We begin with a recap of sutra 10 in Book 4 in relation to compassion. We traversed the consideration of consciousness and its states (gunas), including a useful exercise for the Path and self-observer, and completed with considerations on Reality and if the mind is necessary for Reality – or its apprehension.

• LOS book 4 recap sutra 10- compassion macro and micro scale
• the purpose of Earth, and stopping the Wheel of Rebirth: LOS book 4 sutra 11
• LOS book 4 sutra 12 Reality, reality, sowing seeds
• LOS book 4 sutra 13a the gunas, the three states, again from Patanjali
• LOS book 4 sutra 13b. practical excercise with the gunas
• LOS book 4 sutras 14 & 15, the gunas and Thatness
• LOS book 4 sutra 16 without the mind, is there a reality_