Frases de Patañjali
Patañjali
Fecha de nacimiento: 200 a.C.
Fecha de muerte: 150 a.C.
Patañjali o Patanshali es el nombre de dos personajes relevantes en la literatura de la India.
Frases Patañjali
„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.“
Fuente: La Paradoja Divina, I, 25.
„By cultivating friendliness towards happiness and compassion towards misery, gladness towards virtue and indifference towards vice, the mind becomes pure.“
— Patañjali, The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
§ 1.33
Fuente: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
„When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and your discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.“
As quoted by Wayne Dyer http://n-spire.com/archives/011802.html
The Mahābhāṣya
„For those who have an intense urge for Spirit and wisdom, it sits
near them, waiting.“
— Patañjali, The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Fuente: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
„Yoga is the cessation of the movements of the mind. Then there is abiding in the Seer's own form.“
— Patañjali, The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Patanjali, in “Yoga and You” [citation needed]
Fuente: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
„Everything is sorrow for the wise.“
— Patañjali, The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Fuente: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
„The chitta is stabilized and rendered free from illusion as the lower nature is purified and no longer indulged.“
The Light of the Soul: Its Science and Effect: a paraphrase of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, with commentary by Alice A. Bailey, (1927)
„The Yoga of action, leading to union with the soul is fiery aspiration, spiritual reading and devotion to Ishvara.“
Patanjali, in “The Little Red Book of Yoga Wisdom], p. 24.
„When right posture (asana) has been attained there follows right control of prana and proper inspiration and expiration of the breath.“
Patanjali, in “The Little Red Book of Yoga Wisdom”, p. 136.
„Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked.“
Patanjali, in Being Consciousness Bliss: A Seeker's Guide http://books.google.co.in/books?id=AEo58-ihNygC&pg=PA205, p. 205.
„One becomes firmly established in practice only after attending to it for a long time, without interruption and with an attitude of devotion.“
Patanjali in Ashtanga Yoga Sutra I.14, in Ashtanga Yoga: Practice & Philosophy http://books.google.co.in/books?id=f9ygWu2xM3QC&pg=PA154, p. 154.
„Perfection in asana is achieved when the effort to perform it becomes effortless and the infinite being within is reached.“
Patanjali, in “The Little Red Book of Yoga Wisdom”, p. 133.
„Yoga takes you into the present moment, the only place where life exists.“
Patanjali, in "Being Consciousness Bliss: A Seeker's Guide", p. 205.
„The wisdom obtained in the higher states of consciousness is different from that obtained by inference and testimony as it refers to particulars.“
Patanjali, in Hinduism http://books.google.co.in/books?id=GmQ_yp4vVhsC&pg=PA63, p. 63.
„The posture assumed must be steady and easy.“
Patanjali, in “The Little Red Book of Yoga Wisdom”, p. 133.
