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Ioga sutra

Ioga-sutres

Idioma:
anglès
Traducció:
Charles Johnston
Completesa:
Obra completa
Autoria:
Atribuïda (autoria debatuda)
Estat del text:
Sense soroll d'escaneig detectat (mesura automàtica sobre tot el text, no revisada a mà)
Extensió:
~31.800 paraules · 151 passatges
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  • APAIoga-sutres. (n.d.). The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali [Ioga sutra] (Charles Johnston, Trans.). Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/patanjali/the-yoga-sutras-of-patanjali
  • MLAIoga-sutres. The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali [Ioga sutra]. Translated by Charles Johnston. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/patanjali/the-yoga-sutras-of-patanjali.
  • ChicagoIoga-sutres. The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali [Ioga sutra]. Translated by Charles Johnston. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/ca/works/patanjali/the-yoga-sutras-of-patanjali.

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De què tracta

Els «Yoga Sutras» (c. segle II-IV): 196 aforismes.

Context i història

El text que defineix el ioga clàssic —«el ioga és la cessació de les fluctuacions de la ment»— i que estableix els vuit graus. Tan condensat que no es va poder llegir mai sense comentari. Traducció anglesa; el sànscrit no és al catàleg.

Context editorial, no una font citable: a diferència dels passatges de l'obra, aquestes dades no es poden contrastar amb el corpus.

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We must seek spiritual life in conformity with the laws of spiritual life, with earnestness, humility, gentle charity, which is an acknowledgment of the One Soul within us all. Only through obedience to that shared Life, through perpetual remembrance of our oneness with all Divine Being, our nothingness apart from Divine Being, can we enter our inheritance. 15. Ceasing from self-indulgence is conscious mastery over the thirst for sensuous pleasure here or hereafter. Rightly understood, the desire for sensation is the desire of being, the distortion of the soul’s eternal life. The lust of sensual stimulus and excitation rests on the longing to feel one’s life keenly, to gain the sense of being really alive. This sense of true life comes only with the coming of the soul, and the soul comes only in silence, after self-indulgence has been courageously and loyally stilled, through reverence before the coming soul. 16. The consummation of this is freedom from thirst for any mode of psychical activity, through the establishment of the spiritual man. In order to gain a true understanding of this teaching, study must be supplemented by devoted practice, faith by works. The reading of the words will not avail. There must be a real effort to stand as the Soul, a real ceasing from self-indulgence. With this awakening of the spiritual will, and purification, will come at once the growth of the spiritual man and our awakening consciousness as the spiritual man; and this, attained in even a small degree, will help us notably in our contest. To him that hath, shall be given. 17. Meditation with an object follows these stages: first, exterior examining, then interior judicial action, then joy, then realization of individual being.…

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