Meditation (cont.) – sutras 3.1 – 3.12 (YSP workshop 12/15/18)

I am pleased to present an audio recording of the monthly workshop on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali held on Saturday, 12/15/18:

Brief summary of what we covered:

We continued the discussion on the three stages of meditation – dharana, dhyana and samadhi, the last three of the eight limbs of yoga. We covered the following sutras:

• Sutra 3.1 (dharana)
• Sutra 3.2 (dhyana)
• Sutra 3.3 (samadhi)
• Sutra 3.4 (samyama)
• Sutra 3.5 (cont.)
• Sutra 3.6 (cont.)
• Sutra 3.7 (internal limbs compared to the previous five)
• Sutra 3.8 (external compared to seedless samadhi)
• Sutra 3.9 (nirodha parinama)
• Sutra 3.10 (cont.)
• Sutra 3.11 (samadhi parinama)
• Sutra 3.12 (ekagrata parinama)

[audio:https://s3.amazonaws.com/sm-podcasts/ysp-wksp121518-samadhi-to-3-12.mp3]

You can listen to the podcast as well as subscribe to it on itunes here.

Below are links to the powerpoint presentations used for these discussions:

• Yoga defined
• Ashtanga yoga (eight limbs)
• Kriya, Klesha, Karma
• Concept of Ishwara
• Dharana, dhyana, samadhi (samyama)

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