Yoga Sutras of Patanjali 2.20
Yogasūtra 2.20
- Language
- Sanskrit
2.20
draṣṭā dṛśimātraḥ śuddho 'pi pratyayānupaśyaḥ ||
The Seer is pure vision. Though pure, he looks out through the vesture of the mind.
The Seer, as always, is the spiritual man whose deepest consciousness is pure vision, the pure life of the eternal. But the spiritual man, as yet unseeing in his proper person, looks out on the world through the eyes of the psychical man, by whom he is enfolded and enmeshed. The task is, to set this prisoner free, to clear the dust of ages from this buried temple.
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