Tada drustuh Svarupe avasthanam.. Patanjali in his Samadhi pada..
This line, in essence, is all what yoga is supposed to be: Then the seer ( abides) in itself.
U can understand why Yoga or Patanjali are perplexing. It is always an experiential thing.. yet, I notice that unlike other sutras of Patanjali where the interpretations can be confusing if you do not practice yoga (and just talk of it as do a lot of stupid people and no, I am not being bitchy, merely objective, who talk down to me, they do, because apparently they are all scholars in Patanjali and flaunt some certificate form some local insti to prove it:) this sutra gets an uniform interpretation by all `real' scholars which shows its meaning is rather clear...
When you practice yoga and feel it in the poses (only when you hold them long or try difficult poses and practices that demand attention and endurance from your mind) then only can u understand this sutra...
Suddenly, there is the awareness of two minds -- one absolutely alert and the other watching. Both are in tandem, without either subverting the other. Then the mind enters a state of pure awareness... that is called the chidakash -- pure consciousness. The practice of yoga is meant to keep you there for long... then, you reach the more advanced level of yoga of involution, focus, meditation and samadhi (there can be no real translation for this word:)..
Here, what he is saying is that the mind abides in itself, and is uncluttered by its afflictions (that includes its thought waves, that shuffle between past, and present). Even in quantum science as one book I read explained, the joker in the pack is Time. So, when you do yoga the sense of time shifts... Past and future blur and there is only a continuum of the now...
This state is yoga....
This line, in essence, is all what yoga is supposed to be: Then the seer ( abides) in itself.
U can understand why Yoga or Patanjali are perplexing. It is always an experiential thing.. yet, I notice that unlike other sutras of Patanjali where the interpretations can be confusing if you do not practice yoga (and just talk of it as do a lot of stupid people and no, I am not being bitchy, merely objective, who talk down to me, they do, because apparently they are all scholars in Patanjali and flaunt some certificate form some local insti to prove it:) this sutra gets an uniform interpretation by all `real' scholars which shows its meaning is rather clear...
When you practice yoga and feel it in the poses (only when you hold them long or try difficult poses and practices that demand attention and endurance from your mind) then only can u understand this sutra...
Suddenly, there is the awareness of two minds -- one absolutely alert and the other watching. Both are in tandem, without either subverting the other. Then the mind enters a state of pure awareness... that is called the chidakash -- pure consciousness. The practice of yoga is meant to keep you there for long... then, you reach the more advanced level of yoga of involution, focus, meditation and samadhi (there can be no real translation for this word:)..
Here, what he is saying is that the mind abides in itself, and is uncluttered by its afflictions (that includes its thought waves, that shuffle between past, and present). Even in quantum science as one book I read explained, the joker in the pack is Time. So, when you do yoga the sense of time shifts... Past and future blur and there is only a continuum of the now...
This state is yoga....
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