पातञ्जल योगसूत्र (स्वामी विवेकानन्द भाष्य एवं सूत्र व्याख्या)

Patanjali Yoga Sutras
27. तस्य सप्तधा प्रान्तभूमिः प्रज्ञा ॥ २७॥
tasya saptadhaa prantabhoomih prajna
His knowledge is of the sevenfold highest ground.
When this knowledge comes, it will come, as it were, in seven
grades, one after the other, and when one of these has begun
we may know that we are getting knowledge. The first to
appear will be that we have known what is to be known. The
mind will cease to be dissatisfied. While we are aware of
thirsting after knowledge we begin to seek here and there,
wherever we think we can get some truth, and, failing to find
it we become dissatisfied and seek in a fresh direction. All
search is vain, until we begin to perceive that knowledge is
within ourselves, that no one can help us, that we must help
ourselves. When we begin to practice the power of
discrimination, the first sign that we are getting near truth will
be that that dissatisfied state will vanish. We shall feel quite
sure that we have found the truth, and that it cannot be
anything else but the truth. Then we may know that the sun is
rising, that the morning is breaking for us, and, taking
courage, we must persevere until the goal is reached. The
second grade will be that all pains will be gone. It will be
impossible for anything in the universe, physical, mental, or
spiritual, to give us pain. The third will be that we shall get
full knowledge, that omniscience will be ours. Next will come
what is called freedom of the Chitta. We shall realise that all
these difficulties and struggles have fallen off from us. All
these vacillations of the mind, when the mind cannot be
controlled, have fallen down, just as a stone falls from the
mountain top into the valley and never comes up again. The
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