Patanjali Yoga Sutra II: 39

Relax your hold....

Aparigrahasthairye Janma Kathamtha Sambodhaha|

When one stands firmly rooted in the Yama of Aparigraha or not holding on to anything material or non-material - this includes objects, people, emotions, thoughts and ideas - then the process of life is revealed. This process is the knowledge of how we came into the world in the first place and how many times we have been coming and going. This leads to the effort in the direction of putting an end to this coming and going by simply being in the presence of the one awareness. - Swahilya Shambhavi. (The art of letting go...perfected by babies! : In Pic. Baby Akshara by Swahilya Shambhavi.)

Patanjali Yoga Sutra - II - 38

Rooted in Brahman

Brahmacharya Prathishtayam Veeryalabhaha|

For the one who is rooted in Brahmacharya - he/she gains a lot of vital energy force. The common understanding of Brahmacharya is sexual abstinence. The word, when split gives the clear meaning Brahma - the divine self and charya - to walk the path. Clearly it means, through the roads of the five sense organs, one has to train the mind on the path of god.
When actions are done in this frame of mind - i.e. while seeing it is the divine you see, while hearing, smelling, touching, tasting and thinking you are aware of the divine essence that runs through everything and thought in the world, then you are rooted in Brahmacharya.
For such people who see the one divine in everything, there is an immense gain in prana shakti which is not dissipated in a wrong and illusory understanding of duality. - Swahilya Shambhavi. (Pic: Trekker walking up to the Kali Para near the Sivananda Yoga Vedanta Centre, Neyyar Dam, Kerala. - Swasham.)