Patanjali's Yoga Sutras

What you'll learn

• Understanding Patanjali's Yoga Sutras via similarities to Physical Sciences
• Physics viewpoint understanding of Patanjali's Yoga Sutras
• Discussion of Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar’s Video Discourse of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras
  

Requirements

• The only pre-requisite is for the Student to be Sincere in learning and understanding the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.
  

Description

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali is the foundational text of the Eight Fold Path of Yoga. Though Yoga was being practiced for 100s of years before Patanjali, Maharishi Patanjali was the first to compile them in written form.

The word Yoga means Union. Union of what? Union of the Mind & Body to transcend from our mundane level of consciousness to elevated states. The word Sutra means a short, condensed phrase. These phrases are pointers on how to achieve the Union!

Except, the sutras need to be decoded! And the decoding needs to be done by a Master, a Guru; one who has experientially walked the path shown by Maharishi Patanjali and could therefore guide the student past the obstacles.

In this series, we take a Deep Dive into the Yoga Sutras. The source of the primary interpretation of the Sutras is Video Discourses by Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar on his commentary on the Yoga Sutras. The discourses by Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar are to be watched by the student on their own time. The discourse is available on the Art of Living App. The student is encouraged to download the App from the App Store or Google Play store in order to view the respective Video Discourses.

In this series, we present recorded sessions of the discussions after each chapter of the above mentioned video discourse. The discussions re-interpret the sutras by drawing parallels with Physics & Physical Sciences. This re-interpretation helps to make the sutras real by drawing parallels with Physical Sciences for which we all have an intuitive feel.

This re-interpretation makes the sutras Real.

Who this course is for

• This course is for the Sincere Student who is willing to take a deep dive into Patanjali's Yoga Sutras.

Instructor

Sandeep Karode
PhD ChE IITB

Dr. Sandeep Karode is by training a PhD Chemical Engineer from IIT Bombay; By passion a volunteer Meditation Instructor with the Art of Living Foundation.

Has been working to solve real-world problems by bringing to bear the full force of Science. He is the THEY they speak about when they say, "They put technology on commercial airplanes to prevent the fuel tank from blowing up" or "They invented technology to remove greenhouse gases like CO2 from US Landfill emissions".