If the universe enters the mind and the mind enters the universe, this exercise is said to lead to immediate liberation. This is a staggering suggestion given by the sutra that the entire world can enter into the process of thinking. Who can think in such a way that the object enters the mind itself and the object becomes the thought and the thought becomes the object. Usually such an exercise is not humanly possible. This sutra makes out that there are two ways of the functioning of the mind, one in the form of a thought of an external object and another as a total and comprehensive operation in which the object in meditation becomes inseparable from its thought. 43): This is, in my opinion, the quintessence of the meditational technique described by Patanjali, by which we are introduced to the very heart of the matter so pithily and crisply. This sutra: bahir akalpita vrittir maha videha tatah prakasha varana kayah occurs in the third chapter of the Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali (III.

Here I would like to add that there is a much neglected sutra of Patanjali to which commentators have been paying scant attention, and even when they were attempting to say something on this sutra it was sketchy and lacked depth.

I have gone through the manuscript of this book and find that it is excellent. The present occasion for me to write these few words is in connection with a series of lectures he delivered on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, all of which were systematically edited by a devotee called Swami Lakshmi Ananda from Perth, Australia. He was a prolific writer and could write on any subject. He liked me very much and I too liked him equally. This is a sort of background of my intimacy with Swami Venkatesananda. He would always be smiling and cut jokes even when we were discussing serious subjects like the famous Yoga Vasistha that we used to read together after the lunch hour every day. Right from the beginning we both were intimate friends and we used to discuss common topics in a humorous way, of which method of speaking Swami Venkatesananda was a master. Swami Venkatesananda turned out enormous work every day by attending to correspondence, by writing articles and commentaries, which were all a kind of masterpiece in themselves. Sri Swami Venkatesanandaji was closely associated with Gurudev Sri Swami Sivanandaji Maharaj, and he was a veritable personal assistant to Sri Gurudev. With commentary by Swami Venkatesananda Buy this book | Online Bookstore

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