Yoga Sutra Master Course 2: Reversing the Wheel of Karma – Pandit Rajmani Tigunait

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The Yoga Sutra is vibrant, powerful, and ripened by the light of centuries of unbroken tradition.

The four-part Yoga Sutra Master Course, taught online by Pandit Tigunait, uses the blueprint of sadhana defined in the Yoga Sutra to give the modern yogi all the tools needed to build a life of freedom and fulfillment. Each of the four segments includes approximately eight hours of content, accompanied by a downloadable guidebook and lecture notes.

COURSE OUTLINE

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Yoga Sutra Prep School: Why Study Yoga Sutra, Why Now?

• Why Yoga Sutra, Why Now?
• Yoga Sutra: The Text
• Patanjali and His World
• Yoga Sutra Timeline
• Yoga Sutra Contextual Map
• The Quest of Life
• Why Study the Yoga Sutra and Why Now?
• Yoga Sutra Talk: Yoga Journeys
• Traditions that Influenced the Yoga Sutra
• Coming Closer to Patanjali

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Prep School: Yoga on Your Mind

• How the Mind Works
• Making the Unconscious Conscious
• The Four Faculties of Mind
• Quick Notes for Yoga Sutra 1:1 -1:11
• Towards a New Philosophy of Life
• Sankhya Yoga—A Beginner’s Guide and Five Things to Know

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Prep School: Living a Yogic Lifestyle

• Six Pillars of Yogic Living
• Pillar 1: What Makes a Yogic Diet?
• Saying Grace at Meals
• Pillar 2: Right Exercise
• Stretch and Breathe
• Pillar 3: Sleep Well
• An Experiment with Sleep
• Pillar 4: Your Breath and Stress Reduction
• Guided Diaphragmatic Breathing Practice
• Pillar 5: The Importance of Cleansing
• What in the World Is Triphala?
• Pillar 6: Self-Awareness and Reflection
• Lifestyle Realities
• Lifestyle: Keeping Your Practice Simple

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Prep School: Transforming the Mind

• Working With the Mind
• Uniting Breath and Mind
• Uniting Breath and Mind Experiential Practice
• Daily Practice
• Contemplative Practice of Sutra 1.33
• Vairagya: Refining Your Sense of Self-Identity
• Successful and Non-Attached
• Conquering Negative Habits

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Prep School: Divine Grace, Self-Effort, and God in the Yoga Sutra

• The Divine in the Yoga Sutra
• Who Is Cod?
• How Can Ishvara Be Known?
• Trustful Surrender in Life and in Meditation
• Guided Meditation
• The Concept of God in Yoga
• What Is Trustful Surrender?
• Yoga Sutra Talk: Faith
• Finding Faith in the Spirit of Yoga

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Prep School: The Wheel of Karma

• Samskaras, Karma, and the Kleshas
• Creating Our Character and Destiny
• Three Types of Karma (Exerpt from Death to Birth)
• Karma Vocabulary
• The Law of Karma vs. Divine Grace
• The Relationship Between Karma and Destiny
• Satsanga: Wise Company
• Summary and Closing

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Part 1: Mastering the Mind — The Secret of the Yoga Sutra

• Course Notes: Mastering the Mind & Audio Recordings
• Chapter 1 Notes
• Invocation
• Introduction to the Yoga Sutra
• Why the Yoga Sutra Now?
• The Yoga Sutra for Purposeful Living
• The Four Chapters of the Yoga Sutra
• The Main Message of the Yoga Sutra

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Part 1: Living with Purpose

• Chapter 2 Notes
• Yogic View of Life
• The Cornerstone of Self-Conquest
• Creating a Yogic Lifestyle
• Five Pillars of a Yogic Lifestyle
• Relying on Direct Experience

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Part 1: The Inherent Power of the Mind

• Chapter 3 Notes
• Mind: The Center of the Universe
• Unveiling the Mind’s Inherent Luminosity
• The Source of Willpower and Determination
• Freeing the Mind of Its Conditionings

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Part 1: Unlocking the Power of the Mind

• Chapter 4 Notes
• Five States of Mind
• What Happens When the Mind Is Perfectly Still?
• What Happens When the Mind Is Run by Its Roaming Tendencies?
• The Subtle Causes of Our Inner Restlessness
• The Technique for Creating a Reality of Our Choice

