Podcasts about vrittis

Primary goal of yoga is to still the mind from all kinds of mental fluctuations. I have broken down the steps to 2 simple levels . Level 1 for all yogis and level 2 for advance yogis only. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wellnesswithsahila/message

5 Chitta Vrittis Removal and Burning - Types of Chitta Vrittis. Understanding the Removal and Burning of 5 Types of Chitta Vrittis, i.e Avidya, Raga, Dwesha, Abhinivesha. Watch the video to know how one can stop creating new Chitta Vrittis. www.BeingShiva.Org www.YogiParampara.org

5 Chitta Vrittis Removal and Burning - Types of Chitta Vrittis - Yog Darshan Application 004 Understanding the Removal and Burning of 5 Types of Chitta Vrittis, i.e Avidya, Raga, Dwesha, Abhinivesha. Watch the video to know how one can stop creating new Chitta Vrittis. www.BeingShiva.Org www.YogiParampara.org

Höre Erläuterungen zum Thema "Vrittis und Glück" als Inspiration des Tages. Dies ist ein kurzer Vortrag von Sukadev Bretz, Gründer von Yoga Vidya, eine Audio Aufnahme einer Morgenansprache bei Yoga Vidya Bad Meinberg, gehalten im Yoga Vidya Ashram Bad Meinberg während der Corona-Pandemie. Infos über Yoga, Meditation und Ayurveda auf www.yoga-vidya.de

Mundane is Not Karma, then What is? | Kriya Vs Karma | Vyutthan Vrittis Karma or No Karma - Does mundane activities causes one to accumulate Karma? www.BeingShiva.Org www.YogiParampara.org

Divinity Is Always On | Remove Vasanas | Remove Chitta Vrittis Should seekers put efforts towards turning the Divine Light On, or should one focus on removing all that is covering the light? www.BeingShiva.Org www.YogiParampara.org

Continuamos tratando la mente para lograr entender un poquito el funcionamiento de esta envoltura. Hablaremos sobre Vrittis, Samskaras, Vasanas y juicios…

Even though your scrolling fingers are in the present moment, your thoughts are not – your thoughts are monkeying around in different realms, visiting the past, the future, and storyland – we discussed the Monkey mind in detail in episode 20. According to scientist and ancient Indian sage Patanjali, the author of the Yoga Sutras, and father of classical yogic philosophy, these varying tendencies of the mind are called vrittis. The literal translation of vritti, a Sanskrit word, is "whirlpool”. Vrittis and can be thought of as ripples of disturbance upon the calm waters of the mind. The goal of course is to calm these waves. Patanjali surmised that there were 5 main types of ripples of the mind: 1) when your mind is correctly perceiving something 2) when your mind is misperceiving something 3) when your mind is going into storytelling mode – those "what if" and “if only” scenarios that keep you in the past or future, 4) when the mind is sleeping and not in conscious thought and 5) when your remembering things from the past. If we can quiet these 5 tendencies of the mind, then we live in the superpower states of calm, clarity, and centeredness. --For more from Host Pooja Mottl:  www.PoojaMottl.comPodcast Producer: www.Go-ToProductions.comTwitter: @PoojaMottlInstagram: @TheCalmandFreePodcast and @PoojaMottl  LinkedIn: @PoojaMottl

-“Nidra in Patanjali's Yoga Sutra tradition is knowledge without the awareness of that knowledge.”-Śabda jñānānupātī vastu śūnyo vikalpaḥ (Samadhi Pada 9)-शब्दज्ञानानुपाती वस्तुशून्यो विकल्पः-abhāva-pratyayālambanā-vṛttirnidrā (Samadhi Pada 10)-अभाव-प्रत्ययालम्बना-वृत्तिर्निद्रा -Anubhūta viṣayāsampramoṣaḥ smṛtiḥ (Samadhi Pada 11)-अनुभूतविषयासम्प्रमोषः स्मृतिः-Abhyāsa vairāgyābhyāṃ tan nirodhaḥ (Samadhi Pada 12)-अभ्यासवैराग्याभ्यां तन्निरोधः-Lecture by Swami Tattwamayananda on June 20, 2021. Cosponsored by the Stanford Hindu Students Association and South Bay Lecture Series on Vedic Scriptures.

-vṛttayaḥ paṃcatayyaḥ kliṣṭā akliṣṭāḥ (Samadhi Pada 5)-वृत्तयः पंचतय्यः क्लिष्टा अक्लिष्टाः¬-pramāṇa-viparyaya-vikalpa-nidrā-smṛtayaḥ (Samadhi Pada 6)-प्रमाण-विपर्यय-विकल्प-निद्रा-स्मृतयः-pratyakṣa anumāna āgamāḥ pramāṇāni (Samadhi Pada 7)-प्रत्यक्षानुमानागमाः प्रमाणानि-viparyayo mithyā jñānamatadrūpapratiṣṭham (Samadhi Pada 8)-विपर्ययो मिथ्याज्ञानमतद्रूपप्रतिष्ठम्-Lecture by Swami Tattwamayananda on June 13, 2021. Cosponsored by the Stanford Hindu Students Association and South Bay Lecture Series on Vedic Scriptures.

