Yoga-sutras (with Bhoja’s Rajamartanda)
by Rajendralala Mitra | 1883 | 103,575 words
The Yoga-Sutra 2.45, English translation with Commentaries. The Yogasutra of Patanjali represents a collection of aphorisms dealing with spiritual topics such as meditation, absorption, Siddhis (yogic powers) and final liberation (Moksha). The Raja-Martanda is officialy classified as a Vritti (gloss) which means its explanatory in nature, as opposed to being a discursive commentary.
Sūtra 2.45
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of Sūtra 2.45:
समाधिसिद्धिरीश्वरप्रणिधानात् ॥ २.४५ ॥
samādhisiddhirīśvarapraṇidhānāt || 2.45 ||
45. Meditation is completed through the contemplation of the Lord.
The Rajamartanda commentary by King Bhoja:
[English translation of the 11th century commentary by Bhoja called the Rājamārtaṇḍa]
[Sanskrit text for commentary available]
The fruit of contemplating on the Lord.
[Read Sūtra 2.45]
Whoever is thus devoted to the Lord, in him “meditation” (samādhi) of the kind described (C I A l.) becomes manifest, because that Divine Lord, being pleased, excites meditation by removing all obstructive afflictions (from the way).
Notes and Extracts
[Notes and comparative extracts from other commentaries on the Yogasūtra]
[The theistical character of Patañjali’s doctrine is here established by the admission that the divinity may, when contem-
plated, help to promote the object of the Yoga. Kapila repudiates the idea ]
Having described the restrictions and the obligations, he now proceeds to describe posture.