5. Patanjali Yoga Darshan
According to Bhartiya Darshan, Nine
philosophies have been recognized.
Six Astik Darshanas,
Three Nastik Darshana
In Six Astik Darshanas, Yoga Darshan
has a prominent place.
Composed by Maharshi Patanjali
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6. Maharshi Patanjali
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योगेन चित्तस्य पदेन वािा मलं शरीरस्य ि वैद्यके न I
योपाकरोत्तं प्रवरं मुनीनां पदञ्जललं प्राञ्जललरानोोस्स्म ll
I bow down to the greatest sage Patanjali, who has
helped us purify our minds through the system of
Yoga, speech through the Mahabhashya and body
through the system of Ayurveda.
7. Patanjali Yoga Sutras
I. Samadhi Pada – 51 sutras
II. Sadhana Pada – 55 sutras
III. Vibhuti Pada – 55 sutras
IV. Kaivalya Pada – 34 sutras
Total = 195 sutras
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8. I. Samadhi Pada
Goal is fixed
What is the Goal of Yoga?
Definition of Yoga – “Yoga Chittavritti
Nirodhah”
1st Sutra – “Atha Yoga Anushasanam”
Different types of Samadhis
Sahayak & Badhak Tatvas
What means to adopt to reach the Goal?
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9. II. Sadhana Pada
Maharshi Patanjali has given many Yoga
Practices (Sadhanas) like –
Kriya Yoga
Abhyas-Vairagya
Ashtang Yoga
Ishwar Pranidhana
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10. III. Vibhuti Pada
On the way to the ultimate goal, the
aspirants get many powers due to
practices, austerities. These are
Vibhuties or Siddhis.
Explanation of these siddhis
Types of siddhis
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11. IV. Kaivalya Pada
Kaivalya means attaining Moksha
(Oneness)
Which Samadhi aspirants must attain?
Samadhi types
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12. I. Samadhi Pada
Yoga definition
Types of Samadhis
Vrittis
Abhyas-Vairagya
Yoga Antaraya
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13. I. Samadhi Pada
Yoga definition –
Yoga Chitta Vritti Nirodhah
means Yoga is total cessation of
modifications of Mind (Chitta)
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15. Difference between Samprajnata and
Asamprajnata Samadhi
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In meditation there are two different states depending upon the
consciousness of the yogi. That samadhi where the
consciousness of the yogi retains his sense of I'ness, that is, his
nature, personality, etc. remains is called
as samprajnata samadhi.
In it there remains analysis, deliberation, sense of the outer
world, along with feeling of happiness. So the Patnatjali yoga
sutra defines as thus:
vitarkavicārānandāsmitārūpānugamātsaṃprajñātaḥ [PYS - 1.17]
- Cognitive meditation is accompanied by reasoning,
discrimination, bliss and the sense of 'I am.'
But other than it where the personal I'ness doesn't remain, that
is, the individuality is lost and the mind is free of analysis,
reflection, sense of the world, etc. is called
as asamprajnata samadhi:
17. Samadhi Pada
Vrittis (Kinds of thoughts)
1-Praman – knowing correctly
2-Viparyay – knowing incorrectly
3-Vikalp – fantasy or imagination
4-Nidra- deep sleep
5-Smriti- recollection of memory
These must be removed totally from life.
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18. Samadhi Pada
Abhyas-Vairagya
How to do Chitta Vritti nirodhah – stop modifications
of Chitta?
Methods/Techniques/Practices
By Abhyas-Vairagya, these vrittis can be stopped.
Abhyas – continues efforts to attain a thing/state.
Practices of Chitta, Speech and Acts to attain
siddhis/powers.
Vairagya- Vairagya is born out of Vivek
(discrimination between Satya & Asatya.
Vairagya is to hold Satya and leave Asatya.
Dispassion towards worldy, ephermal, temporary
enjoyments.
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20. Samadhi Pada
Yoga Antaraya (Badhak Tatvas)
Badhak Tatvas – obstacles in Yoga way. Those that pull
us down off the Yoga path.
1. Vyadhi – Physical/Mental illness. Imbalances of Vata,
Pitta, Kapha
2. Styan – Disinterested in doing right things.
3. Samshay – means doubt. Trust deficit. No faith. A person
with doubts cannot progress in Yoga way.
4. Pramada – Careless, irregular practice.
After abandoning these nine Yoga Antarayas only Samadhi
can be attained
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21. Samadhi Pada
Yoga Antaraya
5. Alasya – Laziness, Lethargy, excessive Tamoguna.
6. Avirati - Deficiency of Vairagya. No dispassion for worldly
matters/enjoyments.
