Yoga-sutras (with Vyasa and Vachaspati Mishra)
by Rama Prasada | 1924 | 154,800 words | ISBN-10: 9381406863 | ISBN-13: 9789381406861
The Yoga-Sutra 3.32, English translation with Commentaries. The Yoga Sutras are an ancient collection of Sanskrit texts dating from 500 BCE dealing with Yoga and Meditation in four books. It deals with topics such as Samadhi (meditative absorption), Sadhana (Yoga practice), Vibhuti (powers or Siddhis), Kaivaly (isolation) and Moksha (liberation).
Sūtra 3.32
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of Sūtra 3.32:
प्रातिभाद् वा सर्वम् ॥ ३.३२ ॥
prātibhād vā sarvam || 3.32 ||
prātibhād—by prescience, va—or. sarvam—all.
32. Or, all knowledge by prescience (prātibha).—138.
The Sankhya-pravachana commentary of Vyasa
[English translation of the 7th century commentary by Vyāsa called the Sāṅkhya-pravacana, Vyāsabhāṣya or Yogabhāṣya]
[Sanskrit text for commentary available]
Prescience is also named Tāraka. It is the fore-runner of discriminative knowledge, as light is the fore-runner of the sun at sunrise. The Yogī may also know everything by that, (as an alternative means) after the birth of knowledge, called prescience.—138.
The Gloss of Vachaspati Mishra
[English translation of the 9th century Tattvavaiśāradī by Vācaspatimiśra]
Prātibha, prescience, is the same as self-suggestion (uha), the coming into consciousness without external aid of anything unknown. When Saṃyama is performed with the object of attaining the Highest Intellection, then at the time of the height of practice, there takes its rise a power which, as it were, draws in all knowledge. The Yogī knows everything by that. It is called Tāraka, (from tri to swim, to cross over), because by bringing about the Highest Intellection it helps in crossing over the world of life and death—32.