There are 51 Sutras in Samadhi Pada
Sutra 1 to 11: What is Yoga
Sutra 12 to : Means to Yoga
- Sutra 1 : Intro :
- Now I will talk about the discipline of yoga
- Sutra 2: Definition of Yoga
- Yoga is the cessation of the modulations of mind
- Sutra 3: What happens when you are in yoga
- A person established in yoga dwells in his own self. The seer then rests or remains in his own nature.
- Sutra 4: What happens when you are not in yoga
- In all other scenario (when a person is not in yoga), he becomes one with the modulations of mind. You identify yourself with the modulations of the mind all the time and forget your true self (the seer in you)
- Sutra 5: How many modulations does mind have
- There are five modulations of mind. They may be painful or non-painful
- Sutra 6: What are the modulations of mind
- Pramand (wanting proof) ,Viparyaya (lack of comprehension), Vikalpa(imagination), Sleep and memory are the five modulations of mind.
- Sutra 7-11: Define each modulation of mind
- Sutra 7: The different kinds of proof the mind requires are the obvious proof that one sees or experiences, inferential proof and scriptural proof.
- Sutra 8: Wrong understanding is knowing the unreal in a form that is not its own. Wrong understanding or error arises from knowledge that is based on a false mental construct.
- Sutra 9: Vikalp is a sort of hallucination followed in sequence by mere words or knowledge and which , in reality, is devoid of truth. Imaginations means word knowledge without regard for what actually exists in the real world
- Sutra 10: Absence of thought waves or knowledge is sleep
- Sutra 11: Memory is the recollection of words and experience. Memory is the past which is relevant experience that has not been eclipsed.
- Sutra 12: How to control mind modulations
- Practice and non-attachment are ways to reduce mind modulations
- Sutra 13: What is practice
- Abhashya (Practice) means rsolutely adhering to one's practice of yoga
- Sutra 14:
Shoka 6-11: Definition of each of the five modulations of mind
Yoga is when you drop this search for proof and abide in the Self. Abiding in the self does not need proof. Truth cannot be understood through proof. God is beyond proof. You cannot prove God nor can you disprove God.
Proof is connected to logic and logic is very limited in its purview. This is the same with enlightment, same with love. Love can never by proven or disproved. This is not in the relam of the seer. The seer is beyond the proof.
Most of the time you impose your own ideas, views and feelings on others and you think that is how they are. This is called viparyaya. You have an inferiority complex or you suddenly see someone else behaving very arrogantly. They might not be arrogant and you are not being ill-treated by them. But you suddenly feel that you are being ill-treated. You are not respected because you do not respect yourself. You think that others do not respect you. This tendency of your mind is viparyaya. Suddenly people feel that they are not being loved.
Vikalpa is a sort of a hallucination. Nothing of that sort exists, just mere words which do not carry much meaning hover in the mind. This fantasy is called vikalpa, the third modulation of mind or chitta.
Vikalpa can be of two types. One could be a joyful, pleasurable fantasy and the other could be baseless fears. "What will happen if I die tomorrow? What if I have an accident?" These are all just simply sounds which have no value. Baseless fears in the mind or fantasies.
