The Sutras

[SpiritImage]

Not much discussion about the Sutras by Patanjali, I've read a few interpretations of it.

I visit the Gita more, but I need to visit these again, I think they are good meditation contemplations.

Any thoughts on the sutras?

[mccoy]

I don't know why but I never got to read them, although they are advised by every great master.

Maybe right now I'm more into spiritual experimentation. My reading time is almost over.

You may post some verse of the Sutras though, to make the discussion more specific.

[Jitendra Hydonus]

Not much discussion about the Sutras by Patanjali, I've read a few interpretations of it.

I visit the Gita more, but I need to visit these again, I think they are good meditation contemplations.

Any thoughts on the sutras?

Please go here or directly to Patanjali and the eight fold path.

http://musicmeditate.smfforfree.com/index.php?action=printpage;topic=879.0

Also under Paramahansa Yogananda (childboards); The Holy Science (by Sri Yukteswar) and the Bhagavad Gita is also there.

[SpiritImage]

I was thinking more of the entire 4 chapters, with each one having about 50 or so sutras, not just the 8 limb deal.

Wondering if anyone actually got into the entire collection, and what they got out of it.

Not a huge amount of interpretations out there on the whole thing, Vivekananda is one.

[Jitendra Hydonus]

Are they in a book called sutras? Or a section of the Mahabarata?

[SpiritImage]

Well here's one place by Vivekananda

http://www.yogananda.com.au/patanjali/yoga_sutras01.html
(book 1 starts about half way down)

also Ryan Kurzcak compiled his thoughts on them, I have seen only a couple others.

It looks like you have to be able to decipher the many translations, somehow, then optionally you can try to explain what each one means.

[Jitendra Hydonus]

I was thinking more of the entire 4 chapters, with each one having about 50 or so sutras, not just the 8 limb deal.

Wondering if anyone actually got into the entire collection, and what they got out of it.

Not a huge amount of interpretations out there on the whole thing, Vivekananda is one.

Perhaps I am wrong but I believe Sri Yukteswar's interpretation of the sutras in the Holy Science is more involved then just the '8 limb deal'. He interprets up to sutra 30.

[SpiritImage]

Yes I read The Holy Science, it's a good read as well, although I think I'm not yet advanced enough to truly grasp how he explains things.

[Jitendra Hydonus]

Yes I read The Holy Science, it's a good read as well, although I think I'm not yet advanced enough to truly grasp how he explains things.

Look under the Holy Science and you will find several discussions on the sutras that Sri Yukteswar talks  about.
As you will see; we are atempting to understand them as well. On the meantime I will open your link.

[Jitendra Hydonus]

Sutra a rule or aphorism in Sanskrit literature, or a set of these on a technical subject. It appears to me that different religions and different people had different sutras. This being the case we need to decide which sutras we are studying or looking at.

[SpiritImage]

It appears that The Holy Science contains 4 chapters too, just like Patanjali sutras.

"The book is divided into four sections according to the four stages in the development of knowledge."

He titles the passages as a "Sutra", but these do not appear to be Patanjalis' sutras.

The Gita and PY sometimes reference Patanjali.

Sri Yukteswar's sutras are also great study.