पातञ्जल योगसूत्र (स्वामी विवेकानन्द भाष्य एवं सूत्र व्याख्या)

Patanjali Yoga Sutras
Ignorance is taking that which is non-eternal, impure,
painful, and non-Self, for the eternal, pure, happy,
Atman (Self).
All these various sorts of impression have one source:
ignorance. We have first to learn what ignorance is. All of us
think that “I am the body,” and not the Self, the pure, the
effulgent, the ever blissful, and that is ignorance. We think of
man, and see man as body. This is the great delusion.
6. दृग्दर्शनशक्त्योरेकात्मतेवास्मिता ॥ ६॥
drigdarshanashaktyorekatmatevasmita
Egoism is the identification of the seer with the
instrument of seeing.
The seer is really the Self, the pure one, the ever holy, the
infinite, the immortal. That is the Self of man. And what are
the instruments? The Chitta, or mind-stuff, the Buddhi,
determinative faculty, the Manas, or mind, and the Indriyani,
or sense organs. These are the instruments for him to see the
external world, and the identification of the Self with the
instruments is what is called the ignorance of egoism. We say
“I am the mind, I am thought; I am angry, or I am happy.”
How can we be angry, and how can we hate? We should
identify ourselves with the Self; that cannot change. If it is
unchangeable, how can it be one moment happy, and one
moment unhappy? It is formless, infinite, omnipresent. What
can change it? Beyond all law. What can affect it? Nothing in
the universe can produce an effect on it, yet, through
ignorance, we identify ourselves with the mind-stuff, and
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