Yoga Sutras

Overview

PYS is very much based on Sānkhya Yoga.

A Maha-rishi is a grand-Rishi, and to manifest that accolade of Patanjali it behoves us to at least become Rishi's.

That is, to evolve psychologically while engaging with the world of matter to "divinize" it.

Purusha-Prakriti

As per Sānkhya, our atomic-self is Purusha, equivalent to the ātman/soul of Vedānta. 

Purusha can be considered as our differentiated consciousness which comes from the pure consciousness of :

• the cosmic Vedic Self which need not be investigated for now, 

• or from Mula-Prakriti, what lies beyond Prakriti in its root nature 

  • story: 

    • she is complete, and thus solitary, 

    • and wishes to experience universe/herself, 

    • so she sets pieces free as individual Purusha's

    • into the ocean of experiences of Prakriti,

    • but as they go further away from her their minds are jumbled, 

    • then they reorganize that mindspace through Yoga,

    • and dive back into her core as the self, and that is the Yoga of re-union.

Prakriti is our differentiable consciousness, which is always under flux because of its 3 Guna's are out of balance.

The Purusha wishes to evolve but it cannot do so unless it experiences materialized phenomena so it engages with Prakriti, material nature.

Enlightenment happens when:

• Purusha gets "entangled" with Prakriti in order to experience material reality, and

• then it needs not simply detach, but more like de-entangle,  to re-engage.

How Purusha re-engage is to integrate "properly" the entangled essence of Prakriti, which incidentally rebalances the Guna's that compose Prakriti of the particular phenomena of the experience.

Thus it is that Purusha & Prakriti coevolve, so Yoga only seems like a solitary, individual pursuit,

Mindset

To set forth on this path, we have to cultivate a Mindset that we are: 

One, that we are solely responsible for our entire condition, 

• • versus the prevalent rights based model of the oppressed by the oppressor,

  • or regardless of how privileges may have accrued to us by birth or nurture.

The entire condition meaning:

• our own circumstance, 

• that of society, and

• the whole universe - just for good measure! 

It is only we understand the Self in this manner, that we have a strong foundation to properly transform the world of Prakriti.

Secondly, that the transformation outside, as a follow on, requires a deep sense of Empathy:

• an under-standing (what stands-underneath) of the "other", as the basis of the object of meditation,

• without getting wrapped up in a cloud of emotion, like sympathy, compassion, etc.

This is how we have at the outset described the process to increase our Natural Intelligence.

Very Material

In Yoga model all phenomena in the realm of Thought are considered to be material reality - which is true as indicated by the fact that they manifest in the nervous system via biochemical phenomena.

Initially, this is purely subjective, then it becomes objective over long period of time as we hold a certain intent, eventually time starts to shrink.

All this is possible because there is considered only a single objective material reality of Prakriti, it is thus that Yoga can actual transform objective reality. 

Context of Avatārs

Our approach is predicated upon a grand story that completely grabs our attention, that we wish to see its fullfilment, that is, the instilling the Avatār effect.

Our chosen Avatār takes over our Mindscape completely to :

• • drive our every waking, and 

  • eventually even, sleeping moments

An Avatār level concept has to be: 

• large and amazing enough to entrance the Mind out of its everyday pettiness, and 

• yet made plausible by tying it down to actual people/places & astronomical/geographical events.

It is then that the Avatār effect takes hold within, and thence to manifest in the physical plane around us.

Flavors

We flavor our soak here with some selection of the following Avatārs.

• the legendary Rāmāyana epic, with its profound roots in Yoga, literally a map to our own Life story, and thus our quest to sunder the roots within of the Rākshasas that beset us, and thence transform society.

• For the purist Yogi, we utilize the Avatār of Yoga, which is to see the whole of Life through the lens of Yoga.

Other Avatārs which we could embellish with would be :

• the story of how AI would enable all human endeavor and propel us to a star-based civilization.

• the fulfilment of the dream of Bhārat in its journey toward establishing Dharma universally.

• some visionary entrepreneur's dream of how to accelerate techno-capitalism.