Impressions from Year Two Review Week
Post from Teresa, Portugal
In the Yoga Sutra revision lessons there’s a lot of note taking and question asking. We want to grasp it all, the meaning, and the meaning: of each of the sanskrit words, of those words in that particular sutra, of the teachings that sutra contains.
Ganapati Ārya watches us, he smiles, he answers all the questions and then adds “Puruṣa is not available from the lectures, or from hearing. Lecture will work up to some extent but it is having it’s own limitations.”
A big smile fills his face and he goes on “How is it possible to know the Puruṣa?”
Pauses to look at us over his spectacles.
“If it itself will come to you, if it itself will bless you, then it is possible. Without it’s grace we can’t do anything. It is having many locks, there are many, many gates. We should pray, we should request from the Great Light. This is the remedy.”
Another pause.
“We should hear, we should think, we should pray and we should have some technique. If we come to a gate we will know, oh, this is a gate, and strive to get it open.”
“Citta is working for the Puruṣa only” he concludes. “Got it?”