7. Bhranti Darshan – Illussions, false knowledge, incomplete
informations, incorrect sources
8. Alabdhabhumikatva – Not able to attain Samadhi for some
reason.
9. Anuvasthitatva – inconsistent in Samadhi.
After abandoning these nine Yoga Antarayas only Samadhi can be attained
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22. Chitta Bhumis
What is Chitta?
What are Chitta Bhumis?
1. Kshipt – Rajaguna more. Restless, energetic, active,
impulsive
2. Mudha – Tamaguna more. Laziness, stressful, sleepy
3. Vikshipt – Rajaguna & Satvaguna alternatively more.
Unstable/inconsistent state. Impulsive & Intelligent both
intermittently.
4. Ekagra – Satguna more. Concentrated Chitta.
Sampragyat Samadhi.
5. Niruddha – Heightened state of Sampragyat Samadhi.
In Ekagra avastha, one devlops vairagya.
In Niruddha avastha, one develops para-vairagya.
(heightened state of vairagya)
This leads to Asampragyat Samadhi.
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25. Chitta Bhumis
What is Chitta?
What are Chitta Bhumis?
1. Kshipt – Rajaguna more. Restless, energetic, active,
impulsive
2. Mudha – Tamaguna more. Laziness, stressful, sleepy
3. Vikshipt – Rajaguna & Satvaguna alternatively more.
Unstable/inconsistent state. Impulsive & Intelligent both
intermittently.
4. Ekagra – Satguna more. Concentrated Chitta.
Sampragyat Samadhi.
5. Niruddha – Heightened state of Sampragyat Samadhi.
In Ekagra avastha, one devlops vairagya.
In Niruddha avastha, one develops para-vairagya.
(heightened state of vairagya)
This leads to Asampragyat Samadhi.
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26. Chitta Bhumis
What is Chitta?
What are Chitta Bhumis?
1. Kshipt – Rajaguna more. Restless, energetic, active,
impulsive
2. Mudha – Tamaguna more. Laziness, stressful, sleepy
3. Vikshipt – Rajaguna & Satvaguna alternatively more.
Unstable/inconsistent state. Impulsive & Intelligent both
intermittently.
4. Ekagra – Satguna more. Concentrated Chitta.
Sampragyat Samadhi.
5. Niruddha – Heightened state of Sampragyat Samadhi.
In Ekagra avastha, one devlops vairagya.
In Niruddha avastha, one develops para-vairagya.
(heightened state of vairagya)
This leads to Asampragyat Samadhi.
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27. Chitta Prasadana
Methods of Chitta Prasadana – How to make
the Chitta happy.
1. Maitri – friendly with prosperous persons
2. Karuna – compassionate with unfortunate,
unhappy, deprived persons
3. Mudita – happy/contented with noble
souls, honest, religious persons.
4. Upeksha – ignore evil minded, values
deficient, Tamogun affected persons.
This way the Chitta will be in happy state!
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28. Sadhana Pada
Means/Practices/Sadhanas to advance in
Yoga way, towards Moksha.
Maharshi Patanjali has given many Yoga
Practices (Sadhanas) like –
Kriya Yoga
Abhyas Vairagya
Ashtang Yoga
Ishwar Pranidhana
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29. Sadhana Pada
Kriya Yoga
1. Tapas – to bear the extreme dualities (dwando ko sahan
karana) like – good-bad, happy-sad, profit-loss, win-loss,
pleasure-pain, hot-cold, etc. prosperity-poverty, comfort-
hardships. To be even minded in these dualities.
2. Swadhyaya – Study of Self and self. Study of scriptures
– vedas, upanishads, Bhagavad Gita, Yoga darshana, etc
which guides the aspirant in Yoga way and leads towards
Moksha.
3. Ishwarpranidhana – Surrender to God all actions
and fruits. To go in the protection/patronage of God. Total
Surrender. Merge. Dissolve.
When these three are followed, Kriya Yoga is practiced.
One can attain Moksha by practicing Kriya Yoga.
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30. Sadhana Pada
Panch Kleshas
Kleshas are causes of ones unhappiness and misery. Must be given up to
advance in Yoga way.
1. Avidhya – Ignorance is the mother of all kleshas. To see truth in
untruth & vice-versa, eternal in ephermal & vice-versa, good-bad,
pure-impure, right-wrong.
