Vibhūti Pada: On Results, Discernment, & Restraint

Mapping the Path

Book three of the Yoga Sutras talks about the accomplishments that result from your Sadhana or Practice. These teachings on accomplishments or capacities are often misunderstood.

These are not rewards, nor signs of superiority. They are natural byproducts of sustained attention and refined perception. The essential question is not what arises, but who is entering these states.

If identification remains, capacity becomes dangerous. And the whole time during practice, the goal chitta vritti nirodhah is to be remembered.

This is why the path of yoga requires remembrance, humility, and restraint. Forgetting is easy. The mind returns quickly to habit. Without continuous awareness, intention collapses and attention follows the most familiar path—not the most truthful one.

Yoga is not the road less traveled by accident.
It requires slowing down.

And slowing down is not passive… it is essential for the nervous system, the body, and the mind to reorganize in truth.