पातञ्जल योगसूत्र (स्वामी विवेकानन्द भाष्य एवं सूत्र व्याख्या)

Patanjali Yoga Sutras
the power of discrimination acquired by the above-mentioned
practice will give us the ability to distinguish them. The
highest philosophy of the Yogi is based upon this fact, that the
PuruSa is pure and perfect, and is the only “simple” that
exists in this universe. The body and mind are compounds,
and yet we are ever identifying ourselves with them. That is
the great mistake that the distinction has been lost. When this
power of discrimination has been attained, man sees that
everything in this world, mental and physical, is a compound,
and, as such, cannot be the Purusa.
55. तारकं सर्वविषयं सर्वथाविषयम् अक्रमं चेति विवेकजं ज्ञानम् ॥ ५५ ॥
tarakan sarvavishayan sarvathavishayam akraman
cheti vivekajan jnanam
The saving knowledge is that knowledge of
discrimination which covers all objects, all means.
Saving, because the knowledge takes the Yogi across the
ocean of birth and death. The whole of Prakriti in all its states,
subtle and gross, is within the grasp of this knowledge. There
is no succession in perfection by this knowledge: it takes in all
things simultaneously, at a glance.
56. सत्त्वपुरुषयोः शुद्धिसाम्ये कैवल्यम् इति ॥ ५६ ॥
sattvapurushayoh shuddhisamye kaivalyam iti
By the similarity of purity between the Sattva and the
PuruSa comes Kaivalya.
When the soul realises that it depends on nothing in the
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