Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali

SR No.: 011118
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Prabhavnanda Swami, Christopher Isherwood
Publisher: Ramkrishna Math Madras
Publication Year: 1953
Total Pages: 163
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 13 MB

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PATANJALI YOGA SUTRAS
death, and rebirth. Round and round it turns, and never stops. It is the wheel of Brahman. As long as the individual self thinks it is separate from Brahman, it revolves upon the wheel.... But when through the grace of Brahman it realizes its identity with him, it revolves upon the wheel no longer. It achieves immortality."
अतीतानागतं स्वरूपतोऽस्त्यध्वभेदाद्धर्माणाम् ॥ १२ ॥
12. There is the form and expression we call "past," and the form and expression we call "future"; both exist within the object, at all times. Form and expression vary according to time-past, present or future.
ते व्यक्त-सूक्ष्मा गुणात्मानः ॥ १३ ॥
13. They are either manifest or subtle, according to the nature of the gunas.
परिणामैकत्वाद्वस्तुतत्वम् ॥ १४ ॥
14. Since the gunas work together within every change of form and expression, there is a unity in all things.
The Gita teaches: "That which is non-existent can never come into being, and that which is can never cease to be." The forms and expressions of an object may change, but all these changes of form and expresion have existed, and will continue to exist, potentially, within the object. The past and future exist within the object in an unmanifested, subtle form. Nevertheless, they are there. Nothing in the universe is lost.
All objects are compounded of the gunas. The gunas may project a gross manifestation; that is to say, a visible and tangible object. Or they may project a subtle manifestation, not apparent to the senses. Further, they may alter their interrelationship—so that, for example, rajas becomes dominant in place of sattwa; in which case, the form of the object may change entirely. But, since the three gunas never cease to