Yoga Sutras of Patanjali 2.16
Yogasūtra 2.16
- Language
- Sanskrit
2.16
heyaṃ duḥkham anāgatam ||
This pain is to be warded off, before it has come.
In other words, we cannot cure the pains of life by laying on them any balm. We must cut the root, absorption in the psychical self. So it is said, there is no cure for the misery of longing, but to fix the heart upon the eternal.
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, Sanskrit
- Yogacandrikā — Ananta Bhaṭṭa, Sanskrit
Other recensions (1)
Discussed in (1)
- History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) — Kane 1930, English