Subject of this seminar: Sankhya Purva-mimamsa and Vedanta - Concepts and scriptures of Hindu Philosophy - Samadhi and Sadhana Pada
Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtras are the classical work of the Yoga School of thought, one of the Six Darśanas studied in the Bhakti Tirtha course. They focus on how to attain direct experience and realization of the puruṣa, or the individual self. As the classical treatise on the Vedic understanding of the mind and consciousness and on techniques of meditation and self-realization, it has exerted immense influence over the religious practices of Hinduism in India and, more recently, in the West. For Vaiṣṇavas, the Yoga Sūtras are especially helpful in understanding the first two chapters of Bhakti-rasāmṛita-sindhu.
When people want to take revenge, this is something they get very much fixed on – they can wait three generations. When you ask them to fix their mind on Krishna then it is difficult. This is how the human mind works – if you want to fix it on something good, you have to work hard for that. If you want to fix it on destruction, then it is easy.
