Patanjali Yoga Sutras - Knowledge Sheet 67 | Art of Living India

Patanjali Yoga Sutras - Knowledge Sheet 67 | Art of Living India“Ahimsa pratishtayam tat sannidhau vairatyagaha’’ (II Sutra 35)

Ahimsa = non-violence; Pratishtayam = established in; Tat = his; Aannidhau = presence; Vairatyagaha = violence will be dropped.
“When a person is esablished in non-violence, then violence is dropped in his or her presence.”

Yoga Sutras of Patanjali If you are established in non-violence, in your very presence violence will be dropped by other creatures. Someone comes to attack you. As soon as they come near you, because your vibrations are totally nonviolent, they drop down. They stop being violent. The contemporary of Buddha, many of you in the West might not have heard his name. His name isMahaveera. He is the promoter of Jainism, another religion. He emphasizes more on ahimsa. It is said that whenever he walked, twenty kilometers around him, people would drop all violence. The story goes even to that extent and says even the thorns would not prick anybody. The thorns would become soft and they would lie down. Ahimsa pratishtayam tat sannidhau vaira tyagaha. When you are established in non-violence in your presence, violence drops down in other creatures.