{"id":352,"date":"2007-06-08T23:01:20","date_gmt":"2007-06-08T12:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/2007\/06\/08\/yoga-sutras-of-patanjali-2\/"},"modified":"2007-06-08T23:01:20","modified_gmt":"2007-06-08T12:01:20","slug":"yoga-sutras-of-patanjali-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/2007\/06\/08\/yoga-sutras-of-patanjali-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/patanjali21.jpg\" title=\"patanjali21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" width=\"111\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/patanjali21.jpg\" alt=\"Patanjali\" height=\"118\" style=\"width: 111px;height: 118px\" title=\"Patanjali\" \/><\/a>When improper thoughts disturb the mind, there should be constant pondering over the opposites.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Improper thoughts and emotions such as those of violence &#8211; whether done, caused to be done, or even approved of &#8211; indeed, any thought originating in desire, anger or delusion, whether mild, medium or intense &#8211; do all result in endless pain and misery. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Overcome such distractions by pondering on the opposites.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>When one is confirmed in non-violence, hostility ceases in his presence.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>When one is firmly established in speaking truth, the fruits of action become subservient to him.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>All jewels approach him who is confirmed in honesty&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>When one is confirmed in non-possessiveness, the knowledge of the why and how of existence is attained&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>As a result of contentment there is purity of mind, one-pointedness, control of the senses, and fitness for the vision of the self.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Supreme happiness is gained via contentment.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Through sanctification and the removal of impurities, there arise special powers in the body and senses.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>By study comes communion with the Lord in the Form most admired.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Realization is experienced by making the Lord the motive of all actions.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>From <em>The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali &#8211;\u00a0The Threads of Union<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When improper thoughts disturb the mind, there should be constant pondering over the opposites. Improper thoughts and emotions such as those of violence &#8211; whether done, caused to be done, or even approved of &#8211; indeed, any thought originating in desire, anger or delusion, whether mild, medium or intense &#8211; do all result in endless [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26,10,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-26","category-meditation","category-quotes"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4h1Q1-5G","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sahajayoga.com.au\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}