Yoga-sutras (with Bhoja’s Rajamartanda)
by Rajendralala Mitra | 1883 | 103,575 words
The Yoga-Sutra 3.25, English translation with Commentaries. The Yogasutra of Patanjali represents a collection of aphorisms dealing with spiritual topics such as meditation, absorption, Siddhis (yogic powers) and final liberation (Moksha). The Raja-Martanda is officialy classified as a Vritti (gloss) which means its explanatory in nature, as opposed to being a discursive commentary.
Sūtra 3.25
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of Sūtra 3.25:
प्रवृत्त्यालोकन्यासात्सूक्ष्मव्यवहितविप्रकृष्टज्ञानम् ॥ ३.२५ ॥
pravṛttyālokanyāsātsūkṣmavyavahitaviprakṛṣṭajñānam || 3.25 ||
25. From contemplation of the light of the extremely luminous disposition, a knowledge (is acquired) of the subtile, the intercepted and the remote.
The Rajamartanda commentary by King Bhoja:
[English translation of the 11th century commentary by Bhoja called the Rājamārtaṇḍa]
[Sanskrit text for commentary available]
Another perfection.
[Read Sūtra 3.25]
The light of the extremely luminous disposition has already been described. (C. I, A. XXXVI). The “light” is that which expands the manifestation of the quality of goodness. From “contemplation” (nyāsa) of all things appertaining to it, i.e., from thinking of the objects irradiated by it, a knowledge is produced, in one’s own internal organ and the organs of sense endowed with special power, of the “subtile” (sūkṣma) such as atoms, &c., of the “intercepted” (vyavahita), as mines under the earth, and of the remote (viprakṛṣṭa), as the elixir of life existing on the other side of the Meru mountain.
Notes and Extracts
[Notes and comparative extracts from other commentaries on the Yogasūtra]
[The clear light of the quality of goodness is what is meant by “the light of the extremely luminous disposition.”]
Another perfection of a similar description.