yoga sutra biography
“The Yoga Sutra of Patanjali: a Biography”
A comprehensive guide into Hindu texts in the beginning of the Chapter 2
Ramachandra Chaudhari became Mahatma Ramchandraji Maharaj, cosharer of the office of pir with his master’s brother. At once a Hindu householder, the master of a Muslim religious order, a tax collector for the British Raj, and a budding yoga practitioner, Ramachandra founded a school that he would later call Ananda Yoga (“Yoga of Beatitude”) in the first decade of the twentieth century. - Chapter 8
Sufi practices as visualization (muraqaba) and “the science hidden in the breast” (ilm-i-sina) - Chapter 8
chanting, unnecessary tradition, Chapter 12
two Jews three opinions, buddhist roots of Y.S., the last Chapter
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What is something physical that you are working on in your practice (skill, awareness to generate, a thing to heal). What are the limiting factors in the present moment (specific, anatomical, connected). What are the tools that can help with these factors. Inner goal. What is the energy you are trying to create or a negative pattern you are working on to transcend. Alchemy. What is the good quality you already have that will help you with that other thing and the tool you learned (during the training) that will help you. Three most important things to grow as a teacher.