Kindred and modern voices
Yoga Sūtras
The mechanics of attention, stated as a technical manual, from restlessness to absorption.
c. 200 BCE–400 CE · Patañjali
- When
- c. 200 BCE–400 CE
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- Patañjali
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- Kindred and modern voices
Vedānta explains what you are; this explains why a scattered mind cannot see it.
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Commentaries worth trusting
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- Rāja Yoga — Swami Vivekananda The training of attention, explained by a monk who insisted on evidence over belief.
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