YOGA SUTRA SANGHA - FRIDAY, MARCH 6, 4:30-6:00pm (CST)
TOPICS: The Yoga of Action (Kriya Yoga), the obstacles we face (Klesas), and The Law of Cause and Effect (Karma)
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READ - Chapter TWO - Sadhana Pada, Sutras 1-15
Those who are new to The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali will find the second chapter to be the more “practical” steps and supports to your yoga practice.
“We are like a man who has put his shirt on inside out and back to front. The only way he can rectify his error is to take it off, work out how it should be, and start again. Through yoga, we take off the shirt of our ignorance, study it, and put it back on correctly, as a shirt of knowledge” BKS Iyengar, pg 193 in “Light on Life”
Questions and Contemplations for Discussion
Kriya Yoga, the yoga of action, contains three aspects of practice - discipline, self-study, and surrender to a higher power - to overcome life’s obstacles. Which of these do you find has a larger impact on your life/practice? Which is most challenging for you?
There are 5 Klesas (life’s afflictions), all stemming from AVIDYA, which Rohit Mehta describes as “To regard the habitual nature as the original” in his translation, Yoga, the Art of Integration. What habits do you mistake as “original” to your nature? What elements of your life do you think of as permanent or impermanent?
Ego (Asmita) can be experienced as feelings that establish your place in the world, that “make you who you are”. How does yoga practice reinforce or challenge your experiences of who you are??
Attachment to pleasure (Raga) and life (Abhinivesa), and our hopeful avoidance of pain (Dvesa) all affect our experience of Truth or disturb the “stillness of our consciousness”. How does yoga practice help you identify these attachments? How do you face things within yoga that you would rather avoid?
Caught up in the actions of life without reflection keeps us within the “wheel of karma”, the universal law of “cause and effect.” What does the idea of karma mean to you? How has the practice of yoga helped you reflect more deeply on the consequences of your actions?
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