Ahimsa is one of the most misinterpreted teachings in modern yoga. In many Western circles, it is reduced to being nice, avoiding conflict, or adopting whatever social stance is currently approved. None of this reflects the traditional meaning. In the classical texts, ahimsa is a disciplined inner practice that demands clarity, strength, and unwavering honesty. Ahimsa is not passive. It is the commitment to stop creating unnecessary harm through ego, impulse, or confusion. Th

“Experience without logic will leave us confused. Logic without experience or authority is superfluous. Authority without experience is corrupt. However, these three elements together work as a periscope on to the world.” (trip aum shanti) Yoga Sutra 1.7 प्रत्यक्षानुमानागमाः प्रमाणानि pratyakṣa-ānumāna-āgamāḥ-pramāṇāni pratyakṣa: a cognition is pratyakṣa when the sense organ, sense object, the mind, and the witnessing consciousness are in unobstructed alignment. direct percep

"The five types of thoughts are true, mistaken, imagined, unconsciousness, and remembered perception" (trip aum shanti) Yoga Sutra 1.6 प्रमाणविपर्ययविकल्पनिद्रास्मृतयः pramāṇa viparya yavikalpa nidrā smṛtayaḥ pramāṇa: Real knowledge; true perception viparyaya: False knowledge; misconception vikalpa: Imagination nidrā: Deep unconscious sleep; absence of mind smṛtayaḥ: Memory   When we think about the mind and the process of moving closer to meditation, we must first understand

“to understand consciousness, we must begin at the root of all existence” (trip aum shanti) Yoga Sutra 1.5 वृत्तयः पञ्चतय्यः क्लिष्टाक्लिष्टाःvṛttayaḥ pañcatayyaḥ kliṣṭākliṣṭāḥ vṛttayaḥ: fluctuations of the mind, misconceptions pañcatayyaḥ: fivefold, five types kliṣṭākliṣṭāḥ: afflicting or non-afflicting, painful or not painful, harmful or not harmful This sutra offers a kind of map for what is to come. It points to the base of who we are. It teaches that the vrittis, or fluc

“Just because rain falls on us, doesn’t mean we are the rain” (trip aum shanti)   Yoga Sutra 1.4 vṛtti sārūpyam-itaratra vṛtti: any movement of the mind-field (citta) sārūpyam: mind takes the shape of its object; the seer appears to be that shape itaratra: in all other states, at other times   As we grow into adulthood many impressions (saṃskāras) are placed upon us but we are not those impressions. We are not what was programmed into us nor what we continued programming into

The Seer abides in its own essence. Yoga Sutra 1.3 तदा द्रष्टुः स्वरूपेऽवस्थानम् tadā draṣṭuḥ svarūpe-'vasthānam tadā: Then draṣṭuḥ: The true seer svarūpe: In its own essential form avasthānam: Abiding in, rest within, recognize   Our perception is what creates the storyline, the paint on the canvas. It is something we tell ourselves to make us “feel” a certain way. As babies, before imprints or programming took root, we existed in awe of the totality of the world. This is wh

Control creates the very bindings we struggle to escape. Only when we stop tightening our grip does the deeper movement of allowance and acceptance begin to emerge. We shape our experience through perception, yet reality itself must reveal what is truly Real. In this space of letting be, the mind settles, and awareness returns to its natural state. Yoga Sutra 1.2 योगश्चित्तवृत्तिनिरोधः Yogaś-citta-vṛtti-nirodhaḥ yogah: Yoga citta: Thouhts, that which is unchangeable vṛtti: A

Navigating the Yog Sutras through my own lens of experience and understanding, I find each sutra precise yet layered with subtle hints that point toward the whole. These reflections are my attempt to share my inner dialogue and evolving map that guide me on the path of Self-Realization, as I seek to transmit what is deeply internal into something that resonates universally. Yog Sutra 1.1 अथ योगानुशासनम् atha yoga-anuśāsanam   atha: and so, now yoga: origin, oneness, eternal t

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