Yogasutra – Part 2 – Sādhana-pāda – Yoga and its Practice – Verse 2.5   «   »

Yogasutra – Part 2 – Sādhana-pāda – Yoga and its Practice – Verse 2.5   «   »

अनित्याशुचिदुःखानात्मसु नित्यशुचिसुखात्मख्यातिरविद्या ॥ २.५॥

anityāśuciduḥkhānātmasu nityaśucisukhātmakhyātiravidyā .. 2.5..

5. Ignorance is taking the non-eternal, the impure, the painful, and the non-Self for the eternal, the pure, the happy, and the Atman or Self (respectively).

Commentary on Sri Patanjali Yogasutra by Swami Vivekananda

All the different sorts of impressions have one source, ignorance. We have first to learn what ignorance is. All of us think, “I am the body, and not the Self, the pure, the effulgent, the ever blissful,” and that is ignorance. We think of man, and see man as body. This is the great delusion.


Yogasutra – Verse 2.5 – Yogasutra-2.5-anityāśuciduḥkhānātmasu – In Sanskrit with English Transliteration, Translation, Meaning and Commentary by Swami Vivekananda – Yogasutra-2-5