Sutra 5 is deceptively simple: There are five vrittis and they generate misery and non-misery. Let’s get to enumerating them then.
Aha. Not so fast. Do you really know what a vritti is? Swami Satyananda reminds you it’s going to keep coming up.
B.K.S. Iyengar and Maharshi Ved Vyasa offer different versions of whether misery and non-misery are oil and water. And why does B.K.S. Iyengar throw in something called cognizable and non cognizable now? Why? Isn’t it all complicated enough? Why do I need to know this? Because you think you know what pain is. Is sex pain? Or pleasure? Listen in.
And Osho tells you that Patanjali’s greatest insight is made evident through this sutra - something that western labs are still studying and trying to prove today as psycho somatic blah. Patanjali is telling you that the mind IS the body. They are not in fact separate. Do you get that connection? How deep it is?
You will after this.
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Sutra 1.5: Are you non-miserable yet?