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पुरुषार्थशून्यानां गुणानां प्रतिप्रसवः कैवल्यं
स्वरूपप्रतिष्ठा वा चितिशक्तिरिति ॥ ४.३४॥
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॥ इति पतञ्जलि-विरचिते योग-सूत्रे चतुर्थः कैवल्य-पादः ॥
॥ इति श्री पातञ्जल-योग-सूत्राणि ॥

puruṣārthaśūnyānāṃ guṇānāṃ pratiprasavaḥ kaivalyaṃ
svarūpapratiṣṭhā vā citiśaktiriti .. 4.34..
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.. iti patañjali-viracite yoga-sūtre caturthaḥ kaivalya-pādaḥ ..
.. iti śrī pātañjala-yoga-sūtrāṇi ..

34. The resolution in the inverse order of the qualities, bereft of any motive of action for the Purusha, is Kaivalya, or it is the establishment of the power of knowledge in its own nature.

Commentary on Sri Patanjali Yogasutra by Swami Vivekananda

Nature’s task is done, this unselfish task which our sweet nurse, nature, had imposed upon herself. She gently took the self-forgetting soul by the hand, as it were, and showed him all the experiences in the universe, all manifestations, bringing him higher and higher through various bodies, till his lost glory came back, and he remembered his own nature. Then the kind mother went back the same way she came, for others who also have lost their way in the trackless desert of life. And thus is she working, without beginning and without end. And thus through pleasure and pain, through good and evil, the infinite river of souls is flowing into the ocean of perfection, of self-realisation.

Glory unto those who have realised their own nature. May their blessing be on us all!


Yogasutra – Verse 4.34 – Yogasutra-4.34-puruṣārthaśūnyānāṃ – In Sanskrit with English Transliteration, Translation, Meaning and Commentary by Swami Vivekananda – Yogasutra-4-34