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YOGA SUTRAS

KAIVALYA PADA

Chapter 4 Aphorisms

|| 4.01 ||

Absorption state, attains one, by birth or incantation

Or practices ascetic or concentration

(Commentary)

 

|| 4.02 ||

Change in structure is brought about in matter

When their qualities, one adjusts or alters.

(Commentary)

 

|| 4.03 ||

Removal of barriers make mind glow

Like cutting a dam, makes water flow

(Commentary)

 

|| 4.04 ||

With ego- sense one can create

Other's mind, at will manipulate

(Commentary)

 

|| 4.05 ||

On the recipient's mind depends

Extent of such influence

(Commentary)

 

|| 4.06 ||

Those of the meditative kind

Exert influence benign

(Commentary)

 

|| 4.07 ||

Yogi's actions not bound by dualities

Others, influenced by triple qualities

(Commentary)

 

|| 4.08 ||

Propensities from past actions, remain in memory deep

Manifest they when conditions ripe.

(Commentary)

 

|| 4.09 ||

Latent impressions, linked with memory remain.

Cease they not due to intervals of time, space or by a birth again.

(Commentary)

 

|| 4.10 ||

Tendencies are origin less

Even as desire for life is endless

(Commentary)

 

|| 4.11 ||

Desire, actions and the fruits that bind

Disappear when tendencies are not to find

(Commentary)

 

|| 4.12 ||

The past and the future exist in the present

Their evidence arise when given conditions ascend.

(Commentary)

 

|| 4.13 ||

Objects, their characteristics and subtleties

Depend on the nature of triple qualities.

(Commentary)

 

|| 4.14 ||

The object presents a single face

As the triple qualities, in union, surface

(Commentary)

 

|| 4.15 ||

The same object appears for several as different

As perception, on the eyes of the beholders depend

(Commentary)

 

|| 4.16 ||

Object, on the mind does not subsist

On mind's absence it ceases not to exist

(Commentary)

 

|| 4.17 ||

The perception of an object depends

On perceiver's interest and the object's presence

(Commentary)

 

|| 4.18 ||

The unchanging SELF always knows

Mind's moods and where it goes

(Commentary)

 

|| 4.19 ||

Mind, the object of perception

Is not the light, but a reflection

(Commentary)

 

|| 4.20 ||

Mind functions not in two different role

To see and to fabricate is an impossible goal

(Commentary)

 

|| 4.21 ||

If first mind were to on a second prevail

Disorder ensures and memories fail.

(Commentary)

 

|| 4.22 ||

Mind, de-linked from object it sees

Reflects perceiver as it IS

(Commentary)

 

|| 4.23 ||

Mind presents objects to perceiver

Reflect the perceiver to itself

(Commentary)

 

|| 4.24 ||

Mind, though tainted in many ways

Serve the cause of the Perceiver always.

(Commentary)

 

|| 4.25 ||

The desire to know the reality

Cease in one with clarity.

(Commentary)

 

|| 4.26 ||

The discriminating mind gravitates there

Where freedom is seen in full glare.

(Commentary)

 

|| 4.27 ||

Thoughts pour in, where there is regress.

Tendencies resurface blocking progress.

(Commentary)

 

|| 4.28 ||

Means of removal of latent impressions

Are much like that of afflictions.

(Commentary)

 

|| 4.29 ||

On the one who discriminates and desires not even the highest truth

Is showered rain clouds of virtues as tribute.

(Commentary)

 

|| 4.30 ||

Thence are removed afflictions

And so are actions

(Commentary)

 

|| 4.31 ||

With the overpowering impurities gone

There remain nothing to be known.

(Commentary)

 

|| 4.32 ||

With attachment eased out

The purpose is served

With qualities worked out

Sequence of change is severed.

(Commentary)

 

|| 4.33 ||

In the end it becomes clear

About succession of moments

And resulting impressions that appear

(Commentary)

 

|| 4.34 ||

Devoid of individuality

Free from triple quality

Subsumed by nature

Liberated forever

The conscious power

Dwells in one's own nature

(Commentary)