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    pratyaya

    Devanāgarī: प्रत्यय Translation: psychic activity; cause; conception, assumption, notion, idea; ground, basis, motive or cause of anything Similar words:saṃskāra Related concepts:saṃskāra, vāsanā, citta, vṛtti

    Appears in

    Yoga Sūtra:

    Chapter 1: 10 , 18 , 19
    Chapter 2: 20
    Chapter 3: 2 , 12 , 17 , 19 , 35
    Chapter 4: 27

    Sāṃkhya Kārikā:

    46


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    Commentaries around

    “Deep sleep is the fluctuation of obscuration,
    supporting an absence of mental activity.”
    – Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter One verse 10

    “The outer layer of meditative reflection,
    as in Dhāraṇā, can reveal psychic symptoms,
    which we might compare to the branches
    of a tree, such as confused attractions,
    confused aversions and the fear of loss.”
    – Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verses 7-9

    “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

    “What we observe is changing,
    What we observe with is changing,
    Where we observe from is unchanging.”
    – Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 20

    “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.
    From this, we can begin to understand how the impact
    of this sensory knowing can lead us to travel in different directions
    and trigger different levels of response, often without us being really
    conscious of how deeply their input stimulates our psychic activities.
    From these responses, there will be the inevitable re-actions,
    again quite possibly unconscious and multilevelled,
    according to our psychic history in terms of our memory,
    habit patternings and deeper memory processes.
    From those initial insight, we can begin to understand
    and interact in how we can resist unconsciously slipping
    into the trance states that can so often culminate with
    the  Kleśa manifesting fully in the entrancing dance of
    Udārā Rāga, or Udārā Dveṣa, or Udārā Abhiniveśa,
    the potent and profligate children of Avidyā.”
    – Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 54

    “When we act unconsciously
    we go back into the past.”
    – TKV Desikachar on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Four verse 27

    Different Types of Postural Activity in Āsana Practice
    “Finally, the consideration of movement
    or stasis sits within a relationship to the
    deeper purpose of Āsana within our journey
    through the body and the breath, to the mind
    and beyond, through considerations such as:
    In relation to the psychological ideal of remaining there.
    According to the definition in  Chapter Three verse 2 of
    the Yoga Sūtra, a continuity of psychic activity is the ideal.
    This is seen as the ability to stay, as if in the same moment, as
    one moment melds into the next moment and the next moment.
    In other words, the ability to internally maintain a continuity of
    experience as if maintaining an apparent stillness of movement.
    Access to such subtle states requires a containment of movement
    that ultimately extends from the body to the breath to the mind.”
    – 108 Yoga Planning Pointers
    – The Viniyoga of Planning Principles Guidelines – Collected & Collated

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