Yoga Sutras of Patanjali 2.12
Yogasūtra 2.12
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- Sanskrit
2.12
kleśamūlaḥ karmāśayo dṛṣṭādṛṣṭajanmavedanīyaḥ ||
The burden of bondage to sorrow has its root in these hindrances. It will be felt in this life, or in a life not yet manifested.
The burden of bondage to sorrow has its root in the darkness of unwisdom, in selfishness, in lust, in hate, in attachment to sensation. All these are, in the last analysis, absorption in the psychical self; and this means sorrow, because it means the sense of separateness, and this means jarring discord and inevitable death. But the psychical self will breed a new psychical self, in a new birth, and so new sorrows in a life not yet manifest.
Translations (2)
- The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: The Book of the Spiritual Man — Charles Johnston 1912, English
- Patanjali's Yoga Aphorisms (in Raja-Yoga) — Swami Vivekananda 1896, English
Commentaries (8)
- Yogabhāṣya (Pātañjalayogaśāstravivaraṇa) — Vyāsa & Patañjali (author of the Yogasūtra), Sanskrit
- Rājamārtaṇḍa — Bhoja, Sanskrit
- Yogamaṇiprabhā — Rāmānanda Sarasvatī, Sanskrit
- Yogasiddhāntacandrikā — Nārāyaṇatīrtha 1660, Sanskrit
- Yogasūtravṛtti (Bṛhatī and Laghvī) — Nāgeśa Bhaṭṭa 1700, Sanskrit
- Yogasudhākara — Sadāśiva Brahmendra 1695, Sanskrit
- Maṇiprabhā — Rāmānanda Sarasvatī 1550, Sanskrit
- Yogacandrikā — Ananta Bhaṭṭa, Sanskrit
Other recensions (1)
Discussed in (2)
- History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) — Kane 1930, English
- Indian Philosophy — Radhakrishnan 1923, English