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Yoga Sutra Quotes

Tantric Yoga

Of what consequence are all the processes

of meditation? In spite of them you have to

die alone and in pain. Take leave of all the

elaborate practices of yogic control (bandha)

and false hope for the deceptive supernatural

gifts, and accept the side of voidance

(shunyata) to be your own.

Lohipada of the Sahaja School

Hatha Yoga

Lightness resulting from breath control

(pranayana), perception of the Self from

meditation (dhyana), and the untainted [state]

from ecstasy (samadhi); this last state is

undoubtedly liberation (mukti)

Gheranda-Samhita Sutra (1.11)

Classical Dualist Yoga

The mind is said to be two-fold:

pure or impure.

It is impure from contact with desires,

Pure when free from desires.

When one has liberated the mind from sloth

and heedlessness and made it immovable and

then attains to the mindless state, this is the

supreme estate.