Yoga Sutras
  • Chapter 1

< 3-35  >

sattva-puruṣayoḥ atyanta-asaṃkīrṇayoḥ pratyaya-aviśeṣaḥ bhogaḥ para-arthatvāt sva-artha-saṃyamāt-puruṣa-jñānam

Clarity and animating principle, absolutely unblended; worldly experience is indistinct psychic activities; complete restraint on purpose due to other and on own purpose, knowing of the animating principle


sattva - clarity

puruṣa - animating principle, self, consciousness, spirit; a person, man, a human

being; people

atyanta - absolutely

asaṃkīrṇa - unblended

pratyaya - psychic activity; cause; conception, assumption, notion, idea;

aviśeṣa - indistinct, without any difference, uniform

bhogā - worldly experience

para - higher, other

artha - purpose, aim; meaning; thing, object

sva - own; one's self

saṃyama - complete restraint

jñāna - knowing; knowledge; higher knowledge