Streams of Wisdom: An Advanced Guide to Integral Spiritual Development (Integral Religion and Spirituality Book 1)
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Streams of Wisdom: An Advanced Guide to Integral Spiritual Development (Integral Religion and Spirituality Book 1)
Ignorance here, avidyā, means much more fundamentally to confuse puruṣa with prakṛti and remains permanent until enlightenment is attained (even though the other kleśas, as noted above, can be intermittent, etc.).
Edwin F. Bryant • The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali: A New Edition, Translation, and Commentary
"Each time the self identifies with a particular level of consciousness, it experiences the loss of that level as a death—literally, as a type of death-seizure, because the very life of the self is identified with that level. Letting go of that level is therefore experienced only with great difficulty. In fact, I believe that each of the major mile
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