Sūtra 4.6

Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of Sūtra 4.6:

तत्र ध्यानजमनाशयम् ॥ ४.६ ॥

tatra dhyānajamanāśayam || 4.6 ||

6. Thereof the meditation-born one is without any residua.

The Rajamartanda commentary by King Bhoja:

[English translation of the 11th century commentary by Bhoja called the Rājamārtaṇḍa]

[Sanskrit text for commentary available]

The thinking principle which belongs to the perfections resulting from birth, &c., are produced by the same five causes, and yet the thinking principle produced by Samādhi is distinct from the others. To show this he says:

[Read Sūtra 4.6]

“The meditation-born” (dhyānaja) thinking principle or that which is produced by Samādhi, is, among the five, the one which is “without any residua” (anāśaya), i.e., without any residua of (former) work. This is the meaning.

Notes and Extracts

[Notes and comparative extracts from other commentaries on the Yogasūtra]

[Thinking principles are said to be of five kinds, because they proceed severally from birth, herbs, incantation, penances, and meditation (A. I). The word used (ja), means “born,” but the object is not to imply that the thinking principles are actually born of herbs, incantations, &c., but to indicate the training, habit of thought, disposition or impurities which it acquires under the five different circumstances. The first four are said to depend on the residua of former works, and the last to have nothing to rest upon, it being self-supporting, i.e., not resulting from the residua of any former work.]

To show that the thinking principle of the Yogī is distinct in its work, even as it is distinct from other thinking principles in being devoid of pain, &c., he says: