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Patanjali Yoga Sutras
31. ततः कृतार्थानां परिणामक्रमपरिसमाप्तिर्गुणानाम् ॥३१॥
tatah kritarthanan parinamakramapari
samaptirgunanam
Then are finished the successive transformations of
the qualities, they having attained the end.
Then all these various transformations of the qualities, which change
from species to species, cease forever.
32. क्षणप्रतियोगी परिणामापरान्तनिग्राह्यः क्रमः ॥३२॥
kshannapratiyogi parinamaparantanigrarhyah
kramah
The changes that exist in relation to moments, and
which are perceived at the other end (at the end of a
series) are succession.
Patanjali here defines the word succession, the changes that
exist in relation to moments. While I am thinking, many
moments pass, and with each moment there is a change of
idea, but we only perceive these changes at the end of a series.
So, perception of time is always in the memory. This is called
succession, but for the mind that has realised omnipresence
all these have finished. Everything has become present for
it; the present alone exists, the past and future are lost. This
stands controlled, and all knowledge is there in one second.
Everything is known like a flash.
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Patanjali Yoga Sutras
33. पुरुषार्थशून्यानां गुणानां प्रतिप्रसवः कैवल्यं , स्वरूपप्रतिष्ठा वा
चितिशक्तिरेति ॥३३॥
purusharthashoonyanan gunanan pratiprasavah
kaivalyan, svaroopapratishtha va chitishaktireti
The resolution in the inverse order of the qualities,
berfect of any motive of action for the Purusa, is
Kaivalya, or it is the establishment of the power of
knowledge in its own nature.
Nature's task is done, this unselfish task which our sweet
nurse Nature had imposed upon herself. As it were, she
gently took the self-forgetting soul by the hand, and showed
him all the experiences in the universe, all manifestations,
bringing him higher and higher through various bodies, till his
glory came back, and he remembered his own nature. Then
the kind mother went back the way she came, for others who
have also lost their way in the trackless desert of life. And
thus she is working, without beginning and without end. And
thus through pleasure and pain, through good and evil, the
infinite river of souls is flowing into the ocean of perfection,
of self-realisation.
Glory unto those who have realised their own nature! May
their blessings be on us all!
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