PHIL 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Stra, Patanjali, Sattva

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11 Sep 2018
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Pata jali: legendary author of the yoga s tra, according to a major tradition in indian thought, this text forms the foundation for the practice what is known as yoga , the philosophy it articulates is yoga . Basic commitments of the yoga s tra: reality is split into two categories of realities: nature (prak ti), and persons (puru a, nature is comprised of three categories: sattva (intention, cognition), rajas (activity, transformation), and tamas (inertia, extension) Success in yoga: according to pata jali, success in yoga is for those who are intense and vigorous. It takes work and action and is not something that can be accomplished idly: success in yoga, where we do not identify with our thoughts, is called. Isolation is not insulation: it isn"t being separated from others: rather it is a matter of separating our essence, clearly, from what isn"t us, when we live authentically, we are isolated from confusion.

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