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    sat

    Devanāgarī: सत् Translation: real, true, right Similar words:satya Opposite words:asat Related concepts:viniyoga, cit

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    “What is the true nature of the Citta?”
    – T Krishnamacharya’s commentary to
    Yoga Sūtra Chapter One verse 6

    “Another aspect of Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtra
    is that he looks at the world as real.
    It is Sat. It is not Asat.
    It is not a mirage.
    Even the mirage is real.”
    – T Krishnamacharya commentary on Yoga Sūtra Chapter One verse 42

    “Avidyā is the illusion of experiencing
    what feels real, as if it is actually true.
    However, that we experience a feeling as real,
    does not in fact actually mean that it is true.
    So how to discern as to whether a feeling
    that we experience as real, is really true?”
    – Reflections around Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 5

    “Follow Truth with Faith.”
    – TKV Desikachar commentary on Bhagavad Gītā Chapter 12 verse 20

    “People come to study Yoga for many reasons,
    however it comes into two groups.
    1. They come to learn or study (Śikṣaṇa).
    2. They come to us for support rather than to study (Rakṣaṇa).
    So the Yoga we offer to the person who is inquiring
    is not the Yoga we offer to the person seeking protection.
    Therefore one can give the wrong advice (Asat viniyoga) to the right person
    and vice versa (Sat viniyoga).
    This can do more harm than if the person had not come.
    The intention must be right as must be the execution.”
    – TKV Desikachar Switzerland 1978

    Question to TKV Desikachar on Yama and Niyama:
    “The idea behind Yama and Niyama is the attitude we have to the inside and outside.
    If I don’t know what is true there is no question of telling the truth.
    However there is the intention, because one day it may become a reality.
    Even though some of these things are not there in the beginning, if the intention is sincere then one day it will become an action if conditions and our psychological state change.
    Yama as telling the truth also means discretion.”
    – TKV Desikachar France 1983

    “If I don’t know what is true,
    there is no question of telling the truth.”
    – TKV Desikachar France 1983

    “The Ācārya has to examine the Sat viniyoga or Asat viniyoga,
    the right offering or the wrong offering.
    If the teacher is able to solve this problem
    and establish that the students are serious,
    then this is Sat viniyoga.”
    – TKV Desikachar France 1983

    “To give the right thing to the right person at the right time is Sat viniyoga.
    Don’t look at the file, look at the student!”
    – TKV Desikachar France 1983

    “Sat viniyoga
    is about learning to do more with less.
    Asat viniyoga
    is about learning to do less with more.
    Whether Āsana or Students!!”

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