Patanjali Yoga Sutra- Honoring the Practice

You have heard somebody's experience during meditation that light appears, somebody comes from heaven and takes them by hand and you see it with your eyes closed. As per Gurudev- an expectation in meditation is an obstruction?

• True

• False

Your desire for pleasure or happiness makes you unhappy. You examine that whenever you are unhappy or miserable, behind that is your wanting to be happy. You got it?

• Yes

• No

Which of the Following is Correct for Vairagya - Dispassion? (Can choose multiple options)

• Skillfully handling the objects of senses and bringing it to the Self is dispassion or vairagya.

• Vairagya is putting a stop to craving for happiness.

• It does not mean you should not enjoy yourself, but the craving for joy, only when you retrieve your mind from it, only then can you meditate. Then yoga happens

• Free yourself from this feverishness that is gripping your mind.

• None of the above

Without dispassion- Vairagya, your meditation is no good and cannot provide the rest that you are longing for?

• True

• False

The mind might try to go to the past, to smruti, or may try to go off to sleep and it can try to bring some logic and justification or some knowledge or some fantasies. Just knowing that again it is getting into the five vruttis, without aversion or craving, come back to the center, to the seer. This is called ?

• Abhyasa- Practice

• Anabhyas- Non Practice

How can Abhyasa-Practice be achieved?

(Please select all correct answers)

• a tu dīrgha kāla - it takes a long time

• Nairantarya - without a break.

• Satkāra sevita - with honor and respect. Receiving it and practicing it with honor and respect.

• Dhrudabhūmi - then it becomes firmly established.

• All of the Above

If you do not have honor or respect for the master, the mediation will not work. Why?

• because the honor and respect brings up the consciousness and awareness in you that helps you focus in the moment.

• No Honor , no focus, no mediation