It is traditional at this season to exchange gifts and honour our relationships with family and friends. In the Yoga Sutra Patanjali offers some means to develop peaceful relationships and a peaceful mind. These are the five restraints (yama, YS 2:30) and four mental attitudes (bhavanatah, YS 1:33). The yamas (restraints) are often seen as […]
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The Law of Love
“To never harm anybody through mind, speech or action is ahimsa. Be it enemy, friend, stranger or relative, to behave towards all with the same good intentions without differentiation is daya. When such attitudes (anger, hatred and aversion) disappear from society, we will develop purity both internally and in our environments which leads to reforms […]
Patanjali
By Stephen Brandon on June 7, 2009 in Health and Wellbeing, Patanjali, Spiritual Freedom, Yoga practice
My Prayers to Patanjali, hailing from a family of sages, who by his work on yoga, grammar and therapy, helped mankind eradicate defilements of mind language and body. –Traditional Sanskrit prayer In an ancient civilisation people were suffering from pains due to defilements of body, speech and mind so they prayed to the Lord for […]