Definition of Yoga (from Yoga Sutras): “Yogash chitta vritti nirodhah. Tada drashtuh svarupe avasthanam”
“Yoga is the mastery of the activities of the mind-field. Then the seer rests in its true nature.”
Consciousness looks outward, through the intellect, through the mind, and then through the senses and body. It sees a reflection, like a mirror. It sees reality, a world, a self-identity, which it falsely thinks to be “me” or “mine.” Through the forgetting power of avidya (ignorance), pure consciousness says, “I am this or that!”
This is not all bad, for it gives the opportunity for the joy of awakening, through a journey called Yoga, returning to the wholeness that was never really divided in the first place.
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