Last week Jason shared the foundational concepts of purusha and prakriti. Go back and listen if you haven't yet! This week, we continue to talk through foundational concepts that Patanjali presents in The Yoga Sutra -- citta, vrittis, and the gunas. Jason defines terms and paints a picture of how they all fit together. And we also talk about how much we personally believe that Patanjali applies to our own lives. Shownotes: http://www.jasonyoga.com/podcast/episode230 Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/yogaland. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

“Yoga chitta vritti nirodha.”Silence the fluctuations of the mind.This yogic dictum has been revelatory and guiding for my life.Seven years ago, when I entered the realm of yoga teacher training, I learned this words and molded my mind with daily meditation—for the first time ever in this body.What I quickly learned is that, fluctuations of the mind are not all random. Though the disturbances can happen “spontaneously” or “on their own,” they most definitely are provoked by physical challenge.Resistance training, running, hiking, calisthenics, yin yoga—you name it, all provide oceans of opportunity to volitionally interact with stimuli that will uprise disturbances in our mind.The 25#-above-your-mental belief in “I can” back squat.The 5-min pigeon pose in complete stillness.The Everest-feeling hike.Of course, our tolerance for discomfort is relative, individual, and situational.However, we all GET to utilize physical challenge as a way to create disturbance in the mind.The disturbances speak up as everything from little whispers of doubt to persistent moaning and beyond:“I can't.”“I won't.”“Why should I?”“Blah, blah, blah...”When these disturbances arise, how do you deal?Do you quit and flee? Stay and breathe?All of us who want to become more peaceful and resilient as organisms as a whole will need to develop a toolkit to still the fluctuations of the mind. To not react, rather to notice and keep doing your thing....Thank yourself for tuning into your inner sense of brilliance.Please leave a 5-star rating ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️and positive review, and share with fellow human beings who you have the inkling will benefit.With Love,Abbs--------------IG: @abby_marokoabbymarokofitness.com

-pramāṇa-viparyaya-vikalpa-nidrā-smṛtayaḥ (Samadhi Pada 6)-प्रमाण-विपर्यय-विकल्प-निद्रा-स्मृतयः-pratyakṣa-anumāna-āgamāḥ pramāṇāni (Samadhi Pada 7)-प्रत्यक्षानुमानागमाः प्रमाणानि-viparyayo mithyā-jñānam-atad-rūpa-pratiṣṭham (Samadhi Pada 8)-विपर्ययो मिथ्याज्ञानमतद्रूपप्रतिष्ठम्-Śabda-jñāna-anupātī vastu śūnyo vikalpaḥ (Samadhi Pada 9)-शब्दज्ञानानुपाती वस्तुशून्यो विकल्पः-abhāva-pratyaya-ālambanā-vṛttir-nidrā (Samadhi Pada 10)-अभाव-प्रत्ययालम्बना-वृत्तिर्निद्रा -Anubhūta viṣaya-asampramoṣaḥ smṛtiḥ (Samadhi Pada 11)-अनुभूतविषयासम्प्रमोषः स्मृतिः-Abhyāsa-vairāgyābhyāṃ tan-nirodhaḥ (Samadhi Pada 12)-अभ्यासवैराग्याभ्यां तन्निरोधःLecture by Swami Tattwamayananda on December 13, 2020. Cosponsored by the Stanford Hindu Students Association.

-Yogaḥ-citta-vṛtti-nirodhaḥ (Samadhi Pada 2)-योगश्चित्तवृत्तिनिरोधः-tadā draṣṭuḥ svarūpe-avasthānam (Samadhi Pada 3)-तदा द्रष्टुः स्वरूपेऽवस्थानम्-vṛtti-sārūpyam-itaratra (Samadhi Pada 4)-वृत्तिसारूप्यमितरत्र ॥४॥-vṛttayaḥ paṃcatayyaḥ kliṣṭā akliṣṭāḥ (Samadhi Pada 5)-वृत्तयः पंचतय्यः क्लिष्टा अक्लिष्टाः¬-pramāṇa-viparyaya-vikalpa-nidrā-smṛtayaḥ (Samadhi Pada 6)-प्रमाण-विपर्यय-विकल्प-निद्रा-स्मृतयः-pratyakṣa-anumāna-āgamāḥ pramāṇāni (Samadhi Pada 7)-प्रत्यक्षानुमानागमाः प्रमाणानि-viparyayo mithyā-jñānam-atad-rūpa-pratiṣṭham (Samadhi Pada 8)-विपर्ययो मिथ्याज्ञानमतद्रूपप्रतिष्ठम्Lecture by Swami Tattwamayananda on December 6, 2020. Cosponsored by the Stanford Hindu Students Association.

