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147 discourses in which Osho speaks about Patanjali, most mentions first. Each line is his own sentence from that talk.

  1. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 2 #2: Attraction to the Difficult · 69 mentions · 2 January 1975
    “You have not understood what I had been saying about Heraclitus, Christ and Zen, and if you cannot understand Heraclitus, Zen and Jesus, you will not be able to understand Patanjali either.”
  2. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 2 #3: Total Effort or Surrender · 36 mentions · 3 January 1975
    “The first type comes onto the path because of curiosity: Patanjali calls it kutuhal.”
  3. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 3 #5: The pure look · 36 mentions · 5 March 1975
    “Patanjali says:”
  4. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 10 #9: Kaivalya · 33 mentions · 9 May 1976
    “Patanjali in this sutra says: when your awareness has become perfect, when viveka, discrimination has been achieved, when you have become a witness, a pure witness of whatsoever happens, outside you, inside you....”
  5. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 7 #7: In a cold universe · 33 mentions · 7 January 1976
    “But, in the East, Patanjali is absolutely godless.”
  6. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 1 #6: The purity of yoga · 31 mentions · 30 December 1973
    “But when I say that Patanjali is logical, what do I mean?”
  7. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 2 #7: The Obstacles to Meditation · 29 mentions · 7 January 1975
    “That's why Patanjali says the repetition of Aum and meditation on it destroys all obstacles.”
  8. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 6 #7: Death to The Limited · 29 mentions · 7 September 1975
    “Patanjali's whole art is of how to attain to the state where you can die willingly, surrender willingly, with no resistance.”
  9. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 1 #1: Chapter title:Introduction to the path of Yoga · 28 mentions · 25 December 1973
    “This moment is indicated by the first sutra of Patanjali.”
  10. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 3 #6: Mind in a hurry · 28 mentions · 6 March 1975
    “IT IS VERY SIMPLE -- if when I speak on Patanjali and you feel that Patanjali is the path for you, and when I speak on Zen, you feel Zen is the path for you, and when I speak on Tantra, you feel "Tantra is the path for me," then the problem doesn't exist -- I…”
  11. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 8 #3: Witnessing the inner astronomy · 28 mentions · 13 April 1976
    “Patanjali's basic approach is how to create the clarity, the eyes, which can see it.”
  12. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 7 #9: Into the fantastic · 27 mentions · 9 January 1976
    “Ordinary religion, the so-called religion, has died because it cannot raise itself to Patanjali's level.”
  13. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 2 #1: The Meaning of Samadhi · 26 mentions · 1 January 1975
    “Patanjali is a rare flower.”
  14. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 1 #2: The desireless path of yoga · 25 mentions · 26 December 1973
    “Patanjali says, NOW THE DISCIPLINE OF YOGA.”
  15. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 5 #4: Because you are buddhas · 25 mentions · 4 July 1975
    “If I were alone, you were not there, I would never speak on Patanjali; because that would be absolutely absurd.”
  16. Jo Ghar Bare Aapna #8 · 22 mentions · 12 November 1970
    “Just as I am different from Patanjali—so is it.”
  17. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 2 #4: Find the Ever-Present Flower · 21 mentions · 4 January 1975
    “Then only Patanjali is the way.”
  18. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 5 #9: The law is for you · 21 mentions · 9 July 1975
    “The Old Testament Ten Commandments are different from Patanjali's laws.”
  19. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 1 #3: Five modifications of mind · 19 mentions · 27 December 1973
    “These sutras of Patanjali will lead you step by step towards this understanding of the mind -- what it is what types of modes it takes, what types of modifications come into it, how you can use it and go beyond it.”
  20. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 7 #3: The inside of the inside · 19 mentions · 3 January 1976
    “To be natural, to be just in tune with the cosmic law, is what Patanjali means by samyama.”
  21. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 4 #3: Sleep, identification, duality · 18 mentions · 23 April 1975
    “Gurdjieff calls it sleep, Patanjali calls it avidya: they mean the same thing.”
