Great Throughts Treasury

"Then, verily, the mind is inclined towards discrimination and gravitating towards Kaivalya."

"Thence, the attainment of Animan etc., perfection of the body and the non-obstruction of its functions (of the body) by the powers (of the elements)."

"Thence, instantaneous cognition without the use of any vehicle and complete mastery over Pradhana."

"There are innumerable tricks that you might try to match the active thought of controlling minute muscular movement against the passive thought of easing the irritation and disturbance: roll the tongue back towards the uvula, at the same time let the eyes converge towards an imaginary point in the center of your forehead. The advantage is simply that your attention is forced to maintain the awkward position. You become aware sooner than you otherwise would of any relaxation; and you thereby show the rest of the body that it is no use trying to disturb you by its irritability."

"Thence are produced intuitional hearing, touch, sight, taste and smell."

"There being difference of interest, one mind is the director of many minds."

"There is further distinction on account of the mild, moderate or intense means employed."

"There is knowledge of everything from intuition."

"There is another meditation which is attained by the practice of alert mental suspension until only subtle impressions remain."

"There is no beginning of them, the desire to live being eternal."

"There is the relation of cause and effect even though separated by class, locality and time because memory and impressions are the same in form."

"There should be avoidance of pleasure or pride on being invited by the super-physical entities in charge of various places because there is the possibility of the revival of evil."

"There, the consciousness is Truth-and-Right-bearing."

"Thereafter, one is undisturbed by the dualities."

"Thereby one may become as tiny as an atom as well as having many other abilities, such as perfection of the body, and non-resistance to duty."

"Therein is the faculty of supreme wisdom."

"These constitute seeded contemplations."

"These patterns when subtle may be removed by developing their contraries."

"These (the five vows), not conditioned by class, place, time or occasion and extending to all stages constitute the Great Vow."

"These (the restraints), however, become a great vow when they become universal, being unrestricted by any consideration of class, place, time or concept of duty."

"These thought-streams are controlled by practice and non-attachment."

"These five willing abstentions are not limited by rank, place, time or circumstance and constitute the Great Vow."

"These yogangas, or limbs of yoga, have come to be known as Patanjali's Eightfold Path of Yoga. They are enumerated in his Yoga Sutras, II:29: Yama (moral conduct, the avoidance of immoral actions); niyama (religious observances); asana (right posture for bodily and mental control); pranayama (control of prana or life force); pratyahara (interiorization of the mind); dharana (concentration); dhyana (meditation); and samadhi (divine union). [paraphrased]"

"They (stages corresponding to subtle objects) constitute only Samadhi with `seed'."

"These, the subtle ones, can be reduced by resolving them backward into their origin."

"They are obstacles in the way of Samadhi and powers when the mind is outward-turned."

"They are right knowledge, wrong knowledge, fancy, sleep, and memory."

"They have joy or sorrow for their fruit according as their cause is virtue or vice."

"This discipline is practised for the purpose of acquiring fixity of mind on the Lord, free from all impurities and agitations, or on One's Own Reality, and for attenuating the afflictions."

"Things assume reality because of the unity maintained within that modification."

"This practice becomes well-grounded when continued with reverent devotion and without interruption over a long period of time."

"They have pleasure or pain as their fruit, according as their cause be virtue or vice."

"They, whether manifest or unmanifest, are of the nature of Gunas."

"This is signified by an indifference to the three attributes, due to knowledge of the Indweller."

"This spontaneous enlightenment results in intuitional perception of hearing, touching, seeing and smelling."

"Though variegated by innumerable tendencies, the mind acts not for itself but for another, for the mind is of compound substance."

"This having been (accomplished) Pranayama which is cessation of inspiration and expiration (follows)."

"Through destruction of impurities, practice of austerities brings about perfection of the body and the organs."

"Through serene or luminous (states experienced within)."

"Through sanctification and the removal of impurities, there arise special powers in the body and senses."

"Through the practice of the different accessories to Yoga, on the destruction of impurity, arises spiritual illumination which develops into awareness of Reality."

"Through variegated by innumerable Vasanas it (the mind) acts for another (Purusa) for it acts in association."

"Thus the mind becomes fit for concentration."

"To one established in non-stealing, all wealth comes."

"To the people who have developed discrimination all is misery on account of the pains resulting from change, anxiety and tendencies, as also on account of the conflicts between the functioning of the Gunas and Vrttis (of the mind)."

"To one who remains undistracted in even the highest intellection there comes the equalminded realization known as The Cloud of Virtue. This is a result of discriminative discernment."

"To one who recognizes the distinctive relation between vitality and indweller comes omnipotence and omniscience."

"Truth is the same always. Whoever ponders it will get the same answer. Buddha got it. Patanjali got it. Jesus got it. Mohammed got it. The answer is the same, but the method of working it out may vary this way or that."

"Transformation into another state is by the directed flow of creative nature."

"To the outward turned mind, the sensory organs are perfections, but are obstacles to realization."