Yoga Sutras of Patanjali — Chapter 2: Sadhana Pada

55 verses

Verse 1

Austerity, self-study, and surrender to God constitute Kriya Yoga.

Its purpose is to cultivate samadhi and to attenuate the afflictions.

The afflictions are ignorance, egoism, attachment, aversion, and clinging to life.

Ignorance is the field for the others, whether they be dormant, attenuated, intermittent, or fully active.

Ignorance is taking the non-eternal for the eternal, the impure for the pure, the painful for the pleasurable, and the non-Self for the Self.