Yoga Sutras ~ Patanjali

Yoga Sutras ~ Patanjali pinned «INDEX ▪️Chapter 1 : Samadhi Pada ▪️Chapter 2 : Sadhana Pada ▪️Chapter 3 : Vibhuti Pada ▪️Chapter 4 : Kaivalya Pada»

INDEX ▪️Chapter 1 : Samadhi Pada ▪️Chapter 2 : Sadhana Pada ▪️Chapter 3 : Vibhuti Pada ▪️Chapter 4 : Kaivalya Pada

योगेन चित्तस्य पदेन वाचां । मलं शरीरस्य च वैद्यकेन ॥ योऽपाकरोत्तमं प्रवरं मुनीनां । पतञ्जलिं प्राञ्जलिरानतोऽस्मि ॥ 🙏🏼

Here end the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, the greatest thinker India has ever known, speaking to us across the ages, at a time when mankind, with its technical and social progress, and its paucity of human and spiritual values, is at a crossroads. With the ending of the sutras comes the hope of a new beginning, a new age, a rekindling of interest in Patanjali's universal philosophy, which aims for the good of all manki…

Verse 4.34 पुरुषार्थशून्यानां गुणानांप्रतिप्रसवः कैवल्यं स्वरूपप्रतिष्ठा वा चितिशक्तिरिति ॥३४॥ puruṣa-artha-śūnyānāṃ guṇānāṃ pratiprasavaḥ kaivalyaṃ svarūpa-pratiṣṭhā vā citi-śaktiḥ iti ||34|| The resolution in the inverse order of the qualities, perfect of any motive of action for the Purusa, is Kaivalya, or it is the establishment of the power of knowledge in its own nature.

Nature’s task is done, this unselfish task which our sweet nurse Nature had imposed upon herself. As it were, she gently took the self-forgetting soul by the hand, and showed him all the experiences in the universe, all manifestations, bringing him higher and higher through various bodies, till his glory came back, and he remembered his own nature. Then the kind mother went back the way she came, for others who have…

Verse 4.33 क्षणप्रतियोगी परिणामापरान्त निर्ग्राह्यः क्रमः ॥३३॥ kṣaṇa-pratiyogī pariṇāma-aparānta nirgrāhyaḥ kramaḥ ||33|| The changes that exist in relation to moments, and which are perceived at the other end (at the end of a series) are succession.

The sequence of time is related to the order of movements of the gunas of nature. Only the yogi recognizes this inter-relationship and is free from gunas. The uninterrupted succession of moments is called time. These movements of moments and the uninterrupted mutation of the gunas of nature are distinctly recognizable at the culminating point of transformation. The average person is not aware of moments: he understa…

Verse 4.32 ततः कृतार्थानं परिणामक्रमसमाप्तिर्गुणानाम् ॥३२॥ tataḥ kṛta-arthānāṃ pariṇāma-krama-samāptiḥ guṇānām ||32|| Then are finished the successive transformations of the qualities, they having attained the end.

Having transformed the yogi's consciousness by the radiation of the rays of the soul, the orderly mutations and rhythmic sequences of the qualities of nature, sattva, rajas and tamas come to an end. Their tasks are fulfilled, and they return to nature. The essence of intelligence and the essence of consciousness both now retire to rest in the abode of the soul. The master, the seer or the soul, is independent. He k…

Verse 4.31 तदा सर्वावरणमलापेतस्य ज्ञानस्यानन्त्यात् ज्ञेयमल्पम् ॥३१॥ tadā sarva-āvaraṇa-mala-apetasya jñānasya-ānantyāt-jñeyam-alpam ||31|| Then knowledge, bereft of covering and impurities, becoming infinite, the knowable becomes small.

The stream of virtue eradicates all the veils of impurities. The yogi is devoid of doubts, preconceptions and prejudices. The infinite light of the soul illumines him continuously, and his consciousness and the seer become one. For him, knowledge gained through the organs of cognition and through consciousness are insignificant compared with the infinite wisdom emanating from the soul. This sutra describes the char…