Yoga Sutras
  • Chapter 1

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kṣaṇa-tat-kramayoḥ samyamāt-viveka-jaṃ jñānam

From complete restraint on moment and sequence; that knowing born of discrimination


kṣaṇa - moment

tat - that, this

krama - sequence; order; series; regular arrangement; succession; progressing step by step; in regular course; gradually, by degrees

saṃyama - complete restraint

viveka - discrimination, discernment; the faculty of distinguishing and classifying things according to their real properties; the power of separating the invisible Spirit from the visible world (or spirit from matter); truth from untruth

ja - born

jñāna - knowing; knowledge; higher knowledge