Yogasutra – Part 2 – Sādhana-pāda – Yoga and its Practice – Verse 2.26   «   »

Yogasutra – Part 2 – Sādhana-pāda – Yoga and its Practice – Verse 2.26   «   »

विवेकख्यातिरविप्लवा हानोपायः ॥ २.२६॥

vivekakhyātiraviplavā hānopāyaḥ .. 2.26..

26. The means of destruction of ignorance is unbroken practice of discrimination.

Commentary on Sri Patanjali Yogasutra by Swami Vivekananda

This is the real goal of practice — discrimination between the real and the unreal, knowing that the Purusha is not nature, that it is neither matter nor mind, and that because it is not nature, it cannot possibly change. It is only nature which changes, combining and re-combining, dissolving continually. When through constant practice we begin to discriminate, ignorance will vanish, and the Purusha will begin to shine in its real nature — omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent.


Yogasutra – Verse 2.26 – Yogasutra-2.26-vivekakhyātiraviplavā – In Sanskrit with English Transliteration, Translation, Meaning and Commentary by Swami Vivekananda – Yogasutra-2-26