Patanjali Yoga Sutra Class
Every few months Satguru Bodhinatha Veylanswami holds a Yoga Sutra class with our young Sadhaka. This afternoon Sadhaka's Nandinatha, Rajanatha, Mayuranatha, Jayanatha and Dayanatha all gathered in the Guru Temple with Satguru. Satguru continued their exploration of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras with comparisons to Gurudeva's teachings. The class included the intricacies of various types of Samadhi, such as samadhi with form (think savikalpa samadhi), whereby the observer, the observed and the act of observing coalesce into oneness, and samadhi without form (nirvikalpa samadhi) when awareness transcends even the highest experiences and dissolves in the timeless, spaceless, absolute Self. The class continued through a discussion of remolding the subconscious mind into the subsuperconscious mind and on into Patanjali's description of the five kleshas which bind the individual in ignorance. Two important kleshas deeply discussed were attachment and aversion, both of which can be equally binding forces in our lives. Attachment being the residue of positive experiences and aversion the result of negative ones. All in all a fun class for everyone. Om Namah Sivaya!
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June 24th, 2016 at 11:13 pm
nice…
June 24th, 2016 at 11:15 pm
how i know if my attachment to a particular aversion or attachment has gone? is there a way of knowing that?
June 25th, 2016 at 12:32 am
Wonderful coincidence-I just have been delivering a series of lectures on ‘Demystifying Pathanjali” at the Blavatsky Lodge of the Thesophical Society here in Mumbai- would have loved to get some inputs by our Gurunaatha-om namasivaya
June 25th, 2016 at 3:34 am
great blessings studying from Enlightened Master himself 🙂