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.
Mother is the first guru. The mother is 1,000 times more important than the father because she keeps the baby in the womb, and later nourishes her physically as well as mentally. Thus mother supplies both the hardware as well as the software of the baby. The baby absorbs the mother’s emotions like a sponge. This gets programmed in the chitta of the baby, and influences her character for the rest of her life.
