The Concluding Verses

There are seven verses at the end of Patanjala-yogasutra-bhashya-vivarana The first one praises the Lord Krsna as God of all gods, as the power behind creation, maintenance and destruction etc. and prays to remove actions which are categorised as white and black. The 308 second verse praises the Lord Visnu's ten incarnations such as the fish, etc. and prays for refuge. Here Vivaranakara himself 245

spoken as suffering from the three fold pain arising from afflictions (klesodbhavatrividhatapaprampararta). The third to sixth verses praise Patanjali who is regarded as the incarnation of the lord of serpents namely Sesa and the greatest of seers who holds the credit of being the purifier of mind, language and body by writing three works on Yoga, Grammar and Medical Science. And the next verse praises Patanjali as the one who spreads the cloud of Yoga. The last verse glorifies Sankara, who is portrayed as the powerful guru who has the full moon as his face, who is not holding a serpent and who does not have ashes as his decoration and described by the word apurva (unequalled) Sankara. 246