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    nitya

    Devanāgarī: नित्य Translation: eternal; constantly dwelling or engaged in Similar words:nityatvā, ananta Opposite words:anitya, naimittika Related concepts:niyata

    Appears in

    Yoga Sūtra:

    Chapter 2: 5

    Bhagavad Gītā:

    Chapter 2: 45

    Yoga Rahasya:

    Chapter 1: 33


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    Commentaries around

    “Depending on whether the mind is in a state of Samādhi or not,
    the person enjoys permanent happiness or
    successive chains of unhappiness and happiness.
    Those who accept nothing short of Samādhi,
    freedom from the suffering of disease is realised.
    After all, the root cause of disease is the disturbed mind,
    when we cannot distinguish right from wrong or good from bad.”
    – T Krishnamacharya on Yoga Sūtra Chapter One verse 34

    “When something is understood differently from what it truly is, it is called Avidyā.
    What is changing is taken to be non-changing. For example the mind.
    What is subjected to decay is assumed to be pure. For example the body.
    What is leading to suffering is taken to be the source of pleasure.
    What is not conscious is assumed to be conscious.
    All these errors in perceptions have many possibilities.
    But the ultimate stage of Avidyā is to assume that we are the Masters, not Īśvara.”
    T Krishnamacharya on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 5

    “Avidyā is the illusion of recognising:
    the ephemeral as the eternal,
    the profane as the profound,
    pain as pleasure and
    the silhouette as the source.”
    – Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 5

    “Still subtler layers of meditative reflection
    as in Samādhi, can reveal the source of this
    confused sense of “I” Am-ness, as in leading us
    to the roots from which the tree trunk, and then
    the branches grew, namely the ultimate illusion.
    These hidden roots sustain this existential illusion
    where, what in reality is transient, adulterated,
    infused with suffering and non-Spiritual,
    is personally lived and experienced as if
    everlasting, unadulterated, infused
    with pleasant feelings and Spiritual.”
    – Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 5

    “Feelings from the past remain eternally potent ravagers,
    especially pervasive within the illusion of our present and
    with it a tendency to recreate an old shape from our past,
    whilst we are believing it to be a new shape for our future.”
    – Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Four verse 27

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    • T Krishnamacharya Yoga Sūtra Study Quotes Collected and Collated
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    • Paul’s Yoga Mālā – A Thread of Pearls from Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra
    • Paul’s Yoga Sūtra Study Keywords – Collected & Collated into Chapters
    • Paul’s Yoga Sūtra Study Questions – Collected & Collated into Chapters
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