Patañjali: Mind

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

Patañjali: 88 quotes17 likes

“When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness expands in every direction, and you find yourself in a new, great, and wonderful world. Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and your discover yourself to be a greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be.”

As quoted by Wayne Dyer http://n-spire.com/archives/011802.html <br class="br">The Mahābhāṣya

“By cultivating friendliness towards happiness and compassion towards misery, gladness towards virtue and indifference towards vice, the mind becomes pure.”

§ 1.33
Yoga Sutras of Patañjali
Source: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

“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

“When the mind maintains awareness, yet does not mingle with the senses, nor the senses with sense impressions, then self-awareness blossoms.”

§ 2.54
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

“For one who sees the distinction, there is no further confusing of the mind with the self.”

§ 4.25
Yoga Sutras of Patañjali

“Yoga is the settling of the mind into silence. When the mind has settled, we are established in our essential nature, which is unbounded Consciousness. Our essential nature is usually overshadowed by the activity of the mind.”

Patanjali, in East of existentialism: the Tao of the West http://books.google.co.in/books?id=2WyyAAAAIAAJ, p. 266.

“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 basis of correct knowledge is correct perception, correct deduction and correct witness (or accurate evidence).
One of the most revolutionary realizations to which the occult student has to adjust himself is the appreciation that the mind is a means whereby knowledge is to be gained...”

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

“Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked.”

Patanjali, in Being Consciousness Bliss: A Seeker's Guide http://books.google.co.in/books?id=AEo58-ihNygC&pg=PA205, p. 205.