The past few weeks I have been starting Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali over, from the very beginning. I started at the preface, I am now only at the Prologue. In the past ten years, I think I have read the first three chapters many times over. I have a suspicion I am still missing out on the big picture. The big picture meaning that this is not a book you sit down and read cuddled up on the couch with a cup of coffee..........it is a book that needs to be read over and over until its subject matter permeates your being.
Permeate: to diffuse through or penetrate (via Merrium Webster online)
To encourage this permeation, I am going to read and write about my experience here. However simple or childish my understanding may be, I will try my best to understand what each sutra is trying to give me. This is a way for me to not only work on my svadyaya (self study or study of spiritual scriptures) but to encourage all of us yoga practitioners to delve a little deeper into the practice. This already gives me a feeling of apprehension, but how else will I ever commit to such a task? This may take quite a long time, who knows, I may have another blog or website by the end of this!
I have had the feeling that you have to be a genius, a brilliant person with super human brain power to delve into such a project. But why sell myself short? If any of you out there would like to help me on this journey, let me know! I would love guest writers, comments, and company just sitting down and discussing. What I do ask, is that there be no negativity, judgement, or harshness of another's idea of what a sutra is giving them. In my humble opinion, we need to seek a state of peace no matter how we may disagree. This is a project of courage and hopefully this can shed some light on why we are yoga practitioners at all.
Step 1-finish prologue
Permeate: to diffuse through or penetrate (via Merrium Webster online)
To encourage this permeation, I am going to read and write about my experience here. However simple or childish my understanding may be, I will try my best to understand what each sutra is trying to give me. This is a way for me to not only work on my svadyaya (self study or study of spiritual scriptures) but to encourage all of us yoga practitioners to delve a little deeper into the practice. This already gives me a feeling of apprehension, but how else will I ever commit to such a task? This may take quite a long time, who knows, I may have another blog or website by the end of this!
I have had the feeling that you have to be a genius, a brilliant person with super human brain power to delve into such a project. But why sell myself short? If any of you out there would like to help me on this journey, let me know! I would love guest writers, comments, and company just sitting down and discussing. What I do ask, is that there be no negativity, judgement, or harshness of another's idea of what a sutra is giving them. In my humble opinion, we need to seek a state of peace no matter how we may disagree. This is a project of courage and hopefully this can shed some light on why we are yoga practitioners at all.
Step 1-finish prologue