When you are steadfast in your abstention of thoughts of harm directed toward yourself and others, all living creatures will cease to feel fear in your presence. Patanjali More Quotes by Patanjali More Quotes From Patanjali Perfection in asana is achieved when the effort to perform it becomes effortless and the infinite being within is reached. Patanjali asana effort perfection Knowledge born of the finest discrimination takes us to the farthest shore. It is intuitive, omniscient, and beyond all divisions of time and space. Patanjali discrimination space time knowledge Ignorance is the failure to discriminate between the permanent and the impermanent, the pure and the impure, bliss and suffering, the Self and the non-Self. Patanjali failure ignorance suffering self The cause of suffering is that the unbounded Self is overshadowed by the world. Patanjali cause suffering self world