17 – Our Misinterpretation of What We Are | Patanjali Yoga Sutras | Swami Tattwamayananda
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Lecture by Swami Tattwamayananda. The lecture begins with explaining Yoga philosophy and Vedanta philosophy’s approaches to defining our fundamental misunderstanding that we are a psychophysical mechanism. We take the unreal to be the real. In Yoga, this is a cognitive error, but in Vedanta, this is taken as a fundamental category for the explanation of reality. Then the power of genuine surrender to God is illustrated by the example of a bohemian turned into a saint through contact with Sri Ramakrishna. Verses: II.3, II.4, II.5, I.8, II.1, I.28