Das zweite Türchen im Adventskalender ist geöffnet. Wir gehen weiter im Yogasutra. Heute erfährst du, welche Möglichkeiten dein Geist hat, um Lösungen für Schwierigkeiten zu finden und wie du diese zu deinem Vorteil nutzen kannst. I.6.प्रमाण विपर्यय विकल्प निद्रा स्मृतयः "Richtige Wahrnehmung, Verblendung, Vorstellung, Tiefschlaf und Erinnerung" In dieser Podcastfolge erfährst du: Was ist CittaWas sind die VrittisWelche Bedeutung haben die Vrittis und welchen Einfluss haben sie auf das Leben und Trainieren mit deinem Hund

-atha yoga-anuśāsanam (Samadhi Pada 1)-अथ योगानुशासनम् -Yogaḥ-citta-vṛtti-nirodhaḥ (Samadhi Pada 2)-योगश्चित्तवृत्तिनिरोधः-tadā draṣṭuḥ svarūpe-avasthānam (Samadhi Pada 3)-तदा द्रष्टुः स्वरूपेऽवस्थानम्Lecture by Swami Tattwamayananda on November 22, 2020. Cosponsored by the Stanford Hindu Students Association.

When we choose to create silence within, we try to make the external environment and our physical self conducive to take steps towards meditation and allow meditation to happen. When meditation happens it's a phenomenon which is beyond space and time and therefore we do not know when we slip into meditation, we do not know while we are in the so-called divine gap, in that inner silence, in the touch of our inner divinity. We can only know that when we start seeing the positive transformation in our lives. When life starts flowing effortlessly, when our desires and intentions starts becoming reality easily and when we start seeing enhancement in our physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing, This inner and outer transformation happens through meditation, we start manifesting those divine attributes of inner silence inner wisdom that we had touched based when we slipped into meditation. When does meditation happen? In the Yog Sutras of Patanjali, Sage Patanjali offers us actual steps and practices for spiritual growth, the path towards meditation, towards yoga, and ultimately to self-realization. The second Sutra of chapter one: “Yoga Chitti Vritti Nirodha” tells us that yoga is silencing -Nirodha of the varieties-fluctuation, movements, patterns of our mind- Chitta. When we stand still those movements- fluctuations of the Vrittis: the past memories, desires, fear, greed, judgment, and so on in our Chitta-mind, Yoga happens! Meditation happens! In this meditation, we bring awareness towards Yoga Chitta Vritti Nirdoha. Visit our website iavani.com for more mediation audio and classes. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/iavani/message

CSA Senior Minister Ron Lindahn shares an overview of the spiritual path in the Kriya yoga tradition. He also discusses chitta vrittis (fluctuations in the field of awareness), and vasanas (impulses), and how they effect thinking and actions.

Sukadev spricht in diesem Vortrag über die Gedankenkraft und positives Denken und bezieht sich dabei auch auf die Sutras 1. KapiteI, Verse 5-11, aus dem Buch `die Yogaweisheit des Patanjali für Menschen von heute´. Er erklärt die 5 Vrittis, die Quellen korrekten Wissens und die Arten direkter Wahrnehmung sowie auch die Charakteristika eines Meisters. Auf dem Yogaweg ist es wichtig seinen eigenen Geist zu verstehen. Von besonderer Wichtigkeit ist es, Irrtümer zu erkennen. Der ein wenig demütig-humorvolle Umgang mit seinen eigenen Verrücktheiten hilft zum Beispiel, sich weniger zu identifizieren. Höre in diesem Podcast weitere Tipps von Sukadev über die Herrschaft deines Geistes. Dieser Podcast gehört zur Vortragsreihe „Yoga Vidya Schulung – Der ganzheitliche Yogaweg“ sowie ist auch der Teil des zweiten Jahres der zweijährigen Yogalehrerausbildung. Ergänzend findest du auch einen Sanskrit-Kurs "Sanskrit Lernen leicht gemacht" sowie unsere Sanskrit-Kurslektionen.

Sukadev spricht in diesem Vortrag über die Gedankenkraft und positives Denken und bezieht sich dabei auch auf die Sutras 1. KapiteI, Verse 5-11, aus dem Buch `die Yogaweisheit des Patanjali für Menschen von heute´. Er erklärt die 5 Vrittis, die Quellen korrekten Wissens und die Arten direkter Wahrnehmung sowie auch die Charakteristika eines Meisters. Auf dem Yogaweg ist es wichtig seinen eigenen Geist zu verstehen. Von besonderer Wichtigkeit ist es, Irrtümer zu erkennen. Der ein wenig demütig-humorvolle Umgang mit seinen eigenen Verrücktheiten hilft zum Beispiel, sich weniger zu identifizieren. Höre in diesem Podcast weitere Tipps von Sukadev über die Herrschaft deines Geistes. Dieser Podcast gehört zur Vortragsreihe „Yoga Vidya Schulung – Der ganzheitliche Yogaweg“ sowie ist auch der Teil des zweiten Jahres der zweijährigen Yogalehrerausbildung. Ergänzend findest du auch einen Sanskrit-Kurs "Sanskrit Lernen leicht gemacht" sowie unsere Sanskrit-Kurslektionen.

