May 22, 2011 Part 1

Our conversations in this episode illustrate very well how we react to "knowledge" in any form, once the mind attaches, we respond. We break down the mental modifications specified in each of Sutras I, 7-11 and try to relate personally to them through experience. As an added note to the conversation about the difference between sleep and Samadhi: Iyengar's translation states that "Sleep is the non-deliberate absence of thought"- emphasis on the word non-deliberate. Samadhi is the deliberate stilling of thought processes in order to achieve undiluted awareness.