Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

Yoga Sutras Chapter 1 Concentration Samadhi Pada
(roll over and click) What is Yoga? 1: Now, after previous preparation, begins yoga 2: Yoga is the mastery and integration of the activities of mind 3: Then the seer, the Self rests in its true nature 4: At other times, it is identified with subtle thoughts Un-coloring your thoughts  5-6: Witnessing 5 kinds of thoughts that are either colored or not-colored 7: Three ways to obtain correct knowledge 8-11: Incorrect knowledge, imagination, sleep, memory Practice and non-attachment 12: How to master thoughts 13: Meaning of practice 14: How to make practice firm 15-16: Non-attachment and supreme non-attachment Types of concentration 17: Four levels of concentration 18: Objectless concentration is next Efforts and commitment  19-20: Five types of effort needed 21-22: Choosing one of nine levels of practice Direct route through AUM 23-29: Contemplation on AUM Obstacles and solutions 30-31: Obstacles on the journey 32: Use one-pointedness for the obstacles Stabilizing and clearing the mind33: Four attitudes to cultivate towards other people 34-38: Five concentrations for stabilizing the mind 39: Or, concentration on whatever is pleasant and useful After stabilizing the mind  40: Ability to focus on infinitely small and large is sign of stability 41: Mind becomes clear, like a transparent crystal 42-46: Types of engrossment with concentration 47-49: Gaining knowledge filled with higher truth 50: Samadhi leaves latent impressions that oppose formation of others 51: Then comes objectless samadhi
Yoga Sutras Chapter 2 Practice Sadhana Pada
(roll over and click) Minimizing gross coloring 1-2: Kriya yoga reduces colored thoughts by three methods 3: Five kinds of coloring 4: Four stages of coloring 5: Four types of ignorance 6-9: Colorings of I-ness, attraction, aversion, and fear Dealing with subtle thoughts 10: Once thoughts are subtle, they are eliminated by dissolution of mind 11: When there remains slight coloring of thoughts, it is neutralized by meditation Breaking the alliance of karma 12-14: Nature of latent impressions 15: A wise one sees even pleasure as painful 16: Pain yet to come is to be avoided 17: Uniting seer and seen is the cause of the pain to be avoided 18-22: Nature of those objects 23-24: Eliminating the alliance with avidya or ignorance, which is the underlying problem 25: By reducing this avidya, ignorance, freedom naturally ensues The 8 rungs and discrimination 26-27: Discrimination is the central key to enlightenment 28: 8 rungs of Yoga are the tool for discrimination 29: 8 rungs of Yoga are listed Yamas & Niyamas, #1-2 30-31: The 5 Yamas, rung #1 32: The 5 Niyamas, rung #2 33: When negative, remind yourself this brings misery and ignorance 34: Negativity is 27 types Benefits from Yamas & Niyamas 35-39: Benefits from the 5 Yamas 40-45: Benefits from the 5 Niyamas Asana, #3 of 8 rungs 46-48: Meditation posture, Asana, is attained by attention on the infinite Pranayama, #4 of 8 rungs 49-50: Three aspects of breath 51: Fourth pranayama is beyond these 52-53: This thins the veil of karma over the light Pratyahara, #5 of 8 rungs 54: The senses and actions return back into the mind 55: Then there is less tendency of the mind towards objects
Yoga Sutras Chapter 3 Progressing Vibhuti Pada
(roll over and click) Dharana, Dhyana, Samadhi, #6, #7, #8 of 8 rungs 1: Dharana or concentration is #6 2: Dhyana or meditation, #7, comes from repeated concentration 3: Samadhi, #8, comes from deep absorption Samyama is the finer tool 4: Dharana, dhyana, and samadhi together are Samyama 5: Mastery of Samyama brings the light of knowledge 6: Apply Samyama to finer planes, states, or stages Internal is seen to be external 7: These 3 rungs are more intimate and internal than the first 5 8: Even these 3 are external compared to seedless Samadhi Witnessing subtle transitions 9-16: Samyama is done on 3 extremely subtle thought transitions Experiences from Samyama 17: Three aspects of an object 18: Samyama on samskaras 19-20: On ideas from others 21-22: On physical form and senses 23: On karma foretells death 24-25: On attitudes and strength 26-35: On inner subtleties 36-37: On pure consciousness What to do with experiences 38: They are both attainments and obstacles More from Samyama 39: Passage to another body 40-41: Samyama on pranas 42-43: On space, hearing, and body 44: On thought projections 45-47: On the five elements 48-49: On senses and actions Renunciation and liberation 50: Discernment of Buddhi and Purusha brings mastery over all 51: Non-attachment to forms and omniscience destroys seeds 52: Decline invitations of celestials Higher discrimination 53: Moments and succession 54: Discriminating similar objects 55: Higher knowledge is intuitive and born from discrimination 56: Equality between Buddhi and Purusha brings liberation
Yoga Sutras Chapter 4 Liberation Kaivalya Pada
(roll over and click) Means of attaining experience 1: Five means of subtler attainment 2: Transitions involve filling in 3: Removal of obstacles brings results Emergence and mastery of mind 4-6: Construct and use of mind Actions and karma 7: Kinds of actions 8: Subconscious manifests Subconscious impressions 9: Memory and latent impressions 10: Desire for self preservation 11: Disappearance of cause, motive, and substratum 12: Past and future are present in fundamental form Objects and the 3 gunas 13: Characteristics made of gunas 14: Objects appear as a unit Mind perceiving objects 15: Separate minds and paths 16: Object is not dependent on one mind 17: Objects known by coloring Illumination of the mind 18: Thoughts are known by purusha 19: Mind not self illuminating 20: Mind and objects cannot be cognized simultaneously 21: One mind does not illumine another Buddhi and liberation 22: Consciousness and buddhi 23-24: Seer and mind 25: Inquiries about self cease 26: Discrimination and liberation Breaches in enlightenment 27: Breaks in enlightenment allow colorings to arise 28: Colorings are dealt with as before Perpetual enlightenment 29: Rain cloud of virtues comes 30: Actions and colorings are removed Knowables become few 31: There is little to know Gunas after liberation 32: Succession of change ends 33: Succession defined 34: Gunas resolve into their cause

