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The Yoga Sutras are a practical textbook to guide your spiritual journey of remembering who you really are. Here are some important takeaways that every Yogi should know. The true meaning of Yoga is the union of body, mind, soul, and spirit. According to Yoga, we suffer because of the illusion of separation between our individual consciousness from Universal Consciousness or Brahman. The Yoga Sutras are a practical to guide your spiritual journey of remembering that union.          ✓     The Story Of Patanjali The Yoga Sutras were composed by a man named Patanjali. There is not much known about him, except that he was presumably Indian and lived somewhere between the second and fourth century BC. Patanjali is also credited with writing the Mahabhasya, a treatise of Sanskrit grammar and a commentary on Charaka Samhita, the basic text of Ayurveda. Whether they are the same or different people remains a scholastic argument. Mythologically, Vishnu the...

              ✓       INTRODUCTION     Translation: Union or yoga arises when the fluctuations /waves of thoughts in the mind /consciousness cease. - From Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras)                 ✓      What Is Yoga? The word yoga literally means “to yoke” or “union”. More than just a practice of physical exercises, Yoga is the coming together of the individual self or consciousness, with the infinite universal   consciousness or spirit. Yoga is a method of inquiry in to the nature of the mind, which emphasizes practice and direct experience.              ✓      THE “GOAL” OF YOGA: The “goal” of yoga is to align to the universal consciousness in order to experience joy, freedom and the stillness of full consciousness. Alignment, is related to mind and body, and refers to how various parts of us are integr...