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Although born more than four thousand years ago Patanjali remains contemporary ? Yoga has become part of today's natural healthy lifestyle. His Yoga sutras form the bedrock of the logical approach to human development and his approach appears in therapeutic methods such as Primal Therapy. Patanjali is the first person to apply scientific ideas to the possibility of raising life energy to higher levels. And with the current renaissance of interest in Yoga his influence continues into the twenty-first century. Making the obscure obvious and the complicated simple Osho is reintroducing the foundations of Yoga in a way accessible to everyone. ?My commentary on Patanjali is going to be basically different from all the previous commentaries. My commentary will be just as Patanjali himself would have commented.? Osho,The practice of Yoga is now being widely embraced by the West in an endless range of evolving formats particularly with added movement components. It is therefore very timely that Osho with his razor-sharp insight respect and compassion for the individual brings a wider understanding of the potential benefits of Yoga for contemporary people in these talks on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali. Patanjali lived around 400BC and although Yoga was already in existence he was able through his unique combination of logician poet and mystic to present Yoga in a way that could be of help to all. And that continues to be true today. Osho describes Patanjali as a mathematician of the ultimate poetry; a mystic with a scientific mind who analyzes and dissects as if in a lab but his lab is one of the inner being. Patanjali has searched deeply into human energy and devised many techniques; he has found that in order to meditate the body mind and being need to be healthy. His discovery that the body energy becomes whole with the chanting of om the basic sound of existence and his findings of the deep connection between breathing and thinking have been of great importance to generations of meditators. ?The body is your anchor your ship which will lead you to the other shore. The body keeps the treasure the seeds of the divine within you protected.? Osho,Patanjali is a rare flower. He has a scientific mind, but his journey is inner. That's why he became the first and the last word : he is the Alpha and the omega.For five thousand years nobody could improve upon him. It seems he connot be improved upon. He will remain the last word because the very combination is impossible.To have a scientific attitude and to enter into the inner is almost an impossibility. He talks like a mathematician, a logician. He talks like Aristotle, and he is a Heraclitus.,With his signature wisdom and wit Osho offers his refreshing vision of religiousness one based on the truth of one's own direct experience of life. In The Mystery beyond Mind he infuses new life into the ancient sayings of Patanjali an Indian sage who systemized Yoga nearly two thousand years ago. Through his responses to individuals' questions Osho shows that by simply applying new approaches to ordinary everyday situations these can become opportunities for awareness and relaxation. This book provides both inspiration and practical contemporary guidance for seekers everywhere. Osho offers inspiration and practical tools for transformation to seekers worldwide. For more than three decades he spoke about every aspect of the human condition supporting individuals on their own paths of growth and fulfilment. With humor and compassion Osho opens new doors with his insights. Celebrating the outer and inner dimensions of life Osho's approach towards the search is refreshingly healthy and holistic.,Yoga is now an integral part of our health-conscious cultural landscape practiced by millions for health and fitness reasons. While Yoga is seen and practiced mostly as a body exercise program the interest in the philosophical and spiritual dimension of Yoga is growing. This book introduces us to Patanjali the founder of ancient Yoga in India. It takes us step by step into a deeper understanding of the essence and origins of Yoga. Osho introduces and unlocks Patanjali's ancient sutras revealing how contemporary this ancient message truly is. It quickly becomes clear that we are just on the cusp of a gaining a much deeper understanding of Yoga and its place in our evolving world. Surprisingly the mind even more than the body is the focus of Patanjali's teaching. He says: Yoga is the cessation of mind. As Osho says: This is the definition of Yoga the best definition. Yoga has been defined in many ways; there are many definitions. Some say Yoga is the meeting of the mind with the divine; hence it is called yoga ? yoga means meeting joining together. Some say that Yoga means dropping the ego ego is the barrier: the moment you drop the ego you are joined to the divine. You were already joined; it only appeared that you were not joined because of the ego. There are many definitions but Patanjali's is the most scientific. He says: Yoga is the cessation of mind. ?What is the mind? What is the mind doing there? What is it? Ordinarily we think that mind is something substantial there inside the head. Patanjali doesn't agree and no one who has ever known the inside of the mind will agree. Modern science also doesn't agree. Mind is not something substantial inside the head. Mind is just a function just an activity. This book is part one of a 10-part series of talks titled Yoga: The Science of the Soul in which Osho speaks about Yoga.,Patanjali is a rare flower. He has a scientific mind but his journey is inner. That's why he became the first and the last word : he is the Alpha and the omega.For five thousand years nobody could improve upon him. It seems he connot be improved upon. He will remain the last word because the very combination is impossible.To have a scientific attitude and to enter into the inner is almost an impossibility. He talks like a mathematician a logician. He talks like Aristotle and he is a Heraclitus.