Pada 2, Sutra 2 Sanskrit Verse Samadhi-bhavanarthah klesha-tanu-karanarthash ca Translation This Yoga (kriya Yoga) has as its purpose the cultivation of Cognitive Absorption (Samadhi) and the attenuating of the root causes of affliction. Interpretation An afflicted mind cannot experience Samadhi or Enstasy (Cognitive Absorption). An afflicted mind that identifies itself with the body-mind complex is by far the source of suffering. Those root causes identification in Yoga are

Pada 2, Sutra 1 Sanskrit Verse atha sadhanapadah tapah-svadhyayeshvara-pranidhanani kriya-yogah Translation Now, the chapter on Sadhana (Spiritual Practice) Austerity, self-study and surrender to God constitute Kriya Yoga. Interpretation The commencing chapter of the Yoga Sutras is on Cognitive Absorption or Samadhi, the summum bonum experience-wise of what it is to be a Divine Being having a human experience. The succeeding chapter, chapter 2 of the Yoga Sutras is on Spiri