Patañjali Yoga Sūtra 2.21
तदर्थ एव दृश्यस्यात्मा ||21||
The nature (ātmā | nom sg) of the seen (dṛśyasya | gen sg) [exists] solely (eva) for the purpose of this [seer] (tad-arthaḥ | nom sg).
Whatever you encounter (dṛśya) can become an invitation to meet it with awareness. Let perception serve understanding rather than possession.
The seen assumes the role of an object for puruṣa and exists for its sake. Once it has enabled experience and liberation and thereby fulfilled its purpose, this puruṣa no longer sees it. It appears destroyed for that puruṣa without ceasing to exist in itself.
For the sake of it alone is the entity of the visible.
Only for his purpose is the being of the spectacle.
Und dies ist der einzige Zweck, dem das Wesen des Sichtbaren [des Objektiven, der prakṛti] dient.
The being (ātman) of the object-of-sight is only for the sake of it [the Self].
Patañjali Yoga Sūtra 2.22
कृतार्थं प्रति नष्टमप्यनष्टं तदन्यसाधारणत्वात् ||22||
For one whose purpose has been fulfilled (kṛtārtham | acc sg m), [the seen] has ceased (naṣṭam | nom sg n ppp) with respect to [him] (prati). Nevertheless (api), this [seen] (tad | nom sg n) has not ceased (anaṣṭam | nom sg n ppp), because it is common to other [puruṣas] (anya-sādhāraṇatvāt | abl sg).
When an experience has fulfilled its purpose for you (kṛtārtha), you can let it go. The same event may still matter to someone else—listen to their perspective without clinging to your own.
For the one puruṣa whose purpose has been fulfilled, the seen has passed away; for other puruṣa it continues to exist because it is common to them and remains an object of experience. Since the powers of seeing and cognition are eternal, the Vyāsa-Bhāṣya also calls their conjunction beginningless.
Though it have ceased to be in respect of him who has effected what is required, it has not ceased (in regard to all), because it is common to others besides him.
Destroyed in the case of one whose purpose has been fulfilled, it is not destroyed, for she is common to others besides him.
Demjenigen [puruṣa] gegenüber, der seinen Zweck erreicht hat, ist sie [das Sichtbare, die prakṛti] vernichtet, und doch ist sie nicht vernichtet, weil sie allen von ihm verschiedenen [puruṣa’s] gemeinsam ist.
Though it has ceased [to be seen] in the case of one whose purpose is accomplished, it has not ceased to be, since it is common to others [besides himself].
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