Kaivalya Pada:

4-17: An object is known or unknown depending on the degree to which the mind accepts it.

Kaivalya Pada 4:1 Siddhis are born of practices performed in previous lives, or of the ingestion of certain herbs, or by the repetition of certain mantras, or by pain-enduring tapasya(self-denial), or by samadhi (oneness with God)

Vibhuti Pada 3:30:

Samyama on the navel plexus gives knowledge of the body's constitution.

Discussing last three limbs of Ashtanga Yoga

Sadhana Pada: Verse 46

Asana (the third "limb" of Ashtanga Yoga) means to be seated in a firm, pleasant, and relaxed position.

Sadhana Pada: Verse 35:

In the presence of one who is firmly grounded in harmlessness, all hostilities cease.

Sadhana Pada: Verse 32 (contd.)

The Niyamas consist of purity, contentment, austerity (accepting but not causing pain), self-study (introspection), and openness to higher truths.

Sadhana Pada: Verse 32

The Niyamas consist of purity, contentment, austerity (accepting but not causing pain), self-study (introspection), and openness to higher truths.

Sadhana Pada: Verse 29

The eight limbs of yoga are 1, Yama (self-denial); 2, Niyama (observance); 3, posture; 4, withdrawal of the energy; 5, interiorization of the mind; 6, concentration; 7, meditation; 8, absorption

Sadhana Pada, Verse 19:

"The stages of the gunas are gross, less gross, definable, and beyond definition."

Back to the Gunas. Be it Patanjali or Krishna, the gunas are a central theme in both their expositions of this manifested world. So we must go deeper into it and see why exactly that is.

Sadhana Pada: Verse 9

Even the wise cling (however slightly) to this life, caught in the flow of satisfaction it has given them.

Sadhana Pada, Verse 2 & 3:

"In these ways, our obstacles become minimized."

"There are five obstacles: ignorance, egoism, attachments, aversions, and clinging to bodily life."

Obstacles! Of course! But nothing will stop our progress.

Patanjali class with Guest Speaker

Samadhi Pada, Verse 37:

"Otherwise also, by attunement with the mind of an enlightened being, one who is completely free from all attachment to the senses."

Samadhi Pada, Verse 33:

"By cultivating attitudes of friendliness toward those who are happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and disregard for the wicked, the vrittis (vortices of attachment and desire) are dissolved in undisturbed calmness."

It's amazing to see the vrittis responding to right attitude with so much power. Not just by meditation, but by right living, is true yoga achieved.

Samadhi Pada, Verse 23:

"Otherwise, through devotion and complete self-offering to God (this highest samadhi can be attained)."

Samadhi Pada, Sutra 17:

"Sampragyata Samadhi is still tied to the various functions of the ego."

The ego follows us everywhere : )

Samadhi Pada, Verse 12:

"The vrittis are calmed by practice and by non-attachment."

Sounds simple enough : )

We start with the Verse 3 of the Samadhi Pada

"Then, spiritually free, the sage abides tranquilly in his inner self"

Sutra 1:1 : Now we come to the study of Yoga