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    mithyā

    Devanāgarī: मिथ्या Translation: falsely, deceitfully, untruly; incorrectly, wrongly, improperly Similar words:asat Related concepts:hīna, atiyoga, cikitsā

    Appears in

    Yoga Sūtra:

    Chapter 1: 8


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    Commentaries around

    “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’s on Yoga Sūtra Chapter One verse 8

    “Wrong perception is a false knowing without support.”
    – Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter One verse 8

    “In Sūtra 1.8 Patañjali defines Viparyaya as a false knowing.
    How can we discern a right perception from a wrong perception
    and can a false knowing be both Kliṣṭa and Akliṣṭa?”
    – Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter One verse 8

    “If Śarīra leads Ātma, there is Kleśa.
    The cause of this is Karma Vāsana and Mithyā Indriya.”
    – T Krishnamacharya on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 2

    “When considering what, why and how to practice,
    it can be helpful to consider our starting point.
    For example, are we looking for the role of an Āsana
    practice to help in recovering from a situation
    where we are as if personally overdrawn.
    Also, what is the nature of our ‘overdraft’?
    Is its impact or origin physical, energetic, psychological
    or emotional, or even a combination of more than one?
    Here the concepts of too little, too much, or wrong
    can also be helpful as a reference in that, as well as
    considering the nature of the ‘overdraft’, we need to
    consider the means we undertake to remedy this
    aspect of the situation. In other words our first
    priority is to choose to plan practice steps that
    will initially reduce the negative aspect at least.
    However, sometimes we can try something that is
    as if a short term loan and at a high rate of interest
    in terms of time, effort, energy and commitment.
    Thus whilst finding our situation temporarily
    improving a further depletion can possibly arise as
    we find ourselves unable to as if ‘keep up with the
    extra payments’ given the nature of the original
    depletion and its current impact on our potentials.
    So having a clear reference point in terms of
    identifying the nature of our starting point, and
    the short term or longer term potentials of a
    choice of an appropriate remedy, is as important
    as our personal determination to clear the deficit
    that has knowingly or unknowingly emerged within us.”
    – 108 Yoga Practice Pointers

    “Our relationship with Food can be too little, too much, or wrong.
    According to Āyurveda, even the best food eaten in the wrong amount,
    or at the wrong time, or with the wrong attitude
    will fail to nourish and even disturb the system.
    The same could also be said for Yoga Practice”
    – 108 Study Path Pointers

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