    00:46                                     This is the 108th episode of changing the face of yoga and I have a great guest today. Her name is Kelly Di Nardo. Kelly is part of my subtle yoga themed month and she's going to talk about yoga philosophy, which is something I've always had trouble getting into a class. 01:06                                     So let's learn about Kelly. Kelly is a freelance journalist and the author of several books, including Living the Sutras a guide to yoga wisdom beyond the mat. It gives readers a modern, accessible and personal look at ancient yoga philosophy and the wisdom found within, she is also the producer editor and cohost of the living at podcast and owner of past tense Yoga Studio in Washington DC. As a freelance journalist. She specializes in exploration, whether it is internally through yoga and meditation, physically through health and fitness, culturally and socially through profiles or the myriad other ways travel brings all that together. She has written for, Okay, the Oprah magazine, Martha Stewart, Living Health, the New York Times, National Geographic Traveler and others. So welcome Kelly. And is there anything else you would like to add to that introduction? No, that was beautiful. Thank you so much for having me. I'm really excited about this 02:12                                     I've always found it really hard to integrate the yogic philosophy into classes. I read a bit about your book and I liked the fact that after you've explained the sutras, you actually give related writing prompts so people can really apply what they've learned. I thought that was a great idea. So why did you decide to actually write a book about this? 02:39                                     Well, honestly very similar to you, I had a really hard time wrapping my brain around the philosophical side of yoga. And I met this wonderful teacher, Amy Peers Hayden who ended up being my co-author on this project. 02:57                                     And she gave these beautiful Dharma talks before her classes that really made it very modern and accessible. I mean, I remember one time she gave a Dharma talk about, I think it was about discernment, but she related it to Tacos and I thought if someone can make yoga philosophy and tacos relevant. This is just amazing. I wanted to understand it more. I kind of had turned over this idea for a book that would make the sutras modern and accessible and relevant. And then when I brought it to Amy. We really talked about having it be a journal as well, so that people could make it personally relevant and very tangible to themselves and their lives. That's kind of how that came to be. I think you can read all the philosophy you want and all the interpretations, but you know, our hope is that with the writing prompts that people can really do the work and make this fascinating and very, very smart, relevant wisdom, really personal to them. 04:20                                     I noticed that you said this particular book is about the first two chapters , the Vrittis and the Yamas and Niyamas. And could we just have a little bit of definition of Vrittis and Yamas and Niyamas. I'm sure the listeners will understand, but there may be a few that would like a little refresher. Absolutely. So our book focuses on the first two padas or chapters of the Yoga Sutras. And those two are really about the practice of yoga. The system of yoga. They start by defining what yoga actually is, what gets in ,the way; and then it outlines the eight limb system which is the practice of yoga. And the second two books really in the original, in the yoga sutras, really talk about the results of what happens and when you, when you reach the state of Yoga, when you reach enlightenment. 05:36                                     And so Amy and I focused on the first two books for two reasons. One, they're the most tangible. It's the work. And second, we have not yet reached a state of enlightenment ourselves. We didn't really feel like we were capable of talking about that. So the vrittis, these are the fluctuations of the mind. The whole potentially defines yoga as the stilling of the sensations of our minds. So I love the phrase that Buddhists used, which is monkey mind, which is that idea that like a monkey jumping from branch to branch, our thoughts jump from one to the other. And so yoga according to the Patanjali is calming those fluctuations. The way that he describes how we do that is this eight limbs system. And one of the things I found really interesting, especially given our age today where we talk a lot about you do you and working on ourselves Patanjali actually says we should do the opposite. We should work from the outside in. And so the Yamas and Niyamas are often referred to as the 10 commandments of yoga they're the moral code of Yoga. And the first five are how we deal with the outside world, what our relationship with others is kind of the rules for how we interact with other people in the world around us. And then the second five or how we treat ourselves and how we behave towards ourselves. And then from there, once you've got your moral code, your foundation, then you move towards to Asana, which is the third limb. And I, what I found really interesting is that it's less than 2% of the entire yoga sutras. So I know our focus again is usually on downdog and pigeon pose, but potentially it says nothing about that. You move further inwards, you've got the physical body and then you move to the breath, which is really a gateway to the mind. And then the last four limbs really deal with our minds. So stilling the senses and or controlling the senses would be the better way of putting it. And then different depths and levels of meditation are the last three. That whole process is all to still the fluctuations of the Vrittis. 