Yogasutra – Part 4 – Kaivalya-pāda – Liberation – Verse 4.31   «   »

Yogasutra – Part 4 – Kaivalya-pāda – Liberation – Verse 4.31   «   »

तदा सर्वावरणमलापेतस्य ज्ञानस्यानन्त्याज्ज्ञेयमल्पम् ॥ ४.३१॥

tadā sarvāvaraṇamalāpetasya jñānasyānantyājjñeyamalpam .. 4.31..

31. The knowledge, bereft of covering and impurities, becoming infinite, the knowable becomes small.

Commentary on Sri Patanjali Yogasutra by Swami Vivekananda

Knowledge itself is there; its covering is gone. One of the Buddhistic scriptures defines what is meant by the Buddha (which is the name of a state) as infinite knowledge, infinite as the sky. Jesus attained to that and became the Christ. All of you will attain to that state. Knowledge becoming infinite, the knowable becomes small. The whole universe, with all its objects of knowledge, becomes as nothing before the Purusha. The ordinary man thinks himself very small, because to him the knowable seems to be infinite.


Yogasutra – Verse 4.31 – Yogasutra-4.31-tadā sarvāvaraṇa – In Sanskrit with English Transliteration, Translation, Meaning and Commentary by Swami Vivekananda – Yogasutra-4-31