Yoga-sutras (with Bhoja’s Rajamartanda)
by Rajendralala Mitra | 1883 | 103,575 words
The Yoga-Sutra 3.7, 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.
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Sūtra 3.7
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of Sūtra 3.7:
त्रयमन्तरङ्गं पूर्वेभ्यः ॥ ३.७ ॥
trayamantaraṅgaṃ pūrvebhyaḥ || 3.7 ||
7. The three are more intimate than the former.
The Rajamartanda commentary by King Bhoja:
[English translation of the 11th century commentary by Bhoja called the Rājamārtaṇḍa]
[Sanskrit text for commentary available]
A doubt having arisen why in the chapter on the appliances (C. II) he should have described only five after naming the eight members of the Yoga, and omitted three, the author says:
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“Than the former,” i.e., of restrictions and other members of the Yoga, which are the appliances of meditation in a secondary degree. (C. II A. XXIX.) The three members, steadfastness, &c., “are intimate" (antaraṅga, lit. akin,) to descriminate meditation, since they establish the true character of meditation.
Notes and Extracts
[Notes and comparative extracts from other commentaries on the Yogasūtra]
[In C. II A. xxix. the accessories of the Yoga have been described to be restraint, obligations, postures, regulation of breath, devotion, steadfastness, contemplation, and meditation. Of these the first five are subsidiary or ancillary to, and the last three integral parts, lit. members of the body of, the Yoga, and this idea is developed in the aphorism under notice by the statement that the former are strangers and the latter intimates. The first five only prepare a person for the performance of the Yoga, but the last three constitute the Yoga, for without them there can be no discriminate Yoga having a specific object of thought.]
To point out that it is nevertheless a stranger compared to another, he says:
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