  22. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 8 #7: Beyond the error of experiencing · 18 mentions · 17 April 1976
    “ONE of the most important sutras of Patanjali -- the very key.”
  23. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 1 #9: Practice and desirelessness · 17 mentions · 3 January 1974
    “Abhyasa and vairagya -- constant inner practice and desirelessness: these are the two foundation stones of Patanjali's yoga.”
  24. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 1 #10: The cause of your misery · 17 mentions · 4 January 1974
    “Machiavelli is for the outside world; Lao Tzu, Patanjali and Buddha are for the inside world.”
  25. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 10 #7: The witness is self-illuminating · 17 mentions · 7 May 1976
    “It is what Patanjali calls anamayakos: the most gross, only one layer.”
  26. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 2 #9: Cultivating Right Attitudes · 17 mentions · 9 January 1975
    “And Patanjali says the mind becomes tranquil by cultivating attitudes of friendliness towards the happy -- very difficult.”
  27. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 9 #1: Mastery over the five elements · 17 mentions · 21 April 1976
    “THE yoga system of Patanjali is not a philosophical system.”
  28. Es Dhammo Sanantano #16 · 17 mentions · 6 December 1975
    “What Krishnamurti calls understanding, Patanjali calls samadhi.”
  29. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 2 #5: The Master of Masters · 16 mentions · 5 January 1975
    “Patanjali is talking about the phenomenon of God.”
  30. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 4 #1: The seeds of misery · 16 mentions · 21 April 1975
    “Why am I saying this before I start talking about Patanjali?”
  31. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 5 #6: Does the universe love me? · 15 mentions · 6 July 1975
    “If you choose Zen forget about Patanjali as if he never existed; then he is not for you.”
  32. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 8 #1: Secrets of death and karma · 15 mentions · 11 April 1976
    “Call it God, or give it a name Patanjali would like -- samadhi -- the attainment of the ultimate, but it comes when you disappear.”
  33. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 1 #5: Right and wrong knowledge · 14 mentions · 29 December 1973
    “Patanjali says then it is right knowledge.”
  34. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 4 #5: Prati-prasav: the primal of the ancients · 14 mentions · 25 April 1975
    “Patanjali calls it abhinivesh, lust for life.”
  35. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 8 #2: And a perfect liar at that · 14 mentions · 12 April 1976
    “Now, this particular contradiction: "Patanjali says that through ignorance one accumulates ignorance, one accumulates karma; and previously we have heard you say that until one attains to a certain crystallization, one is not responsible for one's actions -- r…”
  36. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 1 #4: Beyond mind to awareness · 13 mentions · 28 December 1973
    “So the guest may be Lao Tzu, the guest may be Patanjali.”
  37. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 1 #8: Stop, and it is here! · 13 mentions · 1 January 1974
    “So when Patanjali says non-attachment is needed in the very beginning of the journey, he is not saying that it will not be needed in the end.”
  38. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 5 #3: Awareness, not knowledge · 13 mentions · 3 July 1975
    “Now, try to understand Patanjali's sutras.”
  39. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 5 #8: Male mind, female mind, no-mind · 13 mentions · 8 July 1975
    “No preparation is needed, no Patanjali is needed -- no eight steps to become unhappy.”
  40. Es Dhammo Sanantano #97 · 13 mentions · 6 June 1977
    “When the Brahma of the sacrifice, the great sage Patanjali, attended, his disciple Chaitra felt a thorn of doubt pricking his heart about the propriety of his master’s conduct.”
  41. Theologia Mystica #8: The Real Magic · 12 mentions · 18 August 1980
    “It seems the wheelchair knew Patanjali's art and the secrets of doing miracles!”
  42. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 4 #7: Awareness: the fire that burns the past · 12 mentions · 27 April 1975
    “And how is a Patanjali possible?”
  43. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 7 #1: Ask a Question Close to Home · 12 mentions · 1 January 1976
    “So if you ask Patanjali about God, he won't answer.”
