Originally Posted by
Philippe*
Yogasutra ends with sutra IV-34 :
puruShArthashUnyAnAM guNAnAM pratiprasavaH kaivalyaM svarUpapratiShThA vA citi shakter iti
The process of involution of the primary-constituents, devoid of purpose for the Self, is [what is called] alonenes [of seeing], or the establishment of the power of awareness in [its] own form. Finis (Feuerstein)
iti means the end of the teaching. According to the interpretations, as Yoga sutra is open to many interpretations, the body-mind complex can dissolved, there is not any more union with the Self on the contrary there is detachment viyoga.
Philippe
Namaste Philippe,
I am sorry that I do not understand you fully, may be. I surmise that you wish to convey that the finality is viyoga -- complete detachment from the Self? Is it so? It will depend on what you mean by Self. When true nature (svarupa) is indicated the Self is pure consciousness from which nothing can be detached. No Viyoga is possible from one's svarupa.
Swami VenkasenandaThe qualities and the characteristics of a person have no goal nor motivation any more. They return to their cause, ignorance! There emerges creative independence. The undivided cosmic intelligence which is omnipotent regains as it were its own identity.
Jnanesvar Bharati
4.34 When those primary elements involve, or resolve themselves back into that out of which they emerged, there comes liberation, wherein the power of pure consciousness becomes established in its true nature.
(purusha artha sunyanam gunanam pratiprasavah kaivalyam svarupa pratistha va chiti shaktih iti)
Swami Vivekananda
4.34. The state of the self-in-itself or liberation is realised when the gunas (having provided for the experience and liberation of Purusha) are without any purpose to fulfil and disappear into their causal substance. In other words, it is absolute consciousness established in its own self.
Swami Krishnananda (Purport)All thought ceases once for all in
Nirvikalpa Samadhi. The seeds of Desire and
Vasanas and
Samskaras are fried in toto; this is Nirbija Samadhi. The Yogi in this supreme state loses all external consciousness, all awareness of duality and multiplicity; he loses even the I-idea (Asmita) in Asamprajnata Samadhi. That is the Supreme State where the Seer (Purusha) is established in His own
Svarupa.
Samkhya-Yogacharya Swami Hariharananda Aranya
34. The state of the Self-in-Itself or liberation is realised when the Gunas (having provided for the experience and liberation of Purusha) are without any purpose to fulfil and disappear into their causal substance. In other words, it is absolute Consciousness established in Its own Self.
- purusha = pure consciousness, Self
- artha = purpose, meaning
- sunyanam = devoid
- gunanam = elements, prime qualities, constituents, attributes; (three gunas of sattvas, rajas, tamas)
- pratiprasavah = involution, resolve, recede
- kaivalyam = absolute freedom, liberation, enlightenment
- svarupa = own form
- pratistha = established
- va = or
- chiti = consciousness
- shaktih = power
- iti = the end, finis (to denote the end of the teachings)
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Each and every guru highlights the Union of Seer (Purusha) with the absolute Self. I cannot see any viyoga herein. Brahma Sutra also teaches the ultimate attainment to be the realisation of the svarupa, as is taught in yoga Sutra. There is definitely no contradiction. And the very title: Yoga Sutra, indicates that attaining svarupa is yoga (and not viyoga) by way of involution (pratiprasavah) of Gunas.
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Further, Yoga Sutras indicate that breaches occur that allow impressions of memory to arise and colour the Seer's vision again, as below:
4.27 When there are breaks or breaches in that high discrimination, other impressions arise from the deep unconscious.
(tachchhidresu pratyaya antarani samskarebhyah)
Thus, Vichara (savichara or nirvichara) is not one time effort but continues till the Seer is established in Turiyatita (sahaja samadhi) wherein the Samadhi is unbroken with unbroken abidance as Self (svarupa-pure consciousness and not the body-mind-personality).
Om Namah Shivaya
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