Ghrana pratyahara is difficult, as one gets accustomed to the smells around one. The smells arouse different responses in one. Take the fragrance of incense, you walk in and after a while you do not notice the smell anymore. This keeps happening, with the different smells. One smells them and then they are ignored. Continue reading
Abhinivesha means clinging to life, deep sense of anxiety, fear of death. It is from Patanjali’s Yoga Sutra, Sutra II.3.
What are we clinging to if we are no longer battling for basic survival? We are governed by five afflictions. They are ignorance, ego, desire, aversion, and fear of death. What is the death we fear? Continue reading