पातञ्जल योगसूत्र (स्वामी विवेकानन्द भाष्य एवं सूत्र व्याख्या)

Patanjali Yoga Sutras
17. वितर्कविचारानन्दास्मितारूपानुगमात् संप्रज्ञातः ॥ १७॥
vitarkavicharanandasmitaroopanugamat
sanprajnatah
The concentration called right know-ledge is that
which is followed by reasoning, discrimination, bliss,
unqualified ego.
This Samadhi is divided into two varieties. One is called the
Samprajnata, and the other the Asamprajnata. The
Samprajnata is of four varieites. In this Samadhi come all the
powers of controlling nature. The first variety is called the
Savitarka, when the mind meditates upon an object again and
again, by isolating it from other objects. There are two sorts of
objects for meditation, the categories of nature, and the
Purusa. Again, the categories are of two varieties; the
twenty-four categories are insentient, and the one sentient is
the Purusa. When the mind thinks of the elements of nature
by thinking of their beginning and their end, this is one sort of
Savitarka. The words require explanation. This part of Yoga is
based entirely on Sankhya Philosophy, about which I have
already told you. As you will remember, egoism and will, and
mind, have a common basis, and that common basis is called
the Chitta, the mind-stuff, out of which they are all
manufactured. This mind-stuff takes in the forces of nature,
and projects them as thought. There must be something,
again, where both force and matter are one. This is called
Avyaktam, the unmanifested state of nature, before creation,
and two which, after the end of a cycle, the whole of nature
returns, to again come out after another period. Beyond that is
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