Yoga-sutras (Ancient and Modern Interpretations)
by Makarand Gopal Newalkar | 2017 | 82,851 words | ISBN-13: 9780893890926
Yoga-sutras 4.33 [Concept of time], English translation with modern and ancient interpretation. The Patanjali Yogasutras describe an ancient Indian tradition spanning over 5000 years old dealing with Yoga:—Meditating the mind on the Atma leading to the realization of self. This study interprets the Yogasutras in light of both ancient and modern commentaries (e.g., Vyasa and Osho) while supporting both Sankhya and Vedanta philosophies.
Sūtra 4.33 [Concept of time]
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of sūtra 4.33 [concept of time]:
क्षणप्रतियोगी परिणामापरान्तनिर्ग्राह्यः क्रमः ॥ ४.३३ ॥
kṣaṇapratiyogī pariṇāmāparāntanirgrāhyaḥ kramaḥ || 4.33 ||
(33) What belongs to the moments [i.e., kṣaṇa] and is indicated by the completion of a particular mutation is sequence.
Ancient and Modern interpretation:
Osho explains,[1] krama [kramaḥ], the process, the process of quantum is the succession of changes that occur from moment to moment which becomes apprehensible at the final end of transformations of the three guṇas.
In sūtra I.26, Īśvara, the master is also indivisible by time.
World is nothing but a cinematograph, a projection. But this awareness is generated when all guṇas stop. Patañjali has summarized entire physics in the last but one sūtra. If we compress the entire world by taking out space, we can put it in a small matchbox. Patañjali also confirms that the world consists of distict atoms, and the whole consists of infinite space between the two, call it God, brahma or puruṣa. Scientists stop here and only yogī can experience the last sūtra.
Footnotes and references:
[1]:
p.142