Page Table Of Contents

1. What Are Sutra Studies?
2. Study Articles/Prompts
3. Weekly Check-Ins
4. Podcast Reflections
5. Get Points For Your Sutra Studies Reflections By Completing The Work Course

What Are Sutra Studies?

A 77 Weeks (Or How Fast/Slow You Want To Go Through It) Series

Click Here For An Overview On Getting Started With The Series

Click Here For Details On Our Study Foundation

Click Here For The Sutra Studies Library/Reference Guide (And Read All 196 Sutras)

Study Articles/Prompts

• Sutra Studies Week 1: Letting Go And Starting Anew
• Sutra Studies Week 2: Your Practice Is Your Path (Sutra 1)
• Sutra Studies Week 3: On Mind Mastery | Choose To “Love More Worry Less” (Sutra 2)
• Sutra Studies Week 4: Looking Into The Mirror Of Your Projected Mind (Sutra 3)
• Sutra Studies Week 5: Discovering Your True Self Identity (Sutra 4)
• Sutra Studies Week 6: Let Your Thoughts Be Your Guidepost (Sutra 5)
• Sutra Studies Week 7: The 5 Types Of Mental Distortions According To Patanjali (Sutras 6-11)
• Sutra Studies Week 8: Gaining Control Of The Mind Through Practice And Non-Attachment (Sutra 12)
• Sutra Studies Week 9: Practicing At All Times (Sutra 13)
• Sutra Studies Week 10: Practicing Continuously And With Commitment For As Long As It Takes (Sutra 14)
• Sutra Studies Week 11: Freedom From [Meaning Non-Attachment], Not Denouncement of, Desire Brings Peace (Sutra 15)
• Sutra Studies Week 12: How Earthly Desires [Pleasures] Have No Comparison To Connection With One’s Highest Expression (Sutra 16)
• Sutra Studies Week 13: Contraindications For Samadhi | A Lesson For Healers, Teachers, And Those Who Are In Service To Their Spirit, A Cause, Or To The Benefit Of Others (Sutra 17)
• Sutra Studies Week 14: What Does It Mean To “Be In The World But Not Of It” (Sutra 18)
• Sutra Studies Week 15: On Spiritual Rebirth (Sutra 19)
• Sutra Studies Week 16: The Path To/of Deep Contemplation (Sutra 20)
• Sutra Studies Week 17: Speeds Of Travel Towards Samadhi (Sutras 21-23)
• Sutra Studies Week 18: The Truth That Your Pure Self Cannot Be Corrupted (Sutra 24)
• Sutra Studies Week 19: Your Infinite Potential To Know (Sutra 25)
• Sutra Studies Week 20: The Timeless, Limitless, Guru (Sutra 26)
• Sutra Studies Week 21: The OM (AUM) Sound And Symbol In Yoga (Sutra 27)
• Sutra Studies Week 22: Developing Personal Connection With OM/AUM (Sutra 28)
• Sutra Studies Week 23: Moving From A Japa A Day to “Ajapa Japa” In Your Mantra Repetition Practice (Sutra 29)
• Sutra Studies Week 24: The 9 Main Distractions That Can Turn Into Obstacles To Samadhi On Your Eightfold/Eight-Limbed Path [And How To Avoid/Overcome Them] (Sutra 30)
• Sutra Studies Week 25: The Trauma And Suffering Caused By Separation From The Source And The True Self (Sutras 31-32)
• Sutra Studies Week 26: The Way You Look At Others Should Not Disturb Your Inner Peace (Sutra 33)
• Sutra Studies Week 27: The Breath-Mind Connection (Sutra 34)
• Sutra Studies Week 28: Moving To Subtler Levels Of Awareness In Your Practice | Using Concentration On Your Senses To Gain Inner Peace (Sutra 35)
• Sutra Studies Week 29: Focusing On The Blissful Light Within (Sutra 36)
• Sutra Studies Week 30: Drawing Inspiration And Strength From Attained And Liberated Spirits And Minds (Sutra 37)
• Sutra Studies Week 31: Using Sleep [And Dreams] For Steadiness Of Mind And To Prepare For Deeper Meditation (Sutra 38)
• Sutra Studies Week 32: Doing What Works Best For You (Sutra 39)
• Sutra Studies Week 33: Mastery Of Concentration (Sutra 40)
• Sutra Studies Week 34: When Nothing Else Matters Or Exists Except The Object Of Your Focus (Sutra 41)