08:25                                     What's your best advice for a teacher who wants to introduce the yogic philosophy into her class? How would you advise her or him to go about it? 08:46                                     I think it's really important to make this advice modern and relevant. In our book, I'm pretty sure we're the only yoga book that references Fight Club for example, or Dr Seuss, , the talented Mr Ripley. We also talk about things like the power of habits, which is made famous by Charles Duhigg's book or we talk about the flow state. I think that we can find yoga everywhere in so many places off the mat. I think you can introduce this philosophy in ways, in surprising ways, in ways that you might find in, in books or television or in psychology or social research. And so maybe there's something in your newspaper or a magazine that you read and you think, oh my gosh, you know what, this story is actually really about ahimsa, or this thing happening now is really about discernment or the importance of a consistent and steady practice. There are really interesting ways to bring that into play. I have a 4 year old and one of his favorite books for a long time was this wonderful book called Penguin problems. And I, after I read it a few times to him, I realized that this book was really about the importance of being in the present moment and the here and now and this idea of abundance. And I brought the book in one of my classes and I read part of it and use that as a way into talking about abundance. And not wanting what we do not have. I think it takes a way of looking at the world with your yoga glasses always on, if that makes sense. 11:01                                     I think that does, cause sometimes to me the sutras almost sound like Nostradamus. You can take it almost any way you want to and I think it's really smart of you to anchor it in the current culture because what he has to say of course is, is timeless, but it can be kind of hard to understand sometimes. So I think that's a great idea. I love penguin problems. That's a great way to think about it. Has the book been published yet? 11:35                                     Yes, it came out in June of last year. It's done really well. It prompted us to take it to the next step with our podcasts so that we can talk to other people, not just yogis that we in our first season we did talk a lot to mostly yogis. But just how they do what we're talking about. How do you take this ancient philosophy and actually live. Because I think we as teachers have to be living it or at least trying to live it, before we can bring it to our students. 12:13                                     I think that's true. So let's your podcast, I have it here somewhere. Living it podcasts. that might be a great resource for all you listeners out there, so you could actually see how people are usually using it. We can just kind of skim over the surface on this podcast, but I think that would be very helpful to people because I do think it's hard to make that translation. 12:43                                     Yes, I think so. And, and I'll give you, I'll give you an exclusive here, our first season of the podcast, really looked at what yoga is, what gets in the way, and then how we can practice with ourselves and our ego and then in our relationships. And then how meditation and Yoga are kind of intertwined. Our second season is going to be 10 episodes just on the Yamas and Niyamas. So each episode will focus on one of them. Um, so that will hopefully be dropping in September. 13:22                                     f 13:22                                     For the listeners, that's just a really great resource for you and I'm really glad you told us about it because I do think it needs some serious contemplation before you can make it really work for you in the class. Can you give us a specific thing that you either wrote about, are you doing your own class? Although I did like penguin problems, I thought that was great. That people could use say about, about Vritti. I had a teacher that talked to me about Vritti and he, he said something I thought was very interesting cause I'd never heard this before, that Vritti is not exactly the state that you're trying to get to. It's just is that's kind of the, not quite monkey mind state, but it's, you're really trying to work beyond that, that you, you need to calm yourself even more. So how would you in your class talk about vritti? 14:34                                     Yeah, that's a great question. The way that we talked about it in the book, and I'm going to flip to that page, the way that we talked about it is that the Vrittis are like Instagram filters? Honestly, they're filters or lenses that color, how we see things and sometimes they can make the picture prettier or rosier and sometimes they distort it and like a fun house mirror almost. The trick then is to really see things clearly and without the filter. And I think that, um, I think that when we can do that, when we can see things clearly without any filter on it, then we can begin to understand who we really are. And when we can begin to understand who we really are, then we can understand our unique purpose or Dharma for being here on this planet and what we're supposed to do. And that, I mean, when you knew those things, that is incredibly expansive. That's how I would describe the Vrittis and in a way that I think students could really understand what they are. Because I mean, let's be honest, everyone seems to be on Instagram and knows how to doctor a photo. Right? Sure. 16:03                                     No, that's, that's really good as soon as you said that. I can understand that. Give me, if you feel comfortable doing so, a benefit for yourself for doing this study and working internally on this. 16:23                                     I mean, I think there are so many, the the way that Amy and I worked on the book as one example, it felt like I was getting my PhD in the, in the yoga sutras and I, we really had to dive into it in a deeper way and, and she has been studying them for much longer than I have. I'm not going to write something that I haven't done or that I don't really believe in. So for me, this was a really deep dive into this and I came away with some very, very tangible things and changes that I made to my own life. And probably one of my favorite takeaways is this idea of cultivating the opposite and Patanjali talks about the fact that you're never going to replace bad thoughts, negative thoughts with positive ones. Our brain just doesn't work that way. If I tell you, I mean this is a famous psychological study. If I tell you right now to not think about the white dog for 30 seconds, the only way you're going to not think about the white dog is if you replace it with something else like a green elephant. And it's the same. It's the same with our thoughts. And so the way that that feels really tangible