• Four Chapters on Freedom: Commentary on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (Sanskrit text, transliteration, English translation and extensive commentary)

Four Chapters on Freedom: Commentary on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (Sanskrit text, transliteration, English translation and extensive commentary)

Contents

Introduction

Sutra :  Chapter One -  Samadhi Pada

1 Introduction to yoga

2 What is yoga?

3 The culmination of yoga

4  What happens otherwise to purusha?

5  Vrittis - main classification

6  Five kinds of vrittis

7 (i) Pramana - sources of right knowledge

8 (ii) Viparyaya misconception

9 (ii) Vikalpa - unfounded belief

10 (iv) Nidra - state of sleep

11 (v) Smriti - memory

12 Necessity of abhyasa and vairagya

13 Abhyasa means constant practice

14 Foundation of abhyasa

15 Lower form of vairagya

16 Higher form of vairagya

17 Definition of samprajnata samadhi

18 Definition of asamprajnata samadhi

19 Past merits needed for asamprajnata samadhi

20 Otherwise, merits needed for asamprajnata samadhi 

21 Quicker is intensity of eagerness

22 Three degrees of eagerness

23 Or by devotion to Ishwara

24 Definition of Ishwara

25 Attribute of Ishwara

26 Ishwara is the jagatguru

27 Pranava is verily Ishwara

28 Sadhana for Ishwara

29 Result of this sadhana

30 Obstacles in the path of yoga

31 Other obstructions

32 Removal of obstacles by one-pointedness

33 (ii) Or by cultivating opposite virtues

34 (ii) Or by controlling prana

35 (iv) Or by observing sense experience

36 (v) Or by inner illumination

37 (vi) Or by detachment from matter

38 (vii) Or by knowledge of dream and sleep

39 (vii) Or by meditation as desired

40 Fruits of meditation

41 Oneness of chitta with object

42 Savitarka samadhi

43 Nirvitarka samadhi

44 Other forms of samadhi

45 Extent of samadhi

46 Samadhi with seed

47 Then spiritual light dawns

48 Cosmic experience

49 Characteristics of this experience

50 Dynamic form of consciousness in samadhi

51 Then one attains samadhi without seed


Sutra Chapter Two: Sadhana Pada

1 Discipline for sadhana

2 Why discipline?

3 Causes of pain

Avidya is the root cause

5 i) Avidya-ignorance

6 (ii) Asmita - I-feeling

7 (i) Raga

8 iv) Dwesha

9 (v) Abhinivesha - clinging to life

10 Kleshas can be reduced

11 By meditation

12 Karmashaya and reincarnation

13 Fruits of karmashaya

14 Fruits depend on past merits

15 Pleasure and pain are both painful

16 Future pain avoidable

17 Cause of heya

18 Properties of nature

19 Four stages of the gunas

20 The seer defined

21 Prakriti is only for purusha

22 Prakriti after liberation

23 Why union?

24 Avidya is the cause

25 Definition of hana

26 The means for hana

27 Stages of enlightenment

28 Necessity of yoga practice

29 Eight parts of yoga discipline

30 The five yamas

31 The great disciplines

32 The five niyamas

33 Way to remove disturbances

34 Their degree and nature

35 Fruits of (i) ahimsa

36 Fruits of (ii) satya

37 Fruits of (ii) asteya

38 Fruits of (iv) brahmacharya

39 Fruits of (v) aparigraha

40 Fruits of (vi) shaucha

41 Shaucha

42 Fruits of (vii) santosha

43 Fruits of (vii) tapas

44 Fruits of (ix) swadhyaya

45 Fruits of (x) Ishwara pranidhana

46 Asana

47 How to master asana

48 Result of this mastery

49 Pranayama

50 Three kinds of pranayama

51 Fourth kind of pranayama

52 Removal of the veil

53 Mind becomes fit for dharana

54 Pratyahara

55 Mastery over the senses


Sutra Chapter Three: Vibhooti Pada

1 What is dharana?

2 What is dhyana?

3 What is samadhi?

4 What is samyama?

5 Result of samyama

6 Its application

7 These three are internal

8 Yet external to nirbeeja samadhi9

9 Nirodha parinama

10 Fruits of nirodha parinama

11 Samadhi parinama

12 Ekagrata parinama

13 Application of these parinamas

14 Dharmi - the common substratum

15 Cause of difference

16 Knowledge of past and future

17 Knowledge of all speech

18 Knowledge of previous births

19 Knowledge of others' minds

20 But not of the mental image

21 Invisibility

22 Disappearance of the tanmatras

23 Knowledge of time of death

24 Powers of friendliness, etc.

25 Attainment of strength

26 Hidden knowledge

27 Knowledge of the solar system

28 Knowledge of the stars

29 Knowledge of their movements

30 Knowledge of the body

31 Cessation of hunger and thirst

32 Power of steadiness

33 Spiritual vision

34 Intuitive knowledge

35 Awareness of chitta

36 Knowledge of purusha

37 Intuitive perception

38 Psychic powers are obstacles

39 Entering another's body

40 Levitation

41 Aura

42 Divine hearing

43 Moving through space

44 Univeral state of mind

45 Mastery of the bhutas

46 Attainment of anima, etc.

47 Perfection of the body

48 Mastery of sense organs

49 Conquest of prakriti

50 Omnipotence and omniscience 

51 Vairagya and knowledge 

52 Causes of downfall 

53 Awareness of ultimate reality 

54 Knowledge of distinctions 

55 Transcendental knowledge

56 Attainment of kaivalya


Sutra Chapter Four: Kaivalya Pada

1 Sources of siddhis

2 Fundamental transformation

3 Instrumental cause

4 Created mind

5 Natural mind directs

6 And is free from impressions

7 Influence of karma

8 Manifestation of vasanas

9 Memory and impressions

10 Source of vasanas

11 Disappearance of vasanas

12 Past and future exist

13 Factor of existence

14 Essence of object

15 Theory of perception

16 Mind and object

17 Reflection of object

18 Purusha knows the mind

19 Chitta not self-illuminative

20 Limitation of mind

21 Confusion of memories

22 Knowledge of its own nature

23 Apprehension of mind

24 It works for purusha

25 Cessation of distinction

26 Heading to kaivalya

27 Pratyayas still arise

28 Their removal

29 Dharmamegha samadhi

30 Freedom from

31 kleshas

32 Infinity of knowledge

33 Gunas retire

34 Krama apprehensible

35 Kaivalya

Appendices

A: Phonetic Pronunciation Guide

B: Freedom in a Nutshell (Sanskrit)

C: Freedom in a Nutshell (Transliteration)


Book Details
Author Swami Satyananda Saraswati
ISBN 13 9788185787183

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