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Outline of the Yoga Sutras in 39 Sections

CHAPTER 1: Concentration (Samadhi Pada) 

1: What is Yoga? (1.1-1.4) 

2: Un-coloring your thoughts (1.5-1.11) 

3: Practice and non-attachment (1.12-1.16) 

4: Types of concentration (1.17-1.18) 87 

5: Efforts and commitment (1.19-1.22) 

6: Contemplation on AUM or OM (1.23-1.29) 

7: Obstacles and solutions (1.30-1.32) 

8: Stabilizing and clearing the mind (1.33-1.39) 

9: After stabilizing the mind (1.40-1.51) 

CHAPTER 2: Practices (Sadhana Pada) 

10: Minimizing gross colorings veiling the Self (2.1-2.9) 

11: Dealing with subtle impressions veiling the Self (2.10-2.11) 

12: Breaking the alliance of karma (2.12-2.25) 

13: The 8 rungs of Yoga are for discrimination (2.26-2.29) 

14: Yamas and Niyamas, rungs 1 and 2 (2.30-2.34) 

15: Benefits from the Yamas and Niyamas (2.35-2.45) 

16: Asana or meditation posture, rung 3 of 8 (2.46-2.48) 

17: Pranayama and breath control, rung 4 of 8 (2.49-2.53) 

18: Pratyahara or sense withdrawal, rung 5 of 8 (2.54-2.55) 

CHAPTER 3: Progressing (Vibhuti Pada) 

19: Dharana, Dhyana, Samadhi, rungs 6, 7, and 8 (3.1-3.3) 

20: Samyama is the finer tool (3.4-3.6) 

21: Internal is seen to be external (3.7-3.8) 

22: Witnessing subtle transitions with Samyama (3.9-3.16) 

23: Experiences from Samyama (3.17-3.37) 

24: What to do with subtle experiences (3.38) 

25: More attainments from Samyama (3.39-3.49) 

26: Renunciation that brings kaivalya or liberation (3.50-3.52) 

27: Higher discrimination through Samyama (3.53-3.56) 

CHAPTER 4: Liberation (Kaivalya Pada) 

28: Means of attaining experience (4.1-4.3) 

29: Emergence and mastery of mind (4.4-4.6) 

30: Actions and karma (4.7-4.8) 346 

31: Subconscious impressions (4.9-4.12) 

32: Objects and the 3 gunas (4.13-4.14) 

33: Mind perceiving objects (4.15-4.17) 

34: Illumination of the mind (4.18-4.21) 

35: Buddhi, discrimination, and liberation (4.22-4.26) 

36: Breaches in enlightenment (4.27-4.28) 

37: Perpetual enlightenment (4.29-4.30) 

38: Knowables become few (4.31) 

39: Gunas and liberation or Kaivalya (4.32-4.34)