The Antarāya are presented
as a guide through life’s distractions,
rather than a rationale for life’s obstacles.
– Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter One verse 30
Paul’s Yoga Mālā – A Thread of Pearls from Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra
“Pratyāhāra is the ability of the Manas
to resist the dance of the senses.”
– Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 54
Paul’s Yoga Mālā – A Thread of Pearls from Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra
When working with the Breath in Āsana,
it’s perhaps less appealing initially,
but ultimately more attractive, satisfactory
and effective, to integrate a Bhāvana on
the Samāpatti of Śaithilya and Ananta,
within a developmental Prāṇāyāma Sādhana,
focused towards the Siddhi of Dīrgha or Length,
supported by its counterpoint, Sūkṣma or Subtlety.
– Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 50
Paul’s Yoga Mālā – A Thread of Pearls from Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra
From Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 47
Krishnamacharya taught that the
common denominator for successfully uniting
both aspects of relaxation and the infinite
within the practice of Āsana is the breath.
He saw it as continued effort
and synonymous with giving life.
The continued effort of the breath is that which gives life.
– Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 47
Paul’s Yoga Mālā – A Thread of Pearls from Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra
“Awareness doesn’t change,
however our awareness of our
experience of awareness does.”
– Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 20
Paul’s Yoga Mālā – A Thread of Pearls from Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra
“What is it you are ready to give up?”
– Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 35
Paul’s Yoga Mālā – A Thread of Pearls from Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra
“In introducing the various Upāya offered within
verses 20 to 39 in Yoga Sūtra Chapter One,
Krishnamacharya talks about Das Upāya,
of which two are Śodhanam Sādhana
and eight are Śamanam Sādhana.”
– Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter One verses 20-39
Paul’s Yoga Mālā – A Thread of Pearls from Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra
How to relate with the inner conundrum that we are
thinking or feeling we are changing every 5 minutes.
Yet, from within that seeming flux we can observe that
we are only appearing to be changing every 5 minutes.
This implies that there is something else, not obvious,
yet constantly abiding within our psychic fluctuations.
Yoga offers a journey towards a direct experience of that
which perceives within our coalesced sense of “I” Am-ness.
In other words, how to be with that we call awareness or
the observer within the seeming seduction of the observed,
given that both mind and senses are part of the observed?
– Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 18
Paul’s Yoga Mālā – A Thread of Pearls from Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra
It is intriguing, or even at times beguiling, in what
choices we make in relation to the nine interventions
elegantly presented in Yoga Sūtra Chapter One verse 30.
In other words what ploys do we deploy and employ
with regard to at least living intelligently within,
even if unable to transform at this point in time,
with what appears as if a distraction between how
we feel we are and how we feel we would like to be.
– Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter One verse 30
Paul’s Yoga Mālā – A Thread of Pearls from Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra
Yoga is not just about engaging with
the overt nature of the symptoms,
but also engaging with the
covert cause of the symptoms.
– Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 24
Paul’s Yoga Mālā – A Thread of Pearls from Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra
“Within the sense of “I” Am-ness,
the I-ness is Prakṛti and
the Am-ness is Puruṣa.
The illusion is the sense of as if One–ness.”
– Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 6
Paul’s Yoga Mālā – A Thread of Pearls from Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra
“Pratyāhāra is a process that encourages us
to explore the means by which we can learn
to step out of the flow of the river of the senses.”
– Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 54
Paul’s Yoga Mālā – A Thread of Pearls from Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra
Pratyāhāra is the absence of a link
from the mind with the senses,
rather than the absence of a link
from the senses with the mind.
– Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 54
Paul’s Yoga Mālā – A Thread of Pearls from Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra
Our actions reveal our intentions.
– Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 14
Paul’s Yoga Mālā – A Thread of Pearls from Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra
Kriyā Yoga is about how to engage with our challenges,
especially whilst feeling disengaged by them.
– Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 1
Paul’s Yoga Mālā – A Thread of Pearls from Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra
The safest place for the mind is in the past.
– Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Four verse 27
Paul’s Yoga Mālā – A Thread of Pearls from Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra
Hāna is the giving up
of the reliance on Asmitā
being perceived as if
the heart of one’s self.
– Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 25
Paul’s Yoga Mālā – A Thread of Pearls from Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra
That’s our starting point…
This curious conjunction
of being Human and
yet human Being.
– Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 6
Paul’s Yoga Mālā – A Thread of Pearls from Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra
More usually the past dominates the present.
Through Yoga Sādhana we work towards
the present dominating the past.
– Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two
Paul’s Yoga Mālā – A Thread of Pearls from Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra
Yoga is about seeking a relationship
with that which experiences,
rather than seeking experiences.
– Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter One verse 3
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