Patañjali Yoga Sūtra 1.41
क्षीणवृत्तेरभिजातस्येव मणेर्ग्रहीतृग्रहणग्राह्येषु तत्स्थतदञ्जनता समापत्तिः ||41||
kṣīṇa-vṛtter abhijātasyeva maṇer grahītṛ-grahaṇa-grāhyeṣu tat-stha-tad-añjanatā samāpattiḥ ||41|| Analysis ▾ Analysis ▴
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kṣīṇa
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dwindled | |
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vṛtteḥ
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whose fluctuations | |
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abhijātasya
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clear | |
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iva
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like | |
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maṇeḥ
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crystal, jewel | |
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grahītṛ
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grasper | |
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grahaṇa
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grasping | |
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grāhyeṣu
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object to be grasped | |
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tat
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on that | |
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stha
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resting | |
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tad
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by that | |
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añjanatā
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taking on its colour | |
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samāpattiḥ
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Samāpatti |
In [a Citta] whose fluctuations have dwindled (kṣīṇa-vṛtteḥ | gen sg n), Samāpatti (samāpattiḥ | nom sg) [consists] – as (iva) in the case of a clear (abhijātasya | gen sg m) jewel (maṇeḥ | gen sg) – in relation to the grasper, the act of grasping or the object to be grasped (grahītṛ-grahaṇa-grāhyeṣu | loc pl), in resting upon and taking the colour of whichever [factor] is present (tat-stha-tad-añjanatā | nom sg).
In listening, become as clear as a transparent crystal (maṇi): receptive without immediately colouring what you hear. In a posture, too, you can meet its form without losing sensitivity.
When its cognitive movements have subsided, citta resembles a clear crystal: it is colored by its respective support and appears in that support's form. The Bhāṣya develops this for the apprehended (grāhya)—subtle elements, gross things, and the differentiated universe—for apprehension (grahaṇa) as the senses, and for the apprehender (grahītṛ) as Puruṣa, including a liberated Puruṣa. This assumption of the form of that in which citta rests is called samāpatti.
To that (mind whose ‘modifications’ all save that there remains some one object of meditation) have disappeared, there occurs, as (occurs) to a noble gem (E.G. rock-crystal when brought into conjunction with a coloured substance), when intent on any one out of these - viz. the perceiver, the perception and the perceivable, A tinging thereby.
To him of over-powered functions, like that of a clear gem, there is,—with regard to the cogniser, the means of cognition, and the cognised—the modification, consciousness or state of similarity, identity, or cosubstantiation with these, of that which rests in them.
Sind die Funktionen des Cittam unterdrückt, so erfolgt, wie für einen klaren Kristall, bei Erkenner, Erkennen, und Erkenntnisobjekt als das Aufgehen in dem letztern und das Durchdrungenwerden von ihm die samāpatti (Erhebung).
[The mind-stuff] from which, as from a precious gem, fluctuations have dwindled away, reaches the balanced-state, which, in the case of the knower or of the process-of-knowing or of the object-to-be-known, is in the state of resting upon [one] of these [three] and in the state of being tinged by [one] of these [three].
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