Yoga-sutras (with Bhoja鈥檚 Rajamartanda)
by Rajendralala Mitra | 1883 | 103,575 words
The Yoga-Sutra 2.29, English translation with Commentaries. The Yogasutra of Patanjali represents a collection of aphorisms dealing with spiritual topics such as meditation, absorption, Siddhis (yogic powers) and final liberation (Moksha). The Raja-Martanda is officialy classified as a Vritti (gloss) which means its explanatory in nature, as opposed to being a discursive commentary.
厂奴迟谤补 2.29
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of 厂奴迟谤补 2.29:
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29. Restraint, obligation, posture, regulation of the breath, abstraction, devotion, contemplation, and meditation are the eight accessories.
The Rajamartanda commentary by King Bhoja:
[English translation of the 11th century commentary by Bhoja called the R膩jam膩rta峁囜笉a]
[Sanskrit text for commentary available]
The decay of impurity by the practice of the accessories of the Yoga having been thus described, the question arises what are those accessories? (To this question) he replies.
[Read 厂奴迟谤补 2.29]
Some of these being directly beneficial to profound meditation are intimate accessories, such as devotion, &c. Others subserve profound meditation by eradicating hesitation and adverse feelings of slaughter, &c., such as restraint, obligation, &c. Among them posture and the rest are successively subservient (to 蝉补尘腻诲丑颈). Thus on the acquisition of posture there is steadiness in the regulation of breath. The successive ones are to be explained in the same way.
Notes and Extracts
[Notes and comparative extracts from other commentaries on the Yogas奴tra]
[These eight are classed under two heads, 1st, general or extrinsic, and, 2nd, special or intrinsic. The first two are general, because they are obligatory at all times; the other six are intrinsic, because they subserve the purpose of the Yoga, but are not otherwise necessary. What these eight are will be explained in the following aphorisms.]
He now successively explains their nature.