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ADI SHANKARACHARYA The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali WORDS OF THE BUDDHA

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali,which are aphorisms on yoga were written by the great Indian Sage around the 2nd Century BC.There are numer…

Part Four-on Realizations

4.1 Psychic powers arise by birth, drugs, incantations, purificatory acts or concentrated insight. 4.2 Transformation into another state …

Part three-on Divine Powers

3.1 One-pointedness is steadfastness of the mind. 3.2 Unbroken continuation of that mental ability is meditation. 3.3 That same meditati…

Part two-on Spiritual Disciplines

2.1 Austerity, the study of sacred texts, and the dedication of action to God constitute the discipline of Mystic Union. 2.2 This discip…

Part one-on Contemplations

Before beginning any spiritual text it is customary to clear the mind of all distracting thoughts, to calm the breath and to purify the he…

ADI SHANKARACHARYA

These are some of the works of the greatest exponent of Non Dualism or the Advaita doctrine Adi Shankaracharya,the eighth century India…

DEFINATION OF ONES SELF

I salute the two feet of the holy Master, which destroy (this) unendurable duality, and whose dust, like the sacred ashes, quell the de…

KNOWLEDGE OF THE SELF

This treatise called "Knowledge of Self" is written for the sake of those whose sins have been destroyed by austerities and who,…

DIRECT REALISATION

(1)I bow to that Ṣrî Hari (Vishṇu), the infinite bliss, the Teacher, the Supreme Lord, all-pervading, the prime-cause of all the worlds. …