indianphilosophyi
Continue reading...
Abhyāsa — Decoded (why the reading never took)
Abhyāsa is the word most self-help skips: not the insight, the repetition. Sutra 1.13 defines it. Sutra 1.14 refuses to say how long. The...
Vairāgya — Decoded
Vairāgya gets translated as dispassion, non-attachment, and indifference. Those are three different instructions. The sutra's own word is vaśīkāra — mastery. You build that....
Trāṭaka: what the candle studies measured
The eyesight claim for candle gazing has one case report and an unfinished trial behind it — no good evidence, and eyes are a...
The 3am spiral has a Sanskrit name — vṛtti
Vṛtti is usually translated "thought wave". It's closer to a rut — a groove the mind keeps turning in. The Yoga Sutras don't ask...
Niṣkāma karma: why the win lands flat
You got the win. It lasted about an hour. The verse doesn't say stop wanting the result. It says the result was never the...
Gita 18.63 — advice for the next choice, not the last...
Krishna argues for seventeen chapters, then refuses to decide for Arjuna. Reflect fully, then act as you wish — Bhagavad Gītā 18.63. It's a...
Tapas Decoded — heat, not self-punishment
Tapas gets printed as "austerity" in most English translations, and that one word turned a discipline into a punishment. The root tap means heat....