tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2703641584035068055.post-88194952952562896462011-09-27T11:56:00.000-05:002011-09-27T11:56:32.013-05:00<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3J3Qb2mJQ4A/ShRL0m7visI/AAAAAAAAHsw/qHkJZjFytWc/s1600-h/patanjali_10.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" height="238" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5337974825517288130" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_3J3Qb2mJQ4A/ShRL0m7visI/AAAAAAAAHsw/qHkJZjFytWc/s320/patanjali_10.jpg" style="display: block; height: 298px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" width="320" /></a><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><strong>Chapter 1: SAMADHI</strong><br /><br /><span style="color: red;">I,8: </span></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: red;">Unreal cognition is the knowing of the unreal, possessing a form not its own.<br />Comment: Removal of wrong impressions. Egoism, attachment, aversion and love of life are afflictions.Nescience (adidya) affects the purusha.<br />I,30: Disease, languor, indecision, carelessness, sloth, sensuality, mistaken notion, missing the point, instability, these causing distractions are obstacles.</span><br /><br />Comment: Disease is the disturbance of the equilibrium of the humors. Languor is the indisposition of the mind to work. Indecision is the notion touching both sides of the question. Carelessness is want of resort to the means of trance. Sloth is inertia of the mind and body upon heaviness. Sensuality is the desire upon objects.<br /><br /><span style="color: red;">I,33: </span></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: red;">By cultivating habits of friendliness, compassion, complacency and detachment towards happiness, misery virtue and vice, the mind becomes pure.<br />I,34: </span></span><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"><span style="color: red;">Optionally, by the expulsion and retention of breath. Retention is Pranayama, the lengthening of the duration of the stay of the air inside the lungs.I,36: Or by meditating according to one’s predilection.</span><br /><br />Comment: When the mind becomes free from memories or verbal convention, of trance-consciousness, devoid of the options of inferential and verbal cognition, the object makes its appearance in the mind in its own nature. The transformation is called “Distinct” (nirvitarka).<br /><br /><span style="color: red;">I,43: Distinctive (wordless) thought transformation is that in which the mind shines as the object alone on the cessation of memory, and is as it were devoid of its own nature.</span><br />(<a href="http://easternphi.blogspot.com/2006/05/patanjali-sutras-excerpts-and-comments.html">Read more here</a>).</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/2703641584035068055-8819495295256289646?l=easternphi.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>atRifFhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08640103269471118270noreply@blogger.com