Traditional text
Yoga Sūtra
Patanjali · 15 verses quoted
Sutra 1.2
yogaścittavṛttinirodhaḥ
Sutra 1.20
श्रद्धावीर्यस्मृतिसमाधिप्रज्ञापूर्वक इतरेषाम् ॥ १.२० ॥
śraddhāvīryasmṛtisamādhiprajñāpūrvaka itareṣām
Translation To others (this Samadhi) comes through faith, energy, memory, concentration, and discrimination of the real.
Sutra 1.21
तीव्रसंवेगानामासन्नः ॥ १.२१ ॥
tīvrasaṃvegānāmāsannaḥ
Translation Success is speedy for the extremely energetic.
Sutra 1.22
मृदुमध्याधिमात्रत्वात् ततोऽपि विशेषः ॥ १.२२ ॥
mṛdumadhyādhimātratvāt tato’pi viśeṣaḥ
Translation The success of Yogis differs according as the means they adopt are mild, medium, or intense.
Sutra 1.30
व्याधिस्त्यानसंशयप्रमादालस्याविरति-भ्रान्तिदर्शनालब्धभूमिकत्वानवस्थितत्वानिचित्तविक्षेपास्तेऽन्तरायाः ॥ १.३० ॥
vyādhistyānasaṃśayapramādālasyāvirati-bhrāntidarśanālabdhabhūmikatvānavasthitatvānicittavikṣepāste’ntarāyāḥ
Translation Disease, mental laziness, doubt, lack of enthusiasm, lethargy, clinging to sense-enjoyments, false perception, non-attaining concentration, and falling away from the state when obtained, are the obstructing distractions.
Sutra 1.31
दुःखदौर्मनस्याङ्गमेजयत्वश्वासप्रश्वासा विक्षेपसहभुवः ॥ १.३१ ॥
duḥkhadaurmanasyāṅgamejayatvaśvāsapraśvāsā vikṣepasahabhuvaḥ
Translation Grief, mental distress, tremor of the body, irregular breathing, accompany non-retention of concentration.
Sutra 1.33
मैत्रीकरुणामुदितोपेक्षणां सुखदुःखपुण्यापुण्यविषयाणां भावनातश्चित्तप्रसादनम् ॥ १.३३ ॥
Translation Friendship, mercy, gladness and indifference, being thought of in regard to subjects, happy, unhappy, good and evil respectively, pacify the Chitta.
Sutra 2.3
अविद्यास्मितारागद्वेषाभिनिवेशाः क्लेशाः ॥ २.३ ॥
avidyāsmitārāgadveṣābhiniveśāḥ kleśāḥ
Translation The pain-bearing obstructions are — ignorance, egoism, attachment, aversion, and clinging to life.
Sutra 2.5
अनित्याशुचिदुःखानात्मसु नित्यशुचिसुखात्मख्यातिरविद्या ॥ २.५ ॥
anityāśuciduḥkhānātmasu nityaśucisukhātmakhyātiravidyā
Translation Ignorance is taking the non-eternal, the impure, the painful, and the non-Self for the eternal, the pure, the happy, and the Atman or Self (respectively).
Sutra 2.7
सुखानुशयी रागः ॥ २.७ ॥
sukhānuśayī rāgaḥ
Translation Attachment is that which dwells on pleasure.
Sutra 2.9
स्वरसवाही विदुषोऽपि तथारूढोऽभिनिवेशः ॥ २.९ ॥
svarasavāhī viduṣo’pi tathārūḍho’bhiniveśaḥ
Translation Flowing through its own nature, and established even in the learned, is the clinging to life.
Sutra 2.30
अहिंसासत्यास्तेयब्रह्मचर्यापरिग्रहा यमाः ॥ २.३० ॥
ahiṃsāsatyāsteyabrahmacaryāparigrahā yamāḥ
Translation Non-killing, truthfulness, non-stealing, continence, and non-receiving are called Yamas.
Sutra 2.32
शौचसंतोषतपःस्वाध्यायेश्वरप्रणिधानानि नियमाः ॥ २.३२ ॥
śaucasaṃtoṣatapaḥsvādhyāyeśvarapraṇidhānāni niyamāḥ
Translation Internal and external purification, contentment, mortification, study, and worship of God are the Niyamas.
Sutra 2.35
अहिंसाप्रतिष्ठायां तत्सन्निधौ वैरत्यागः ॥ २.३५ ॥
ahiṃsāpratiṣṭhāyāṃ tatsannidhau vairatyāgaḥ
Translation Non-killing being established, in his presence all enmities cease (in others).
Sutra 2.36
सत्यप्रतिष्ठायां क्रियाफलाश्रयत्वम् ॥ २.३६ ॥
satyapratiṣṭhāyāṃ kriyāphalāśrayatvam
Translation By the establishment of truthfulness the Yogi gets the power of attaining for himself and others the fruits of work without the works.
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