Sutra 2.34 with James Boag

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Sutra 34 is, one of the vital longer sutras, particularly on this bankruptcy, and it’s telling us about this custom are starting to let us know extra about this preps of Pratipaksha Baba, and I am So ity It is a little bit like a speech mark within the Sanskrit. Itty Pratipaksha Marwanam. That is Pratipaksha provenas, and the former sutra placed on it simply instructed us, once we in finding ourselves via ideas that may pull us clear of yamani yamma that may pull us clear of the James or steerage or pilots of our sense of right and wrong. And so steer us clear of the reason for our deep belonging, what to do, how to withstand the ones dispositions that may tyrannize us and pull us within the path of higher struggling and self sabotage. What to do about it? How are we able to Face up to. How are we able to keep on the right track extra readily?


What sources do we now have to be had? So Ity Pratipaksha Bavanam. That is Pratipaksha Bavanam. What does Paterka give us on this preliminary definition? He says.


So him way inflicting him, so the hurt inflicting ache inflicting needless struggling detachable ache. Ache is to be have shyed away from inflicting the ideas, dispositions, urges. Smartly, how are they? How is ache, how is unnecessary struggling. It may be, it may be, or it may be Krita way it may be completed. This stuff, those those those dispositions, those ideas, they are able to be issues that we do.


Cardita, issues that we reason to be completed, or issues that we permit allow to be completed, or that once we see them being completed, we we applaud. We validate them. We enhance them. So the motion the ideas and the doubtless resulting movements that reason struggling and unnecessary ache, there are issues that we will do ourselves that we will reason to be completed or we will simply permit it to be completed. So what does this let us know? To start with, it is not that, oh, I’m going to get someone else to do my grimy paintings, after which I am not, you recognize, I am transparent of No. No. No. It is not like that. Anywhere our sense of right and wrong is concerned, that is our duty.


And this takes us again to that primacy of sense of right and wrong and inquiry. Issues that I do myself, it is clearly very, clearly, as much as me. Issues that I reason or direct or drive to be completed. Clearly, my very own involvement is most likely simple to discern. However in the case of permitting or allowing or condoning, then that line may well be a bit of bit tougher. Once more, we come to the primacy of presence right here and the way Yamani Yama give us that helpful lens of inquiry.


So the hurt inflicting ideas and doubtlessly resulting movements, they are issues that we will do, led to to be completed or simply permit to be completed. And the way are they? LoRa, LoRa, LoRa, Excuse me, Kroda and Moha. In opposite order, Moha way confusion. Croda is anger, however anger within the vast sense of items that the item that reasons us to get disturbing, now not simply rage, but additionally some feeling of frustration, some feeling of hysteria that has effects on our judgment, our consciousness to be clouded, and loba as a verbal root way it is once we strongly want one thing, so it has a consternating stirring up perturbing impact. So it is the concept that the movements or the ideas that led to this ache.


They’re preceded via some form of want that may well be in line with concern or in need of issues to be other or yearning one thing. And the following anger and disturbance to our consciousness and the following confusion. Now within the description for this episode, this little phase, there’s a hyperlink to an editorial I wrote about being attached to our discernment, and it cites this very, very stunning pair of verses from the second one bankruptcy of the bhagavad gita, which you’ll additionally watch right here on yoga anytime. It is verses 6263 during which Krishna, I I once in a while say he outlines the entire process human historical past and 64 syllables. He talks about when a human being makes a speciality of one thing, we have a tendency to get hooked up to that. We get hooked up to objects.


Now we have positive needs. We would like issues to move a definite means. And when they do not, what occurs, from karma and want, or on this context, the phrase loba is reasonably synonymous, from that loba or karma, then what occurs Croda? Some form of anger, and we get offended what occurs to our discernment, what occurs to our imaginative and prescient, distortion, clouds, shrouds, valings. And in the ones verses within the Gita Krishna says, what occurs when an individual turns into offended?


Then it is like our consciousness will get shrouded, and it is like we omit the teachings that we’ve got discovered. We lose reference to our discernment discriminating consciousness, after which it is like we are totally misplaced. So what does this let us know? It is like this appearing in ways in which perpetuate unnecessary ache, there are caution indicators. This takes us again to bankruptcy 1, when doubtlessly to spoke about when the ones issues that get in the best way of yoga, the hindrances to yoga arise they don’t arise with out attendance There may be there may be some illness There may be our psychological outlook may be affected. Our limbs, our balance isn’t isn’t so stable.


