(03/85) (Lecture 1 of 8, Part 3 of 
Eight lectures by Swami Rama on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali emphasize practical advice on the methods of Yoga and Meditation. The 13 hours of talks have been divided into 85 parts of 10 minutes or less. Lecture 1 of 8, Part 3 of 8 includes: Yoga is basis of eastern psychology, modern psychology is not a finished product, yoga psychology is a finished product, psychology deals with conscious and unconscious mental process, yoga science goes to the very core of the soul from where springs mind and its modifications, know your own svarupa or own real self, then perfect control over mind and modifications, individual soul, behaviorism, Bhagavad Gita speaks of behaviorism, it is a yoga book, it is not a religious book, Hindus are custodians of it, Bible is finest of English literature, Shakespeare, Keats, Shelly, six darshanas or streams of philosophy, yoga darshana is one of most ancient darshanas, the date of Patanjali can never be known by historians because Patanjali was not any human being, it’s a surname, Yajnavalkya, Patanjali, Vyasa, these words were not any particular human beings, if there were there were many Patanjalis, may Vyasas, according to Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, one who was first born was first teacher of yoga, first teacher of yoga was not Patanjali, he was codifier, first teacher of yoga was Hiranyagarbha, Patanjali only systematized and organized the study and teachings of yoga and made the aphorisms of yoga, not …
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