ishvara-pranidhana
ईश्वरप्रणिधान ishvara-pranidhanaDevotion and surrender to the Lord; one of the niyamas and, for Patanjali, a direct means to absorption.
Where this term appears
- Is yoga Hindu? Is it a religion? Yoga
Patanjali also gives a real place to the divine, through ishvara-pranidhana , devotion to the Lord, as one means to the goal, though his Ishvara is a philosophical principle rather than a sectarian deity.
- Meditation and the Eight Limbs Yoga
Again five: shaucha , purity; santosha , contentment; tapas , austerity; svadhyaya , self-study; ishvara-pranidhana , surrender to the Lord.
- What Are the Yoga Sutras? Yoga
… Lord, a special purusha never touched by bondage, surrender to whom, ishvara-pranidhana , he offers as one of the swiftest means.
- What is Yoga? Yoga
…rusha never touched by suffering, and he offers devotion to Ishvara , Ishvara-pranidhana , as a real path to stillness (aphorisms 1.23 to 1.29, and again at 2.45).
- Yoga as a Darshana Philosophy
Devotion to the Lord ( ishvara-pranidhana ) is offered, almost in passing, as one direct road to the stillness the text is after (1.23), a road for those inclined to take it.
- The Yamas and Niyamas Yoga
And ishvara-pranidhana , surrender to the Lord, which Patanjali ranks so highly that he names it, on its own, a direct road to the highest absorption.