Patañjali Yoga Sūtra 2.50
बाह्याभ्यन्तरस्तम्भवृत्तिर्देशकालसंख्याभिः परिदृष्टो दीर्घसूक्ष्मः ||50||
bāhyābhyantara-stambha-vṛttir deśa-kāla-saṃkhyābhiḥ paridṛṣṭo dīrgha-sūkṣmaḥ ||50|| Analysis ▾ Analysis ▴
[Prāṇāyāma] has external, internal and suspended activity (bāhyābhyantara-stambha-vṛttiḥ | nom sg m), is measured (paridṛṣṭaḥ | nom sg m) by place, time and number (deśa-kāla-saṃkhyābhiḥ | ins pl), and [becomes] prolonged and subtle (dīrgha-sūkṣmaḥ | nom sg m).
Notice exhalation, inhalation, and the natural pause (bāhya, abhyantara, stambha). Attend to location, duration, and count only while the breath remains comfortable, quiet, and subtle (dīrgha, sūkṣma).
External prāṇāyāma is motionlessness after exhalation; internal prāṇāyāma is motionlessness after inhalation. In the stambha form both cease through a single effort, like water contracting on every side upon a hot stone. All three are observed by place, time and number and measured as mild, moderate or intense; through practice they become long and subtle.
Put this, which is (1) Outer, (2) Inner and (3) Steady, peculiarised by place, time and number, is long or short.
is an external, internal or stationary function,—regulated by place, time and number,—protracted or subtile (long or short).
Diese aber hat als Funktionen Außenrichtung (- recaka), Innenrichtung (- pûraka) und Festhaltung (- kumbhaka), geschieht wohlbedächtig nach Ort, Zeit und Zahl, und ist langgezogen und zart.
External or internal or suppressed in fluctuation and is regulated <1> in place and time and number and is protracted and subtile.
Patañjali Yoga Sūtra 2.51
बाह्याभ्यन्तरविषयाक्षेपी चतुर्थः ||51||
bāhyābhyantara-viṣayākṣepī caturthaḥ ||51|| Analysis ▾ Analysis ▴
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bāhya
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external | |
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abhyantara
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viṣaya
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sphere | |
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ākṣepī
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transcending | |
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caturthaḥ
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fourth |
The fourth [prāṇāyāma] (caturthaḥ | nom sg m) transcends the external and internal sphere (bāhyābhyantara-viṣayākṣepī | nom sg m).
At times, the distinction between inner and outer breath may recede (caturtha). Let such a quiet moment happen without producing or prolonging it.
In the fourth prāṇāyāma, the external and internal domains are first delimited by place, time and number and then progressively transcended; after the stages have been mastered, both movements finally cease. The third differs in that cessation begins through a single effort, without first attending to an external or internal domain.
The fourth recognises both the outer and the inner spheres,
The fourth is dependent on the recognition of the outer and inner spheres.
Mit einem äußern oder inneren Objekte sich befassend ist die vierte.
The fourth [restraint of the breath] transcends the external and the internal object.
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