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Yoga Sutras Chapter II 1-4 Sutras 1-4 introduce Patanjali's Kriya Yoga and names the impediments to achieving samadhi.
II-1. tapah svadhyaya isvarapranidhanani kriyayogah tapah: cooking, heat, austerity, purification svadhyaya: self study, reflection isvara: lord, transcendant reality pranidhana(ni): devotion, acceptance, non-attachment kriyayogah: yoga of action Kriya yoga is defined as purification, reflection and acceptance of the universal order. One performs certain acts of purification, reflects on those acts and accepts the outcome with an attitude of non-attachment. II-2. samadhibhavanarthah klesa tanukaranarthasca samadhi: conscious absorption bhavana: vow, cultivation artha: purpose klesa: affliction, problem, trouble tanu: fine, thin karana: making ca: and The purpose (of Kriya Yoga) is to cultivate conscious absorption and reduce (make fine or thin) that which troubles us. There is a teeter-totter balance between samadhi and the klesas. When we experience conscious absorption or samadhi, our problems (klesas) are thin. When we allow our troubles to bother us, samadhi is distant. II-3 avidya asmita raga dvesa abhinivesah klesah avidya: ignorance asmita: egotism raga: attachment, hankering dvesa: aversion abhinivesah: innate fear, based on fear of death klesa: affliction, distress Ignorance, egotism, hankering, aversion and fear are the source of our distress. II-4. avidya ksetram uttaresam prasupta tanu vicchinna udaranam avidya: ignorance ksetram: field uttaresam: others prasupta: sleeping tanu: fine, thin vicchinna: fluctuating udaranam: full blown Ignorance is the field on which the other klesas grow. They can be sleeping (inactive), thin (imperceptible but active), fluctuating betwen active and inactive or full blown. |
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