Yoga Sutras of Patanjali · Chapter 3
The Chapter on Accomplishments
55 verses · Patanjali completes the eight limbs with concentration, meditation, and absorption — together called samyama — and catalogues the extraordinary powers (siddhis) arising from their disciplined application, while warning that attachment to such powers obstructs liberation.
Chapter 3
विभूति पादः
Vibhuti Pada
3.1
Dharana — concentration — is the binding of the mind-stuff to one place
3.2
Dhyana — meditation — is the unbroken continuous flow of cognition toward that single…
3.3
Samadhi is when only the object of meditation shines forth, as if the self-form of the…
3.4
These three — dharana, dhyana, samadhi — when practiced together on a single object are…
3.5
By mastery of sanyama, the light of wisdom dawns
3.6
The application of sanyama proceeds in stages
3.7
These three — dharana, dhyana, samadhi — are the inner limbs of yoga, in contrast to the…
3.8
Yet even these three inner limbs are outer in relation to the seedless samadhi
3.9
The transformation called nirodha occurs at the moment when the outgoing impressions…
3.10
By the strength of the restraining impressions, the flow of the mind becomes calm and…
3.11
The transformation toward samadhi is the gradual decline of the mind's many-directedness…
3.12
Then again, when the rising and subsiding cognitions become equal in content, that is the…
3.13
By this same model, the transformations of property, characteristic, and condition are…
3.14
The substratum is that which carries the latent, the manifest, and the indeterminate…
3.15
The difference in sequence is the cause of the difference in transformation
3.16
By sanyama on the three transformations (of property, characteristic, and condition),…
3.17
Word, meaning, and idea are usually confused with one another by mutual superimposition
3.18
By direct perception of the latent impressions in the mind, knowledge of previous births…
3.19
By sanyama on the cognition of another, knowledge of their mind arises
3.20
But that knowledge does not include the objects supporting the other's cognition, because…
3.21
By sanyama on the form of the body, when its power of being perceived is interrupted and…
3.22
Karma is of two kinds — actively manifesting and dormant
3.23
By sanyama on friendliness and the other (compassion, gladness, equanimity), the…
3.24
By sanyama on strengths such as that of the elephant, the corresponding strength arises
3.25
By directing the light of higher perception, knowledge of subtle, hidden, and remote…
3.26
By sanyama on the sun, knowledge of the worlds arises
3.27
By sanyama on the moon, knowledge of the arrangement of the stars arises
3.28
By sanyama on the pole star, knowledge of the movements of the stars arises
3.29
By sanyama on the navel center, knowledge of the arrangement of the body arises
3.30
By sanyama on the pit of the throat, hunger and thirst cease
3.31
By sanyama on the tortoise channel, steadiness arises
3.32
By sanyama on the light in the crown of the head, vision of the perfected ones arises
3.33
Or, by spontaneous illumination, all is known
3.34
By sanyama on the heart, knowledge of the mind arises
3.35
Experience arises from the failure to distinguish between sattva (the luminous mind) and…
3.36
From that knowledge of the Self arise intuitive hearing, touch, sight, taste, and smell —…
3.37
These powers are obstacles to samadhi, though they are accomplishments in the worldly…
3.38
By the loosening of the causes of bondage and by knowledge of the passages, the mind of…
3.39
By mastery of the upward-moving vital air (udana), the yogi rises above water, mud,…
3.40
By mastery of the equalizing vital air (samana), the yogi blazes with radiance
3.41
By sanyama on the relationship between the ear and space, divine hearing arises
3.42
By sanyama on the relationship between the body and space, and by coalescing with the…
3.43
The great discarnate state — a real (not imagined) mental function existing outside the…
3.44
By sanyama on the gross form, essential nature, subtle constituents, inherent connection,…
3.45
From that mastery of the elements arise the eight powers beginning with smallness — and…
3.46
Bodily perfection consists in beauty of form, grace, strength, and diamond-hard…
3.47
By sanyama on the process of perception, its essential nature, the I-am-ness within it,…
3.48
From mastery of the senses arise swiftness of mind, perception without sense-organs, and…
3.49
For the one whose discernment is only the distinction between sattva and Purusha,…
3.50
By dispassion even toward that highest discernment, when the seed of imperfection is…
3.51
When invited by celestial beings, the yogi should not yield to attachment or smug pride,…
3.52
By sanyama on the moment and its sequence, knowledge born of discrimination arises
3.53
From this discriminative knowledge arises the ability to distinguish between two objects…
3.54
The discriminative knowledge that is born of viveka — saving, embracing all objects and…
3.55
When sattva (the purified mind) and Purusha (the Self) attain equality of purity,…