  44. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 7 #4: Be a seed · 12 mentions · 4 January 1976
    “I have heard that Patanjali and Lao Tzu came to a stream.”
  45. Tantra: The Supreme Understanding #6: The Great Teaching · 11 mentions · 16 February 1975
    “You can understand Patanjali very easily because it fits with your own mind, the logical mind, the mathematical thinking.”
  46. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 10 #5: This is it! · 11 mentions · 5 May 1976
    “Patanjali says: samadhi, the ultimate state of awareness, is just like sleep, with one difference.”
  47. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 3 #7: The thought of no-thought · 11 mentions · 7 March 1975
    “Up to this point, Patanjali says it is samadhi without contemplation -- nirvichara samadhi.”
  48. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 5 #5: The eight limbs of yoga · 11 mentions · 5 July 1975
    “If you understand this, then these sutras of Patanjali will be very simple.”
  49. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 10 #1: Dropping the artificial mind · 10 mentions · 1 May 1976
    “Remember this; only then will you be able to understand Patanjali's last chapter, KAIVALYA PADA.”
  50. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 6 #1: A Life is a Mirror · 10 mentions · 1 September 1975
    “These sutras of Patanjali are very significant.”
  51. Walk Without Feet, Fly Without Wings and Think Without Mind #6: Think Without Mind · 9 mentions · 6 January 1978
    “And the people like, for example, Patanjali, who have grown from a seed to a big tree, not like a jump, who have grown like a small child growing towards youth, step by step -- he charts the whole map: from the body to the mind, from the mind to the soul, from…”
  52. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 6 #9: Returning to The Source · 9 mentions · 9 September 1975
    “If you settle too soon with Buddha, Mahavir, Krishna, Christ, Patanjali, if your acceptance is immature, then "that man is a god" will remain a belief; it can never become a faith.”
  53. Jin Sutra #52 · 9 mentions · 30 July 1976
    “Patanjali speaks differently—he describes seven chakras.”
  54. Hallelujah! #25: Bliss is Prayer · 8 mentions · 25 August 1978
    “Use Patanjali and his yoga postures as jumping-boards and then let everybody seek and search for his own form, his own being, for whatsoever he feels good with.”
  55. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 3 #1: Dropping out of the wheel · 8 mentions · 1 March 1975
    “Patanjali says:”
  56. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 4 #6: The existentialist cul-de-sac · 8 mentions · 26 April 1975
    “Patanjali is not against life.”
  57. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 5 #7: Death and discipline · 8 mentions · 7 July 1975
    “Animals are there without any awareness of death: that's why no possibility for Patanjali to teach animals.”
  58. Sahaj Yog #9 · 8 mentions · 29 November 1978
    “He had written a massive commentary on Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras.”
  59. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 10 #2: Aloneness is the last achievement · 7 mentions · 2 May 1976
    “That's what Patanjali calls kaivalya: absolute aloneness.”
  60. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 3 #3: Periphery and center · 7 mentions · 3 March 1975
    “Few things more about the mind before we can enter Patanjali's sutras.”
  61. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 4 #9: The seer is not the seen · 7 mentions · 29 April 1975
    “That is the meaning of Patanjali's method of prati-prasav: go back to the cause, penetrate the effect and reach to the cause.”
  62. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 7 #5: Piling up the zeros of being · 7 mentions · 5 January 1976
    “Patanjali says there are.”
  63. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 9 #5: The ego's last attack · 7 mentions · 25 April 1976
    “In this sutra Patanjali is asking almost the impossible, but that too becomes possible through understanding.”
  64. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 9 #9: Aboslute aloneness: liberation · 7 mentions · 29 April 1976
    “Then you can distinguish, discriminate -- what Patanjali calls vivek -- then you can discriminate what is the cloud and what is the sky.”
  65. Peevat Ramras Lagi Khumari #5 · 7 mentions · 15 January 1981
    “My meditation has nothing to do with Patanjali’s.”
