Patañjali Yoga Sūtra 2.28
योगाङ्गानुष्ठानादशुद्धिक्षये ज्ञानदीप्तिरा विवेकख्यातेः ||28||
yogāṅgānuṣṭhānād aśuddhi-kṣaye jñāna-dīptir ā viveka-khyāteḥ ||28|| Analysis ▾ Analysis ▴
Through the practice of the limbs of yoga (yogāṅgānuṣṭhānāt | abl sg), as impurity dwindles (aśuddhi-kṣaye | loc absl sg), the light of knowledge (jñāna-dīptiḥ | nom sg) arises, extending as far as (ā) discriminative knowledge [of puruṣa and prakṛti] (viveka-khyāteḥ | abl sg).
Practise the different limbs of yoga (yogāṅga) not as a test but as mutual support. Over time, confusion may recede and orientation grow brighter (jñāna-dīpti).
Through practice of the eight limbs of yoga, impurity—identified as fivefold erroneous cognition—is destroyed. Correct knowledge appears in the same measure and grows into cognition of the difference between guṇa and puruṣa. Practice is both the cause that separates one from impurity and the cause by which discriminative knowledge is attained; the Vyāsa-Bhāṣya places these two functions within a scheme of nine kinds of cause.
Till there is discriminative knowledge there is from the practice of the things subservient to the yoga an illumination (more or less brilliant) of knowledge (which is operative) in the removal of impurity.
On the decay of impurity through the practice of the accessories of yoga, there is an enlightenment of consciousness, till discriminative knowledge is accomplished.
Indem durch das Betreiben der Glieder des Yoga die Unreinheit verschwindet, entflammt sich das Wissen bis zur Erkenntnis des Unterschiedes [zwischen prakṛti und puruṣa].
After the aids to yoga have been followed up, when the impurity has dwindled, there is an enlightenment of perception reaching up to the discriminative discernment.
Patañjali Yoga Sūtra 2.29
यमनियमासनप्राणायामप्रत्याहारधारणाध्यानसमाधयो ऽष्टावङ्गानि ||29||
yama-niyamāsana-prāṇāyāma-pratyāhāra-dhāraṇā-dhyāna-samādhayo 'ṣṭāv aṅgāni ||29|| Analysis ▾ Analysis ▴
Yama, niyama, seated posture, regulation of the breath, withdrawal of the senses, fixed attention, meditation and samādhi (yama-niyamāsana-prāṇāyāma-pratyāhāra-dhāraṇā-dhyāna-samādhayaḥ | nom pl) [are] the eight (aṣṭau | nom pl) limbs (aṅgāni | nom pl).
Yoga unfolds through relationship and self-care (yama, niyama), body and breath (āsana, prāṇāyāma), and the way you meet the senses and attention (pratyāhāra, dhāraṇā, dhyāna, samādhi). Let the eight limbs (aṣṭāṅga) complement one another.
The Vyāsa-Bhāṣya announces that it will explain the practice and nature of the eight limbs in the order given.
The eight thing subservients (to concentration) are (1) Forbearance, (2) Religious observance, (3) Postures, (4) Suppression of the breath, (5) Restraint, (6) Attention, (7) Contemplation and (8) Meditation.
Restraint (or Forbearance), Observance, Posture, Regulation of Breath, Abstraction, Concentration, Contemplation, and Meditation—are the eight accessories.
Zucht, Selbstzucht, Sitzen, Atemregelung, Einziehen [der Organe], Fesselung [des Cittam], Meditation und Versenkung sind die acht Glieder.
Abstentions and observances and postures and regulations-of-the-breath and withdrawal-of-the-senses and fixed attention and contemplation and concentration are the eight aids.
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