2. Asmita – To equate drak shakti and darshan shakti which are
actually different.
3. Raag – Like, prefer, partial.
4. Dvesha – Dislike, avoid, unjust.
5. Abhinivesha– Fear of death, which is certain. Clinging to
life.
These are five kleshas – causes of misery.
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36. Ashtang Yoga
1. Yama
1. Ahimsa: non-violence, non-harming, non-injury (2.35)
2. Satya: truthfulness, honesty (2.36)
3. Asteya: non-stealing, abstention from theft (2.37)
4. Brahmacharya: walking in awareness of the highest reality,
continence, remembering the divine, practicing the presence of God
(2.38)
5. Aparigraha: non-possessiveness, non-holding through senses,
non-greed, non-grasping, non-indulgence, non-acquisitiveness (2.39)
(Self restraints for Social harmony to be practiced by all,
everywhere – Sarvabhoumik Mahavratas)
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37. Ashtang Yoga
2. Niyama
1. Shaucha: purity of body and mind (2.40, 2.41)
2. Santosha: contentment (2.42)
3. Tapah: training the senses, austerities, ascesis (2.43)
4. Svadhyaya: self-study, reflection on sacred words
(2.44)
5. Ishvara pranidhana: surrender; (ishvara = creative
source, causal field, God, supreme Guru or teacher;
pranidhana = practicing the presence, dedication,
devotion, surrender of fruits of practice) (2.45)
(Self restraints for Personal Development)
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38. Ashtang Yoga
3. Asana
“Sthirasukhamasanam’’ (II Sūtra 46)
1. - “That posture which is steady and
comfortable is āsana.”
“Prayatnashaithilyanantasamapattibhyām’’ (II
Sūtra 47)
2. - “Letting go of the effort and uniting with
the infinite.”
“Tato dwandanabhighataha’’ (II Sūtra 48)
3. - “Then, all the duality in you is rooted
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39. Ashtang Yoga
4. Pranayama
“Tasminsati shwasaprashwasayorgativicchedaha pranayamaha’’ (II Sutra 49)
“In that state of being in asana or posture, breaking the movement of
inspiratory or expiratory breath is regulation of breath.”
“Bahyabhyantarastambhavruttirdeshakalasankhyabhihi paridrashto
dirghasukshmaha’’ (II Sutra 50)
“Internal and external breath and total restraint of breath is regulated
by place, time and number and thus the breath becomes long and
subtle.”
“Bahyabhyantaravishayakshepi chaturthaha’’ (II Sutra 51)
“The fourth type of pranayama happens when the regions or spheres of
internal and external breaths have been gone beyond of.”
(Breath Control)
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40. Ashtang Yoga
5. Pratyahara
“sva vishaya asamprayoge chittasya svarupe
anukarah iva indriyanam pratyaharah” (II Sutra
54)
When the mental organs of senses and actions
(indriyas) cease to be engaged with the
corresponding objects in their mental realm, and
assimilate or turn back into the mind-field from
which they arose, this is called pratyahara.
(Sense withdrawal)
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41. Ashtang Yoga
6. Dharana
“deshah bandhah chittasya dharana” (II Sutra 1)
Concentration (dharana) is the process of
holding or fixing the attention of mind onto one
object or place, and is the sixth of the eight
rungs.
(Concentration)
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42. Ashtang Yoga
7. Dhyana
“tatra pratyaya ekatanata dhyanam” (III Sutra 2)
The repeated continuation, or uninterrupted
stream of that one point of focus is called
absorption in meditation (dhyana), and is the
seventh of the eight steps.
(Meditation)
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43. Ashtang Yoga
8. Samadhi
“tad eva artha matra nirbhasam svarupa
shunyam iva samadhih” (III Sutra 3)
When only the essence of that object, place, or
point shines forth in the mind, as if devoid even
of its own form, that state of deep absorption is
called deep concentration or samadhi, which is
the eighth rung.
(Absorption)
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44. Ashtang Yoga
(Dharana, Dhyana, Samadhi)
Dharana (concentration), dhyana (meditation), and
samadhi are the final three rungs of Yoga, and are
collectively known as samyama.
Stages of attention: It is attention itself, which is
progressively moving inward through these few
stages:
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“tad jayat prajna lokah” (III Sutra 5)
Through the mastery of that three-part process of samyama,
the light of knowledge, transcendental insight, or higher
consciousness (prajna) dawns, illumines, flashes, or is
visible.