Patañjali Yoga Sūtra 3.42
कायाकाशयोः संबन्धसंयमाल्लघुतूलसमापत्तेश्चाकाशगमनम् ||42||
kāyākāśayoḥ saṃbandha-saṃyamāl laghu-tūla-samāpatteś cākāśa-gamanam ||42|| Analysis ▾ Analysis ▴
Through Saṃyama on the relation (saṃbandha-saṃyamāt | abl sg) between body and space [as an element] (kāyākāśayoḥ | gen du) and (ca) through Samāpatti with the lightness of a cotton fibre (laghu-tūla-samāpatteḥ | abl sg), movement [of the body] through space (ākāśa-gamanam | nom sg) [arises].
Move slowly as though your body were as light as a cotton fibre. Feel the ground and space at the same time: lightness comes from releasing unnecessary tension, not from abandoning the body.
According to the Vyāsa-Bhāṣya, space is related to the body by giving it room. Through saṃyama on this relation and samāpatti on increasingly subtle light things down to the atom, the yogin becomes light; the commentary describes a progression from walking on water to moving on spider threads and rays of light, and finally moving freely through space.
A power of walking through the air is developed in the ascetic by his obtaining a state of lightness like a light piece of cotton, from performing restraint with regard to the connection which a body has with air.
From the Sanyama over the relation of the body and Âkâsâ, (results) passage through space, from the acquisition of levity like that of cotton.
Durch Anwendung der Allzucht auf die Verbindung von Leib und Luftraum und durch Werden wie leichte Baumwolle erfolgt Gehen im Luftraum.
Either as the result of constraint upon the relation between the body and the air (ākāśa), or as the result of the balanced-state of lightness, such as that of the cotton-fibre, there follows the passing through air.
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