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PYS 3.47–48: Meisterschaft über Sinne
PYS 3.47–48: Meisterschaft über Sinne

Yogaśāstra 3.47–48: Sense Faculties and Pradhāna

Saṃyama on the five aspects of the sense faculties grants movement swift as thought, cognition without bodily sense instruments, and mastery over pradhāna.

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Yogaśāstra 3.47–48: Sense Faculties and Pradhāna

Saṃyama on the five aspects of the sense faculties grants movement swift as thought, cognition without bodily sense instruments, and mastery over pradhāna.

Patañjali Yoga Sūtra 3.47
ग्रहणस्वरूपास्मितान्वयार्थवत्त्वसंयमादिन्द्रियजयः ||47||
grahaṇa-svarūpāsmitānvayārthavattva-saṃyamād indriya-jayaḥ ||47|| Analysis ▾ Analysis ▴
grahaṇa
dvandva-compound
grahaṇa
substantive neuter
 grasping, perceiving
svarūpa
dvandva-compound
svarūpa
substantive neuter
 Own form, own shape
asmitā
dvandva-compound
asmitā
substantive feminine
 Selfhood, self-consciousness
anvaya
dvandva-compound
anvaya
substantive masculine
 connection, connection
arthavattva
tatpuruṣa-compound lokative
arthavattva
substantive neuter
 Purposefulness, significance
saṃyamāt
ablative singular
saṃyama
substantive masculine
 Meditation, concentration
indriya
tatpuruṣa-compound genitive
indriya
substantive neuter
 sense organ
jayaḥ
nominative singular
jaya
substantive masculine
 mastery
Through Saṃyama on apprehension [of an object], the intrinsic form [of the sense faculty], I-am-ness, connection [with the Guṇas], and purposefulness [for experience and liberation] (grahaṇa-svarūpāsmitānvayārthavattva-saṃyamāt | abl sg) [arises] mastery over the sense organs (indriya-jayaḥ | nom sg).
Dr. Ronald Steiner - 2026 - historically literal
Explore one sense step by step: its contact with an object, the distinctive character of perceiving, the feeling “I perceive,” its connections, and its purpose. This brings sensory experience (indriya) into awareness without suppressing it.
Dr. Ronald Steiner - 2026 - modern transfer

The Vyāsa-Bhāṣya analyzes the senses in five forms: grahaṇa, apprehension of a particular sensory object; svarūpa, the sensory faculty formed from Buddhi-Sattva; asmitā, its I-making cause; anvaya, the Guṇas active within it; and arthavattva, its purpose for Puruṣa. Successive saṃyama on these five forms leads to mastery of the senses.

Yoga Śāstra Vyāsa-Bhāṣya
The conquering of the organs of sense results from restraint performed with regard to perception, nature, egotism, concomitance and possession of objects.
James R. Ballantyne - 1852
From Sanyama with regard to perception, nature, egoism, concomitance and usefulness, results mastery over the sense-organs.
Ganganatha Jha - 1907
Durch [Anwendung der] Allzucht auf Perzeption, Qualität, Ichbewußtsein, Abhängigkeit [von den Guṇa’s] und Zweckbestimmtheit [der Sinnesorgane] erfolgt Beherrschung der Sinnesorgane.
Paul Deussen - 1908
As a result of constraint upon the process-of-knowing and the essential-attribute and the feeling-of-personality and the inherence and the purposiveness, [there follows] the subjugation of the organs.
James Haughton Woods - 1914
Patañjali Yoga Sūtra 3.48
ततो मनोजवित्वं विकरणभावः प्रधानजयश्च ||48||
tato mano-javitvaṃ vikaraṇa-bhāvaḥ pradhāna-jayaś ca ||48|| Analysis ▾ Analysis ▴
tatas
tatas
adverb
 from it, afterwards
manas
tatpuruṣa-compound genitive
manas
substantive neuter
 mind, faculty of thought
javitvam
nominative singular
javitva
substantive neuter
 speed
vikaraṇa
karmadhāraya-compound
vikaraṇa
adjective
 without organ, without tools
bhāvaḥ
nominative singular
bhāva
substantive masculine
 state, being
pradhāna
tatpuruṣa-compound genitive
pradhāna
substantive neuter
 Primordial matter, primal ground
jayaḥ
nominative singular
jaya
substantive masculine
 mastery
ca
ca
particle
 and
From this (tataḥ) [arise] speed of [the body] like that of the mind (mano-javitvam | nom sg), a state in which [the senses] function without [bodily] instruments (vikaraṇa-bhāvaḥ | nom sg), and (ca) mastery over Pradhāna [primordial matter] (pradhāna-jayaḥ | nom sg).
Dr. Ronald Steiner - 2026 - historically literal
When the senses are calm and clear, you can respond more quickly without following every stimulus. Use this freedom to choose consciously where to place your attention and how to respond.
Dr. Ronald Steiner - 2026 - modern transfer

The Vyāsa-Bhāṣya names three consequences of mastery of the senses: mano-javitva, unsurpassed bodily speed; vikaraṇa-bhāva, the disembodied activity of the senses at the desired place, time, and object; and pradhāna-jaya, mastery over all evolutes and evolving causes of Prakṛti.

Yoga Śāstra Vyāsa-Bhāṣya
Therefrom spring up velocity of mind, the state of modification and the conquest of nature.
James R. Ballantyne - 1852
Therefrom (proceed) fleetness like that of mind, un-instrumental perception, and complete mastery over Nature.
Ganganatha Jha - 1907
Aus ihr Gedankenschnelle, Bestehen auch ohne Organe und Beherrschung der Prakṛiti.
Paul Deussen - 1908
As a result of this [there follows] speed [great as that] of the central-organ, action of the instruments of [knowledge] disjunct [from the body], and the subjugation of the primary-cause.
James Haughton Woods - 1914

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