Nischala Devi - "Devoted Practice to Higher Consciousness"

J. Brown Yoga Talks

J. Brown

Yoga, Health & Fitness, Yogateacher, Alternative Health, Yogaindustry, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

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🗓️ 30 May 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Nischala Joy Devi, author of The Secret Power of Yoga: A Woman's Guide to the Heart and Spirit of the Yoga Sutras, returns to talk with J about her revised interpretation of Patanjali's last two padas. They discuss what led to doing a revision of her writing on Yoga Sutras, the criticism she has received since the first edition, why so little consideration is given to the third and fourth padas, going beyond practice and mind, renunciation, the grace of intuitive wisdom, and relinquishing our efforts so we might effortlessly reside in our heart.

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0:00.0	All right. The moment is upon us.
0:14.8	This is Jay Brown Yoga Talks podcast. My name is Jay Brown.
0:20.2	How's it going? What's going on? How are we doing today? Are you new to the
0:28.7	show? So, welcome. Hi, I'm Jay. Everyone else. Thanks for being here.
0:40.6	I wonder, how are things with you?
0:49.6	I'd much rather hear about you than tell you about what's going on with me because, frankly, things haven't been that great, y'all.
1:02.4	Really, every day has felt like triage in my house and I don't know it continues to be a very trying and scary time I feel like in my personal life and maybe in our broader society but at least definitely for sure in my own life,
1:14.8	I feel like I've come right up to the edge, right up to the end of what we're capable of understanding
1:24.4	and accomplishing with science and technology.
1:31.7	Like dealing with everything that's going on with my daughter and educating myself,
1:37.8	I can really see the limitations of our medicine and our technology
1:44.9	and what we actually know about the human psyche
1:49.4	and how to treat certain conditions that we've observed in people
1:57.0	and it's just very overwhelming.
2:01.9	And I imagine that there are many people out there who have also come up against this.
2:12.4	And, you know, when I look at it, it's like one direction, the reductionist technology, just direction.
2:22.1	It feels hopeless.
2:24.2	It feels like I have to relinquish any agency I might have and basically just give over to the machine.
2:32.7	That's what it feels like.
2:33.7	Maybe that's an inaccurate way to put it, but that's what it feels like.
2:38.3	Or the other possibility is that there are other sources.
2:44.8	There are other sources of knowledge and wisdom and guidance.
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