Yogasutra – Part 4 – Kaivalya-pāda – Liberation – Verse 4.9   «   »

Yogasutra – Part 4 – Kaivalya-pāda – Liberation – Verse 4.9   «   »

जातिदेशकालव्यवहितानामप्यानन्तर्यं
स्मृतिसंस्कारयोरेकरूपत्वात् ॥ ४.९॥

jātideśakālavyavahitānāmapyānantaryaṃ
smṛtisaṃskārayorekarūpatvāt .. 4.9..

9. There is consecutiveness in desires, even though separated by species, space, and time, there being identification of memory and impressions.

Commentary on Sri Patanjali Yogasutra by Swami Vivekananda

Experiences becoming fine become impressions; impressions revivified become memory. The word memory here includes unconscious co-ordination of past experiences, reduced to impressions, with present conscious action. In each body, the group of impressions acquired in a similar body only becomes the cause of action in that body. The experiences of a dissimilar body are held in abeyance. Each body acts as if it were a descendant of a series of bodies of that species only; thus, consecutiveness of desires is not to be broken.


Yogasutra – Verse 4.9 – Yogasutra-4.9-jātideśakāla – In Sanskrit with English Transliteration, Translation, Meaning and Commentary by Swami Vivekananda – Yogasutra-4-9