  66. Sahaj Samadhi Bhali #1 · 7 mentions · 21 July 1974
    “If you have to listen to Kabir or to Patanjali, listen to Kabir, not to Patanjali.”
  67. Hsin Hsin Ming: The Book of Nothing #2: The way is perfect · 6 mentions · 22 October 1974
    “If you feel that let-go is impossible for you, then follow Patanjali -- effort, will, striving, seeking -- then you will move forward.”
  68. Just Like That #3: An open and shut case · 6 mentions · 3 May 1975
    “This is how Patanjali talks.”
  69. Light on the Path #18: The mind is a deceiver · 6 mentions · 19 January 1986
    “Patanjali, one of the most authentic seekers of the mind, and one of the oldest, ancientmost people, in many ways very rare....”
  70. Tao: The Pathless Path, Vol 1 #2: Sublime laziness · 6 mentions · 12 February 1977
    “If Patanjali and Lao Tzu met, they would not be able to understand each other -- impossible; Patanjali would talk about discipline.”
  71. The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 7 #6: Don't take enlightenment seriously · 6 mentions · 16 December 1979
    “Hindus go on repeating methods invented by people like Patanjali, Manu, Yagnavalka.”
  72. The Heart Sutra #9: Gone, Gone, Gone Beyond! · 6 mentions · 19 October 1977
    “The first state corresponds with Patanjali's sushupti -- deep, deep sleep.”
  73. The Mahageeta, Vol 1 #8 · 6 mentions · 18 September 1976
    “Then you should go knock on Patanjali's door: he will tell you 'how.'”
  74. Theologia Mystica #7: Translucent Darkness · 6 mentions · 17 August 1980
    “Patanjali says that God is only an arbitrary, hypothesis: you can use it if you want, but remember it has no truth about it; it is only a means towards meditation.”
  75. Vigyan Bhairav Tantra, Vol 2 #12: Enter this moment · 6 mentions · 27 May 1973
    “For Kanad, Kapil, Patanjali, Buddha, and the whole eastern tradition, seeing is the base.”
  76. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 1 #7: Constant inner practice · 6 mentions · 31 December 1973
    “The coming sutras of Patanjali are concerned with these two most significant concepts, but before we enter the sutras, that this, the pattern of human personality, is not totally intellectual, has to be firmly grasped.”
  77. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 3 #9: The fall of the idiots · 6 mentions · 9 March 1975
    “Now try to penetrate the sutras of Patanjali.”
  78. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 5 #1: The bridegroom is waiting for you · 6 mentions · 1 July 1975
    “Just fifty years ago, any man trained in the ways of science would have laughed at Patanjali, would have laughed very loudly at Shankara and Vedanta, would have thought deep down that these people have gone mad.”
  79. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 6 #8: Beyond The Rhythms of The Mind to Being · 6 mentions · 8 September 1975
    “This is where you go in deep sleep, when even dreams have stopped; and this is what Hindus, Patanjali, Buddhists, have called samadhi.”
  80. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 8 #9: Loosening the cause of bondage · 6 mentions · 19 April 1976
    “That's why Patanjali could know it five thousand years before Albert Einstein and company.”
  81. Bin Bati Bin Tel #6 · 6 mentions · 26 June 1974
    “Buddha, Mahavira, Patanjali take meditation as the path.”
  82. Maha Geeta #8 · 6 mentions · 18 September 1976
    “Then go and knock on Patanjali’s door; he will tell you “how.””
  83. Maha Geeta #63 · 6 mentions · 13 January 1977
    “Here is the difference between Ashtavakra and Patanjali.”
  84. And The Flowers Showered #5: Is he dead? · 5 mentions · 4 November 1974
    “It can happen in very ordinary moments, so it is not like the samadhi about which Patanjali talks.”
  85. Death is Divine #1: Die O yogi die · 5 mentions · 1 October 1978
    “I gave him this list: Krishna, Patanjali, Buddha, Mahavira, Nagarjuna, Shankara, Gorakh, Kabir, Nanak, Meera, Ramakrishna and Krishnamurti.”
