Yogasutra – Part 1 – Samādhi-pāda – Yoga and its Aims – Verse 1.11   «   »

Yogasutra – Part 1 – Samādhi-pāda – Yoga and its Aims – Verse 1.11   «   »

अनुभूतविषयासंप्रमोषः स्मृतिः ॥ १.११॥

anubhūtaviṣayāsaṃpramoṣaḥ smṛtiḥ .. 1.11..

11. Memory is when the (Vrittis of) perceived subjects do not slip away (and through impressions come back to consciousness).

Commentary on Sri Patanjali Yogasutra by Swami Vivekananda

Memory can come from direct perception, false knowledge, verbal delusion, and sleep. For instance, you hear a word. That word is like a stone thrown into the lake of the Chitta; it causes a ripple, and that ripple rouses a series of ripples; this is memory. So in sleep. When the peculiar kind of ripple called sleep throws the Chitta into a ripple of memory, it is called a dream. Dream is another form of the ripple which in the waking state is called memory.


Yogasutra – Verse 1.11 – Yogasutra-1.11-anubhūtaviṣayā – In Sanskrit with English Transliteration, Translation, Meaning and Commentary by Swami Vivekananda – Yogasutra-1-11