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.
You can offer anything to Krishna, but you have to offer it with love. You have to offer it with some awareness. You really have to offer it from your heart. Don’t just offer it mechanically. Even if you have some bad habit, offer it to God. Because eventually your consciousness will change and you will think, why am I doing this to God?
