The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali—Integral Yoga Pocket Edition: Translation and Commentary by Sri Swami Satchidananda

26Uninterrupted discriminative discernment is the method for its removal. This is called viveka in Sanskrit. You try to understand and see the permanent aspect in everything and ignore the impermanent aspect.

There’s no value in digging shallow wells in a hundred places. Decide on one place and dig deep. Even if you encounter a rock, use dynamite and keep going down.

But how does this burning process occur when it comes to our mental impurities? By accepting all the pain that comes to us, even though the nature of the mind is to run after pleasure. We will actually be happy to receive pain if we keep in mind its purifying effects. Such acceptance makes the mind steady and strong because, although it is easy to

39Or by meditating on anything one chooses that is elevating.

45The subtlety of possible objects of concentration ends only at the undefinable.

22Although destroyed for one who has attained liberation, it [the seen] still exists for others, being common to them.

every atom of our bodies we should repeat this mantra: “Dedication, dedication, giving, giving, loving, loving.”

in mantra practice it is always in your heart, the most sacred place, because it is your beloved. And that’s why your mantra is to be kept sacred and secret. You don’t even reveal it to others, lest you lose the reverence for it.

let us not be like little children who sow a seed today and dig it up tomorrow to see how much the root went down.