पातञ्जल योगसूत्र (स्वामी विवेकानन्द भाष्य एवं सूत्र व्याख्या)

Patanjali Yoga Sutras
The concentration “without reasoning” being
purified, the Chitta becomes firmly fixed.
48. ऋतंभरा तत्र प्रज्ञा ॥ ४८॥
rtanbhara tatr prajna
The knowledge in that is called “filled with Truth.”
The next aphorism will explain this.
49. श्रुतानुमानप्रज्ञाभ्याम् अन्यविषया विशेषार्थत्वात् ॥ ४९॥
shrutanumanaprajnabhyam anyavishayaa
vishesharthatvat
The knowledge that is gained from testimony and
inference is about common objects. That from the
Samadhi just mentioned is of a much higher order,
being able to penetrate where inference and
testimony cannot go.
The idea is that we have to get our knowledge of ordinary
objects by direct perception, and by inference therefrom, and
from testimony of people who are competent. By “people
who are competent,” the Yogis always mean the Rishis, or the
Seers of the thoughts recorded in the Scriptures—the Vedas.
According to them, the only proof of the Scriptures is that
they were the testimony of competent persons, yet they say
the Scriptures cannot take us to realisation. We can read all
the Vedas, and yet will not realise anything, but when we
practise their teachings, then we attain to that state which
realises what the Scriptures say, which penetrates where
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