Ravi Yogi: > Anyway I think Bhoga Saadhana could > indeed mean "contemplating on worldly > pleasures or indulgences"... > "Samsara is described as mundane existence, full of suffering and misery and hence is considered undesirable and worth renunciation. The Samsara is without any beginning and the soul finds itself in bondage with its karma since the beginingless time. Moksha is the only liberation from samsara..."
Samsara: http://tinyurl.com/7e2o5c The first time I read the Yoga Sutras I misunderstood a lot, even for a smart guy. Now, I've put the right commentaries together with the correct translations and I've been able to understand the main idea behind the Yoga System. It might be auspicious if we begin with a short review of where we're coming from. TMers will have no problem with understanding Patanjali because it is dirt simple: "Yoga citta vritti nirodha." (Yoga is the cessation of the mental turnings of the mind.) - Y.S. I.1.2 "tada drastuh svarupe vasthanam." (When thought ceases, the Transcendental Absolute stands by itself, refers to Itself, as a witness to the world.) - Y.S. I.1.3 Read more: 'The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali' http://www.rwilliams.us/archives/yoga_sutras.htm
