Imagine following the rings inside a tree trunk until you get to the heart wood - the source point. Often represented as a triangle with a dot in the centre in Yantra geometry. The dot represents Purusa, the Absolutely reality or ‘Para - Atman’.

As we are here for the purposes of applied-practice then as it is a doorway, meaning that the practices affect the outcome and the outcomes affect the practice, we shall not get into scholarly wranglings and let the introduction stand as we see it today and allow for the practices themselves to provide access to the wisdom that surpases all mind knowledge.

The purpose of this chapter, put in the simplest of terms, is for those who are already adept at stages of concentration and meditation. In the West we are somewhat institutionalised and prefer our approaches to be formatted as measurable scales of the collection of knowledge in stages, over time. Here Patanjali’s structure is more outreach, lateral and aware that some aspirants may have natural or karmic tendencies that allow them to focus, concentration or meditate without prior practices of renunciation, sutras studies or austerities.

I begin here with a summary of each Chapter and highlight the Sanskrit terms and add simple illustrations for modern day interpretations of the Samkhya science (metaphysics) within them.

The 8 Limbs of yoga are placed within Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, very deliberately and precisely as the means to achieve the final three, concentration, meditation and samadhi. The first 5 mentioned in Chapter 2 and the final 3 in Chapter 3. Chapter 1 is for those who are already adept at concentration and or meditation.

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