Sublime

Moving from the deadened spine rather than the pelvic floor and full body usually causes pain and injury because we fold into the easily bendable areas—compressing the lumbar vertebrae, pressing the kidney wings closed at T12, and collapsing the head back on the atlas in the cervical region. When practicing backbends in a more integrated manner, we

14Practice becomes firmly grounded when well attended to for a long time, without break and in all earnestness.

the grosser aspects of the kleśas are eliminated by kriyā-yoga, the more subtle aspects by meditation, but, as indicated by the last sūtra, the actual burnt seeds, or residual impressions of the now impotent saṁskāras, are not completely dissolved until the mind, along with all its latent saṁskāras, merges back into its matrix at the death of the y

When practicing satyam, we do not pretend to know what we don’t know, taking action on the pretense of knowledge.

The postures are a concentration of mind and movement in which the breath undoes the stiffness and tensions of the body, strengthening its weaknesses and restoring health.

quotes the verses from the Gītā where Kṛṣṇa says: “Whatever you do, whatever you eat, whatever you give away, whatever austerity you perform, do it as an offering to me”

always begin sitting meditation, āsana practice, and also prāṇāyāma by sitting silently and feeling the sense of body and breath occurring without interference.