Yogasutra – Part 2 – Sādhana-pāda – Yoga and its Practice – Verse 2.23   «   »

Yogasutra – Part 2 – Sādhana-pāda – Yoga and its Practice – Verse 2.23   «   »

स्वस्वामिशक्त्योः स्वरूपोपलब्धिहेतुः संयोगः ॥ २.२३॥

svasvāmiśaktyoḥ svarūpopalabdhihetuḥ saṃyogaḥ .. 2.23..

23. Junction is the cause of the realisation of the nature of both the powers, the experienced and its Lord.

Commentary on Sri Patanjali Yogasutra by Swami Vivekananda

According to this aphorism, both the powers of soul and nature become manifest when they are in conjunction. Then all manifestations are thrown out. Ignorance is the cause of this conjunction. We see every day that the cause of our pain or pleasure is always our joining ourselves with the body. If I were perfectly certain that I am not this body, I should take no notice of heat and cold, or anything of the kind. This body is a combination. It is only a fiction to say that I have one body, you another, and the sun another. The whole universe is one ocean of matter, and you are the name of a little particle, and I of another, and the sun of another. We know that this matter is continuously changing. What is forming the sun one day, the next day may form the matter of our bodies.


Yogasutra – Verse 2.23 – Yogasutra-2.23-svasvāmiśaktyoḥ – In Sanskrit with English Transliteration, Translation, Meaning and Commentary by Swami Vivekananda – Yogasutra-2-23