• Sutra Studies Week 35: The First Type of Samprajnata Samadhi | Savitarka (Sutra 42)
• Sutra Studies Week 36: The Second Type/Level of Samprajnata Samadhi | Nirvitarka (Sutra 43)
• Sutra Studies Week 37: Samadhi On Subtle Objects And Transcending The Personal “I” | Samadhi Levels 3-5 – Moving From Samprajnata To Asamprajnata Samadhi & Beyond (Sutras 44-51)
• Sutra Studies Week 38: Practice Starts With Accepting Pain & Discipline And Focusing On Higher Knowing And Being (Sutras 2.1-2.2)
• Sutra Studies Week 39: The Five [Most Destructive] Obstacles To An Effective Sadhana Practice [Those That Eliminate Success On The Eight-Limbed/Eightfold Path] (Sutras 2.3-2.9)
• Sutra Studies Week 40: The Many Challenges Of Ego-Overidentification And How Meditation “Works Them Out” (Sutras 2.10-2.11)
• Sutra Studies Week 41: The Breeding Ground For All Karma Is Rooted In The Five Obstacles Of ‘Ignorance, Egoism, Attachment, Hatred, And Clinging To Bodily Life’ (Sutra 2.12)
• Sutra Studies Week 42: With Ignorance, Future Suffering Is Inevitable | With Knowledge That Leads To Union, Future Suffering Is Avoidable (Sutras 2.13-2.17)
• Sutra Studies Week 43: Recognizing And Balancing/Controlling One’s Tendencies [Gunas] In Maya (Sutras 2.18-2.19)
• Sutra Studies Week 44: The Seer Is Pure Consciousness Perceiving (Sutra 2.20)
• Sutra Studies Week 45: What Binds You Holds The Key That Sets You Free (Sutra 2.21)
• Sutra Studies Week 46: The One And Only Reality (Sutra 2.22)
• Sutra Studies Week 47: The Ultimate Power Of Creation/Manifestation (Sutra 2.23)
• Sutra Studies Week 48: Ignorance Was The Catalyst For Conscious Form (Sutra 2.24)
• Sutra Studies Week 49: Pure Consciousness Is Not Changed, Defined, Nor Bound By Ignorance, Form, Nor Experience (Sutras 2.25)
• Sutra Studies Week 50: Sustaining A Mind-Field That Grows No Seeds Of Ignorance (2.26)
• Sutra Studies Week 51: Self-Realization/Self-Awareness Wipes Out All Ignorance, Making Room For The Full Development Of Wisdom (Sutra 2.27)
• Sutra Studies Week 52: The Eight Purification Practices To Self-Realization (Sutras 2.28-2.29)
• Sutra Studies Week 53: No Drama Just Yama | Stepping On The Path Of True Meritocracy With Fair And Equal Universal Standards (Sutra 2.30)
• Sutra Studies Week 54: These Vows Are Universal | No One Gets An Exception, An Excuse, Nor A Worldly Pass (Sutra 2.31)
• Sutra Studies Week 55: Niyama | Letting Go Of The Ego (Sutra 2.32)
• Sutra Studies Week 56: Mental Alchemy | The Practice Of Transforming Disturbing/Negative Thoughts | With Worksheet #1 (Sutras 2.33-2.34)
• Sutra Studies Week 57: What Yamas And Niyamas Give For The “Sacrifice” Of Lower Attachments (Sutras 2.35-2.45)
• Sutra Studies Week 58: Asana, On The Eightfold Path, Is Balanced, Undisturbed, Posture That Creates Fitness On More Than One Level And For [Ultimately] A Non-Physical Spiritual Purpose (Sutras 2.46-2.48)
• Sutra Studies Week 59: Lifting The Veil Over The Inner Light Through Pranayama Practice (Sutras 2.49-2.53)
• Sutra Studies Week 60: Mastery Over The Effects Of Objects On The Senses And The Mind (Sutras 2.54-2.55)
• Sutra Studies Week 61: Developing Your Mind For True Seeing And Getting To The Point Of Pure Being (Sutras 3.1-3.15)
• Sutra Studies Week 62: Concentration And Focused Absorption Leads To Inner Accomplishment, Power, And Skill | This Is Not Magic; It Is Karma/Cause And Effect (Sutras 3.16-3.35)
• Sutra Studies Week 63: Heightened Perception And Knowing Of The Self And “Non-Self” (Sutras 3.36-3.37)
