Our discussion started off right away with big considerations: what is I am consciousness and is there a We are consciousness?
Each of the four “books” or chapters of Patanjali’s timeless teaching (sutras), the fourth and final leaves no wiggle room for the egoic sense of self. In order to live a life of Awareness, one must engage the aspects of the psyche which seek to re-ify limitation – experienced as a satisfactory existence – in deference to the ways of a conscious life.