Yogasutra – Part 2 – Sādhana-pāda – Yoga and its Practice – Verse 2.54   «   »

Yogasutra – Part 2 – Sādhana-pāda – Yoga and its Practice – Verse 2.54   «   »

स्वविषयासंप्रयोगे चित्तस्वरूपानुकार इवेन्द्रियाणां प्रत्याहारः ॥ २.५४॥

svaviṣayāsaṃprayoge cittasvarūpānukāra ivendriyāṇāṃ pratyāhāraḥ .. 2.54..

54. The drawing in of the organs is by their giving up their own objects and taking the form of the mind-stuff, as it were.

Commentary on Sri Patanjali Yogasutra by Swami Vivekananda

The organs are separate states of the mind-stuff. I see a book; the form is not in the book, it is in the mind. Something is outside which calls that form up. The real form is in the Chitta. The organs identify themselves with, and take the form of, whatever comes to them. If you can restrain the mind-stuff from taking these forms, the mind will remain calm. This is called Pratyahara.


Yogasutra – Verse 2.54 – Yogasutra-2.54-svaviṣayāsaṃprayoge – In Sanskrit with English Transliteration, Translation, Meaning and Commentary by Swami Vivekananda – Yogasutra-2-54