Ravi S. Iyer: Spiritual

The links of patanjaliyogasutra.in site given below have nice Sanskrit and Hindi explanation of related 3 key verses from Patanjali Yogasutra. I think the English translations in the site could be better. Dharana: Verse 3.1, https://patanjaliyogasutra.in/vibhooti-pada-3-1/ [Sanskrit: देशबन्धश्चित्तस्य धारणा ] Dhyana: Verse 3.2, https://patanjaliyogasutra.in/vibhooti-pada-3-2/ [Sanskrit: तत्र प्रत्ययैकतानता ध्यानम् ] Samadhi: Verse 3.3, https://patanjaliyogasutra.in/vibhooti-pada-3-3/ [Sanskrit: ‌तदेवार्थमात्रनिर्भासं स्वरूपशून्यमिव समाधिः ] [Due to copyright, I am not sharing the Hindi and English text from the above site. The Sanskrit text surely must be out of copyright and so I have shared it.] This book seems to be out of copyright: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, by Charles Johnston, [1912], at sacred-texts.com, https://sacred-texts.com/hin/ysp/ysp06.htm . Its English translations for the verses are: Dharana: Verse 3.1, [Sanskrit: देशबन्धश्चित्तस्य धारणा ] English: The binding o...

Last updated on 8 Mar 2025 This post is in the context of my recent post on another blog: Restarted my commercial work career from payment received point of view, after a gap of 22 years,  https://raviswdev.blogspot.com/2025/03/restarted-my-commercial-work-career.html . A relevant extract from that post is given below: I recently received a commercial work payment from a friend for whom I have been doing a short-term software development assignment related to LinkedIn OAuth 2.0 with OpenID Connect login for a React frontend and AWS Java lambda backend app. I started that work as a two-week part-time free trial followed by a paid period. My last work related payment received was in early Sep. 2002. So my friend's payment has restarted my commercial work career from payment received point of view, after a gap of 22 years and around 6 months! --- end extract from my post on another blog --- This post has been triggered by some comments/questions I received on this matter. I thou...