• Sutra Studies Week 64: Not Getting Stuck Due To Worldly Pursuits, Or Seduced By “Supernatural” And Super-Physical Accomplishments (Sutra 3.38)
• Sutra Studies Week 65: Pure Being: Eternally Untouched And Unchanged By Temporary Form And Fleeting Experience | No More, No Less (3.39-3.50)
• Sutra Studies Week 66: If You Have Just One Desire, Let It Be A Desire For Liberation Above All Else | Everything Else Will Keep You Trapped (Sutras 3.51-3.52)
• Sutra Studies Week 67: Discernment Is A Valuable Guru (Sutras 3.53-3.54)
• Sutra Studies Week 68: The Skill Of Discernment Develops Liberating Awareness And Perception (Sutra 3.55)
• Sutra Studies Week 69: The Tranquil Mind Reflects The Pure Self (Sutra 3.56)
• Sutra Studies Week 70: Conditioning Your Body-Mind For Spiritual Fitness (Sutra 4.1)
• Sutra Studies Week 71: What Gets In The Way Of Your Evolution And Pure Expression (Sutras 4.2-4.6)
• Sutra Studies Week 72: Connection Liberates, Attraction/Attachment Binds (Sutras 4.7-4.8)
• Sutra Studies Week 73: On Manifestation And Clearing Lower Attachments To Reveal The True Light Of The “Supreme” Self (Sutras 4.9-4.14)
• Sutra Studies Week 74: Things Are As They Are, But Perspective Is Relative; The Mind Needs To Be Colored By A Thing And Be Clear Itself To Clearly See A Thing, But Only From Its Perspective (Sutras 4.15-4.17)
• Sutra Studies Week 75: This Truth Is Self-Evident | Test It And There Will Be Proof; No Belief Is Necessary (Sutras 4.18-4.26)
• Sutra Studies Week 76: The Path Is Cleared When “You” Get Out Of The Way (Sutras 4.27-4.33)
• Sutra Studies Week 77: Consciousness Settles Into Its Own Nature (Sutra 4.34) | Final Sutra/End Of The Sutra Studies Series

Weekly Check-Ins

• Sutra Studies Week 1: Check-In | You Must Let Go In Order To Grow
• Sutra Studies Week 2: Check-In | Being Grateful For your Body And the Life That It Sustains
• Sutra Studies Week 3: Check-in | Why Practice Yoga?
• Sutra Studies Week 4: Check-in | Ask Yourself This Question Every Day
• Sutra Studies Week 5: Check-in | Your Connection To All Of Creation
• Sutra Studies Week 6: Check-In | The Greatest Christmas Gift You Can Give To Yourself And Others
• Sutra Studies Week 7: Check-In | Letting Go Of Mental Distortions And Suffering Through Mindfulness
• Sutra Studies Week 8: Check-In | Remain A Neutral Observer Of Yourself And Your Life
• Sutra Studies Week 9: Check-In | Make Peace Your Natural State
• Sutra Studies Week 10: Check-In | The Prerequisites For Success In Yoga
• Sutra Studies Week 11: Check-In | How Attachment To Desires Creates Suffering And Wasted Energy
• Sutra Studies Week 12: Check-in | Why You Lose Interest In Lower Desires When You Connect To The Truth Of Who You Really Are
• Sutra Studies Week 13: Check-In | Why Yoga Is One Of The Highest Forms Of Service (When All Limbs Are Practiced)
• Sutra Studies Week 14: Check-In | Some Points On Self-Reflection And Self-Expression (Moving From Distinguished To Undistinguished Samadhi In Yoga)
• Sutra Studies Week 15: Check-in | On Reincarnation And Rebirth
• Sutra Studies Week 16: Check-in | Pathways To Asamprajnata Samadhi (With Infographic)
• Sutra Studies Week 17: Check-in | The Result Of Commited Practice
• Sutra Studies Week 18: Check-In | The True Self Of Samadhi (And Beyond)
• Sutra Studies Week 19: Check-In | The Intelligence And Magnificence Of Existence
• Sutra Studies Week 20: Check-In | Becoming Attuned To The Knowledge, Teacher, And Astute Observer Within
• Sutra Studies Week 21: Check-In | As Above, So Below (Sutra 27)
• Sutra Studies Week 22: Check-in | What Goes Into An Effective Japa/Mantra Repetition Practice?
