Yoga-sutras (with Bhoja’s Rajamartanda)
by Rajendralala Mitra | 1883 | 103,575 words
The Yoga-Sutra 4.32, 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.
Sūtra 4.32
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of Sūtra 4.32:
क्षणप्रतियोगी परिणामापरान्तनिर्ग्राह्यः क्रमः ॥ ४.३२ ॥
kṣaṇapratiyogī pariṇāmāparāntanirgrāhyaḥ kramaḥ || 4.32 ||
32. The succession is the counterpart of the moment perceptible at the end of the modification.
The Rajamartanda commentary by King Bhoja:
[English translation of the 11th century commentary by Bhoja called the Rājamārtaṇḍa]
[Sanskrit text for commentary available]
“Moment” (kṣaṇa) is a short amount of time. Its “counterpart” (pratiyogī) is another distinct moment. “Perceptible at the end of the modification” means that which is accepted as the totality after perceiving a number of moments, and this is called the “succession” of moments, for no succession can be perceived in unperceived succession of moments.
Notes and Extracts
[Notes and comparative extracts from other commentaries on the Yogasūtra]
[The word “succession” (krama) used in A. XXXI, is explained in this aphorism to mean the following of one moment after another. The object is to say that the lapse of time is reckoned by the succession of one moment after another, though there is no break between them; one totality is divided into many parts only for facility of reckoning.]
He now defines the specific nature of isolation, which is the result.