…same way you meditate, the verb is in a way intransitive. Meditation is the act of allowing one's thoughts to cease, as Patanjali puts it in the beginning of the yoga sutra yoga meaning the art of meditation. More strictly speaking, yoga means union, the…

…the same way you meditate. The verb is in a way intransitive. Meditation is the act of allowing one's thoughts to cease. As Patanjali puts it in the beginning of the yoga sutra, yoga meaning the art of meditation. More after saying now yoga is explained,…

…So I want to talk this morning about the various central methods of meditation and we'll begin why not with the yoga sutra Patanjali, where the first he says, now yoga is explained. This is the first verse, and the commentators point out that the word…

…in a Buddhist rope. This morning I'm going to talk about the various different methods of meditation. The yoga sutra of Patanjali starts out with the phrase yogas chitta Priti Niroda which is a definition of yoga and roughly translated into English it…

…meaning. It means that the books are only lecture notes and have to be explained by a teacher. Take the yoga sutra of Patanjali. The first verse in it says: now yoga is explained period, second verse, and so on. So the teacher will say: this is…

…to invent ways of cracking them. So here's how it goes. To understand yoga you need to get hold of a good translation of Patanjali, the yoga sutra. I don't know which is the best translation, there are so many of them. It says it starts out now yoga…

…same way you meditate. The verb is in a way intransitive. Meditation is the act of allowing one's thoughts to cease, as Patanjali puts it in the beginning of the yoga sutra, yoga meaning the art of meditation. More strictly speaking, yoga means union, the…

…manuscripts in India were written on palm leaves came to mean a scripture or book, sacred book. And the yoga sutra is associated with a gentleman named Patanjali P a t a n j a l I and is of uncertain date. It may be as early as 200 b c it may be…

…cracking them. So here is how it goes what you know to understand yoga you need to get hold of a good translation of Patanjali, the yoga sutra. I don't know which is the best translation there are so many of them, but a Hindu friend of mine recommends…