#pratyaksa

Yesterday, while studying with the amazing Yoga Sutras 201 course with @yogicstudies , my mind was curious about the explanation of Pratyaksa (one of the ways to experience Correct Knowledge, through direct experience). Seth Powell was explaining that H. Aranya on his commentary on the Bhasya splits Pratyaksa into “Direct Perception” and “Experience”. Taking what he exposed in regards to this differentiation, I started thinking about this concept applied to Asana. We first perceive the posture through our senses, let’s say we listen to the instructions, or we see it with our eyes, or we even feel it in our body. This perception is an interesting experience. But something changes when we have an internal experience of that which we are perceiving... I would like to think that this might be experience of the soul, and under the understanding that Asana is only the means and not the goal, I assume also, this internal experience arises rather while we do a handstand or while we fold forward with our knees on the floor. . . 📷👉🏽 @fotosbyboca . . #asana #balasana #svadhyaya #selfstudy #pratyaksa #practicekindnessandcompassion #practiceequanimity https://www.instagram.com/p/BtoT8gmFolW/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=at397gy5v8yu

Last week we flew to NJ to an unexpected and sad closure of the life of a very loved, inspiring and kind human being, that I had the pleasure to share a short time of this life and created a big impact in my life. During the whole week, I did not pay attention to my phone or social media. I did not make a single post on IG or FB, nor a blogpost or a newsletter. I barely responded some urgent messages and gave very short answers. I wanted to be present, fully present in what I was living and the people around me. For the first time in a long time, I paused social media like this and it made me realized how much time we/I spend on my phone and computer in my regular life, how much importance we end up giving to things that don’t really matter and we forget about interacting and sharing with those who are next to us. From the many things uncle Pat left to us when he left, one of the most valuables is how he always gave a higher value to the experience than the result, to the journey than to the destination, and even now that he is gone, it was because of him that I was reminded on reviewing my priorities. If social media, computers and phones are over people that are physically near me, there is something that is definitely out of its course. There is definitely many benefits and reasons on social media and technology and now that I’m back to my regular life I’m taking it back on a more consistent approach though now I question myself... am I ignoring people, animals, plants, a waterfall, the rain, sunsets or a beautiful moon around me because of my phone? Patanjali exposed the Yoga method rooted in Pratyaksa or “direct experience”, and I believe that beyond yoga that direct experience is applicable to any angle in life. 📷👉🏽 by @fotosbyboca at a beautiful waterfall in @macawlodgecr #pasasana #pratyaksa #svadhyaya #selfstudy #selfobservation #practicekindnessandcompassion #yogaisequanimity #luanafarayoga https://www.instagram.com/p/BqIUriugUT9/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1f3bipvb3kkk2

Vyavasayatmaka (definite; correct perception excludes judgments of doubt, either because of one's failure to observe all the details, or because one is mixing inference with observation and observing what one wants to observe, or not observing what one does not want to observe).

mngon sum - pratyaksa, direct (experience, perception, awareness, perceiver), immediate (perception, apprehension), manifest, evident, SA rnal 'byor mngon sum (four are dbang, yid, rang rig, rnal 'byor), open, public, manifest, cognizable by the senses, direct perception, to perceive directly, evident to the senses, perception, directly, really [JV]