Chapter 2 Wrap Up

So this 55th Sutra, this culmination of chapter 2, Tata Havamawa Chatin Dionam. One way this is sometimes translated is that then Tataha, Inrianam, of the inrianja, of the sense and action powers, Vashita means it's like, the ultimate, Vashita means like control or power. So then when there is this prats of Pratya Harin, the India become under the power of the highest. What does that mean? One thing I think this Sutra highlights It comes at the end of the Southerner.

When we practice, not just when we practice yamaniyama, Ozana, Pranayama Patelhara, then it's like our bodily vehicle, our sense and action powers, They can now be directed, be influenced by, be in tune with, Our highest deepest, subtests, awareness, or intelligence. They're no longer so susceptible to being pulled, hither, and thither by the comings and goings of external reality. Now one thing I think it's important to mention here is the difference between what Botana is describing here And what can happen when we have a breakthrough in practice or a peak experience? This is the tsar than a pardon. Sardener is that regular practice.

So remember, when potentially defined yoga practice back in chapter 1, He said it was the constant, steady, unbroken, wholehearted, committed, dedicated effort to foster steadiness. Then that practice can become well rooted. When potentially introduced the 8 limbs, he said it's by the regular prat of these limbs of yoga that one can bring one's awareness into a tumor with that deeper discernment. So Sardiner is a regular practice. When we do have a peak experience, for example, It can be very powerful.

It can alert us to a reality that is vaster, richer than perhaps we might previously have recognized or allowed ourselves to admit. But regularity is key because let's say we have a pre existing pattern, and it's been with us for decades It has a certain weight, has a certain inertia. So one amazing experience, or even a couple of amazing experiences, alone, they might not be able to shift that old pattern. Just yesterday, I watched the documentary about a Psilocybin trial at Imperial College in London. They were searching the use of Psilocybin extracted from certain Mexican mushrooms, and how they could be used as a, clinical intervention for people who've been suffering from a long term depression.

Once they run a trial and one group were administered psilocybin with therapists, administering the psilocybin journey or treatment And the other people were and they had 2 journeys, like, I think 3 months apart. And the other group were just given a common SSRI, one that is has a license because it's been proved to have some helpful effect for people suffering from long term depression. And one thing that they found in this study was that many of the people who received Psilocybin had a wonderfully positive and transformer experience, and they reported being able to manage their depression much better than in the past. But it was also noted that there was a kind of, the effects wore off after 3 months after 6 months. Nonetheless, many of the people who had this psilocybin experience reported that even though it wore off, and it they weren't free of depression completely, they were able to navigate it and deal with it more skillfully.

And one of the gentlemen who had a particularly positive and transformative experience. That experience opened him up to a new reality that then inspired him to keep doing what he could in his day to day life. To stay connected to that deeper knowing, and knowing which precluded his falling back into the pit of depression, and he was doing regular yoga meditation and therapy. And what he found was that had changed his life. So he had these 2 amazing psilocybin experiences, and that encouraged him to then on his own day to day level, do what he could to deepen and, let's say, reaffirm his attunement to that different way of being in life. And so with this 55th Sutra, the culmination of chapter 2, Tataha, then when we practice the limbs of yoga, Yamani Yama Astana, Pranayo Preetiara, regularly, There's the idea that we can rehabilitate. We can train our system to operate more skillfully, more in tune with our higher deeper settler intelligence, but this requires diligent daily practice.

The peak experiences, they can be very powerful, but let's say our pre existing habits and patterns. They've been around for a long, long time, so they can have a mighty momentum tremendous inertia. And 1, 2, 3, 4 wonderful experiences, they can have a transformative impact but to really bring about the lasting transformation, this is something we have to keep practicing day in, day out. But the lovely thing with yoga is that practice will it will call itself on. It will invite the next step.

It's a self validating process. When we make the effort to invite ourselves into deeper congruence, it is its own reward. And so step by step, we will bring ourselves more into tune with that deeper intuitive wisdom, that deeper soulfulness, you might say. Well, I would say I've that type of language resonates for me, so I would say something like that. But we come more in tune with our own unique wholeness, our own deeper truth, we might say. And that is a constant practice.

Sardan Apardo, Partder also means step. Every step we take is practice. You know, people say when we find ourselves in challenging times, we're very unlikely to react or respond according to how we've dreamt we might. We are very likely to react and respond how we have practiced reacting and responding. And so these wonderful experiences, these breakthrough moments in our practice, they are wonderful signposts, but the real work of yoga practice transcending It's lovely. It's exciting.

But relatively speaking, it's the easy part of practice. The real work is the integrating of that back into the root system so we can keep actually growing here in the grounded reality of life. And that's what yoga is all about. It's the Practical School of In Philosophy.