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Part 1: Path to Self-Conquest

• Chapter 5 Notes
• Practice and Non-Attachment According to Patanjali
• The Practice (Abhyasa)
• Non-Attachment (Vairagya)
• Perfecting the Practice

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Part 1: Key to Self-Conquest

• Chapter 6 Notes
• The Force Behind Self-Conquest
• The Four Steps of Vairagya – Part 1
• The Four Steps of Vairagya – Part 2

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Part 1: Obstacles to Self-Conquest

• Chapter 7 Notes
• Nine Categories of Obstacles
• Five Companions to the Fundamental Obstacles
• Yoglc and Ayurvedic Approaches to Conquering Obstacles
• A Regimen for Living Life Without Obstacles

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Part 1: Yogi in the Making

• Chapter 8 Notes
• What Makes Us a Yogi?
• Five Laws for Becoming a Master – Part 1
• Five Laws for Becoming a Master – Part 2

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Part 1: Becoming Perfect

• Chapter 9 Notes
• Crossing the Threshold to Imperishable Power and Wisdom – Part 1
• Crossing the Threshold to Imperishable Power and Wisdom – Part 2
• The Benefits of Becoming Established in Inner Luminosity and Inner Joy

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Part 2: Reversing the Wheel of Karma — The Dynamics of Karma and Reincarnation

• Invocation
• Reversing the Wheel of Karma Course Notes & Audio Downloads
• Chapter 1 Notes
• Introduction: Acquired and Intrinsic Aspects of Mind
• Building Blocks of Our Individuality
• The Force That Governs and Guides
• Changing the Course of Destiny

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Part 2: The Mystery of Karma, Karmic Impressions, and Destiny

• Chapter 2 Notes
• Karma Chakra—How the Cycle of Karma Works
• What Makes Some Karmic Impressions So Powerful?
• Three Categories of Karma
• Which Karma Creates Destiny?

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Part 2: Freeing the Mind of Its Karmic Impressions

• Chapter 3 Notes
• Create New Karma
• Story from the Mahabharata
• Five Golden Laws for Creating Positive and Illuminating Karma
• Story of Rakshoha, Chitragupta, and Brihaspati

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Part 2: Avoiding the Creation of Negative Karma

• Chapter 4 Notes
• Neutralizing Negative Karma
• Five Negative Karmas
• Listening to Our Conscience
• Importance of Avoiding the Five Negative Karmas

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Part 2: The Force Beyond Karma

• Chapter 5 Notes
• The Gap Between Our Actions and Their Fruits
• Our Mind and Karmic Impressions When We Die
• Time, Space, and Law of Cause and Effect When We Die
• What Pulls Us Out of Death?
• How Do We Return to This World?
• The Unique Intention of the Divine Being
• How Our Mind, Karma, and Life Force Reunite

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Part 2: Our Inner Guide and Companion

• Chapter 6 Notes
• The Inner Guide and Us – Part 1
• The Inner Guide and Us – Part 2
• Why We Turn Away from Our Inner Guide
• Dynamics of Our Shrunken Self
• Dynamics of Divine Grace
• Journey of Life with Limited Power and Wisdom

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Part 2: Mantra—An Agent of Change

• Chapter 7 Notes
• Yogic Meaning of “In the Beginning Was the Word”
• Relationship Between Mantra, Mind, and the Inner Guide
• Dynamics of Mantra Meditation
• How Mantra Turns Our Awareness Inward
• How Mantra Frees Us from the Nine Obstacles

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Part 2: Dynamics of Meditation

• Chapter 8 Notes
• Preparing for the Inner Quest
• Learning to Sit in a Comfortable and Steady Posture
• Uniting the Power of Mind and Breath
• Entering the Luminous Space Within
• Using Mantra to Sit Firmly in Our Luminous Inner Space

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Part 3: Discovering Your Luminous Joy — Lotus Heart, the Center of Luminous Joy

• Course Notes and Audio Recordings
• Chapter 1 Notes
• Invocation
• Review of the Previous Master Course Seminars
• Introduction to Discovering Our Luminous Joy
• The Lotus in Different Traditions
• The Lotus in Indian Mythology
• The Lotus in the Yoga Sutra
• The Meeting Ground of the Individual Soul and the Supreme Being

