The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, like all sacred texts that have withstood the test of time—in this case many centuries (it was written in the second century BCE), is brimming with wisdom. You could take an entire lifetime or three, and still not glean the entirety of its offerings, we are taking one sutra at a time and have arrived at SUTRA 2.5 in today’s episode…
“Ignorance is regarding the impermanent as permanent, the impure as pure, the painful as pleasant, and the non-Self as the Self.”
And the introductory words of the sound medicine man Kailash Kokopelli inspired me to look into the meaning of Kokopelli
Kokopelli is a fertility deity, usually depicted as a humpbackedfluteplayer (often with feathersor antenna-like protrusions on his head), who is veneratedby some Native Americancultures in the Southwestern United States. Like most fertility deities, Kokopelli presides over both childbirthand agriculture. He is also a trickstergod and master braider and represents the spirit of music and will therefore reside over today’s carefully curated playlist of carefully curated world contemporary tunes by… see CBA creative commons listing…