Our breath is affected. Our power is affected. There are those caution indicators right here too, Britannia may be very transparent. Realize what’s the root of this kind of angle, this kind of conduct, this inclination, this kind of psychological trend this is inflicting struggling. Is there some form of annoying want or concern or in need of issues to be other or loss of settle for within the truth and looking to run clear of it.


Is there some, anger or frustration is there some ensuing confusion perturbation? So on every occasion I understand the time underneath the sway of anger and of concern and perturbation, however once in a while he is telling us, be alert I am much more likely to take self sabotaging steps when I am underneath the affect of the ones varieties of phenomena. So destructive issues may also be completed, value to be completed allowed to be completed. They proceeded via want, anger, and confusion. They may be able to be delicate, madam, medium, or intense.


They may be able to be intense. They may be able to be complete and they are able to be they are able to be excessive. They may be able to be medium. Or they are able to be it appears trifling, it appears trifling. And I might say that is in reality key as a result of it is not that they’re trifling.


As a result of as many academics have identified over the millennia, to a definite stage, how we do anything else is how we do the entirety. So those trifling issues, they’re addiction forming. If I cut price my sense of right and wrong when it kind of feels love it’s now not a large deal, this would change into an overly large deal in no time as a result of that negation or suppression or denial of sense of right and wrong units in movement a trend of now not taking note of my very own sense of right and wrong. We are simply gonna make it more difficult to then heated and in reality discern its enter, its steerage in the ones extra excessive difficult scenarios. So they are able to be it appears trifling.


They may be able to be medium or they are able to be in reality large issues, however nonetheless they are able to reason that Hinsa. They may be able to reason that disturbance. They may be able to reason that hurt. What’s their fruit? What’s the end result? Of those, those ache inflicting ideas, dispositions movements.


Way illness, ache, struggling, once more, Yana understanding, Yana now not understanding, confusion. If I act on most of these troubling ideas. What’s the outcome? It is love it units in movement as cascading spiraling exacerbation of my very own entrapment bondage and dimension. It veils me additional.


It is like urge for food grows via what it feeds on. If I domesticate behavior of eating on an overly deficient nutrition, I am gonna get used to that, and that’s the reason gonna clog and fog my machine. So that is Pratibaksha Barena, very additionally more or less summarizing the ache inflicting ideas, the ache inflicting movements, their issues we will do reason to be completed allowed to be completed. They are preceded via want, anger, and confusion. They may be able to be delicate, medium, or excessive. Their fruit is never-ending ache and confusion and exacerbation of Avidya, now not seeing obviously.


That is Pratipaksha Barvinham. So that is already one layer of the instruct to remind ourselves of the way we will be greater than implicit, we will be the reason for our personal ongoing struggling. So Let’s remind ourselves a bit of bit extra what we wish to remind ourselves of with a purpose to steer clear of going into the ones self harming patterns. You discussed already the theory of the way the apparently trifling may now not if truth be told be so trifling. And that is why Some of the explanation why I bring to mind yoga because the rehabilitation or the restoration mission, I feel just about everybody has studies as a kid when the grown ups, the adults, the people who find themselves in positions of duty relative to us would possibly once in a while act in ways in which have a outcome people overriding our sense of right and wrong.


For instance, once in a while a tender kid would possibly really feel very hungry, and the fogeys say, no, no, it is not time to consume now. And over the years, this will exacerbate a disconnect between the frame’s personal intelligence and the way we act. In a similar fashion, the kid may well be bursting for the bathroom, however the trainer’s, no, no, wait until the top of the lesson, as an example. So all of this innate knowledge and intelligence of the physically machine, it may be more or less a bit of bit overridden or suppressed via societal forces. And so are we able to set in movement a trend or a addiction of ignoring and ignoring our sense of right and wrong or privileging conformity with social mores or social conventions as an alternative of heeding the voice of sense of right and wrong. And this may also be particularly dramatic particularly the case in societies which emphasize becoming in.


