Yogasutra – Part 4 – Kaivalya-pāda – Liberation – Verse 4.5   «   »

Yogasutra – Part 4 – Kaivalya-pāda – Liberation – Verse 4.5   «   »

प्रवृत्तिभेदे प्रयोजकं चित्तमेकमनेकेषाम् ॥ ४.५॥

pravṛttibhede prayojakaṃ cittamekamanekeṣām .. 4.5..

5. Though the activities of the different created minds are various, the one original mind is the controller of them all.

Commentary on Sri Patanjali Yogasutra by Swami Vivekananda

These different minds, which act in these different bodies are called made-minds, and the bodies, made-bodies; that is, manufactured bodies and minds. Matter and mind are like two inexhaustible storehouses. When you become a Yogi, you learn the secret of their control. It was yours all the time, but you had forgotten it. When you become a Yogi, you recollect it. Then you can do anything with it, manipulate it in every way you like. The material out of which a manufactured mind is created is the very same material which is used for the macrocosm. It is not that mind is one thing and matter another, they are different aspects of the same thing. Asmitā, egoism, is the material, the fine state of existence out of which these made-minds and made-bodies of the Yogi are manufactured. Therefore, when the Yogi has found the secret of these energies of nature, he can manufacture any number of bodies or minds out of the substance known as egoism.


Yogasutra – Verse 4.5 – Yogasutra-4.5-pravṛttibhede – In Sanskrit with English Transliteration, Translation, Meaning and Commentary by Swami Vivekananda – Yogasutra-4-5