Patañjali
Sādhanapāda (Chapter on Means)
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Sādhanapāda (Chapter on Means)
साधनपाद (Sādhanapāda)
It sets out the yoga of action (kriyāyoga: austerity, study and surrender to īśvara), the five afflictions —ignorance, sense of I, attachment, aversion and clinging to life— and the doctrine of karma. It analyses the conjunction of seer and seen as the cause of avoidable pain and begins the exposition of the eight limbs: restraints, observances, posture, breath control and withdrawal of the senses.
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Second chapter of the Yogasūtra (55 aphorisms).
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Other works by Patañjali
- Yoga Sūtras (The Aphorisms of Yoga) · 325
- Samādhipāda (Chapter on Concentration)
- Vibhūtipāda (Chapter on Powers)
- Kaivalyapāda (Chapter on Isolation)
- Yogabhāṣya (Commentary on the Yoga) · 325
- Mahābhāṣya (The Great Commentary) · 150
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Sources
- Woods, James Haughton (trad.). The Yoga-System of Patañjali, or the Ancient Hindu Doctrine of Concentration of Mind, embracing the Mnemonic Rules, called Yoga-sūtras, of Patañjali, and the Comment, called Yoga-bhāshya, attributed to Veda-Vyāsa, and the Explanation, called Tattva-vāiçāradī, of Vāchaspati-Miçra. Cambridge (Mass.): Harvard University Press, 1914 (Harvard Oriental Series 17). Introducción, §§ 3–5, sobre la identidad de los dos Patañjali y las fechas.
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