And conformity and obedience and just right, Boag and women behave in a definite means. So Pratipaksha Barvina, a method we will bring to mind it, Pratipaksha, the wrong way. So one directive that I might take from that is get used to swimming in opposition to the present. Get used to swing in opposition to the present of our behavior as a result of if we are gonna extricate ourselves from our personal bondage and from our personal proscribing patterns, then we will must, at some level, possibly many levels, as I have stated a lot of occasions sooner than, having a look at ways in which achieve past our recurring tactics of having a look, we need to have a look at views that may problem us to switch our behavior. So we in reality wish to follow being alert Occasionally other folks say lifestyles is an ocean, and once in a while other folks describe the entire non secular adventure as crossing the sea of a few tsar of transmigratory global, the lifestyles. Now, at the ocean, there are such a large amount of present and there may be such a lot climate, and the elements adjustments, and the currents trade.


So with a purpose to keep on target, We wish to be alert. We wish to be attentive. And Yamani Yama, our mechanisms, our frames of reference, our lenses, helps that may in reality assist us domesticate that stable attentiveness. That may be a prerequisite of the particular follow of Pratipaksha Bavanah. So a method we will now additionally domesticate Pratipaksha Bavanah in our daily lifestyles is anytime we discover ourselves, as an example, brought about or challenged via a point of view to follow. What’s legitimate about that point of view that I might ordinarily brush aside can I make a self-discipline of in reality bearing in mind the opposite perspective? Can I stroll 2 moons in that different individual’s standpoint?


After which can I additionally glance some other standpoint this is greater than a counter to what I might first of all suppose or do? Can I see a 3rd, a 4th standpoint? Can I have a look at this in a brand new means? In order that interest and lens of inquiry additionally fortifies the gear of our consciousness to be a bit of bit extra adaptable and responsive once we wish to pull ourselves out of a unfavorable trend. So once in a while other folks describe predi baksha barvin.


It is like, Smartly, in case you are feeling a definite in case you are feeling x, then follow the other. However Shall we say, as an example, you are feeling enraged. You might be so offended. And someone says, oh, smartly, follow loving kindness. Is it ease that isn’t really easy to do, or in case you are in reality down and dejected and simply feeling swallowed up in grief for the sector, Then dancing a jig of pleasure, it does not in reality it is not really easy to do this.


I don’t believe that is in reality what lovely buckshipping a method. I feel what it way is as a ongoing consistent follow, remind ourselves of various views in order that after I really feel myself getting trapped in anger or rejection or grief, then again, or I think myself getting green with envy and so most likely justifying some self sabotaging or destructive to others motion, I will be able to name myself out as a result of I have made a gentle common follow of calling myself out of inspecting my dispositions. And that is the place Yamani Yama and Pratipaksha Bhavanah cross hand in hand. As we are gonna see, that is elaborated a lot more as doubtlessly continues. It is not that this Sutra 34 is its personal follow.


It’s, however it is a lot more than that. This is a part of the follow of Yamani Yama. This is a part of the Ashtanga. And as we discussed already, it is not one or the opposite. I really like this Yama. I really like that anger.


I’m going to do that one and that one. No. No. No. All of them enhance each and every different. So Pratibaksha Bhavanah may be very a lot a part of the cultivation of the James and the Niyamas. And as a part of the cultivation of the James and the Niyamas, now Yamah, we had it already. That is the vow to be all the time noticed.


Now this very fascinating remark from Viasa in his statement right here, and he says that when an individual who’s thinking about yoga, has began cultivating Yamani Yamma, What he says many fascinating issues. Something is is that once we do that, in a way, it helps to keep us out of mischief. This may be cultivating the other means. It is like as we follow Yamani Yama, we habituate ourselves to some great benefits of cultivating cohesion. And after we get attuned to an conversant in cohesion, then it is more straightforward to remind ourselves that, wait a minute. No. No.


I do not need to cross and rob the financial institution or, you recognize, cheat on my buddy or no matter. I do not need to cave into that slothful or grasping tendency or green with envy tendency or no matter it may well be. As a result of I am a lot after I do this affected person’s stable paintings of cultivating the middle within the harmonious means, So the extra we follow yama and yama, the extra we now have were given like a barometer and a reference, it is value making that effort. However Viasat, the item I used to be beginning to say the fascinating factor he says, he says as soon as we now have began that, if we then return to the out of date behavior which are that reason needless hurt Vyasa says, then we’re like a canine who licks up its personal vomit. Rather a formidable symbol. Yeah.


