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🌹PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS🌹                          🌀CHAPTER - 10🌀     ~ The Eight Limbs Of Yoga ~                 🌀DAY - 80🌀 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷 " सत्यप्रतिष्ठायां क्रियाफलाश्रयत्वम् "  " Satya pratishthaayaam kriyaphalaashrayatvam. " All your actions will become fruitful, if you are established in truth. The actions of many people don't bring about results because there is no truth-consciousness in them. The fruit of an action will follow immediately when there is no truth-consciousness. क्रियाफलाश्रयत्वम् - There is success in action. And truth is not just the words. It is the quality of the consciousness, of straight-forwardness. Even if you are telling a lie and you are bold enough to say that you are telling a lie then you are speaking truth. When you tell a lie, your consciousness is not solid. It is not straight-forward. There is no strength i...

🌹PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS🌹                          🌀CHAPTER - 10🌀     ~ The Eight Limbs Of Yoga ~                 🌀DAY - 79🌀 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷 What is the effect of ahimsa? " अहिंसाप्रतिष्ठायां तत्सन्निधौ वैरत्यागः " " Ahimsa pratishtaayaam tat sannidhau vairatyaagah " If you are established in non-violence, violence will be dropped in your very presence by other creatures. Someone may plan to attack you. But, as soon as they come near you, they will feel your vibration which is totally non-violent. Then, they will stop being violent. The contemporary of Buddha was Mahaveera. He was the promoter of the Jain religion. He emphasized ahimsa. It is said that people up to twenty kilometres around him would drop their violence. And, that, even thorns would not prick anybody. They would become soft and be flat on the ground to avoid pricking anybody. " अहिंसाप...

🌹PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS🌹                          🌀CHAPTER - 10🌀     ~ The Eight Limbs Of Yoga ~                 🌀DAY - 78🌀 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷 Yama is the first limb. What are yamas? Ahimsa satya asteya brahmacharya aparigraha. These are five yamas. Ahimsa - non-violence Satya - truth Asteya - stealing Brahmacharya - moving in Barhman, moving in bigness Aprigraha - non-accumulation " जातिदेशकालसम्यनवश्चिन्ह्सवॅभुमहाव्रतम् " " Jaati desha kala samaya nvachchinnaaha saarvabhoumaa mahaavratam "  These are the greatest vows because it is applicable at all times, in all places and for all people. There are certain laws which apply just to certain people, or times. An animal is violent for some reason. The wild animals hunt only when they are hungry. They do not hunt just for pleasure but the human beings do. They go hunting for no reason. A python eats ...

🌹PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS🌹                          🌀CHAPTER - 10🌀     ~ The Eight Limbs Of Yoga ~                 🌀DAY - 77🌀 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷 Human consciousness is like a seed. A seed has the possibility of a tree, of branches, of leaves, flowers and fruits, of multiplication, etc. So does the human mind. A seed needs a proper soil, proper conditions, sunlight and water to sprout and blossom on its possibility. It is the same with the human consciousness, the human mind. Either the seed can be dormant for many years, keeping its sprouting and developing possibilities within itself or it can start sprouting and growing right away. The sprouting of this seed of human consciousness is viveka - discrimination and wisdom. Freedom comes with viveka, or discrimination. All other species in this creation are completely governed by nature. They do not need dis...

🌹PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS🌹                          🌀CHAPTER - 9🌀 ~ Eliminating The Cause Of Pain ~                 🌀DAY - 76🌀 🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷 " तस्य हेतुरविध्या " " Tasya heturavidyaa "  If you think these vrtittis are yours, it is ignorance. And what is the way to come out of the ignorance - a definite understanding and knowledge in the mind that the body is undergoing changes all the time; that the world is undergoing changes all the time; that the entire universe, in the form of fluids, is in a state of fluidity - it is all full of changes and is going on, on its own, according to its nature. The definite knowledge that you are not the body, that you are the Self, that you are the space, that you are imperishable, untouched and untamed by the prakriti and the world around you, that the body is all hollow and empty, and every particle in this body is ev...