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Yoga Sūtras
1.01 Now, the teachings of yoga.
1.02 Yoga is the stilling of the fluctuations of the mind.
1.03 Then the seer can abide in its own true nature.
1.06 These five kinds of thought are right knowledge, incorrect knowledge, imagination, sleep, and memory.
1.07 Right knowledge consists of sense perception, logic, and reliable experts.
1.12 Fluctuations of the mind are stilled by means of practice and non-attachment
1.13 Practice is the sustained effort to rest in stillness.
1.21 Success in yoga comes quickly to those who apply themselves wholeheartedly
1.22 The time necessary for success further depends on whether the practice is mild, medium, or intense
1.31 Suffering, dejection, trembling, inhalation, and exhalation accompany the distractions
1.33 By cultivating an attitude of friendliness toward those who are happy, compassion toward those who are suffering, sympathetic joy toward those who are virtuous, and equanimity toward those who are non-virtuous, the mind becomes clear and serene
2.01 Yoga in action consists of self-discipline, study, and surrender
2.03 The afflictions are ignorance, ego, attachment, aversion, and clinging to life
2.05 Ignorance is declaring that the self, which is joyful, pure, and eternal, to be the nonself, which is painful, impure, and temporary.
2.15 All life is suffering to the person who is deeply invested in the truths of life because suffering is the consequence of action, pain, and by the past actions, as well as on account of the suffering ensuing from the turmoil of the mental fluctuations due to the guṇas.
2.16 The suffering which is yet to come can be avoided.
2.17 The false identification of the seer and that which is seen is the cause of suffering to be avoided.
2.20 The seer is merely the power of seeing. It appears to take on the changing contents of the mind. In reality, it is unchangeable.
2.24 The cause of this identification is ignorance.
2.26 The skillful means for removing ignorance is discriminative discernment.
2.28 The practice of the limbs of yoga leads to the destruction of impurities and discriminative discernment.
2.34 Negative thoughts are violence, etc. They may be created directly, indirectly, or approved; they may be triggered by greed, hatred, or delusion; and they may be slight, moderate, or extreme in intensity. One must become an opponent to such influences by living in a contrary manner.
2.35 In the presence of someone who is deeply committed to nonviolence, hostility recedes.
3.23 By directing discipline toward loving-kindness and so on, one gains strengths
4.10 The saṁskāras are without beginning, because the desire for life is eternal
4.21 If the mind were perceived by another mind, then there would be an infinite regress of one intelligence being known by another intelligence. This would cause confusion of memory.
4.22 Although it is unchanging, consciousness becomes aware of its own intelligence by means of pervading the forms assumed by the intelligence.