There is energy everywhere, appearing in different forms.
The goal of yoga is correcting our vision -- a self-reformation, self-control, self-adjustment. To see a new world, harmonious and happy world, without wrong identification.
1:17
Samadhi - the final practice of yoga: contemplation, only possible after a person achieved perfection in concentration and meditation, with one-pointedness, and have the mind completely under control.
Gita: with meditation we experience involution. The unmanifest appears as manifest and returns to the unmanifest (non-)creation and destruction. God is pure consciousness.
1:22 The time necessary for success (also) depends on whether the practice is mild, medium, or intense.
1:26 There is no difference between religion and yoga. Yoga is the basis of all religions.
1:30 We need to be challenged in order to understand our own capabilities.
1:33 Keep a peaceful mind in daily life. Cultivate attitudes of friendliness, compassion, delight, and undisturbed clamness. The goal of yoga is to keep a serene mind.
1:36 Imagine a brilliant divine light in you as divine consciousness. It later becomes a reality. Concentrate on the supreme, ever-blissful light within.
1:41 The culmination of meditation is
samadhi.
1:46. Samadhi can bring one into bondage and mental disturbance. We do not need to condemn [atomic, GMO, fossil fuel forces], but the minds of the people using those forces. If we are going into the secrets of life and the universe and gain control over them, we should have pure minds to make proper use of them. Otherwise, we will bring destruction on the entire humanity. The purification of the mind is very necessary.
1:51 (last sutra in Book1) The totality is wiped out and there is nirbija samadhi. There is no more birth or death. You realize immortality.
Book II: Goal of Yoga
Control of
chitttra vrittis, or thought forms.
II:1 Tapas - not mortification or austarity, but to create heat. The more you fire gold, the more pure it becomes. Impurities are removed. Tapas is self-discipline, not self-torture. It includes the control, not supression of sex.
II: 5 Ignorance is regarding the impermanent as permanent, the impure as pure, the painful as pleasurable, the non-Self as Self.
II:15 Everything, all experiences that come through the world through nature or material things, are ultimately painful, as it creates renewed cravings, conflict which controls the mind.
II:22 Nature is called
maya, or illusion, to the yogi who understands it.
II:25 If we think we are liberated, we are liberated. Once we realize our freedom, we should work for the sake of others who are still bound.
II: 27 7-Fold Wisdom, defined.
II:29: The Eight Limbs of Yoga explained
- abstinence, observance, posture, breath control, sense withdrawal, concentration, meditation, samadhi (contemplation, absorption, superconscious state).
II:35 Established in non-violence. That person emits harmonious vibrations.
II:37 Established in non-stealing. Richness is not monetary wealth. The richest person is the one with a cool mind, free of tension and anxiety. We can be serene in the midst of calamaties and feel free as birds.
II:42 By contentment, supreme joy is gained. Contentment means to be as we are without going outside things for happiness.
II:43
Tapas: fasting: to make our minds clean and steady, we must accept suffering, pain, and poverty out of love, he inflicts pain [for detoxification and purification]. When we have nothing to posses, we have nothing to worry about. All worry is due to attachments and clinging to possessions.
Real samadhi is tranquility of mind.
II:47 Sit quiet for three hours without movement or restlessness, meditating on infinity, and the mind comes under control.
II49-51
Pranayama: control of breath.
II52:
Pranayama: the veil over inner light is destroyed.
II55: The result is supreme mastery over senses, true freedom, and real victory.
III:7
Niyama, the internal yoga about how to deal with the outside world.
III:11 Development of samadhi is with a decline in distractedness and appearance of one-pointedness
III:25-51 Siddhis: Accomplishments
By
Samyama on the strength of elephants, their strength is obtained.
III:31Samyama on the pit of the throat, cessation of hunger and thirst is achieved.
III:38 These supernormal senses (
siddhis) are obstacles to Nirvana/samadhi. They're worldly pursuits.
III:46 Major siddhis with bodily perfection and non-obstruction of bodily functions: Siddhis includee: prakamya (to achieve all one's desires); isatva (ability to create anything); and vasitva (ability to comman and control everything).
III:50 By recognition of the distinction between sattva (pure reflective nature) and the Self, supremacy over all states and forms of existence (omnipotence) and omniscience is gained.
III:51 By non-attachment, Kaivalya (independence).
Note: you want siddhis to help people? Or is that an excuse? Don't crave them. They will come when you seek the Kingdom. Seek god (cosmic consciousness) first. Seek peace, contentment, egolessness. You may get hurt if you run after the siddhis. Let them run after you.
IV:1 Tapas: asceticism: accepting suffering willingly, thus exercising your will power and gaining control over your mind.
IV:15 Due to the differences in various minds, perceptions of even the same objects may vary.
IV:29
Dharmamegha: cloud of
dharma: virtue, justice, law, duty, morality, religion, religious merit, and steadfast decree.
When a yogi acts, the action is enjoyable. It's a play, a game to act.
