Yoga is mind wave quieting.

Yoga is the cessation of mind.

The wisdom obtained in the higher states of consciousness is different from that obtained by inference and testimony as it refers to particulars.

When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your thoughts break their bonds.

The Yoga of action, leading to union with the soul is fiery aspiration, spiritual reading and devotion to Ishvara.

Sexual activity, and the thoughts and fantasies of sex, use up a great portion of our vital force. When that force is conserved through abstinence, it becomes sublimated as spiritual energy.

Yoga is the settling of the mind into silence. When the mind has settled, we are established in our essential nature, which is unbounded Consciousness. Our essential nature is usually overshadowed by the activity of the mind.