  86. I Say Unto You, Vol 1 #7: Surrender in Darkness · 5 mentions · 29 October 1977
    “The first dimension is what Patanjali calls SUSHUPTI, deep sleep, where not even a dream exists.”
  87. Nirvana now or never #2 · 5 mentions · 3 February 1980
    “The original fault must go to the founder, Patanjali himself.”
  88. Philosophia Perennis, Vol 2 #11: Only God Is · 5 mentions · 10 January 1979
    “Once in a while a Buddha, a Jesus, a Mohammed, a Pythagoras, a Patanjali -- only once in a while.”
  89. The Revolution #10: Through These Enchanted Lands · 5 mentions · 20 February 1978
    “Patanjali will never be able to even conceive of a spiritual man drinking, but that is Patanjali's angle of seeing things.”
  90. Vigyan Bhairav Tantra, Vol 2 #20: Liberation from yourself · 5 mentions · 1 July 1973
    “In Patanjali's 1Yoga Sutras', God is talked about just to help you to surrender.”
  91. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 5 #2: Where did we come from and how did we · 5 mentions · 2 July 1975
    “In fact I am never just to anybody else -- Patanjali.”
  92. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 5 #10: Not answers, no questions · 5 mentions · 10 July 1975
    “The whole of Patanjali has to be dropped one day because it is all methodology.”
  93. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 6 #3: The Shadow of Religion · 5 mentions · 3 September 1975
    “These are not moralistic concepts for Patanjali; this has to be always kept in mind.”
  94. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 6 #5: Purity and Power · 5 mentions · 5 September 1975
    “Patanjali's sutras give you clues how to enter.”
  95. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 8 #5: The meeting os sun and moon · 5 mentions · 15 April 1976
    “Sun plus beyond: you have Patanjali, you have Mahavir, yoga.”
  96. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 8 #10: Nowhere to go · 5 mentions · 20 April 1976
    “Patanjali wrote these sutras so that he can share the essential keys with you, but those essential keys cannot be reduced to sutras.”
  97. Bin Bati Bin Tel #2 · 5 mentions · 22 June 1974
    “This is why Patanjali, Mahavira, and Buddha prescribed precepts of conduct: so that you do not get into needless trouble with society; otherwise your energy will be squandered in quarrels.”
  98. Jo Bole To Hari Katha #11 · 5 mentions · 31 July 1980
    “For example, in Patanjali there is a pranayama called bhastrika; Active Meditation’s first stage—deep, fast breathing—can be linked to bhastrika.”
  99. Ka Sovai Din Rain #8 · 5 mentions · 7 April 1978
    “If you want to learn the affirmative, learn from Patanjali.”
  100. Mahaveer Vani #34 · 5 mentions · 19 September 1972
    “When reading Patanjali—forget the whole world.”
  101. Mare He Jogi Maro #1 · 5 mentions · 11 November 1979
    “I gave him this list: Krishna, Patanjali, Buddha, Mahavira, Nagarjuna, Shankar, Gorakh, Kabir, Nanak, Meera, Ramakrishna, Krishnamurti.”
  102. Beyond Psychology #36: Wake up and you are it · 4 mentions · 30 April 1986
    “It was given by Patanjali, who was a very scientific and mathematical mystic.”
  103. I Say Unto You, Vol 1 #2: Come out of your Mind · 4 mentions · 22 October 1977
    “So when you read about Buddha or Patanjali or Vatsayana, it has immense appeal; it simply fits with you.”
  104. In Search of the Miraculous Vol 2 #5: The occult mysteries of religion · 4 mentions · 8 July 1970
    “For example, take Patanjali: he was a man with a scientific mind, but he entered into religion.”
  105. Is the Grass Really Greener...? #7 · 4 mentions · 7 December 1980
    “One of the greatest enlightened masters of the whole of history was Patanjali, who found the school of yoga.”
  106. The Last Testament, Vol 4 #2 · 4 mentions · 22 October 1985
    “Yes, you can use it about Patanjali, because ninety-nine percent of Patanjali is just physical exercise.”
