Friday, June 27, 2014

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!

Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Devavrata

All duty and no beauty made Devavrata a dry lad.

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

தோல்வி

செருக் கருபட தோல்வி யளித்து
வெறுப் பேற்றினாய் போற்றி


Sunday, June 01, 2014

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.