Links to Related Resources & Longer Articles:

• Paul’s Yoga Sūtra Study Questions – Collected & Collated into Chapters
• Paul’s Yoga Sūtra Study Keywords – Collected & Collated into Chapters

Collated Related Short Posts & Quotes:

“Patañjali, in the Samādhi Pādaḥ or Book One, introduces
two primary paths for cultivating a Dhyānam Sādhana.
Firstly, that of Jñāna Dhyānam where the Prayatna is Viyoga.
Here, the Bhāvana is to unlink from the activities of the Citta.
Secondly, that of Bhakti Dhyānam where the Prayatna is Yoga.
Here, the Bhāvana is to link to and direct the activities of the Citta.
Both Sādhana can lead the practitioner towards the same goal,
the unalloyed abiding inherent within the source of perception.”
– Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter One

“From this state,
a clarity of being,
as seeing is from the
source of perception.”
– Paul Harvey 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

“In Sūtra 1.3 how would you portray the word Avasthāna
to a person with little understanding of Yoga?”
– Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter One verse 3

“Yoga is about refining
the skill to rest in the
awareness of the Cit,
rather than nest in the
nature of the Citta.”
– Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter One verses 3-4

“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