  107. The Osho Upanishad #14: Beyond science is knowing · 4 mentions · 1 September 1986
    “They are perfectly applicable, although they are not so glamorous as nirvana, Gautam Buddha's word, or samadhi, Patanjali's word, or il'aham, Mohammed's word.”
  108. The Path of Love #7: A Harmony Of Love And Renunciation · 4 mentions · 27 December 1976
    “That is the difference between Patanjali and Kabir.”
  109. The White Lotus #2: Because I Love You · 4 mentions · 1 November 1979
    “Patanjali says: God is only an excuse to pray.”
  110. The Zen Manifesto: Freedom From Oneself #7: Mind only thinks, meditation lives · 4 mentions · 6 April 1989
    “According to a different calculation of Patanjali, the energy can be divided into seven centers, but the original source remains the hara.”
  111. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 2 #6: The Beginning of a New Path · 4 mentions · 6 January 1975
    “That's why I can be at ease with Zen, can be at ease with Jesus, can be at ease with Jews, can be at ease with Mohammedans, can be at ease with Patanjali -- diverse ways, sometimes diametrically opposite.”
  112. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 2 #8: From Chaos to Chaos with Aum · 4 mentions · 8 January 1975
    “I am simply explaining to you Patanjali.”
  113. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 2 #10: The Alpha is the Omega · 4 mentions · 10 January 1975
    “All the siddhis -- all the powers that yoga talks, and Patanjali will talk later on -- will be easy to him; he will be a man of miracles, his touch will be magical.”
  114. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 3 #4: The un-minding of being · 4 mentions · 4 March 1975
    “But if you sit silently as Patanjali will suggest...”
  115. Es Dhammo Sanantano #11 · 4 mentions · 1 December 1975
    “In Buddha’s and Patanjali’s time, ‘daman’—subduing—meant something else.”
  116. Geeta Darshan Vol. 15 #1 · 4 mentions
    “This is what Buddha calls nirvana, what Patanjali calls samadhi.”
  117. Jo Bole To Hari Katha #1 · 4 mentions · 21 July 1980
    “Patanjali says there is only a small difference between samadhi and deep sleep—small, yet vast as earth and sky.”
  118. Rahiman Dhaga Prem Ka #3 · 4 mentions · 29 March 1980
    “For example, Patanjali emphasized yama and niyama; I do not.”
  119. Sahaj Samadhi Bhali #12 · 4 mentions · 1 August 1974
    “I have read all the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali.”
  120. Books I Have Loved #5 · 3 mentions
    “The third book is Patanjali's YOGA SUTRAS.”
  121. From Bondage to Freedom #9: Intelligence is a luxury · 3 mentions · 23 September 1985
    “And just the other night we have discovered suddenly five hundred beautiful fish died in Patanjali Lake.”
  122. From Personality to Individuality #18: The good shepherd -- the butcher's friend · 3 mentions · 16 January 1985
    “In India, if they can produce a man like Patanjali, who single-handedly has produced the whole system of yoga; if they could produce Gautam the Buddha, Mahavira the Jaina, Shankara, Nagarjuna -- great philosophers; there is no one comparable from the West, not…”
  123. Sat Chit Anand #28: Existence needs you · 3 mentions · 5 December 1987
    “His sleep became a very silent, deep, dreamless sleep -- what Patanjali calls sushupti.”
  124. The Beloved, Vol 2 #9: Be The Formless In You · 3 mentions · 9 July 1976
    “Just as Lao Tzu and Chuang Tzu belong to the second approach, Mahavir and Patanjali belong to the first approach.”
  125. The Book of Wisdom #16: The University of Inner Alchemy · 3 mentions · 26 February 1979
    “What happened in these two hours when you fell into deep sleep -- what Patanjali calls sushupti, dreamless sleep?”
  126. The Cypress in the Courtyard #14 · 3 mentions · 17 June 1976
    “Just as there are seven centres -- what Patanjali calls 'chakras' -- which are seven whirling pools of energy, exactly parallel to them are seven negative chakras.”
