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Patanjali Yoga Sutra 4.1
Sanskrit Sutra
जन्मौषधि-मन्त्र-तपः-समाधिजाः सिद्धयः॥१॥
Swami Vivekananda's translation
The Siddhis (powers) are attained by birth, chemical means, power of words, mortification, or concentration.
Patanjali Yoga Sutra 4.2
Sanskrit Sutra
जात्यन्तरपरिणामः प्रकृत्यापूरात्॥२॥
Swami Vivekananda's translation
The change into another species is by the filling in of nature.
Patanjali Yoga Sutra 4.3
Sanskrit Sutra
निमित्तमप्रयोजकं प्रकृतीनां वरणभेदस्तु ततः क्षेत्रिकवत्॥३॥
Swami Vivekananda's translation
Good and bad deeds are not the direct causes in the transformations of nature, but they act as breakers of obstacles to the evolutions of nature: as a farmer breaks the obstacles to the course of water, which then runs down by its own nature.
Patanjali Yoga Sutra 4.4
Sanskrit Sutra
निर्माणचित्तान्यस्मितामात्रात्॥४॥
Swami Vivekananda's translation
From egoism alone proceed the created minds.
Patanjali Yoga Sutra 4.5
Sanskrit Sutra
प्रवृत्तिभेदे प्रयोजकं चित्तमेकमनेकेषाम्॥५॥
Swami Vivekananda's translation
Though the activities of the different created minds are various, the one original mind is the controller of them all.
Patanjali Yoga Sutra 4.6
Sanskrit Sutra
तत्र ध्यानजमनाशयम्॥६॥
Swami Vivekananda's translation
Among the various Chittas, that which is attained by Samadhi is desireless.
Patanjali Yoga Sutra 4.7
Sanskrit Sutra
कर्माशुक्लाकृष्णं योगिनस्त्रिविधमितरेषाम्॥७॥
Swami Vivekananda's translation
Works are neither black nor white for the Yogis; for others they are threefold — black, white, and mixed.
Patanjali Yoga Sutra 4.8
Sanskrit Sutra
ततस्तद्विपाकानुगुणानामेवाभिव्यक्तिर्वासनानाम्॥८॥
Swami Vivekananda's translation
From these threefold works are manifested in each state only those desires (which are) fitting to that state alone. (The others are held in abeyance for the time being.)
Patanjali Yoga Sutra 4.9
Sanskrit Sutra
जाति-देश-काल-व्यवहितानामप्यानन्तर्यं स्मृतिसंस्कारयोरेकरूपत्वात्॥९॥
Swami Vivekananda's translation
There is consecutiveness in desires, even though separated by species, space, and time, there being identification of memory and impressions.
Patanjali Yoga Sutra 4.10
Sanskrit Sutra
तासामनादित्वं चाशिषो नित्यत्वात्॥१०॥
Swami Vivekananda's translation
Thirst for happiness being eternal, desires are without beginning.
Patanjali Yoga Sutra 4.11
Sanskrit Sutra
हेतुफलाश्रयालम्बनैः संगृहीतत्वादेषामभावे तदभावः॥११॥
Swami Vivekananda's translation
Being held together by cause, effect, support, and objects, in the absence of these is its absence.
Patanjali Yoga Sutra 4.12
Sanskrit Sutra
अतीतानागतं स्वरूपतोऽस्त्यध्वभेदाद्धर्माणाम्॥१२॥
Swami Vivekananda's translation
The past and future exist in their own nature, qualities having different ways.
Patanjali Yoga Sutra 4.13
Sanskrit Sutra
ते व्यक्त-सूक्ष्मा गुणात्मानः॥१३॥
Swami Vivekananda's translation
They are manifested or fine, being of the nature of the Gunas.
Patanjali Yoga Sutra 4.14
Sanskrit Sutra
परिणामैकत्वाद्वस्तुतत्त्वम्॥१४॥
Swami Vivekananda's translation
The unity in things is from the unity in changes.
Patanjali Yoga Sutra 4.15
Sanskrit Sutra
वस्तुसाम्ये चित्तभेदात्तयोर्विभक्तः पन्थाः॥१५॥
Swami Vivekananda's translation
Since perception and desire vary with regard to the same object, mind and object are of different nature.
Patanjali Yoga Sutra 4.16
Sanskrit Sutra
तदुपरागापेक्षित्वाच्चित्तस्य वस्तु ज्ञाताज्ञातम्॥१६॥
Swami Vivekananda's translation
Things are known or unknown to the mind, being dependent on the colouring which they give to the mind.
Patanjali Yoga Sutra 4.17
Sanskrit Sutra
सदा ज्ञाताश्चित्तवृत्तयस्तत्प्रभोः पुरुषस्यापरिणामित्वात्॥१७॥
Swami Vivekananda's translation
The states of the mind are always known, because the lord of the mind, the Purusha, is unchangeable.
