The Sutras, Part I: Unpacking Purusha and Prakriti
Yogaland Podcast
Andrea Ferretti
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2021
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Today is the first in a series of episodes where Jason shares the underpinnings of Patanjali. Most yoga students have heard their teachers reference Patanjali and the text that he is known for, The Yoga Sutra. But rarely do teachers have time to unpack this seminal text. For this episode, Jason shares the foundational concepts of purusha and prakriti and the samkya philosophy that informs Patanjali's worldview.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, I'm Andrea Ferretti and this is episode 229 of Yoga Land. |
| 0:09.3 | Welcome back, Jason. Thanks for having me again. |
| 0:12.1 | Nice to have you. As always. Yeah. I mean, as always, it's nice for me. I didn't mean to be like, |
| 0:17.1 | it's always nice for you to have me. Yeah. I mean, it's always nice to be here. I get it. I get it. |
| 0:21.6 | In our home. Looking at each other. Yes. As we usually do. Always. |
| 0:26.3 | So we are going to talk today about potentially. I feel like in part, this is a conversation and an |
| 0:38.8 | episode that people have been asking me to do for five years since I started the podcast. |
| 0:44.6 | Way to be withholding. I know. I'm glad to finally deliver this to you. Well, we're going to do a |
| 0:49.6 | series on potentially. Okay. Yeah. Because potentially can only be done in proper context in a series. |
| 0:57.5 | Okay. Yeah. So this is part one. Part one. And today we are going to talk about |
| 1:04.7 | perutia and property. Yeah. Yes. The easy stuff. I know. Exactly. I'm like, so where do we begin? |
| 1:11.7 | Well, here's what I want to begin, which is maybe this is my process of unpigeon holding myself |
| 1:18.0 | from being an awesome teacher. Yes. And I think, you know, like I love teaching postures. |
| 1:24.0 | I like the body. I like how it works. I like technique. I love to grow and learn, iterate and |
| 1:29.2 | incorporate different modalities and all sorts of things. But to me at yoga's core is not |
| 1:38.9 | down dog at yoga's core is the process of self observation, self regulation and transcendence. |
| 1:46.8 | Like those are the key components of this living tradition. And so it's nice to have an environment |
| 1:53.2 | where we get to talk about some of more of the metaphysical and conceptual layers that underpin |
| 2:01.6 | Potangeli's worldview. Yeah. So the worldview of Potangeli, if you had to classify it, is it |
| 2:09.7 | Sancia? The metaphysics of Sancia form the infrastructure of Potangeli. Right. So this is I think the |
| 2:17.6 | first thing to remember, which I think most of us know, but hey, we're all learning all the time |
| 2:23.1 | anyways, which is that Potangeli is not really credited as being an original thinker as such. |
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