Yogasutra – Part 3 – Vibhūti-Pāda – Powers – Verse 3.18   «   »

Yogasutra – Part 3 – Vibhūti-Pāda – Powers – Verse 3.18   «   »

संस्कारसाक्षात्करणात्पूर्वजातिज्ञानम् ॥ ३.१८॥

saṃskārasākṣātkaraṇāt pūrvajātijñānam .. 3.18..

18. By perceiving the impressions, (comes) the knowledge of past life.

Commentary on Sri Patanjali Yogasutra by Swami Vivekananda

Each experience that we have, comes in the form of a wave in the Chitta, and this subsides and becomes finer and finer, but is never lost. It remains there in minute form, and if we can bring this wave up again, it becomes memory. So, if the Yogi can make a Samyama on these past impressions in the mind, he will begin to remember all his past lives.


Yogasutra – Verse 3.18 – Yogasutra-3.18-saṃskārasākṣāt – In Sanskrit with English Transliteration, Translation, Meaning and Commentary by Swami Vivekananda – Yogasutra-3-18