Yoga Sutras of Patanjali 2.17
Yogasūtra 2.17
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- Sanskrit
2.17
draṣṭṛdṛśyayoḥ saṃyogo heyahetuḥ ||
The cause of what is to be warded off, is the absorption of the Seer in things seen.
Here again we have the fundamental idea of the Sankhya, which is the intellectual counterpart of the Yoga system. The cause of what is to be warded off, the root of misery, is the absorption of consciousness in the psychical man and the things which beguile the psychical man. The cure is liberation.
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)
- Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts — Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India 2014, English
- Indian Philosophy — Radhakrishnan 1923, English