Patanjali Yoga Sutra 3.44

Sanskrit Sutra

बहिरकल्पिता वृत्तिर्महाविदेहा ततः प्रकाशावरणक्षयः॥४४॥

Swami Vivekananda's translation

By making Samyama on the “real modifications” of the mind, outside of the body, called great disembodiedness, comes disappearance of the covering to light.

Vyasa Bhashya (Sanskrit)

शरीराद्बहिमर्नसो वृत्तिलाभो विदेहा नाम धारणा। सा यदि शरीरप्रतिष्ठस्य मनसो बहिर्वृत्तिमात्रेण भवति सा कल्पितेत्युच्यते। या तु शरीरनिरपेक्षा वहिर्भूतस्यैव मनसो बहिर्वृत्तिः सा खल्वकल्पिता। तत्र कल्पितया साधयन्त्यकल्पिता महाविदेहामिति। यया परशरीराण्याविशन्ति योगिनः। ततश्च धारणातः प्रकाशात्मनो बुद्धिसत्त्वस्य यदावरणं क्लेशकर्म विपाकत्रयं रजस्तमोशूलं तस्य च क्षयो भवति ॥ ४३ ॥

Vyasa Bhashya (English Translation)

The modification of the mind functioning outside the body is a Dharana called ‘disembodied’ (videha). If this occurs merely as an external function while the mind remains established in the body, it is called ‘imagined’ (kalpita). But that external functioning of the mind which is completely independent of the body and actually external to it is indeed ‘unimagined’ (akalpita). Through the imagined [videha], they accomplish the unimaginied [videha], which is called the ‘great disembodiedness’ (maha-videha). It is by this that yogis enter into other bodies. And from this Dharana, the covering over the illuminating sattva of the intellect—consisting of the threefold afflictions (kleshas), actions (karma), and their fruitions (vipaka), rooted in rajas and tamas—is destroyed. || 43 ||

Chapter link: Yoga Sutra Chapter 3