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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...
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....
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...
Santoṣa and the comparison trap
Santoṣa gets translated as contentment, which sounds like lowering the bar. Bhagavad Gītā 3.17: for the one content in the Self alone, there is...
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...