• Sutra Studies Week 23: Check-In | Honoring Your Sankalpa/Commitment To Your Japa Practice
• Sutra Studies Week 24: Check-In | What Focus Means For Your Positive Movement Forward
• Sutra Studies Week 25: Check-In | Finding And Creating Inner Peace (Even Through Pain)
• Sutra Studies Week 26: Check-In | Keeping Things In Perspective In Your Yoga Practice
• Sutra Studies Week 27: Check-In | Yogic Breathing And Pranayama Foundations
• Sutra Studies Week 28: Check-In | The Importance Of Self-Awareness For Sensory Control
• Sutra Studies Week 29: Check-In | Keeping Your Inner Light Bright No Matter What
• Sutra Studies Week 30: Check-In | Connection Through Shared Oneness
• Sutra Studies Week 31: Check-in | Gaining Insight From Dreams [With Guided Yoga Nidra Exercise]
• Sutra Studies Week 32: Check-In | Finding Your Personal Yoga Style And Route Back To Your Self
• Sutra Studies Week 33: Check-In | What Does It Means To Practice Concentration?
• Sutra Studies Week 34: Check-In | Being One With The Object Of Your Attention
• Sutra Studies Week 35: Check-In | Discernment, And Knowing
• Sutra Studies Week 36: Check-In | Total Surrender To Your True Self
• Sutra Studies Week 37: Check-In | What Are Attachments & Compulsions And What Does Liberation Mean
• Sutra Studies Week 38: Check-In | Your Nature Beyond Fear – Evolving With Life
• Sutra Studies Week 39: Check-In | Creating Destruction And Suffering In The Pursuit Of Endless Empty Desires And Egoic Distortions Is One Of The Ultimate Manifestations Of Human Ignorance
• Sutra Studies Week 40: Check-In | Removing The Shackles And Veil Of Maya/Illusion
• Sutra Studies Week 41: Check-In | Non-Attachment (Vairagya) Has To Be Complete To Gain True Self-Mastery And Liberation In This Lifetime
• Sutra Studies Week 42: Check-In | Only Direct Experience Will Get You To Your Goal
• Sutra Studies Week 43: Check-In | What It Truly Means To Control/Transcend The Gunas
• Sutra Studies Week 44: Check-In | Tuning Into The “All That Is”
• Sutra Studies Week 45: Check-In | Life Is Here For The All-Seeing/All-Being
• Sutra Studies Week 46: Check-In | Knowing The Self | Being & Experience
• Sutra Studies Week 47: Check-In | The Power Of Duality Reflected By The Power Of The Absolute
• Sutra Studies Week 48: Check-In | Transcending The Illusion Of Darkness And Light
• Sutra Studies Week 49: Check-In | Seeing Love/Pure Consciousness In All Things And Connecting With Others Beyond Personhood
• Sutra Studies Week 50: Check-In | The Ignorance Of Unconscious Bias (For Example Racial Bias) Is Often Tied To A Strong Attachments To Ego-Identity For Most
• Sutra Studies Week 51: Check-In | The Distinction Between Pain And Suffering (Ignorance And Knowledge/Awareness)
• Sutra Studies Week 52: Check-In | Spiritual Practice Is Attuning With Reality And Acknowledging/Understanding The Nature Of Dense reality/Maya
• Sutra Studies Week 53: Check-In | It’s Simple And Simultaneously Complex, But Don’t Make It Complicated Or Harder Than It Needs To Be
• Sutra Studies Week 54: Check-In | Abstinence Is The First Step To Freedom And It Deepens Your Awareness On Multiple Levels, Preparing You For Higher Practice
• Sutra Studies Week 55: Check-In | Niyama Practice And The Greater Reality
• Sutra Studies Week 56: Check-In | Beyond The Ego-Perspective | Worksheet 2 – Developing Higher Cognitive Awareness And Mental Flexibility
