Patanjali YogaSutras_Art of living_Day1

Do you think you are happy?

• Yes

• No

• i don't know

When does the need for discipline arise ?

• When you are happy

• When the mind is wagging its tail all the time

Which of the following is not a type of Happiness as per Patanjali Yogasutra?

• Sattvic — happiness which is not pleasurable to begin with, but ends in joy

• Rajasic — happiness that seems to begin well but ends in misery

• Tamasic — there appears to be happiness but in reality there is only misery from beginning to end

• being careless

When you are caught in the modulations of the mind, you are lost in the scenery?

• True

• False

But in yoga, what happens?

• The mind becomes free from all the modulations.

• You bring your attention back to your Self, back from the scenery to the Seer

• when you do yoga āsanās (yoga postures), the body, mind, and breath align to one rhythm.

• Yoga also happens when you watch the sunset or you experience beauty in your life or when you have a lot of energy in your body. This also happens after prānāyāma (breathing techniques), or during meditation.

• All of the above!

You have an inferiority complex and suddenly you feel others are arrogant.

A very good friend of yours suddenly behave rudely, they are cooking in their own mind... This modulation of chita is called ...

• Viparayaya - Wrong Knowledge - mithya gyanam

• I didn't remember

3rd modulation of mind is Vikalpa -

Fears, unfounded baseless thoughts are called Vikalpa... More examples of Vikalpa vriti of mind are (check the correct options)

• Hallucinations

• Fantasy

• All of the above

• Baseless fears

5th Vriti is - Smriti-

Gurudev explains this as ,

• Dwelling in the past experiences

• when mind is in memories of the past

• All of the above

Abhyasa - coming back to center, to the seer , this moment again and again and again

• Just be here

• Relive your mind of vritis

• Be in present moment

• All of the above