to me is when I'm dealing with somebody who's difficult or maybe just challenging me in some way. I try and think instead about instead of how they're driving me crazy, what could the thing that they have brought to my life and if I can't think of a very good thing, at least thinking that all situations and everything is temporary, everything is always changing. That's enough to replace the negativity. And then I can see that person or sometimes myself in a much more positive way. I think some of it's fake it till you make it kind of things that, you know, it feels a little weird to think nice thoughts about someone who's driving you crazy. Or for some of us it's hard to think actively positive thoughts about ourselves. You work that muscle a little bit and it gets a lot easier. I think that is one way that for me is really important. I think these are little things that in total really make life better and that make us a little less crazy and a little calmer and more appreciative and aware of the abundance that does exist in our lives. And when we can do that, I think that starts to kind of clear the smudges off of the lens, so that we can see things more clearly. That, does that make sense? 19:23                                     It does. this particular book is the first two books of the Patanjali Sutras. Are you planning anymore? 19:37                                     We do have another project in the works. It will be more of the first two books and it really will be a great resource for teachers. So we have not signed our contract with Shimbala on it who is our wonderful publisher. I can't say more yet, but I promise as soon as I can I will email you 20:10                                     i 20:10                                     Is there anything that you would like to talk about that we haven't covered or we haven't covered in enough enough depth that you would like the listeners to know about this? 20:21                                     Oh, that's a great question. You know, I, I will say I was very intimidated by the sutras. I mean I studied them in a couple of early teacher trainings, way back in the day and then I didn't really do much with them. And, and I get that. I get how they can be intimidating and the ideas seem, you know, a little old. I think really the wisdom within is life changing truthfully. And I think one of the, one of the big things that I have remembered, I am somebody who came to my yoga practice very much just interested in the Asana and the physical. You know, I, I was not really interested in the other aspects of yoga and it's still really struggle with meditation. And for me it's a nice reminder that you can practice yoga and never do Asana ever in your life and you can do Asana and never practice yoga. And I would like to take credit for that. But it's actually something I learned from Rod Stryker and I think that as intimidating as the sutras can be, there are so many good, um, modern translations and approaches to it. Ours being one of them, that they're really worth the work, the study. 22:00                                     I think that's very wise that you can do asanas, but never do yoga. So, because so many people now think that yoga is Asana and, and that's a good way to start. You know, it's a nice gateway, but there is a great deal more if, if you choose to avail yourself of it. 22:24                                     And I say that with no judgment because I think, I know that this is a debate that happens often in the yoga community, my feeling is I don't care why someone comes to their mat. For me as a teacher, that's an opportunity. I'm not going to judge if they're there to lose five pounds or to get looser hamstrings or to destress or because they want to sleep better. Personally, I don't care. My job as the teacher then is to start to open up their idea of what yoga is and what it can be. And so that's just an opportunity for me. And I think that's really kind of a wonderful gift that we teachers have. It's really sort of amazing. 23:12                                     That's a great way to think about it. I really want to thank you for coming on the podcast. I think it was a really interesting one. And I do want to say again that the book is Living the Sutras: A guide to yoga wisdom beyond the mat. And I assume that people can get it at all of the regular outlets like Amazon and all of that. 23:42                                     Exactly. Absolutely. 23:44                                     I do think that the way that you put it together with writing prompts after you've read about it, is a really excellent way to go about learning My problem with the philosophy is that I learn it, I think, oh yeah, that makes sense. And then it just goes totally out of my mind. And with the writing prompts, I think it would stick hopefully a little better. 24:07                                     What I usually suggest to people as they read it once through before starting the writing prompts, because I think for some people the writing prompts can also be intimidating for people who think they're not journalers, but, um, you don't have to do them. No, nobody's checking. 24:25                                     Okay. You don't have to send in your answers. If you're interested in this for yourself, or to apply this to your classes, this sounds like an excellent resource. And don't forget that the podcast, Living it. Is going to be a, you even more in depth information and that starts, the second season starts in September. The first season is already gone, so you can probably even find it on Itunes, is that correct? Yes. Itunes, Google play. And we have a website called livingit@podcast.com so you can listen directly from there. That's great. Okay, so those are all available to you. I'll put all that in the contact details. hank you so much for coming on the podcast. I really appreciate it and I thought it was really interesting because like I said, I'm kind of out of my depth when it comes to the philosophy and then giving it to my students. So I think you're doing a great service, so thank you.                                                 Thank you so much for having me, Stephanie Contacts: Website: livingit@podcast.com Email: kelly@kellydinardo.com FB: kellydinard0 Insta:#kellydinardo                                                                                               

