Frases de Patañjali

“La amistad, la compasión y la alegría clarifican y tranquilizan la mente. Deben practicarse tanto en la felicidad como en la desgracia, tanto con quienes nos ayudan como con aquellos que nos perjudican.”

“Que extraña paradoja se plantea, la paradoja metafísica por excelencia: el universo no es lo que vemos, ni somos lo que creemos que somos; el verdadero universo es una corriente de Existencia, Conciencia y Bienaventuranza indiferenciada, cuya esencia primaria es la identidad de todo lo existente.”

“Cuando la mente se mantiene en la conciencia no se mezcla con los sentidos, ni los sentidos con las experiencias sensoriales; es entonces cuando la conciencia del ser florece.”

“Los obstáculos para la reconocer el alma son las limitaciones del cuerpo, la inercia mental, el cuestionamiento incorrecto, el descuido, la pereza, la falta de ecuanimidad, la percepción errónea, la incapacidad para lograr la concentración, la imposibilidad de mantener el estado meditativo cuando se logra.”

“La liberación del observador es el resultado de la disociación del observador y lo observado.”

“Where the heart is full of kindness which seeks no injury to another, either in act or thought or wish, this full love creates an atmosphere of harmony, whose benign power touches with healing all who come within its influence. Peace in the heart radiates peace to other hearts, even more surely than contention breeds contention.”

“By cultivating friendliness towards happiness and compassion towards misery, gladness towards virtue and indifference towards vice, the mind becomes pure.”

“For those who have an intense urge for Spirit and wisdom, it sits
near them, waiting.”

“In deep meditation the flow of concentration is continuous like the flow of oil.”

“Everything is sorrow for the wise.”

“Restraining the thought-streams natural to the mind, … the seer dwells in his own nature. Otherwise he is of the same form as the thought-streams.”

“When the mind maintains awareness, yet does not mingle with the senses, nor the senses with sense impressions, then self-awareness blossoms.”

“Yoga is the cessation of the movements of the mind. Then there is abiding in the Seer's own form.”

“It is only when the correct practice is followed for a long time, without interruptions and with a quality of positive attitude and eagerness, that it can succeed.”

“Liberation of the seer is the result of the dissassociation of the seer and the seen.”

“Egoism is the identification of the power that knows with the instruments of knowing.”

“Realization is experienced by making the Lord the motive of all actions.”

“Supreme happiness is gained via contentment.”

“Peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart.”

“When a man becomes steadfast in his abstention from harming others, then all living creatures will cease to feel enmity in his presence”

“Progress in meditation comes swiftly for those who try their hardest.”

“For one who sees the distinction, there is no further confusing of the mind with the self.”

“By study comes communion with the Lord in the Form most admired.”

“When a gifted team dedicates itself to unselfish trust and combines instinct with boldness and effort, it is ready to climb.”

“Desirelessness towards the seen and the unseen gives the consciousness of mastery.”

“Yoga is the settling of the mind into silence. When the mind has settled, we are established in our essential nature, which is unbounded Consciousness. Our essential nature is usually overshadowed by the activity of the mind.”

“Stirum sukham asanam. Meaning: Seated posture should be steady and comfortable.”

“Asanas bring perfection in body, beauty in form,grace, strength, compactness, and the harness and brilliance of a diamond.”

“By meditation upon Light and upon Radiance, knowledge of the Spirit can be reached and thus peace can be achieved.”

“The mind can be trained to steadiness through those forms of concentration which have relation to the sense perceptions.”

“The peace of the chitta is also brought about by the regulation of the prana or life breath.”

“The peace of the chitta (or mind stuff) can be brought about through the practice of sympathy, tenderness, steadiness of purpose, and dispassion in regard to pleasure or pain, or towards all forms of good or evil.”

“To overcome the obstacles and their accompaniments, the intense application of the will to some one truth (or principle) is required.”

“Pain, despair, misplaced bodily activity and wrong direction (or control) of the life currents are the results of the obstacles in the lower psychic nature.”