Thanks yogadawg (www.yogadawg.com) for your comment. I WILL keep my sense of humor. Practicing yoga gives us plenty of material, doesn’t it?
1.4 vrtti-sarupyam itaratra
I am going with Shearer again here for the translation. “Our essential nature is usually overshadowed by the activity of the mind.”
People dedicate their lives to try to figure out the mind. [...]
Monthly Archives: October 2007
The Shadow
October 26, 2007 – 12:03 am
Do We really WANT to be in our natural state?
October 22, 2007 – 11:04 pm
Getting right to it…
1.3 tada drastub sva-rupe vasthanam
Alistair Shearer (Sanskrit Scholar) explains this verse as: “When the mind has settled, we are established in our essential nature, which is unbounded consciousness.”
Wouldn’t you run to Target and get the Yoga Sutra of Patanjali if you could learn to be in unbounded consciousness? Yes, you can get [...]
Mind Your Mind, Bogi
October 21, 2007 – 11:16 am
If Patanjali informed us of the “great mistake” (listening to the judgements of the mind as if you are only your mind) back in the 4th century A.D., then why are we still so committed to letting our beautiful (incorrect) minds run the show? The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali is 196 statements summarizing the theory [...]
Now Yoga Begins
October 19, 2007 – 7:21 pm
I am not a scholar but I can claim being a seeker. At 12 years old, I started reading Psychology Today to try to understand why people’s minds work the way that they do. More important to me, why were the people around me so crazy? I have enjoyed seeking. I did a Fire Walk [...]
