Patañjali: Quotes about nature

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

Patañjali

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Yoga Sutras of Patañjali

Nature

“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.”

Patañjali

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

Silence , Nature

“Pain, despair, misplaced bodily activity and wrong direction (or control) of the life currents are the results of the obstacles in the lower psychic nature.”

Patañjali

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

Despair , Pain , Life , Nature

“The chitta is stabilized and rendered free from illusion as the lower nature is purified and no longer indulged.”

Patañjali

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

Nature