• Sutra Studies Week 57: Check-In | Once The “Strongest” Illusion Is Cleared The Foundation For Clearing All Other Illusions Flows Naturally From There
• Sutra Studies Week 58: Check-In | Not Being Disturbed By Dualities
• Sutra Studies Week 59: Check-In | Breaking Your Illusions Sets You Free From Maya
• Sutra Studies Week 60: Check-In | Hormones, Desires, And Fears, Oh My! | Controlling Your Animal Nature To Be Seduced And/Or Distracted By “Pleasurable” To “Scary” Things
• Sutra Studies Week 61: Check-In | The Self/Truth Is “Already There” – Take A Look Around
• Sutra Studies Week 62: Check-In | Practice So You Know, Or You Will Not Clearly See The Full Picture
• Sutra Studies Week 63: Check-In | Wait…There’s More…Super-Human Perceptions Are Not The Ultimate Goal
• Sutra Studies Week 64: Check-In | If You Truly Want Liberation, You Must Release Your Attachment To All That Keeps You Trapped
• Sutra Studies Week 65: Check-In | Being Your Own Sanctuary | Remaining Free, Self-Sufficient, And In Peace By Staying Connected To Your Self And The Power Of All That Is Flowing Through You
• Sutra Studies Week 66: Check-In | More Attachments, More Problems | Stay Pure And Focused On What Is True And Remain Free
• Sutra Studies Week 67: Check-In | That Which Dispels Darkness (Your Guru) Reveals The Inner Light That Leads You Home To The Truth
• Sutra Studies Week 68: Check-In | The State Of The World Only Reflects The State Of The Hearts And Minds Of The Collective
• Sutra Studies Week 69: Check-In | The “Work” To Reduce Suffering
• Sutra Studies Week 70: Check-In | Going Beyond Your Spiritual Conditioning Once The Right Conditions Have Been Met/Fitness Has Been Attained
• Sutra Studies Week 71: Check-In | Look Beyond Appearance To What Is
• Sutra Studies Week 72: Check-In | Dissolving Into Nothingness And Becoming A Clear Vessel For The Absolute To Be Expressed
• Sutra Studies Week 73: Check-In | Being Completely Fulfilled With What Is While Expanding Freely, Without Attachment, Into More
• Sutra Studies Week 74: Check-In | Ego-Body-Minds Colored With/By Ignorance And Attachment Are Only Purified Through Direct Contact With Absolute Knowledge Of/Awareness From The Self
• Sutra Studies Week 75: Check-In | Your Gravitation Toward Absoluteness Leads To Liberation
• Sutra Studies Week 76: Check-In | Pure, Uninterrupted Flow Of Consciousness/Awareness Frees You From The Bonds Of Karma And False Overidentification With Form
• Sutra Studies Week 77: Check-In | Giving Everything Back To The Source, Including Your Body-Mind-Spirit, And Your Karma

Podcast Reflections

• Podcast Ep. 2 [Sutra Studies Week 1: Reflection On Letting Go And Starting Anew)]
• Podcast Ep. 3 [Sutra Studies Week 2: Reflections On The Practice As The Path (Sutra 1)]
• Podcast Ep. 4 [Sutra Studies Week 3: Reflection on Mind Mastery | Choose To “Love More Worry Less” (Sutra 2)]
• Podcast Ep. 5 [Sutra Studies Week 4: Reflections On Looking Into The Mirror of Our Projected Mind (Sutra 3)]
• Podcast Ep. 6 [Sutra Studies Week 5: Reflections On Discovering Our True Self Identity (Sutra 4)]
• Podcast Ep. 7 [Sutra Studies Week 6: Reflections On Letting Your Thoughts Be Your Guidepost (Sutra 5)]
• Podcast Ep. 8 [Sutra Studies Week 7: Reflections On The Five Types Of Mental Distortions According To Patanjali (Sutras 6-11)]
• Podcast Ep. 9 [Sutra Studies Week 8: Reflections on Gaining Control Of Your Mind Through Practice And Non-Attachment (Sutra 12)]
