Besides unevenness, dirt, stones, fire and sand, Vijñānabhagavat also names animal sounds, draughts, nearby bodies of water and buildings as possible disturbances. What remains decisive is conduciveness to the mind: the place should neither irritate the eyes nor cause heat and should lie in a cave or a similarly windless shelter.
śabdajalāśrayādibhiḥ LV1958, ASS1927 ] śabdajalāśayādibhiḥ conj. Böhtlingk apud LV1958-app
Rein sei der Ort und eben, von Geröll und Sand, Von Feuer, von Geräusch und Wasserlachen frei; Hier, wo den Geist nichts stört, das Auge nichts verletzt, In windgeschützter Höhlung schicke man sich an.
In a clean level spot, free from pebbles, fire, and gravel, By the sound of water and other propinquities Favorable to thought, not offensive to the eye, In a hidden retreat protected from the wind, one should practise Yoga.
One should perform yoga, having resorted to a place which should be free from wind and should be solitary (or should have a cave), which should be level, clean, free from pebbles, fire, sand, as well as from noise, watery places, etc., should be (above all) agreeable to the mind and not oppressive to the eye.
Rein sei der Ort und eben, von Geröll und Sand, Von Feuer, von Geräusch und Wasserlachen frei; Hier, wo den Geist nichts stört, das Auge nichts verletzt, In windgeschützter Höhlung schicke man sich an.
Let him perform his exercises in a place<1> level, pure, free from pebbles, fire, and dust, delightful by its sounds, its water, and bowers, not painful to the eye, and full of shelters and caves.
<1: The question is whether sabdagalāsrayādibhih should be referred to mano ’nukūle, as I have translated it, or to vivargite, as Saṅkara seems to take it, because he renders sabda, sound, by noise, and āsraya by mandapa, a booth. See Bhagavadgītā VI, 11. In the Maitr. Up. VI, 30, Rāmatīrtha explains sukau dese by girinadīpulinaguhādisuddhastāne. See also Āsv. Grihya-sūtras III, 2, 2.>
<1: The question is whether sabdagalāsrayādibhih should be referred to mano ’nukūle, as I have translated it, or to vivargite, as Saṅkara seems to take it, because he renders sabda, sound, by noise, and āsraya by mandapa, a booth. See Bhagavadgītā VI, 11. In the Maitr. Up. VI, 30, Rāmatīrtha explains sukau dese by girinadīpulinaguhādisuddhastāne. See also Āsv. Grihya-sūtras III, 2, 2.>
At a level place, free from pebbles, fire, and gravel, pleasant to the mind by its sounds, water, and bowers, not painful to the eye, and repairing to a cave, protected from the wind, let a person apply (his mind to god).
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