[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Philosophy](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana) › [Yoga philosophy](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.yoga) › [Yogasutra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.yoga.yogasutra) › 4.7 # Yogasutra 4.7 Yogasūtra 4.7 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [4.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.yoga.yogasutra.4.7) karmāśuklākṛṣṇaṃ yoginas trividham itareṣām || > The works of followers after Union make neither for bright pleasure nor for dark pain The works of others make for pleasure or pain, or a mingling of these. > — Charles Johnston 1912, The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: The Book of the Spiritual Man - [Previous: 4.6](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.yoga.yogasutra.4.6) - [Next: 4.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.yoga.yogasutra.4.8) - [Up: 4](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.yoga.yogasutra.4) ## Translations (2) - [The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: The Book of the Spiritual Man](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.yoga.yogasutra~en-johnston.4.7) — Charles Johnston 1912, English - [Patanjali's Yoga Aphorisms (in Raja-Yoga)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.yoga.yogasutra~en-vivekananda.4.7) — Swami Vivekananda 1896, English ## Commentaries (9) - [Yogabhāṣya (Pātañjalayogaśāstravivaraṇa)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.yoga.yogasutra!vyasa.4.7.p1) — Vyāsa & Patañjali (author of the Yogasūtra), Sanskrit - [Rājamārtaṇḍa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.yoga.yogasutra!bhoja.5.17.1) — Bhoja, Sanskrit - [Yogasiddhāntacandrikā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.yoga.yogasutra!narayana-tirtha.8.7.22) — Nārāyaṇatīrtha 1660, Sanskrit - [Yogasūtravṛtti (Bṛhatī and Laghvī)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.yoga.yogasutra!nagesa.5.7) — Nāgeśa Bhaṭṭa 1700, Sanskrit - [Pātañjalayogasūtravṛtti](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.yoga.yogasutra!bhattanagesa.5.7) — Bhaṭṭanāgeśa, Sanskrit - [Yogasudhākara](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.yoga.yogasutra!sadasiva-brahmendra.4.7) — Sadāśiva Brahmendra 1695, Sanskrit - [Maṇiprabhā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.yoga.yogasutra!maniprabha.5.6) — Rāmānanda Sarasvatī 1550, Sanskrit - [Yogasūtraṭīkā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.yoga.yogasutra!ramanandatirtha.5.6) — Rāmānandatīrtha, Sanskrit - [Yogacandrikā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.yoga.yogasutra!ananta) — Ananta Bhaṭṭa, Sanskrit ## Other recensions (1) - [Sūtra text (input A. Aklujkar, after the Kashi Sanskrit Series ed. 1931)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.yoga.yogasutra*aklujkar.4.7) — Sanskrit ## Linked texts (3) - [History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India)](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.polity.kane-1930.v7.c95.267) — P. V. Kane, English - [Studies in the Origins of Buddhism](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.religion.pande-1957.c17.211) — Govind Chandra Pande, English - [The Great Epic of India: Its Character and Origin](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.literature.hopkins-1901.c6.s26.t8.2) — E. W. Hopkins, English --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.yoga.yogasutra.4.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.darsana.yoga.yogasutra.4.7) · Pramāṇa