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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....
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...
Nobody tested the prāṇāyāma the sutra describes
Sutra 2.50 regulates the breath by place, time and number. It never gives you a number. Every slow-breathing trial I could find tests a...
Muditā — the word for gladness at someone else’s luck
Muditā is gladness at someone else's good fortune — the fourth thing the comparison trap takes from you. Yoga Sūtras 1.33 lists it as...
The Five Kleśas — Yoga Sūtras 2.3
Patañjali named five things that cling to the mind. He never claimed naming them was the cure. Decoded: the real definition, before the convenient...
Why You Can’t Focus: The Yoga Sutras’ 5 Modes
The Yoga Sutras don't say you have a wandering mind. They say the mind runs in five distinct modes — pramana, viparyaya, vikalpa, nidra...