Lecture by Swami Tattwamayananda. With Ritambhara-Prajna, the higher intuitive insight also comes with the confirmation that it is true. This knowledge creates a great Vritti that counters the innumerable conflicting Vrittis in the mental system. This knowledge goes beyond all ordinary tools of knowledge such as direct sensory perception or inference. Swami Vivekananda says that a high ideal is necessary to counter all negative ideals. When this Ritambhara-Prajna comes, all accumulated tendencies react with great force. Finally, when even this Vritti is repressed, one reaches a state where all tendencies, Vrittis, have been burnt. Verses: I.50, I.51

Lecture by Swami Tattwamayananda. Deep inner contentment gives us a feeling of being spiritually rich. When the Vrittis have become weakened, a person’s mind becomes like a crystal. It reflects the light of whatever it meditates upon clearly. This concentration with freedom comes only when it is preceded by the practice of Yamas and Niyamas, the 10 fundamental ethical disciplines. When he concentrates on a holy thought or person, he reflects it clearly. St. John wrote the same about the purest divine love. It is a state of blessedness. Verses: I.17, I.33, I.35, I.41, I.39

Lecture by Swami Tattwamayananda. The higher aspiration of Yoga is to reach a state of Nirodha, complete freedom from obsessive likes and dislikes, Vrittis, of the mind. Before reaching that stage, several stages of concentration are classified: restlessness, dullness, swinging between extremes, and one-pointed. Kshina-Vrtti is a state when the mind’s vrittis have been weakened or transcended. The mind then attains a state of Yogic concentration, which is free. Verses: I.1, I.2, I.41

Lecture by Swami Tattwamayananda. This lecture begins with a review of the chapter order of the yoga sutra classes. The world of Vrittis that constitute our mental world, keeps us in a cycle of activities and tendencies. Yoga helps us to break the cycle and evolve. The first step is to use actions, Kriya Yoga, to generate good tendencies. To break the cycle, the root ignorance of our nature must be removed through continuous practice of discerning wisdom, Viveka-Khyati. Ethics, Yamas, and Niyamas are the foundation for the practice of higher concentration. The lecture ends with a brief introduction to the eighteenth sutra, which tells the method of reaching higher concentration. Verses: I.1, I.2, II.15, II.29, II.30, II.32, I.18.

Lecture by Swami Tattwamayananda. This lecture begins with a reminder of the mental blocks that come from the accumulated Samskaras in our Antahkarana. We can restrain the Vrittis by the practice of feeding good tendencies and remaining indifferent to the negative tendencies of the mind. Swami then discusses the Ishavasya Upanishad’s concept of enjoying the world by renouncing it. The fifteenth and sixteenth sutras discuss the lower and higher stages of Vairagyam, dispassion. At the higher stage, even the idea of craving for worldly enjoyment vanishes. From dispassion comes Samadhi, concentration, which yields many superhuman powers of the mind. The example of Swami Vivekananda memorizing an encyclopedia is given. The seventeenth sutra lists the types of this Samprajnata Samadhi. Verses: I.12, I.15, I.16, I.17

Lecture by Swami Tattwamayananda. This lecture begins with a discussion of the meaning of the invocation verse describing the great sage Patanjali. Nirodha state, the goal of Yoga is reviewed. We can either rest in our true nature or identify with changing sense phenomenon. The five types of mental impressions, Vrittis are reviewed. We are kept rotating in a cycle of Karma, action, Vrittis, Impressions, and Samskaras, strong tendencies. Vyasa compares this to the river of the mind, which can flow either in an auspicious or negative direction. Practice and Dispassion, Abhyasa and Vairagya, and ethics, Yamas and Niyamas, are the prescribed methods for channeling the mind towards auspiciousness. Verses: I.2, I.3, I.4, I.5, I.6, I.12, I.13

Lecture by Swami Tattwamayananda. Most of us are living under the strangle of mental impressions, Vrittis. We must practice detachment from memories, Smrti. Another important practice is to 1) live as much as possible in the company of spiritual aspirants – Maitri, 2) be compassionate towards good people who are struggling to make progress – Karuna., 3) admire the good - Mudhita, 4) and keep a long distance from those who may hurt our spiritual aspirations – Upeksha. We practice the attitude of the witness. We have many chances, many births to practice. Ultimately, it must become natural, spontaneous, and effortless. This requires a sense of sacredness towards our practice. Finally, we reach the first form of detachment called Vashikara, where even heavenly pleasures are eliminated. The difference between this kind of heaven and the spiritual heaven of some Abrahamic faiths is clarified. Verses: I.12, I.13, I.14, I.15

Lecture by Swami Tattwamayananda. Meaning of words can be conventional or can be etymological. Atha means fitness for taking to spiritual life or Yoga. You can take practice Yamas and Niyamas or take refuge in God to gain fitness. At the end of the dark night of the soul comes complete submission to God. The earlier stages of Kshiptam and Vikshiptam, restlessness, can be overcome. By reaching Nirodha, we become free from conflicts, the cycle of Karma and Vrittis and the duality of experience. Verses: I.1, II.2

Lecture by Swami Tattwamayananda. This lecture begins with a discussion of the verse I.2, the definition of yoga as transcendence of the mind. When this is achieved, we rest in our true nature. Otherwise, we identify with the momentary experiences of the mind. The five Klesas, or distractions of Avidya, ignorance, Asmita, egotism, raga, obsessive attachment, Dvesa, obsessive hatred, and Abhinivesa, fear are reviewed. We continue rotating in a cycle of Karma, action, Vrittis, Impressions, and Samskaras, strong tendencies. The lecture ends with a review of the five kinds of Vrittis, emphasizing the Pramana, valid knowledge. Verses: I.2, I.3, I.4, I.5, I.6, I.7