• Podcast Ep. 10 [Sutra Studies Week 9: Reflections On Practicing At All Times (Sutra 13)]
• Podcast Ep. 11 [Sutra Studies Week 10: Reflections on Practicing Continuously And With Commitment For As Long As It Takes (Sutra 14)]
• Podcast Ep. 12 [Sutra Studies Week 11: Reflections On Freedom From [Meaning Non-Attachment], Not Denouncement of, Desire Bringing Peace (Sutra 15)]
• Podcast Ep. 13 [Sutra Studies Week 12: Reflections on How Earthly Desires Have No Comparison To Connection With One’s Highest Expression (Sutra 16)]
• Podcast Ep. 14 [Sutra Studies Week 13: Reflections On The Contraindications For Samadhi (Sutra 17)]
• Podcast Ep. 15 [Sutra Studies Week 14: Reflections On What It Means To “Be In The World But Not Of It” (Sutra 18)]
• Podcast Ep. 16 [Sutra Studies Week 15: Reflections On Spiritual Rebirth (Sutra 19)]
• Podcast Ep. 17 [Sutra Studies Week 16: Reflections On The Path To/Of Deep Contemplation (Sutra 20)]
• Podcast Ep. 18 [Sutra Studies Week 17: Reflections On Speeds Of Travel Towards Samadhi (Sutras 21-23)]
• Podcast Ep. 19 [Sutra Studies Week 18: Reflections-The Truth That Your Pure Self Cannot Be Corrupted (Sutras 24)]
• Podcast Ep. 20 [Sutra Studies Week 19: Reflections On Your Infinite Potential To Know (Sutra 25)]
• Podcast Ep. 21 [Sutra Studies Week 20: Reflections On The Timeless, Limitless, Guru (Sutra 26)]
• Podcast Ep. 22 [Sutra Studies Week 21: Reflections On The OM/AUM Sound And Symbol In Yoga (Sutra 27)]
• Podcast Ep. 23 [Sutra Studies Week 22: Reflections On Developing Personal Connection With OM/AUM [Through Japa Practice] (Sutra 28)]
• Podcast Ep. 24 [Sutra Studies Week 23: Reflections On Moving From A Japa A Day to “Ajapa Japa” In Your Mantra Repetition Practice (Sutra 29)]
• Podcast Ep. 25 [Sutra Studies Week 24: Reflections On The 9 Main Distractions That Can Turn Into Obstacles To Samadhi On Your Eightfold/Eight-Limbed Path (Sutra 30) | With Guided Audio Exercise/Meditation]
• Podcast Ep. 26 [Sutra Studies Week 25: Reflections On Meditation As A Means To Create Freedom From The Trauma And Suffering Caused By Separation From The Source And The True Self (Sutras 31-32)]
• Podcast Ep. 27 [Sutra Studies Week 26: Reflection On The Fact That The Way You Look At Others Should Not Disturb Your Inner Peace (Sutra 33)]
• Podcast Ep. 28 [Sutra Studies Week 27: Reflections On The Breath-Mind (And Everything) Connection (Sutra 34)]
• Podcast Ep. 29 [Sutra Studies Week 28: Reflections On Moving To Subtler Levels Of Awareness In Your Practice | Using Concentration On Your Senses To Gain Inner Peace (Sutra 35)]
• Podcast Ep. 30 [Sutra Studies Week 29: Reflections On Focusing On The Blissful Light Within (Sutra 36)]
• Podcast Ep. 31 [Sutra Studies Week 30: Reflections On Drawing Inspiration And Strength From Attained And Liberated Spirits And Minds (Sutra 37)]
• Podcast Ep. 32 [Sutra Studies Week 31: Reflections On Using Sleep [And Dreams] For Steadiness Of Mind And To Prepare For Deeper Meditation (Sutra 38)]
• Podcast Ep. 33 [Sutra Studies Week 32: Reflections On Doing What Works Best For You (Sutra 39)]
• Podcast Ep. 34 [Sutra Studies Week 33: Reflections On Mastery Of Concentration (Sutra 40)]
• Podcast Ep. 35 [Sutra Studies Week 34: Reflections On When Nothing Else Matters Or Exists Except The Object Of Your Focus (Sutra 41)]
