Patañjali
Vibhūtipāda (Chapter on Powers)
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Vibhūtipāda (Chapter on Powers)
विभूतिपाद (Vibhūtipāda)
It completes the eight limbs with the three inner ones —fixation, meditation and absorption—, whose union it calls saṃyama, and describes the extraordinary knowledge and powers its application would produce: knowing past and future, the minds of others, becoming invisible. It warns that these perfections are obstacles to absorption and that detachment even from them leads to isolation.
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Third chapter of the Yogasūtra (55 or 56 aphorisms according to how editions divide it).
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Other works by Patañjali
- Yoga Sūtras (The Aphorisms of Yoga) · 325
- Samādhipāda (Chapter on Concentration)
- Sādhanapāda (Chapter on Means)
- Kaivalyapāda (Chapter on Isolation)
- Yogabhāṣya (Commentary on the Yoga) · 325
- Mahābhāṣya (The Great Commentary) · 150
- Revision of Caraka's treatise (lost)
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- Nidānasūtra (aphorisms on Vedic metre)
- Paramārthasāra (The Essence of Supreme Truth)
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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