The Yoga Sutras were compiled about 2,000 years ago by the sage
Patanjali from an oral tradition reaching back into unknowable
antiquity. He gives us the essential wisdom for the practice of
yoga and meditation to know, first hand, the essence of our true
Self-the conscious indweller that enlivens this body. Experiencing
the fully conscious state shows us the essential transcendent
nature of the universe to bring us a state of undisturbed joyous
tranquillity. Traditionally, this wisdom has been handed down from
master to student as a transmission of the means to liberation.
Patanjali tells us that the pure blissful inner Self is already
attained and all that is required is to lose interest in that which
is not the Self. This is pretty straight forward, and we learn all
we need to know in the first three sutras. Presuming we will not
get it the first time, he goes on to detail the nature of the Self,
the practices that will awaken us, the attainments that arise from
the practices and then explains about the state of final
liberation. Throughout the book we are reminded of two fundamental
practices that lead to the final state, kaivalya. One practice is
vairagya (dispassion, non-attachment) and the other is viveka
(discrimination). In the practice of viveka, we learn to
discriminate between the mind and the watcher of the mind
(consciousness itself). When we can rest in the state of
consciousness knowing itself; we answer the question, "Who am I?"
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