• Podcast Ep. 36 [Sutra Studies Week 35: Reflections On The First Type of Samprajnata Samadhi | Savitarka (Sutra 42)]
• Podcast Ep. 37 [Sutra Studies Week 36: Reflections On The Second Type/Level of Samprajnata Samadhi | Nirvitarka (Sutra 43)]
• Podcast Ep. 38 [Sutra Studies Week 37: Reflections On Samadhi On Subtle Objects And Transcending The Personal “I” | Samadhi Levels 3-5 – Moving From Samprajnata To Asamprajnata Samadhi & Beyond (Sutras 44-51)]
• Podcast Ep. 39 [Sutra Studies Week 38: Reflections On The Fact That Practice Starts With Accepting Pain & Discipline And Focusing On Higher Knowing And Being (Sutras 2.1-2.2)]
• Podcast Ep. 40 [Sutra Studies Week 39: Reflections On The Five Obstacles To An Effective Sadhana Practice (Sutras 2.3-2.9) | With Guided Meditation]
• Podcast Ep. 41 [Sutra Studies Week 40: Reflections On The Many Challenges Of Ego-Overidentification And How Meditation “Works Them Out” (Sutras 2.10-2.11)]
• Podcast Ep. 42 [Sutra Studies Week 41: Reflections On The Breeding Ground For All Karma Is Rooted In The Five Obstacles Of ‘Ignorance, Egoism, Attachment, Hatred, And Clinging To Bodily Life’ (Sutra 2.12)]
• Podcast Ep. 43 [Sutra Studies Week 42: Reflections On The Fact That With Ignorance, Future Suffering Is Inevitable | With Knowledge That Leads To Union, Future Suffering Is Avoidable (Sutras 2.13-2.17)]
• Podcast Ep. 45 [Sutra Studies Week 44: Reflections On The Fact That The Seer Is Pure Consciousness Perceiving (Sutra 2.20) | With Video]
• Podcast Ep. 46 [Sutra Studies Week 45: Reflections On The Fact That What Binds You Sets You Free (Sutra 2.21) | Preview With Video]
• Podcast Ep. 47 [Sutra Studies Week 46: Reflections On The One And Only Reality (Sutra 2.22)]
• Podcast Ep. 48 [Sutra Studies Week 47: Reflections On The Ultimate Power Of Creation/Manifestation (Sutra 2.23)]
• Podcast Ep. 49 [Sutra Studies Week 48: Reflections On Ignorance Being The Catalyst For Conscious Form (Sutra 2.24)]
• Podcast Ep. 50 [Sutra Studies Week 49: Reflections On The Fact That Pure Consciousness Is Not Changed, Defined, Nor Bound By Ignorance, Form, Nor Experience (Sutras 2.25)]
• Podcast Ep. 51 [Sutra Studies Week 50: Reflections On Sustaining A Mind-Field That Grows No Seeds Of Ignorance (2.26) | Excerpt]
• Podcast Ep. 52 [Sutra Studies Week 51: Reflections On Self-Realization/Self-Awareness Wiping Out All Ignorance, Making Room For The Full Development Of Wisdom (Sutra 2.27)]
• Podcast Ep. 53 [Sutra Studies Week 52: Reflections On The Eight Purification Practices To Self-Realization (Sutras 2.28-2.29) | Excerpt]
• Podcast Ep. 54 [Sutra Studies Week 53: Reflections On No Drama Just Yama | Stepping On The Path Of True Meritocracy With Fair And Equal Universal Standards (Sutra 2.30) | Excerpt]
• Podcast Ep. 55 [Sutra Studies Week 54: Reflections On The Fact That These Vows Are Universal | No One Gets An Exception, An Excuse, Or A Worldly Pass (Sutra 2.31)]
• Podcast Ep. 56 [Sutra Studies Week 55: Reflections On Niyama | Letting Go Of The Ego (Sutra 2.32) | Excerpt]
• Podcast Ep. 57 [Sutra Studies Week 56: Reflections On Mental Alchemy | The Practice Of Transforming Disturbing/Negative Thoughts (Sutras 2.33-2.34) | Excerpt]
• Podcast Ep. 58 [Sutra Studies Week 57: Reflections On What Yamas And Niyamas Give For The “Sacrifice” Of Lower Attachments (Sutras 2.35-2.45) | Excerpt]
