Yes and No

freedom to say no & compassion to say yes

Yoga sutra chanting with wife

Peril #27 in teaching yoga to your wife - At some point, thou shall end up chanting the yoga sutras with her and she, being a wife (helps her that she is also trained in music), will take great joy in mocking thy abaswaram rendition of the yoga sutras!

Devavrata

All duty and no beauty made Devavrata a dry lad.

தோல்வி

செருக் கருபட தோல்வி யளித்து
வெறுப் பேற்றினாய் போற்றி

प्रत्यक्ष

This fellow must have read the yoga sutras!

"Neither the Bible nor the prophets - neither Freud nor research - neither the revelations of God nor man - can take precedence over my own direct experience" - 'Carl Rogers' writes in 'On Becoming a Person'



प्रत्यक्षानुमानागमाः प्रमाणानि
pratyakṣa-anumāna-āgamāḥ pramāṇāni ||1.7||
 
Insight arises, in decreasing degree of validity, from direct experience, logical conclusions, or learning that are obtained from reliable sources.