Patañjali: Form

Patañjali was ancient Indian scholar(s) of grammar and linguistics, of yoga, of medical treatises. Explore interesting quotes on form.

Patañjali: 88 quotes17 likes

“Restraining the thought-streams natural to the mind, … the seer dwells in his own nature. Otherwise he is of the same form as the thought-streams.”

§ 1.2
Yoga Sutras of Patañjali

“Yoga is the cessation of the movements of the mind. Then there is abiding in the Seer's own form.”

Patanjali, in “Yoga and You” [citation needed]
Source: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

“By study comes communion with the Lord in the Form most admired.”

§ 2.44
Yoga Sutras of Patañjali

“Asanas bring perfection in body, beauty in form,grace, strength, compactness, and the harness and brilliance of a diamond.”

Patanjali, in “The Little Red Book of Yoga Wisdom”, p. 135.

“The mind can be trained to steadiness through those forms of concentration which have relation to the sense perceptions.”

The Light of the Soul: Its Science and Effect : a paraphrase of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, with commentary by Alice A. Bailey, (1927)

“The peace of the chitta (or mind stuff) can be brought about through the practice of sympathy, tenderness, steadiness of purpose, and dispassion in regard to pleasure or pain, or towards all forms of good or evil.”

The Light of the Soul: Its Science and Effect : a paraphrase of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, with commentary by Alice A. Bailey, (1927)

“The Word of Ishvara is AUM (or OM). This is the Pranava.
II. The Sacred Word. This is the Word of Glory, the AUM. This is the Pranava, the sound of conscious Life itself as It is breathed forth into all forms...”

The Light of the Soul: Its Science and Effect: a paraphrase of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, with commentary by Alice A. Bailey, (1927)