Yoga-sutras (with Bhoja’s Rajamartanda)
by Rajendralala Mitra | 1883 | 103,575 words
The Yoga-Sutra 4.25, 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 4.25
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of Sūtra 4.25:
तदा विवेकनिम्नं कैवल्यप्राग्भारं चित्तम् ॥ ४.२५ ॥
tadā vivekanimnaṃ kaivalyaprāgbhāraṃ cittam || 4.25 ||
25. Then the thinking principle is turned towards discriminative knowledge, and bowed down by the weight of commencing isolation.
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 was turned outwards by ignorance, to derive the fruit of experiencing worldly objects, deflects now towards “discriminative knowledge,” (viveka) i.e., turns inward towards the path of discriminative knowledge, and is “bowed down by the weight of coming isolation,” (kaivalya-prāgbhāra) i.e., the fruit of isolation, or the commencement of isolation.
Notes and Extracts
[Notes and comparative extracts from other commentaries on the Yogasūtra]
[When the belief aforesaid is effected, the thinking principle drops the cosmos, and turns inward to the cultivation of discriminative knowledge, and is overpowered by the sense of isolation which begins to sprout in him.]
Now, by describing the causes of the impediments which occur in the thinking principle flowing towards discrimination, he points out the means of overcoming them.