पातञ्जल योगसूत्र (स्वामी विवेकानन्द भाष्य एवं सूत्र व्याख्या)

Patanjali Yoga Sutras
chiterapratisankramayastadakarapattau
svabuddhisanvedanam
The essence of knowledge (the PuruSa) being
un-changeable, when the mind takes its form, it
becomes conscious.
Patanjali says this to make it more clear that knowledge is not
a quality of the PuruSa. When the mind comes near the
PuruSa it is reflected, as it were, upon the mind, and the mind,
for the time being, becomes knowing and seems as if it were
itself the PuruSa.
22. द्रष्टृदृश्योपरक्तं चित्तं सर्वार्थम् ॥ २२ ॥
drashtridrishyoparaktan chittan sarvartham
Coloured by the seer and the seen the mind is able to
understand everything.
On the one side the external world, the seen, is being
reflected, and on the other, the seer is being reflected; thus
comes the power of all knowledge to the mind.
23. तदसंख्येयवासनाचित्रम् अपि परार्थं संहत्यकारित्वात् ॥ २३ ॥
tadasankhyeyavasanachitram api pararthan
sanhatyakaritvat
The mind through its innumerable desires acts for
another (the PuruSa), being combinations.
The mind is a compound of various things, and therefore it
cannot work for itself. Everything that is a combination in this
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