So, as we have already mentioned earlier, the shloka 1.16 of the Yoga Sutras links the practice of vairagya to the category of gunas. तत्परं पुरुषख्यातेर्गुणवैतृष्णयम् ॥१६॥ 1.16 tatparaṃ puruṣakhyāterguṇavaitṛṣṇayam First of all let us outline the translation of the shloka. tat – that. In this case this word denotes the vairagya from the previous… Continue reading Sutra 1.16. The Gunas: Psychological Interpretation
Month: March 2013
The Modern Scientific Methods of Describing Psyche and Psychologic Experience
In order to proceed further with interpreting the Yoga Sutra text we need to take a look at different methods of describing the psyche and the object-matter of psycho-practices. I have already analyzed this issue in my monographs thus I shall not draw a new article but shall cite an excerpt from my last monograph… Continue reading The Modern Scientific Methods of Describing Psyche and Psychologic Experience
Sutras 1.12 – 1.15. The Methods Abhyasa and Vairagya and Ajna Chakra Petals
Let us step back from our reflections on gunas and return to abhyasa and vairagya. Having taken another thought about these methods I have noticed an apparent analogy with the way the right and left petals of ajna chakra are unctioning. And after this I recalled my concept of right- and left-petal meditations that I… Continue reading Sutras 1.12 – 1.15. The Methods Abhyasa and Vairagya and Ajna Chakra Petals
The Gunas: Sattva, Rajas and Tamas
The line 1.16 of Yoga Sutras refers to the category of “gunas”, thus in order to understand this line we need first to study out the meaning of this category, so let us proceed to this. Normally each one who is somehow related to yoga even in its most “pop” variants has heard the terms… Continue reading The Gunas: Sattva, Rajas and Tamas