Yogasutra – Part 4 – Kaivalya-pāda – Liberation – Verse 4.22   «   »

Yogasutra – Part 4 – Kaivalya-pāda – Liberation – Verse 4.22   «   »

चितेरप्रतिसंक्रमायास्तदाकारापत्तौ स्वबुद्धिसंवेदनम् ॥ ४.२२॥

citerapratisaṃkramāyāstadākārāpattau svabuddhisaṃvedanam .. 4.22..

22. The essence of knowledge (the Purusha) being unchangeable, when the mind takes its form, it becomes conscious.

Commentary on Sri Patanjali Yogasutra by Swami Vivekananda

Patanjali says this to make it more clear that knowledge is not a quality of the Purusha. When the mind comes near the Purusha it is reflected, as it were, upon the mind, and the mind, for the time being, becomes knowing and seems as if it were itself the Purusha.


Yogasutra – Verse 4.22 – Yogasutra-4.22-citerapratisaṃ – In Sanskrit with English Transliteration, Translation, Meaning and Commentary by Swami Vivekananda – Yogasutra-4-22