Yogasutra – Part 2 – Sādhana-pāda – Yoga and its Practice – Verse 2.22   «   »

Yogasutra – Part 2 – Sādhana-pāda – Yoga and its Practice – Verse 2.22   «   »

कृतार्थं प्रति नष्टमप्यनष्टं तदन्यसाधारणत्वात् ॥ २.२२॥

kṛtārthaṃ prati naṣṭamapyanaṣṭaṃ tadanyasādhāraṇatvāt .. 2.22..

22. Though destroyed for him whose goal has been gained, yet it is not destroyed, being common to others.

Commentary on Sri Patanjali Yogasutra by Swami Vivekananda

The whole activity of nature is to make the soul know that it is entirely separate from nature. When the soul knows this, nature has no more attractions for it. But the whole of nature vanishes only for that man who has become free. There will always remain an infinite number of others, for whom nature will go on working.


Yogasutra – Verse 2.22 – Yogasutra-2.22-kṛtārthaṃ – In Sanskrit with English Transliteration, Translation, Meaning and Commentary by Swami Vivekananda – Yogasutra-2-22