Subject of this seminar: Sankhya Purva-mimamsa and Vedanta - Concepts and scriptures of Hindu Philosophy - Samadhi and Sadhana Pada
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.
If you forget your goal, then you will become deviated. It happens many times to people when they come to spiritual life – they get into other things and they forget why they came. If someone asks you why you are doing it? Is this behavior you are doing helping serve the purpose you came for? Often times the answer is no.