We do not wanna be like that, will we? If we now have a nutrition of excreta, what form of mutant do we change into? It is not gonna be just right for us, however it is very fascinating that Vyas’s remark. I do not know if the the person of letters and playwright Samuel Beckett was once a scholar of yoga and doubtlessly in Vyasa. However there’s a quote of Beckett’s that my buddy discussed to me somewhat not too long ago. I stated, that is immediately out of the Boag sutra statement from my co you recognize, that is 1000’s of other folks had been sending this for 1000 years, he stated. Let me get it proper.


Addiction is the ballast that chains the canine to its personal vomit. And Beckett stated that within the twentieth century. Addiction is the ballast that modified the canine to its personal vomit. And that is what Doubtlessly is speaking about. That is the way to come back out of the already established patterns of self sabotage, the diligent follow of Pratipaksha Bavanah, Now that symbol of consuming up our personal vomit, in fact, we do not wanna do this.


However once in a while we do this with out even knowing it, and that is the realm of the significance of the trifling issues. Why how we do small issues counts as a result of corruption it will probably get started only a small factor, however then it more or less breeds a tradition of corruption. No longer taking note of sense of right and wrong, now not taking note of reason why, overriding satya, fact, and authenticity, can change into normalized, after which we will be in an overly, very poisonous state of affairs, a state of affairs which is gonna be increasingly tough to extricate ourselves from. And so the theory in yoga within the Sanskrit custom, they are saying satyam Avagiati. Reality by myself, in the end will emerge victorious.


If we compromise on our sense of right and wrong, if we permit ourselves to inform lies for the sake of comfort or to evolve to someone else’s thought of what’s suitable. If we do contravene our sense of right and wrong, we are simply gonna get increasingly embroiled within the ache that must be got rid of. We’re suspending the paintings and making it more difficult Occasionally it’ll imply mustering super valor swimming in opposition to the present, resisting the mainstream once in a while resisting the dispositions to prevalent round us. Be mindful, Doubtlessly stated, that is the good vow without reference to the traits or models or dominant issues which are influencing the zeitgeist. There is part of each and every people this is undying, and it is very hanging Yemeniyama. Occasionally other folks say, oh, it is a bit like the ten commandments. Sure, it’s.


Just about all spirit traditions. All of them say, yeah, steer clear of do no hurt. Domesticate cohesion. Be a just right neighbor. Depart the sector higher than you discovered it.


Do not lie. Be fair, be respectful. It is not an twist of fate. Those are the foundations that if truth be told uphold cosmic regulation, I might recommend. That is what it feels love to me.


There are particular issues which are very cultural, however there are particular underlying ideas of if truth be told cultivating cohesion if truth be told making an effort to be respectful to oneself, to all different beings that we discover on the core of all of the non secular traditions which were round and survived for 1000 years. Indubitably, there is also positive dogmas that folks aren’t so all in favour of anymore. We come again to the core ideas of maximum non secular traditions, even if they have got been shaped into spiritual colleges or shows, the very core teachings that we discover in they all I don’t believe we discover them habitual everywhere by the way or unintentionally. The riches, the seers of the yoga custom, they identified that is very proveable. There may be not anything within the yoga sutra that you must imagine. Put it to the take a look at.


I discovered that what my Indian trainer stated, betray your sense of right and wrong and you might be damned. It is true. Anytime I have contravened my sense of right and wrong, it is not labored out smartly. Occasionally, therapeutic my sense of right and wrong way taking a stand that comes to some ache that comes to some discomfort. However the payoff is if I die these days, I will be able to die in a lot higher peace And if I might identified I had long past in opposition to my sense of right and wrong and heeding my sense of right and wrong, I will be able to get ready to die in peace via making myself, via making it simple to sleep in peace a bit of bit extra simply on the finish of on a daily basis.


So Pratipaksha Babana, something that is really nice right here, Potanjali may be very sensible. He is pronouncing your troubles will get up. We will be able to in finding ourselves being pulled in several instructions. That is commonplace, understanding to berate ourselves. Practice the simply treatment. And, once more, we now have prescription and outline.


We get the outline of the issue, and it encodes a prescription. Remind ourselves of the results of 1 form of plan of action, and follow a unique plan of action. That may then construct its personal protecting momentum to assist us keep extra attuned to concussions and extra at the process actualizing the ones deeper unique longings.



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