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    pratyāhāra

    Devanāgarī: प्रत्याहार Translation: withdrawal from the senses Related concepts:āsana, prāṇāyāma, dhāraṇā, dhyāna, indriya, citta, manas, aṣṭāṅga

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    Yoga Sūtra:

    Chapter 2: 29 , 54


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    Commentaries around

    “Prāṇāyāma leads to this. Pratyāhāra,
    to see without the senses distracting or pulling the mind,
    and Dhāraṇā –
    To see without the mind losing itself,
    because of colouring or expectations.
    Dhyānam arises out of this.”
    – TKV Desikachar on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 49

    “Pratyāhāra –
    To see without the senses distracting or pulling the mind.”
    – TKV Desikachar on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 54

    “Pratyāhāra is not feeding the tendency of the Citta to
    automatically form a positive, negative, or neutral identification
    with whatever stimuli the senses present to it.
    From that we can begin to understand how
    their external gathering activities stimulate our conscious
    and especially, unconscious choices.”
    – Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 54

    “The Dasa Indriya or ten senses of experience and action,
    whilst seen as belonging to the Bāhya Aṅga or five external limbs
    in the eight limb Aṣṭa Aṅga Yoga of Patañjali,
    are also the gateway to the Antar Aṅga or three internal limbs.”
    – Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 54

    “Pratyāhāra means withdrawing from that on which we are feeding.”
    – TKV Desikachar Religiousness in Yoga Chapter Eleven Page 152

    “Pratyāhāra does not mean we look at an object and say.
    ‘We are not going to look at that object’.”
    – TKV Desikachar Religiousness in Yoga Chapter Eleven Page 153

    “If we are completely absorbed in the breath in Prāṇāyāma,
    automatically there is Pratyāhāra.”
    – TKV Desikachar Religiousness in Yoga Chapter Eleven Page 153

    “Amongst other roles Ujjāyī is a breathing technique to
    facilitate the ability to remain in the doorway of awareness,
    neither going in and introverting when tempted by the manoeuvring of the mind,
    nor going out and extraverting when tempted by the shimmering of the senses.”
    – 108 Yoga Practice Pointers

    “Don’t get stuck on the sticky.
    Learn Prāṇāyāma.
    Learn Pratyāhāra.
    Learn Nādānusandhāna.
    Learn Adhyayanam.
    Learn Dhyānam.”
    – 108 Yoga Practice Pointers

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