Sacred Speech

Baba Rampuri reads from “Autobiography of a Sadhu”

“When I turned around, I saw myself reflected from every angle. In fact, I was in a room full of mirrors, and there were now thousands of me. The sky had vanished, replaced by a ceiling mirror, and when I looked up, my multitudes looked down on me. Hari Puri was no longer with me and I was sitting atop an abyss, in a world that consisted only of my own reflected image.”

Patanjali Yoga Sutras

Patanjali’s work, as well as its many commentaries by others, are “assuming,” as a given, the metaphysical dimensions of Speech.
The Yoga Sutras speak about consciousness, and Patanjali deploys the word for consciousness, citta, more than any other word.