पातञ्जल योगसूत्र (स्वामी विवेकानन्द भाष्य एवं सूत्र व्याख्या)

Patanjali Yoga Sutras
multiples comes discrimination.
How are we to avoid all these things, these Devas, and
heavens, and powers? By discrimination, by knowing good
from evil. Therefore a Samyama is given by which the
power of discrimination can be strengthened. This is by
making Samyama on a particle of time.
54. जातिलक्षणदेशैरन्यताऽनवच्छेदात् तुल्ययोस्ततः प्रतिपत्तिः ॥५४॥
jatilakshannadeshairanyataanavachchhedat
tulyayostatah pratipattih
Those which cannot be differentiated by species, sign
and place, even they will be discriminated by the
above Samyama.
The misery that we suffer comes from ignorance, from non-
discrimination between the real and the unreal. We all take the
bad for the good, the dream for the reality. Soul is the only
reality, and we have forgotten it. Body is an unreal dream, and
we think we are all bodies. This non-discrimination is the
cause of misery, and it is caused by ignorance. When
discrimination comes it brings strength, and then alone can
we avoid all these various ideas of body, heavens, and gods
and Devas. This ignorance arises through differentiating by
species, sign or place. For instance, take a cow. The cow is
differentiated from the dog, as species. Even with the cows
alone how do we make the distinction between one cow and
another? By signs. If two objects are exactly similar they can
be distinguished if they are in different places. When objects
are so mixed up that even these differentiæ will not help us,
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