Yoga Sutras Week 7 - The Eight Limbs of Yoga
Patanjali is laying out the path to enlightened awareness. This enlightened awareness needs to be all-inclusive. The whole of you needs to fall into this light. To do this, you will need yam and niyam . You will need to come in harmony with the natural law of things— to cease being in conflict with your own existence, to stop creating trouble for yourself. You will need to merge your body back into life by liberating it from your psychology. You will need to allow your breath to meet life in its fullness,by again removing your psychology from your breathing. You will need to turn inward— and start to move, act, feel, breathe, be from your own authentic nature. Uninfluenced. You will need to start being able to give the fullness of your attention to whatever is occurring. To show interest in your own existence. As you do this, you will begin to merge. You will begin to flow with life. You will begin to forget yourself. And through this… you will merge int...