पातञ्जल योगसूत्र (स्वामी विवेकानन्द भाष्य एवं सूत्र व्याख्या)

Patanjali Yoga Sutras
the PuruSa, the essence of intelligence. There is no liberation
in getting powers. It is a worldly search after enjoyment in
this life; all search for enjoyment is vain; this is the old, old
lesson which man finds it so hard to learn. When he does learn
it, he gets out of the universe and becomes free. The
possession of what are called occult powers is only
intensifying the world, and in the end intensifying suffering.
Though, as a scientist, Patanjali is bound to point out the
possibilities of this science, he never misses an opportunity to
warn us against these powers. Knowledge is power, and as
soon as we begin to know a thing we get power over it; so
also, when the mind begins to meditate on the different
elements it gains power over them. That sort of meditation
where the external gross elements are the objects is called
Savitarka. Tarka means question, Savitarka with-question.
Questioning the elements, as it were, that they may give up
their truths and their powers to the man who meditates upon
them. Again, in the very same meditation, when one struggles
to take the elements out of time and space, and think of them
as they are, it is called Nirvitarka, without-question. When
the meditation goes a step higher, and takes the Tanmatras as
its object, and thinks of them as in time and space, it is called
Savichara, with-discrimination, and when the same
meditation gets beyond time and space, and thinks of the fine
elements as they are, it is called Nirvichara,
without-discrimination. The next step is when the elements
are given up, either as gross or as fine, and the object of
meditation is the interior organ, the thinking organ, and when
the thinking organ is thought of as bereft of the qualities of
activity, and of dullness, it is then called Sanandam, the
blissful Samadhi. In that Samadhi, when we are thinking of
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