachers have assessed the progress of practitioners and founded a system of levels based upon their experience. This wisdom chart shows Patanjali’s own measure in this regard, with Yoga being the spiritual discipline.
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Shankara’s Doorways to Yoga #40
Many seers and systems of finding truth have begun transmitting their teachings with the simple instruction of “be still” and “remain quiet.” The great seer and advaitist, Shankaracharya, interprets the initial qualification for the practice of Yoga in this same way, going on to introduce and unlock the secrets behind each successive doorway to the highest Truth. The eight-limbed system of Yoga has never been quite the same since this illumined Vedantist got ahold of it and filled it out.
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Some Obstacles & Solutions in Spiritual Life #186
In a chart of purely yogic proportions, which focuses in on one of Patanjali’s main themes — that of vrittis, or mental vibrations — both obstacles and their solutions stand side by side for close scrutiny and forthcoming benefit. As a fitting accompaniment, the lower half of the chart gives out powerful teachings that will aid the sadhaka on a grander and less specific level, getting to the mind’s tendency of “attraction to distraction,” as is often quipped in the tradition. This wisdom chart is a seeker’s dream, to be displayed prominently and studied daily until complete success over the wavering mind is attained.
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Stages of Dissolution of the Mind in Yoga #247
Taking some of the most important and pivotal aspects of Patanjali’s Yoga, this wisdom chart places them in ascending form to give the seeker of union an overall view of what needs to be encountered to accomplish the goal of Yoga. From problematic mind to transcendent mind, from obstacles to accomplishments, from lower stages of higher stages, all is laid out here for scrutiny and implementation — all for the practitioner of sweet dissolution of the mind.
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Synthesis of the Four Yogas #35
The active, the contemplative, the studious, and the devotional – these four basic types of human temperaments have long been noticed and studied by the seers and sages of Mother India. To aid in bringing out the very best that this qualitative quartet of life has to give, the Four Yogas were brought forth from the Cosmic Mind of the Divine Mother via deep meditation and placed in synch with them, bringing forth as well the many dynamics with which to both purify the mind and utilize its beneficial powers for the highest good of all livings beings.
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The 7 Methods for Mastering Awareness #208
There are so many effective and soul-redeeming spiritual practices in the Yoga darshana of Patanjali, and the sincere practitioner should never be at a loss to ferret them out and engage in them, all, of course, under the guidance of an illumined preceptor. This wisdom chart presents and outlines one of these disciplines, which is seven-fold in what it offers to the seeker. Far from being overly difficult of practice or too abstruse of philosophy, the seven methods put forth here are ideal for attaining the otherwise hard to gain prize of progress in spiritual life and practice. Taking up even one of these gems of Yoga will help the seeker to eventually perceive and merge into the “sorrowless ocean of Light.”
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The Ocean of Awareness & Its Yogic Waves #105
Yoga, like absolute Freedom, is a state, not a practice. One does not arrive at it; one abides in it. There are many ways in which to abide in Yoga, all of them modes more than methods. And in fact, as is demonstrated by the names of the eighteen chapters of the Bhagavad Gita, every act and expression in life is a type of yoga for the realized soul. Finding this out, the wise practitioner — instead of trying to follow this path or that way — begins to select the kind of yoga he or she wants to live in each day, and that manifests what is needed for spiritual life and expresses the soul’s inner, divine traits. Thus is Yoga “natural Union with Divine Reality,” as Patanjali, the Father of Yoga, declares.
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The Paths of Action and Inaction #67
Connecting well with charts #35 and 66, and coursing even deeper into their manifold ramifications, the yogas of karma and raja are inspected here — a pair of pathways that have quite often and for ages been looked at as contradictory to one another — even by intelligent beings within religious circles and traditions. However, to act in accordance and agreement with one’s own purified mind and intellect is the result of successfully fusing these two great yogas, and the fruit of such an accomplishment is the ability to simultaneously concentrate on the formless Essence of Reality while remaining fully able and masterful at acting in the world — the benefits of which bring about the highest good of living beings on all levels of awareness.
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The Process of Samprajnata to Asamprajnata Samadhi #88
It could be said that the four kinds of samadhis (along with their nirvitarka and nirvichara subdivisions) are like postures for the mind, like asanas for intelligence. The purpose for engaging in physical postures and breathing exercises all along the early trajectory of yogic practice was only to help prepare the way for these higher positions of Awareness. It has been stated by certain luminaries that spiritual life does not really even begin until the seeded samadhis are gained by way of direct experience; everything previous to this highest attainment only signified various types of purification. If this is true, then seeded samadhis can be viewed as similar preparation and purification for Ultimate Samadhi — of which there is only one, of unseeded nature
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The Seeded Samadhis of Patanjala #279
There is one ultimate samadhi in spiritual life, whether called Nirvikalpa, Nirvana, Satori, or Yoga’s “seedless” samadhi, Asamprajnata. Thanks to Patanjali, however, a well-enumerated and fleshed-out list of lower samadhis, called Samprajnata in Yoga, or “seeded” samadhis, has been offered. Thus, the advanced practitioner is able to cognize and pinpoint various states of awareness as they come upon him/her in the process of spiritual practice. This wisdom chart places all this in perspective, replete with important details found in the Yoga sutras.
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The Seven Steps to Attainment of Kaivalya #87
The superlative word, Kaivalya, is rarely heard in yogic circles today. Words such as asana and pranayama abound among the uninitiated attached to body and breath, but the elevated state of penultimate samadhi is left unplumbed, overlooked. But the fathers of both Yoga and Vedanta focus in on this word, knowing, as they do, that any soul who attains to the higher limbs of Ashtanga Yoga will have to deal with its subtleties and gain mastery of it. As this chart demonstrates, Kaivalya is the doorway to Formlessness — or seven doorways, as the case may be. These openings represent the best of the Yoga darshana, and what mastery of all of the previous limbs is all about.
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