Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

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1. Now then Yoga is being explained.

 

2. Yoga is the suppression of the modifications of the mind.

 

3. Then the Seer abides in Itself.

 

4. At other times the Seer appears to assume the form of the

modification of the mind.

 

5. They (modifications) fall into five varieties, of which some

are 'Klista' and the rest 'Aklista'.

 

6. (They are) Pramana, Viparyaya, Vikalpa, (dreamless) sleep and

recollection.

 

7. (Of these) Perception, inference and testimony (verbal

communication) constitutethe Pramanas.

 

8. Viparyaya or illusion is false knowledge formed of a thing as

other than what it is.

 

9. The modification called 'Vikalpa' is based on verbal cognition in

regard to a thingwhich does not exist. (It is a kind of useful

knowledge arising out of the meaning of a word but having no

corresponding reality. ).

 

10. Dreamless sleep is the mental modification produced by the

condition of inertia as the state of vacuity or negation (of waking

and dreaming).

 

to be continued...