PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS
Sanskrit text with Translation and Commentary By
Swami Vivekananda
Contents
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I - SAMADHI PADA
CHAPTER II - SADHANA PADA
CHAPTER III – VIBHOOTI PADA
Vibhooti Pada
Sutra
31. kanthakoope kshutpipasanivrittih
On the hollow of the throat (comes) cessation of hunger.
When a man is very hungry, if he can make Samyama on the pit of the throat hunger ceases.
32. koormanadyan sthairyam
On the nerve called Kurma (comes) fixity of the body.
When he is practising the body is not disturbed.
33. moordhajyotishi siddhadarshanam
On the light emanating from the top of the head sight of the Siddhas.
The Siddhas are beings who are a little above ghosts. When the Yogi concentrates his mind on the sop of his head he will see these Siddhas. The word Siddha does not refer to those men who have become free—a sense in which it is often used.
34. pratibhad va sarvam
Or by the power of Pratibha all knowledge.
All these can come without any Samyama to the man who has the power of Pratibha (enlightenment from purity). This is when a man has risen to a high state of Pratibha; then he has that great light. All things are apparent to him. Everything comes to him naturally, without making Samyama on anything.
35. hridaye chittasanvit
In the heart, knowledge of minds.
36.sattvapurushayoratyantasankeernnayoh pratyayavishesho bhogah pararthatvat svarthasanyamat purushajnanam Enjoyment comes by the non-discrimination of the very distant soul and Sattva. Its actions are for another; Samyama on this gives knowledge of the Purusa.
This power of non-attachment acquired through purity gives the Yogi the enlightenment called Pratibha.
37. tatah pratibhashravannavedanadarshasvadavarta jayante
From that arises the knowledge of hearing, touching, seeing, tasting, and smelling, belonging to Pratibha.
38. te samadhavupasargaa vyutthane siddhayah
These are obstacles to Samadhi; but they are powers in the worldly state.
If the Yogi knows all these enjoyments of the world it comes by the junction of the Purusa and the mind. If he wants to make Samyama on this, that they are two different things, nature and soul, he gets knowledge of the Purusa. From that arises discrimination. When he has got that discrimination he gets the Pratibha, the light of supreme genius. These powers, however, are obstructions to the attainment of the highest goal, the knowledge of the pure Self, and freedom; these are, as it were, to be met in the way, and if the Yogi rejects them, he attains the highest. If he is tempted to acquire these, his farther progress is barred.
39. bandhakarannashaithilyat pracharasanvedanach ch chittasya parashariraveshah When the cause of bondage has become loosened, the Yogi, by his knowledge of manifestation through the organs, enters another’s body.
The Yogi can enter a dead body, and make it get up and move, even while he himself is working in another body. Or he can enter a living body, and hold that man’s mind and organs in check, and for the time being act through the body of that man. That is done by the Yogi coming to this discrimination of Purusa and nature. If he wants to enter another’s body he makes a Samyama on that body and enters it, because, not only is his Soul omnipresent, but his mind also, according to the Yogi. It is one bit of the universal mind. Now, however, it can only work through the nerve currents in this body, but when the Yogi has loosened himself from these nerve currents, he will be able to work through other things.
40.udanajayajjalapangkakantakadishvasangg utkrantishch
By conquering the current called Udana the Yogi does not sink in water, or in swamps, and he can walk on thorns.
Udana is the name of the nerve current that governs the lungs, and all the upper parts of the body, and when he is master of it he becomes light in weight. He cannot sink in water; he can walk on thorns and sword baldes, and stand in fire, and so on.
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