Patanjali Yoga Sutra 4.18
Sanskrit Sutra
न तत् स्वाभासं दृश्यत्वात्॥१८॥
Swami Vivekananda's translation
The mind is not self-luminous, being an object.
Patanjali Yoga Sutra 4.19
Sanskrit Sutra
एकसमये चोभयानवधारणम्॥१९॥
Swami Vivekananda's translation
From its being unable to cognise both at the same time.
Patanjali Yoga Sutra 4.20
Sanskrit Sutra
चित्तान्तरदृश्ये बुद्धिबुद्धेरतिप्रसङ्गः स्मृतिसङ्करश्च॥२०॥
Swami Vivekananda's translation
Another cognising mind being assumed, there will be no end to such assumptions, and confusion of memory will be the result.
Patanjali Yoga Sutra 4.21
Sanskrit Sutra
चितेरप्रतिसंक्रमायास्तदाकारापत्तौ स्वबुद्धि-संवेदनम्॥२१॥
Swami Vivekananda's translation
The essence of knowledge (the Purusha) being unchangeable, when the mind takes its form, it becomes conscious.
Patanjali Yoga Sutra 4.22
Sanskrit Sutra
द्रष्टृदृश्योपरक्तं चित्तं सर्वार्थम्॥२२॥
Swami Vivekananda's translation
Coloured by the seer and the seen the mind is able to understand everything.
Patanjali Yoga Sutra 4.23
Sanskrit Sutra
तदसंख्येयवासनाभिश्चित्रमपि परार्थं संहत्यकारित्वात्॥२३॥
Swami Vivekananda's translation
The mind, though variegated by innumerable desires, acts for another (the Purusha), because it acts in combination.
Patanjali Yoga Sutra 4.24
Sanskrit Sutra
विशेषदर्शिन आत्मभाव-भावनाविनिवृत्तिः॥२४॥
Swami Vivekananda's translation
For the discriminating, the perception of the mind as Atman ceases.
Patanjali Yoga Sutra 4.25
Sanskrit Sutra
तदा विवेकनिम्नं कैवल्यप्राग्भावं चित्तम्॥२५॥
Swami Vivekananda's translation
Then, bent on discriminating, the mind attains the previous state of Kaivalya (isolation).[3]
Patanjali Yoga Sutra 4.26
Sanskrit Sutra
तच्छिद्रेषु प्रत्ययान्तराणि संस्कारेभ्यः॥२६॥
Swami Vivekananda's translation
The thoughts that arise as obstructions to that are from impressions.
Patanjali Yoga Sutra 4.27
Sanskrit Sutra
हानमेषां क्लेशवदुक्तम्॥२७॥
Swami Vivekananda's translation
Their destruction is in the same manner as of ignorance, egoism, etc., as said before (II.10).
Patanjali Yoga Sutra 4.28
Sanskrit Sutra
प्रसंख्यानेऽप्यकुसीदस्य सर्वथा विवेकख्यातेर्धर्ममेघः समाधिः॥२८॥
Swami Vivekananda's translation
Even when arriving at the right discriminating knowledge of the essences, he who gives up the fruits, unto him comes, as the result of perfect discrimination, the Samadhi called the cloud of virtue.
Patanjali Yoga Sutra 4.29
Sanskrit Sutra
ततः क्लेशकर्मनिवृत्तिः॥२९॥
Swami Vivekananda's translation
From that comes cessation of pain and works.
Patanjali Yoga Sutra 4.30
Sanskrit Sutra
तदा सर्वावरणमलापेतस्य ज्ञानस्याऽनन्त्याज्ज्ञेयमल्पम्॥३०॥
Swami Vivekananda's translation
The knowledge, bereft of covering and impurities, becoming infinite, the knowable becomes small.
Patanjali Yoga Sutra 4.31
Sanskrit Sutra
ततः कृतार्थानां परिणामक्रमसमाप्तिर्गुणानाम्॥३१॥
Swami Vivekananda's translation
Then are finished the successive transformations of the qualities, they having attained the end.
Patanjali Yoga Sutra 4.32
Sanskrit Sutra
क्षणप्रतियोगी परिणामापरान्तनिर्ग्राह्यः क्रमः॥३२॥
Swami Vivekananda's translation
The changes that exist in relation to moments and which are perceived at the other end (at the end of a series) are succession.
Patanjali Yoga Sutra 4.33
Sanskrit Sutra
पुरुषार्थशून्यानां गुणानां प्रतिप्रसवः कैवल्यं स्वरूपप्रतिष्ठा वा चितिशक्तेरिति॥३३॥
Swami Vivekananda's translation
The resolution in the inverse order of the qualities, bereft of any motive of action for the Purusha, is Kaivalya, or it is the establishment of the power of knowledge in its own nature.