Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtras are the classical work of the Yoga School of thought, one of the Six Darśanas studied in the Bhakti Tirtha course. They focus on how to attain direct experience and realization of the puruṣa, or the individual self. As the classical treatise on the Vedic understanding of the mind and consciousness and on techniques of meditation and self-realization, it has exerted immense influence over the religious practices of Hinduism in India and, more recently, in the West. For Vaiṣṇavas, the Yoga Sūtras are especially helpful in understanding the first two chapters of Bhakti-rasāmṛita-sindhu.
If you don’t react then you don’t create new karma and the old karma will exhaust itself. It is not easy. You need practice for this because you are accustomed to react. But ultimately what matters is how peaceful you are, and if you can remain balanced within your own self. Just let the karma exhaust itself by not reacting or responding. People may think you are a loser because they will not understand you. But you are a winner because you feel happy inside.
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