Pada 3, Sutra 38 Sanskrit Verse Bandha-kaarana-shaithilyaat pracaara-samvedanaac ca cittasya para-shareeraaveshah Translation By the relaxation of the cause of relationship to the body, and the experience of going forth, consciousness is able to enter another body. Interpretation A mind that lives in ignorance identifies itself and is attached to its physical form, the body. By reversing that identification and loosening the hold of the Pancha Kleshas or Five Afflictions of

Pada 3, Sutra 37 Sanskrit Verse te samaadhaav upasargaa vyutthaane siddhayah Translation These psychic powers (Siddhis) attained in the worldly state are obstacles to Samadhi or cognitive absorption in the undifferentiated state of awareness. Interpretation Psychic powers are the phenomena of a constrained focused mind and are only signposts along the way to spiritual emancipation. Ultimately all powers come from the Divine Self. Reflection Fascination with psychic phenomena

Pada 3, Sutra 36 Sanskrit Verse Tatah praatibha-shraavana-vedanaadarshaasvaada-vaarttaa jaayante Translation From that constraint (Pada 3, Sutra 35), spontaneous intuitive flashes based on suprasensory hearing, feeling, seeing, tasting, smelling and intelligence arises. Interpretation Ultimately all powers come from the Self. When we are able to obtain the knowledge of the Self by making the distinction between the Self and its vehicles of expression, then that Essence / Pri

Pada 3, Sutra 35 Sanskrit Verse Sattva-purusayor atyantaasankeernayoh pratyayaavisheso bhogah paraarthaat svaartha-sanyamaat purusa-jnaanam Translation Experience is a notion which does not distinguish between the most refined mode of material nature and the Self. However they are quite distinct from each other. By constraint on the Self’s own purpose distinct from Nature’s purpose of being, one attains to the knowledge of the Self. Interpretation Sattva is the material mod