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    anubhūta

    Devanāgarī: अनुभुत Translation: experience, experienced; perceived, understood, apprehended; resulted, followed as a consequence Similar words:bhūta

    Appears in

    Yoga Sūtra:

    Chapter 1: 11

    Gītārtha Saṃgraha:

    2


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    Commentaries around

    “The Veda speak eloquently of the lotus in one’s heart, where Īśvara resides.
    It is only when the mind is quiet, clear, and steady that we can
    reach into and visualise this most intimate part of ourselves.
    Yoga as a Saṃskāra leads to Yoga as a means to experience this.
    The experience of Dhyānam, in this ideal sense,
    eventually evolves into Samādhi – total absorption in Īśvara.”
    – T Krishnamacharya on Yoga Sūtra Chapter One verse 2

    “To experience the spaciousness of Cit,
    Yoga says practice enclosing the Citta.”
    – Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter One verse 2-3

    “Yoga is the experience of stillness,
    within the fluctuations of mind,
    rather than the experience of stillness,
    of the fluctuations of mind.”
    – Pau Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter One verse 2-3

    “In the Yoga state we experience what is beyond the mind.”
    – TKV Desikachar on Yoga Sūtra Chapter One verse 3

    “Yoga is about seeking a relationship
    with that which experiences,
    rather than seeking experiences.”
    – Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter One verse 3

    “Given the at all other times in this verse,
    we need to thwart the ploys of the mind to
    conform to its unhelpful fluctuations by reducing:
    1. The tendency of the mind to perceive in too many ways.
    2. The tendency of the mind to distort what we see.
    3. The tendency of the mind to fantasize.
    4. The tendency of the mind to go to sleep at inappropriate moments.
    5. The tendency of the mind to get lost in memory or impose memory on reality.
    When these old or other tendencies take over you are not there.
    So if you are not consistent with your efforts,
    you will not change your state of mind.
    Plus, the unhelpful aspects of the fluctuations reduce
    the tendency of the mind to experience a clarity of being.”
    – Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter One verse 4

    “Even when our understanding is consistent with our perception or repeated experience,
    it does not necessarily indicate a fact.
    For instance,
    if we assume that a person is a woman simply because that person is dressed in a woman’s clothes,
    this is called Viparyaya or mental activity that is based on something other than fact.
    Viparyaya, then, is comprehension based on a perceived characteristic in the observer,
    which leads to false assumptions.”
    – T Krishnamacharya on Yoga Sūtra Chapter One verse 8

    “In Sūtra 1.10 Patañjali defines Nidrā as a
    Citta Vṛtti or, a specific type of cognition, one
    where Tamas is the object, to the point where
    the mind’s link with external stimuli is cut off.
    How do we discern between states such as
    Pratyāhāra as a disengagement, or Samādhi,
    where one is as if empty of one’s own character,
    and what is seen as the experience of Tamo Nidrā?”
    – Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter One verse 10

    “Anubhūta is the change that
    occurs in one’s state of mind
    when it is related to external objects
    through the involvement of the senses.
    This is also known as experience.”
    – T Krishnamacharya on Yoga Sūtra Chapter One verse 11

    “What is Samādhi?
    It is the ability to experience the true nature of the objects of Meditation,
    through a mind rid of the provocation of excitability and inactivity.”
    – T Krishnamacharya on Yoga Sūtra Chapter One verse 20

    “The tendencies born from that experience
    of knowing oppose other tendencies.”
    – Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter One verse 50

    “A necessary step in Yoga is to experience
    a state of complete and utter disillusionment.
    Arising from that is a state of Citta prepared
    to give up its conviction of being the Cit.”
    – Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 5

    “Fear and Insecurity feed on the leftovers
    from the meals of past experiences.”
    – Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 9

    “We experience the world via the conjunction
    of the ‘eye’ of the Cit with the ‘I’ of the Citta.”
    – Paulo Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 17

    “Awareness doesn’t change,
    however our awareness of our
    experience of awareness does.”
    – Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 20

    “Some define their experience of life by seeking Duḥkha,
    some by seeking Sukha.
    The Yoga Practitioner sees both as Avidyā
    and defines their experience of life by seeking
    what lies beyond duality through unwavering Viveka.”
    – Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 26

    “Dhyānam is the seventh Aṅga of the Aṣṭāṅga Yoga.
    In order to experience Dhyānam, the sixth step,
    Dhāraṇā, should have been practiced thoroughly.”
    – T Krishnamacharya on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Three verse 1

    “The mutual aim of Yoga and Sāṃkhya is to
    experience the more discerning aspects of the psyche,
    rather than just the more grasping aspects of the psyche.
    In the former, the tendency of the Buddhi to discern discriminately
    prevails over the tendency of Ahaṃkāra to grasp indiscriminately.
    In the latter, the tendency of the Ahaṃkāra to grasp indiscriminately
    prevails over the tendency of the Buddhi to discern discriminately.
    The former is a state known as Buddhi Sattva,
    where the clarity of discernment prevails over the
    indiscriminate grasping nature of the Ahaṃkāra.
    The latter is a state of Buddhi Tamas,
    where the discerning clarity of the Buddhi
    is obscured by the grasping nature of the Ahaṃkāra.
    Thus our Yoga Sādhana has but one primary Saṃkalpa,
    that of the reduction of the obscuration by Tamas in the Buddhi.
    This reduction of Tamas facilitates the advent of the clarity of Sattva,
    as in the metaphor of the reduction of the cloud facilitates the advent of the sun.”
    – Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Three verse 49

    “Saṃskāra always looks
    to our past experiences
    to determine our choices
    for our future actions.”
    – Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Four verse 9

    “The way to Yoga is experienced
    through the art of living skilfully
    within the defects of translation,
    rather than aspiring romantically
    after the effects of transcendence.”
    – Paul Harvey on Bhagavad Gītā Chapter Two verse 50

    “It’s not until I understand how to
    cultivate a space within My self
    can I begin to experience that
    which is the essence of the Self.”
    – 108 Study Path Pointers

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