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Part 3: Restoring Our Mental Purity

• Chapter 2 Notes
• The Fundamental Problem: Fear
• Four Mental Contaminants Born of Fear
• Four Attitudes for Overcoming the Four Contaminants

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Part 3: Passage to the Lotus of the Heart

• Chapter 3 Notes
• Locating the Access Point to Our Inner Heart    
• The Spiritual Anatomy of Our Nasal Passages and Eyebrow Center   
• Entering Our Inner Space   
• Awakening and Absorbing the Energy of Talu Chakra with Pranayama 
• Pranayama Precautions, Prerequisites, and Detailed Instruction

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Part 3: Removing the Veil Covering the Heart

• Chapter 4 Notes
• Accessing the Non-Physical Dimension of Our Senses and Sense Organs
• Using Non-Physical Sensory Experience as a Meditative Object
• Becoming Mentally Absorbed in the Luminosity in Our Forehead Area
• Transcending Body Consciousness and Becoming Immersed in Inner Light

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Part 3: Entering the Heart

• Chapter 5 Notes
• The Technique for Locating Our Core, the Lotus of the Heart
• Ascending and Descending Between the Lotus of the Heart and the Crown
• Witnessing the Luminous Joy Arising from Ascending and Descending

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Part 3: Guided Meditation on the Lotus of the Heart

• Chapter 6 Notes
• Instructional Session (48 minutes)

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Part 3: The Fruits of Meditation

• Chapter 7 Notes
• The Rise of Intuitive Wisdom
• Becoming Established in Self-Luminous 3oy
• Unfolding Our Innate Ingenuity and Creativity
• Loosening Our Weaknesses—Our Mental Conditionings
• Participating in the World Without Becoming Caught in It

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Part 3: Guided Meditation on the Lotus of the Heart, 2

• Chapter 8 Notes
• Experiential Session (49 minutes)

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Part 4: Samadhi — Freedom Here & Now — The Quest for Samadhi

• Invocation
• Invocation Mantras
• Course Notes and Audio Recordings
• Chapter 1 Notes
• Review of the Previous Seminars
• The Secret of Samadhi
• Samadhi as a Process and a State of Pure Experience

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Part 4: Overcoming the Biggest Hurdles

• Chapter 2 Notes
• The Problem of Letting Go
• False Expectations, Unbalanced Living, and Lack of Preparation

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Part 4: The Four Stages of Lower (Sabija) Samadhi

• Chapter 3 Notes
• The Difference Between Meditation and Samadhi
• Samadhi Manifesting from Meditation on a Physical Object
• Samadhi Manifesting from Meditation on a Subtle Object
• Samadhi Manifesting from Meditation on Our Innate Joy and Luminosity

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Part 4: The Technique for Inner Immersion

• Chapter 4 Notes
• How the Mind Takes On the Qualities of the Meditative Object
• Using Breath as the Object of Meditation
• How Meditation Becomes Subtle, Leading to Inner Joy and Luminosity

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Part 4: Reaching the Highest (Nirbija) Stage of Samadhi

• Chapter 5 Notes
• The Difference Between Lower and Higher Samadhi – Part 1   
• The Difference Between Lower and Higher Samadhi – Part 2    
• What Prevents Us from Reaching the Highest Samadhi?    
• How We Know That We Are Progressing Toward the Highest Samadhi 

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Part 4: The Most Crucial Stage—Dharma Megha Samadhi

• Chapter 6 Notes
• The Transitional State Between Lower and Higher Samadhi
• The Spontaneous Dawning of a Flawlessly Transparent Mind
• The Demolition of the Wall of Duality and Our Sense of Loneliness

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Part 4: The Highest Reward—Ultimate Freedom and Unending Joy

• Chapter 7 Notes
• Freedom from the Effects of Causes    
• Transformation of Our Old Mind into the Light of Pure Consciousness 
• Freedom from the Desire for Liberation from Birth and Death    
• The Privilege of Being a Conduit for Divine Will

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Part 4: Meditation on the Lotus of the Heart

• Experiential Session

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Part 1 Live Stream: Mastering the Mind

