The Object of Yoga

  • sutra 3.42

    Meditate on the relationship between the element of ether and the body, and your body can become as light as cotton, traveling through space.

  • sutra 3.43

    Actually passing out of, and acting outside of, the body is the ultimate freedom. By this, that which conceals the light of Consciousness is destroyed.

  • sutra 3.44

    Meditate on the conjunction of physical existence, human consciousness, and divinity to master the five elements of creation.

  • sutra 3.45

    You can attain a perfect body of beauty, grace, strength, and adamantine hardness

  • sutra 3.37

    Those are powers in the worldly state, but they are obstacles to Cosmic Consciousness.

  • sutra 3.46

    Meditate on the conjunction of knowledge, the knower, and what is known to master the senses, emotions, and mental and spiritual faculties.

  • sutra 3.47

    Mastering these, the mind becomes quick enough to perceive the Cause (the energy bringing existence into being) and the Causeless (consciousness).

  • sutra 3.48

    With the uninterrupted discernment of the knower from what is known, you attain omniscience and supremacy over all states of being.

  • sutra 3.49

    When you have no desires, even for that, you attain absolute independence from the ego and the field of existence in which it resides.

  • sutra 3.50

    You could be invited to join the gods and not even show the slightest smile of satisfaction, being careful not to slip back into ego identification.

  • sutra 3.51

    Meditate on the present, as it unfolds moment by moment, for the insight born of discernment.

  • sutra 3.52

    What makes each moment unique is our experience of time. In eternal consciousness, there is no distinction and each moment is witnessed alike.

  • sutra 3.53

    It’s liberating to take the seat of the witness, observing each moment with conscious awareness.

  • sutra 3.54

    When your existence is pure, without the characteristic marks of the ego, then Consciousness, shining in its own pure light, stands alone.