Showing posts with label cause for ignorance. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cause for ignorance. Show all posts

Monday, November 30, 2009

Patanjali Yoga Sutra: II - 25



The cause disappears together with the effect!

Tad Abhavat Samyoga Abhavo Hanam Tad Drisheh Kaivalyam

When the veil of ignorance that separates the one who sees, the Purusha, from all that is perceived by the five senses - prakriti, drops with the constant practice of yoga - then the duality of this world also leaves. When the sun of awareness shines brightly, the darkness of ignorance or avidya that creates a non-existent division between the subject and object vanishes by evaporation. When there is no duality - there is nothing to separate the purusha from the prakriti - the light alone remains. This sense of separation which is the adi vyadhi or the primordial disease is dissolved - that state of mind is called Kaivalya or a liberated being. - Swahilya Shambhavi

Monday, October 19, 2009

Patanjali Yoga Sutra - 2: 24


The root cause for ignorance

Tasya Hetuh Avidya

The last sutra said that the experiences we have in the field of prakriti or nature is to get us to experience purusha or consciousness. This sutra tells us that the union of the individual human mind with the different happenings, situations and people in nature is the root cause for avidya or ignorance of the truth within. The sanga or the association of the mind has to be with the truth within and not the apparent scenes, situations and people in the world outside. - Swahilya Shambhavi.