Lecture By Swami Tattwamayananda. We feel complete restfulness in Nidra, deep sleep and in Samadhi because there is no other. The difference is the lack of awareness of that knowledge in deep sleep. Awareness is important to make knowledge functional. Desire is replayed in sleep and in memory. Forgetfulness can free us from negative memories and memory of spiritually helpful experiences will take us forward. The best way to refine the mind is by doing good physical actions. We change the composition of the bag of Vrittis that constitute our character. We have much more freedom at the physical level. Verses: I.10, I.11, I.12

Lecture by Swami Tattwamayananda. When we are not identified with a transcendental ideal, every moment becomes an opportunity to identify with a momentary thought current. The tendencies of the mind and the thought currents they generate naturally reveal our true character. In Asamprajnata Samadhi, we transcend this world of Vrittis. The way is through evolving a higher identity. Asmita is the power of internal identification and Samyoga is that of external identification. Whatever actions or thoughts we identify with are deposited in our Karmashaya, which forms our true character. There are five types of vrittis, some helpful and some not helpful. The are five types of Kleshas, which are irrational mental blocks. By becoming extremely clear about this world of Vrittis, Kleshas, Samskaras, and irrational mental blocks, we naturally begin our journey towards freedom. Verses: I.2, I.3, I.4, II.6, II.12, I.5, II.3

Lecture by Swami Tattwamayananda. After a brief review of the 5 types of subtle mental tendencies, Vrittis, repeated practice, Abhyasa, is explained. Along with that, Vairagya, dispassion and the dimensions of practice are explained. Then, the common misconception that Citta Vritti Nirodha refers to a complete cessation of all thought is corrected. The real meaning of Citta Vritti Nirodha is complete freedom from all obsessive mental tendencies, Vrittis, and therefore a transcendence of the slavery to the mind and senses. Verses: I.2, I.12, I.13, I.14

Lecture by Swami Tattwamayananda. Swami begins by reviewing the five stages of mental concentration. He then graphically describes the common problems faced by most spiritual seekers at the Viskhipta stage. The seeker swings between restless and concentrated states. The formation and characteristics of inherited Vrittis are discussed. The five types of Vrittis are reviewed. Sublimating desires for something higher is recommended. Practice, Abhyasa, and Dispassion, Vairagya are then explained in that context. Verses: I.2, I.5, I.12

Lecture by Swami Tattwamayananda. Swami explains the Yogachara Buddhist notion of momentariness of experience. He then explains the cycle of action, Karma, mental modification, Vritti, and then strong potent tendency, Samskara. By gathering the mind into one great modification, the diversity of conflicting Vrittis can be controlled. This is called Samprajnata Samadhi. Finally, the important disciplines of non-receiving, Aparigraha, and self-study, Svadhyaya are discussed. Verses: I.12, I.13, I.14, I.15, I.16, I.17

Lecture by Swami Tattwamayananda. The lecture begins with a review of the three common types of Kleshas: Raga, obsessive attachment, Dvesa, obsessive hatred, and Abhinivesa, fear. Through the tracks of Vrittis and Samskaras, we travel back to memories of fear, hatred, or attachment. Real happiness comes when we reach transcendental joy or blissfulness. This link to transcendental joy is illustrated in the Katha Upanishad by the three boons Nachiketa asks of Yama. He evolves from asking for satisfaction in the world, then heavenly satisfaction after death, and finally for the truth about his own nature and of all reality. This highest transcendental thought will take us beyond fear and obsession. Verses: II.3, II.7, II.8, II.9

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Dieser Artikel ist Teil einer Serie von Vorträgen über Patanjalis Yogadarshana bzw. das Yoga Sutra, zunächst kommen nach und nach abschnittsweise Artikel zum Samadhipada die bei einem Seminar über das erste Kapitel aufgenommen wurden. Patanjali folgt in den meisten Abschnitten seines Yogadarshana einem bestimmten Schema, er stellt mit 1-3 Versen... weiter lesen The post Vorträge zum Yogadarshana: Verse 5-11 Samadhipada – über die Vrittis appeared first on Vedanta & Yoga.

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Wie erlangt man Erleuchtung? Im Raja Yoga geht das über das Beruhigen der Gedankenwellen, der Vrittis, bei gleichzeitiger Intensivierung der Bewusstheit. Auch im Hier und Jetzt kannst du deine Konzentration schulen - und so das Göttliche wahrnehmen. Auch die Yamas, die yogischen ethischen Empfehlungen, helfen zu Bewusstseinserweiterung, Freude, mehr Liebe und Erfahrung des Göttlichen. Mitschnitt aus einer Vortragsreihe im Rahmen eines spirituellen Retreats mit Sukadev Bretz bei Yoga Vidya Bad Meinberg. Mehr zu Meditation http://www.yoga-vidya.de/meditation.html

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