Yoga Sutras
What is the mind, and can it be quieted?
Patanjali's 196 aphorisms map a technical path from ethical living through breath and concentration to unbroken awareness.
Stilling the fluctuations of the mind.
What this tradition is asking
Every wisdom tradition begins with a question. For Yoga Sutras, that question is not primarily academic — it is existential. It is asked because how you answer it changes how you live.
What is the mind, and can it be quieted? — the tradition returns to this question in text after text, life after life, generation after generation.
Core ideas
These are not slogans. Each has been debated, commented on, lived, and revised across centuries. Consider them entry points, not conclusions.
- ◆The eight limbs
- ◆Citta vritti nirodha
- ◆Kaivalya — pure awareness
A note on reading these texts
Ohananda does its best to distinguish direct translation from interpretation. Where possible, we point back to the original source, chapter or verse. Where a passage is a modern paraphrase, we say so. The tradition itself deserves to be met on its own terms.