Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtras are the classical work of the Yoga School of thought, one of the Six Darśanas studied in the Bhakti Tirtha course. They focus on how to attain direct experience and realization of the puruṣa, or the individual self. As the classical treatise on the Vedic understanding of the mind and consciousness and on techniques of meditation and self-realization, it has exerted immense influence over the religious practices of Hinduism in India and, more recently, in the West. For Vaiṣṇavas, the Yoga Sūtras are especially helpful in understanding the first two chapters of Bhakti-rasāmṛita-sindhu.
Align your consciousness with the eternal consciousness called prema. Then you will see the magic happening all around you. Prema is the only magic. When your mind is aligned with love, you will see beauty all around you. When your consciousness is not aligned with prema, then you will see problems all around you – problem after problem. When you have love for Krishna, then you will see that there is nothing else but Krishna and His play. Then you will be intoxicated. That is the real high.
