Patañjali Yoga Sūtra 3.24
बलेषु हस्तिबलादीनि ||24||
Through [Saṃyama] on strengths (baleṣu | loc pl), elephant-strength and similar [strengths] (hasti-balādīni | nom pl n) [arise].
While standing, find the stillness and grounded strength of an elephant: heavy feet, free breath, soft gaze. Explore strength not as hardness but as steady presence.
Through saṃyama on the strength of an elephant, the yogin becomes elephant-strong, according to the Vyāsa-Bhāṣya. The commentary also gives the strength of Garuḍa and the strength of the wind as examples.
The faculties of an elephant, etc., (are produced) by performing Sanyama (restraint) with regard to their faculties.
In powers, the power of the Elephant and the like.
Kräfte eines Elefanten usw. erfolgen [durch ihre Anwendung] auf dessen Kräfte.
As a result of constraint upon powers, the powers of an elephant and so on [arise].
Patañjali Yoga Sūtra 3.25
प्रवृत्त्यालोकन्यासात्सूक्ष्मव्यवहितविप्रकृष्टज्ञानम् ||25||
pravṛtty-āloka-nyāsāt sūkṣma-vyavahita-viprakṛṣṭa-jñānam ||25|| Analysis ▾ Analysis ▴
By directing the light of a [special] cognitive activity (pravṛtty-āloka-nyāsāt | abl sg) [onto an object], knowledge of [objects that are] subtle, concealed, and distant (sūkṣma-vyavahita-viprakṛṣṭa-jñānam | nom sg) [arises].
Cast the light of your attention on one small, previously overlooked aspect of an experience. Become still enough to sense what is subtle beneath the obvious.
The Vyāsa-Bhāṣya connects this Sūtra with a special inner illumination of perception (pravṛttyāloka). When the yogin directs this light toward an object, even objects that are ordinarily too subtle (sūkṣma), concealed (vyavahita), or distant (viprakṛṣṭa) become knowable.
A knowledge of the minute, concealed and distant (objects is produced) by directing towards them the faculty of perception, which is (produced by) the performance of Sanyama (restraint) with regard to the luminous (sāttvika) vṛtti.
From the application of the light of the (luminous) disposition, (results) the knowledge of the subtile, the intercepted and the remote.
Durch Anwendung [der Allzucht] auf das Anschauen der [1,35 beschriebenen] Tätigkeit erfolgt Kenntnis des Subtilen, Verborgenen und Entfernten.
As a result of casting the light of a [supernormal] activity [there arises] knowledge of the subtile, the concealed, and the remote.
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