पातञ्जल योगसूत्र (स्वामी विवेकानन्द भाष्य एवं सूत्र व्याख्या)

Patanjali Yoga Sutras
man with a little knowledge, I must also admit that there is
someone behind him with unlimited knowledge. The second
deduction is that no knowledge can come without a teacher. It
is true as the modern philosophers say, that there is something
in man which evolves out of him; all knowledge is in man, but
certain environments are necessary to call it out. We cannot
find any knowledge without teacher, if there are men teachers,
god teachers, or angel teachers, they are all limited; who was
the teacher before them? We are forced to admit, as a last
conclusion, One Teacher, Who is not limited by time, and that
One Teacher or infinite knowledge, without beginning or end,
is called God.
27. तस्य वाचकः प्रणवः ॥ २७॥
tasya vachakah prannavah
His manifesting word is Om.
Every idea that you have in the mind has a counterpart in a
word; the word and the thought are inseparable. The external
part of the thought is what we call word, and the internal part
is what we call thought. No man can, by analysis, separate
thought from word. The idea that language was created by
men—certain men sitting together and deciding on words, has
been proved to be wrong. So long as things have existed there
have been words and language. What is the connection
between an idea and a word? Although we see that there must
always be a word with a thought, it is not necessary that the
same thought requires the same word. The thought may be the
same in twenty different countries, yet the language is
different. We must have a word to express each thought, but
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