  127. The Dhammapada: The Way of the Buddha, Vol 1 #8: The beginning of a new phase · 3 mentions · 28 June 1979
    “I love Buddha, I love Jesus, I love Zarathustra, I love Lao Tzu, I love Patanjali -- BECAUSE I love...because I love you, because I love the trees, because I love the birds.”
  128. The Diamond Sutra #2: Love Released · 3 mentions · 22 December 1977
    “This is exactly the same that Patanjali calls SABEEJ SAMADHI -- samadhi with seed.”
  129. The Mahageeta, Vol 1 #5 · 3 mentions · 15 September 1976
    “Patanjali has said, "Yoga is the stopping of chitta-vritti -- projections of the mind."”
  130. The Mahageeta, Vol 1 #9 · 3 mentions · 19 September 1976
    “Then Patanjali is your path, then Mahavir or Buddha.”
  131. The Psychology of the Esoteric #4: Kundalini Yoga: returning to the roots · 3 mentions · 25 July 1970
    “It is not as natural now as it was in the days when Patanjali developed his system of yoga.”
  132. The Revolution #2: The Stretched Soul Makes Music · 3 mentions · 12 February 1978
    “About this, the Eastern mystics are very clear -- from Patanjali to Krishnamurti, they all teach meditation.”
  133. The True Name, Vol 1 #5: The Art Of Listening · 3 mentions · 25 November 1974
    “Whatever Patanjali has written in the Yoga Sutras derives from the experience of his own body and no one else's.”
  134. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 7 #8: The rock bottom of no and yes · 3 mentions · 8 January 1976
    “This is what Patanjali calls nirbeej samadhi, seedless samadhi, because in the yes the seed can be carried still?”
  135. Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, Vol 8 #8: A second laugh -- for the first! · 3 mentions · 18 April 1976
    “In that moment you know -- not because Patanjali says so, not because your reason, intellect, says so.”
  136. Ek Omkar Satnam #5 · 3 mentions · 25 November 1974
    “Whatever Patanjali wrote in the Yoga Sutras was not the result of examining others’ bodies; it came from experience within his own body.”
  137. Geeta Darshan Vol. 15 #5 · 3 mentions
    “Patanjali too set forth the yamas and niyamas first.”
  138. Geeta Darshan Vol. 4 #12 · 3 mentions
    “Patanjali speaks of eight limbs, eight steps, eight parts that together make yoga complete.”
  139. Kahe Hot Adheer #3 · 3 mentions · 14 September 1979
    “See: even Patanjali said that Ishvara need not be accepted by the yogi; it is merely one support among many supports—one device.”
  140. Maha Geeta #5 · 3 mentions · 15 September 1976
    “Patanjali has said: Yoga is the cessation of the modifications of the mind.”
  141. Maha Geeta #9 · 3 mentions · 19 September 1976
    “Then the other way is there — Patanjali is your path; then Mahavira, then Buddha.”
  142. Maha Geeta #17 · 3 mentions · 27 September 1976
    “Buddha, Mahavira, Patanjali, Ashtavakra, Lao Tzu—all speak only of one thing: how to be free?”
  143. Maha Geeta #45 · 3 mentions · 25 November 1976
    “Therefore Patanjali too divides Samadhi into two.”
  144. Maha Geeta #90 · 3 mentions · 9 February 1977
    “This is exactly the difference between Patanjali and Ashtavakra.”
  145. Mrityoma Amritam Gamaya #2 · 3 mentions · 2 August 1979
    “Patanjali accepts God, but with a great qualification.”
  146. Piya Kokhojan Main Chali #1 · 3 mentions · 1 June 1980
    “And that is precisely why, brothers, the great sage Patanjali called his yoga Ashtanga Yoga—eight-limbed—meaning it is for men to do, not for women.””
  147. Tao Upanishad #90 · 3 mentions · 22 January 1975
    “Patanjali calls this kriya, pratyahara.”