sandeyeYOGA TEXTS: P.Y.S. 4
July 7th 2010 07:17
V9: This verse is similar to the last, but takes a different mind function, telling us words without basis in reality - or imagination - results in delusion.
V10: This verse seems to be saying that sleep, in the mental rather than physical sense, is a state of non-idea, non-activity or non-thought.
V11: Residue of a previous experience returns to mental view as ‘memory’ if not passing away. (However, the verse does not say if memory is good or bad - if we should attempt to retain or let go of these remnants.)
Observing what I have read so far, I begin to see a close tie between Patanjali’s Yoga practices and Buddhism - which also recognizes various mental functions as either right or unwholesome and then teaches us how to control them so as to live peacefully within.
V10: This verse seems to be saying that sleep, in the mental rather than physical sense, is a state of non-idea, non-activity or non-thought.
V11: Residue of a previous experience returns to mental view as ‘memory’ if not passing away. (However, the verse does not say if memory is good or bad - if we should attempt to retain or let go of these remnants.)
Observing what I have read so far, I begin to see a close tie between Patanjali’s Yoga practices and Buddhism - which also recognizes various mental functions as either right or unwholesome and then teaches us how to control them so as to live peacefully within.
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