THE YOGA SUTRAS (SUTRAS FROM 6 TO 17)

 

                                  THE CONSCIOUS MIND

                 ❤   SUTRA 6  ❤

                        DRG-DARSANA-SAKTYOR-EKA ATMATA IVA ASMITA

                      THE SEER (THE CONSCIOUS SELF) AND THE WORLD SEEN THROUGH THE SENSES WHEN NOT DISTINGUISHED, GIVES RISE TO THE FEELINGS OF THE WRONG I AM-NESS OR EGO.

                ❤   SUTRA 7 ❤

                       SUKHA-ANUSAYI RAGAH

                  TO BE ATTRACTED IS TO CLING TO THE PLEASURABLE.

                    EVEN WHEN ONE IS OFTEN TIMES AWARE THAT THE PLEASURE IS FLEETING- AND IN THE END IS THE CAUSE FOR SORROW.

                      THE NEXT SUTRA LOOKS AT THE OTHER SIDE.

                ❤  SUTRA 8 ❤

                       DUHKHA-ANUSAYI DVESAH

                         AVERSION IS CLINGING TO SORROW.

                    THIS MEANS MOSTLY EXPERIENCING SORROW. THE MIND DEVELOPS THE HABIT OF ENJOYING THE FAMILIEAR PATTERN AND DEVELOPS AVERSION TO NO-SORROW, LIKE THE PIG THAT WALLOWS IN THE MUCK OF ITS STY DISLIKES CLEANLINESS. IN EXTREME CASES, LIKE THAT OF THE VOLUNTARY MARTYR, THE MIND IMAGINES EVEN THE PAIN OF DYING TO BE MORE PLEASURABLE THAN THE STATE OF LIVING.

                ❤  SUTRA 9 ❤

                       SVARAS VAHI VIDUSO-PI-TATHA RUDHO-BHINIVESAH

                           THE DESIRE FOR CONTINUITY WHICH EVEN THE WISE HAVE IS A BUILT-IN INSTINCT FOR SURVIVAL AND PLEASURE-SEEKING.

                         FROM THE CORONAVIRUS TO THE COMPLEX DEVELOPED HUMAN BEING, THE DESIRE TO NOT DIE BUT TO CONTINUE AND MULTIPLY IS INSTINCTUAL. IT IS LINKED TO THE IGNORANCE THAT PHYSICAL LIFE IS ETERNAL.

                         THE WILL LAST UNTIL THE CONSCIOUS-AWARENESS IS REALISED TO BE THE REAL SELF AND NOT THE BODY OR THE OUTSIDE WORLD, IN WHICH IT APPEARS ALMOST INEXTRICABLY ENMESHED.

                 ❤  SUTRA 10 ❤

                      TE PRATIPRASAVA-HEYAH SUKSMAH

                   THESE SUBTLE HANKERINGS ARE TO BE AVOIDED BY TRACING BACK TO THE ORIGIN.

                   THIS MEANS THAT FROM THE MULTIPLICITY OF THE WORLD, ONE HAS TO TRACE ONE'S AWARENESS TO THE UNITY OF THE PURE CONSCIOUS SELF.

                        ❤ SUTRA 11 ❤

                      DHYANA HEYAH TAD-VRTTAYAH

                     ALL THESE DISTRACTIONS AND FLUNTUATIONS CAN BE AVOIDED THROUGH DHYANA (MEDITATION).

                     ❤ SUTRA 12 ❤

                       KLESA-MULAH KARMA -ASAYO DRSTA-ADRSTA-JANMA-

                       VEDANIYAH

                       THE WHOLE OF EXISTENCE, SEEN OR UNSEEN, IS BECAUSE THE ROOTS OF AFFLICTION ARE THE RESIDUE TO KARMA- ACTION FROM THE PAST.

                     ❤  SUTRA 13 ❤

                    SATI MULE TAD-VIPAKO JATY-AYUR-BHOGAH

                      AS LONG AS THE ROOT EXISTS, IT BEARS FRUIT BEING BORN IN CERTAIN CONDITIONS, AS LIVING AND EXPERIENCE GENERATED IN LIFE.

                       ❤ SUTRA 14 ❤

                      TE HLADA PARITAPA-PHALAH PUNYA-APUNYA-HETUTVAT

                THESE FRUITS ARE JOYFUL OR PAINFUL, DEPENDING ON THE CAUSES, MERITORIOUS OR DEMERITORIUS.

                   ❤  SUTRA 15 ❤

                          PARINAMA TAPA SAMSKARA DUHKHAIH GUNA-VRTTI-

                          VIRODHACCA DUHKHAM-EVA SARVAM VIVEKINAH

                       TO THE ONE WHO CAN DISCRIMINATE, THE CONFLICTS, THE EXPECTATION AND THE REMITTENT SORROW, THE OPPOSITE OF PLEASURE AND PAIN, THE ANXIETY AND THE CONFLICT ASSOCIATED WITH THEM ARE ALL SUMMED UP BY ONE WORD- FLUCTUATIONS OF THE MIND-STUFF, VRITTIS.

                   ❤   SUTRA 16 ❤

                      HEYAM DUHKHAM-ANAGATAM

                   (SUCH A ONE) AVOIDS THE DISSATISFACTION YET TO COME.

                        ❤  SUTRA 17 ❤

                             DRASTR-DRSYAYOH SAMYOGO HEYAHETUH

                     ALL THIS CAN BE AVOIDED, IF ONE KNOWS THAT THE CAUSES OF ALL THESE AFFLICTIONS IS THE ILLUSION THAT THE SEER AND THE SEEN ARE ONE.