• Friday, Nov 14, 7:30 EST — The Yoga Sutra: The Road Map for a Personal Qu…
• Saturday, Nov 15,10:00 EST — The Wonder We Are: Our Body and Mind
• Saturday, Nov 15,3:30 EST — Deploying the Forces of Our Body and Mind
• Saturday, Nov 15, 7:30 EST — Finding Our Connection
• Sunday, Nov 16,10:00 EST — Attaining Samadhi

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Part 2 Live Stream: Reversing the Wheel of Karma

• Friday, Feb 13, 7:30 EST— Mind, Karma, & Reincarnation
• Saturday, Feb 14, 9:30 EST—The Power to Design Our Destiny
• Saturday, Feb 14, 3:30 EST—Energizing the Solar Plexus: The Focus on Pran…
• Saturday, Feb 14 7:30 EST—The Force Beyond Karma and Destiny
• Sunday, Feb 15, 9:30 EST—The Transformative Power of Mantra and Medita…

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Part 3 Live Stream: Discovering Your Luminous Joy

• Friday, May 22, 7:30pm EST —The Unique Qualities of the Heart Center
• Saturday, May 23,10:00am EST — Clearing the Passage: Manipura Chakra &…
• Saturday, May 23, 3:00pm — Practicum: Hatha Yoga & Pranayama Techniq…
• Saturday, May 23, 7:30pm EST — Entering the Heart Center
• Sunday, May 24,10:00am EST — Immersion in the State of Vishoka and 3yo…

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Part 4 Live Stream: Samadhi—Freedom Here & Now

• Friday, August 21st, 7:30 EST—Samadhi: The Most Natural State of Being
• Saturday, August 22nd, 10am EST—Steps to Samadhi
• Saturday, August 22nd, 3:30pm EST — Practicum
• Saturday, August 22nd, 7:30pm EST — Dharma Megha Samadhi: Reaching …
• Sunday, August 23rd, 10am EST — Closing the Chasm: Nirbija Samadhi

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Supportive Materials: Q&A—Mastering the Mind

• What Do You Mean By Binding and Releasing Forces of the Mind?
• How Can I Practice When I’m Not Inspired?
• How Do I Create an Environment That Is Conducive to Practice?
• What Are the Main Elements of a Yogic Lifestyle?
• What Are the Precautions and Prerequisites for Practicing Yoga?
• What Are the Major Obstacles Encountered in the Practice of Yoga?
• What Do I Get from Samadhi?
• Why Do Some Succeed Easily in Practice and Others Struggle?

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Supportive Materials: Q&A—Reversing the Wheel of Karma

• Why Are We Reborn?
• What Does Mindfulness Really Mean?
• How and When to Be Selfless?
• Successful and Non-Attached
• Is Anyone Not Bound by the Law of Karma?
• Mantra: What It Is and Why We Use It
• Meditation on Mantra vs. Meditation on “Pure Being”
• Which Mantra Is Right for Me?
• Using Mantra Vs. Emptying the Mind

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Supportive Materials: Q&A— Discovering Your Luminous Joy

• The Relationship Between Tantra and Yoga   
• Meditation on the Heart Chakra vs. the Crown Chakra    
• Anahata Chakra and the Lotus of the Heart    
• What Stops Us from Reaching Our Inner Divinity?    
• How to Gain Access to the Lotus of the Heart    
• Is the Lotus of the Heart a Physical Space?    
• Why Is It So Difficult to Experience the Lotus of the Heart?    
• What Do You Mean by Self-Luminous Joy and Inner Luminosity?    
• How Do We Know Our Experience of Inner Light Is Real?    
• What Kind of Transformation Occurs Through Meditation at the Lotus oft… 
• Balancing Mantra Meditation and Meditation on the Lotus of the Heart

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Supportive Materials: Q&A—Samadhi, Here & Now

• How Do We Prepare for Samadhi?    
• Is Samadhi a Process or a State of Experience?    
• Do We Reach Samadhi Through Practice or Grace?    
• Sabija and Nirbija Samadhi Explained   
• When We Reach Samadhi Are We All-Knowing?   
• How Does Samadhi Impact Our Worldly Life?    
• In Samadhi Are We Free from Inner Turmoil?    
• Are We Free from the Realities of Life in Samadhi?    
• How Long Does Samadhi Last?    
• What Is the Most Significant Stage of Samadhi?    
• If We Drop Our Practice Before Samadhi, Do We Have to Start All Over? 
• What Do You Mean by Freedom and Unending Joy?