Yoga Sutras of Patanjali 2.19
Yogasūtra 2.19
- Language
- Sanskrit
2.19
viśeṣāviśeṣaliṅgamātrāliṅgāni guṇaparvāṇi ||
The grades or layers of the Three Potencies are the defined, the undefined, that with distinctive mark, that without distinctive mark.
Or, as we might say, there are two strata of the physical, and two strata of the psychical realms. In each, there is the side of form, and the side of force. The form side of the physical is here called the defined. The force side of the physical is the undefined, that which has no boundaries. So in the psychical; there is the form side; that with distinctive marks, such as the characteristic features of mind-images; and there is the force side, without distinctive marks, such as the forces of desire or fear, which may flow now to this mind-image, now to that.
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 (1)
- A History of Indian Philosophy — Dasgupta 1922, English