• Podcast Ep. 59 [Sutra Studies Week 58: Reflections On The Fact That Asana, On The Eightfold Path, Is Balanced, Undisturbed, Posture That Creates Fitness On More Than One Level And For [Ultimately] A Non-Physical Spiritual Purpose (Sutras 2.46-2.48) | Excerpt]
• Podcast Ep. 60 [Sutra Studies Week 59: Reflections On Lifting The Veil Over The Inner Light Through Pranayama Practice (Sutras 2.49-2.53) | Excerpt]
• Podcast Ep. 61 [Sutra Studies Week 60: Reflections On Mastery Over The Effects Of Objects On The Senses And The Mind (Sutras 2.54-2.55) | Excerpt]
• Podcast Ep. 62 [Sutra Studies Week 61: Reflections On Developing Your Mind For True Seeing And Getting To The Point Of Pure Being (Sutras 3.1-3.15) | Excerpt]
• Podcast Ep. 63 [Sutra Studies Week 62: Reflections On The Fact That Concentration And Focused Absorption Leads To Inner Accomplishment, Power, And Skill | This Is Not Magic; It Is Karma/Cause And Effect (Sutras 3.16-3.35)]
• Podcast Ep. 64 [Sutra Studies Week 63: Reflections On Heightened Perception And Knowing Of The Self And “Non-Self” (Sutras 3.36-3.37) | Excerpt]
• Podcast Ep. 65 [Sutra Studies Week 64: Reflections On Not Getting Stuck Due To Worldly Pursuits, Or Seduced By “Supernatural” And Super-Physical Accomplishments (Sutra 3.38) | Excerpt]
• Podcast Ep. 66 [Sutra Studies Week 65: Reflections On Pure Being: Eternally Untouched And Unchanged By Temporary Form And Fleeting Experience | No More, No Less (3.39-3.50)]
• Podcast Ep. 67 [Sutra Studies Week 66: Reflections On If You Have Just One Desire, Let It Be A Desire For Liberation Above All Else | Everything Else Will Keep You Trapped (Sutras 3.51-3.52) | Excerpt]
• Podcast Ep. 68 [Sutra Studies Week 67: Reflections On The Fact That Discernment Is A Valuable Guru (Sutras 3.53-3.54) | Excerpt]
• Podcast Ep. 69 [Sutra Studies Week 68: Reflections On The Fact That The Skill Of Discernment Develops Liberating Awareness And Perception (Sutra 3.55)]
• Podcast Ep. 70 [Sutra Studies Week 69: Reflections On The Tranquil Mind Reflecting The Pure Self (Sutra 3.56) | Excerpt]
• Podcast Ep. 71 [Sutra Studies Week 70: Reflections On Conditioning Your Body-Mind For Spiritual Fitness (Sutra 4.1) | Excerpt]
• Podcast Ep. 72 [Sutra Studies Week 71: Reflections On What Gets In The Way Of Your Evolution And Pure Expression (Sutras 4.2-4.6)]
• Podcast Ep. 73 [Sutra Studies Week 72: Reflection On The Fact That Connection Liberates, Attraction/Attachment Binds (Sutras 4.7-4.8)]
• Podcast Ep. 74 [Sutra Studies Week 73: Reflections On Manifestation And Clearing Lower Attachments To Reveal The True Light Of The “Supreme” Self (Sutras 4.9-4.14)]
• Podcast Ep. 75 [Sutra Studies Week 74: Reflections On The Fact That Things Are As They Are, But Perspective Is Relative; The Mind Needs To Be Colored By A Thing And Be Clear Itself To Clearly See A Thing, But Only From Its Perspective (Sutras 4.15-4.17) | Excerpt]
• Podcast Ep. 76 [Sutra Studies Week 75: Reflections On The Fact That This Truth Is Self-Evident | Test It And There Will Be Proof; No Belief Is Necessary (Sutras 4.18-4.26) | Excerpt]
• Podcast Ep. 77 [Sutra Studies Week 76: Reflections On The Fact That The Path Is Cleared When “You” Get Out Of The Way (Sutras 4.27-4.33)]
• Podcast Ep. 78 [Sutra Studies Week 77: Reflections On Consciousness Settling Into Its Own Nature (Sutra 4.34) | Final Sutra/End Of The Sutra Studies Series | Excerpt]

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