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Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, an ancient Yoga Source-Book
The author: Patanjali
The translator: Charles Johnston, a Dublin University Sanskrit prizeman etc.
The book: A very terse and rich source in maturing yoga.
First English edition 1949. The translation is in the public domain.
IV Significant Illumination:
1 ◊
Psychic and spiritual powers may be inborn, or they may be gained by the use of drugs, or by incantations,
or by fervor, or by Meditation.
2 ◊
The transfer of powers from one venture to another comes through the flow of the natural creative forces.
3 ◊
The apparent, immediate cause is not the true cause of the creative nature-powers; but, like the husbandman
in his field, it takes obstacles away.
4 ◊
Vestures of consciousness are built up in conformity with the Boston of the feeling of selfhood.
5 ◊
In the different fields of manifestation, the Consciousness, though one, is the elective cause of many states
of consciousness.
6 ◊
Among states of consciousness, that which is born of Contemplation is free from the seed of future sorrow.
7 ◊
The works of followers after Union make neither for bright pleasure nor for dark pain The works of others
make for pleasure or pain, or a mingling of these.
8 ◊
From the force inherent in works comes the manifestation of those dynamic mind images which are conformable
to the ripening out of each of these works.
9 ◊
Works separated by different nature, or place, or time, are brought together by the correspondence between
memory and dynamic impression.
10 ◊
The series of dynamic mind-images is beginning-less, because Desire is everlasting.
11 ◊
Since the dynamic mind-images are held together by impulses of desire, by the wish for personal reward, by
the substratum of mental habit, by the support of outer things desired; therefore, when these cease, the
self reproduction of dynamic mind-images ceases.
12 ◊
The difference between that which is past and that which is not yet come, according to their natures, depends
on the difference of phase of their properties.
13 ◊
These properties, whether manifest or latent, are of the nature of the Three Potencies.
14 ◊
The external manifestation of an object takes place when the transformations ore in the same phase.
15 ◊
The paths of material things and of states of consciousness are distinct, as is manifest from the fact that
the same object may produce different impressions in different minds.
16 ◊
Nor do material objects defend upon a single mind, for how could they remain objective to others, if that
mind ceased to think of them?
17 ◊
An object is perceived, or not perceived, according as the mind is, or is not, tinged with the color of
the object.
18 ◊
The movements of the psychic nature are perpetually objects of perception, since the Spiritual Man, who is
the lord of them, remains unchanging.
19 ◊
The Mind is not self-luminous, since it can be seen as an object.
20 ◊
Nor could the Mind at the same time know itself and things external to it.
21 ◊
If the Mind be thought of as seen by another more inward Mind, then there would be an endless series of perceiving
Minds, and a confusion of memories.
22 ◊
When the psychical nature takes on the form of the spiritual intelligence, by reflecting it, then the Self
becomes conscious of its own spiritual intelligence.
23 ◊
The psychic nature, taking on the color of the Seer and of things seen, leads to the perception of all objects.
24 ◊
The psychic nature, which has been printed with mind-images of innumerable material things, exists now for
the Spiritual Man, building for him.
25 ◊
For him who discerns between the Mind and the Spiritual Man, there comes perfect fruition of the longing
after the real being of the Self.
26 ◊
Thereafter, the whole personal being bends toward illumination, toward Eternal Life.
27 ◊
In the internals of the battle, other thoughts will arise, through the impressions of the dynamic mind-images.
28 ◊
These are to be overcome as it was taught that hindrances should be overcome.
29 ◊
He who, after he has attained, is wholly free from self, reaches the essence of all that can be known, gathered
together like a cloud. This is the true spiritual consciousness.
30 ◊
Thereon comes surcease from sorrow and the burden of toil.
31 ◊
When all veils are rent, all stains washed away, his knowledge becomes infinite; little remains for him to
know.
32 ◊
Thereafter comes the completion of the series of transformations of the three nature potencies, since their
purpose is attained.
33 ◊
The series of transformations is divided into moments. When the series is completed, time gives place to
duration.
34 ◊
Pure spiritual life is, therefore, the inverse resolution of the potencies of Nature, which have emptied
themselves of their value for the Spiritual man; or it is the return of the power of pure Consciousness to
its essential form.
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