Containing 55 sacred Sanskrit shlokas with multi-author commentaries and translations.
तपःस्वाध्यायेश्वरप्रणिधानानि क्रियायोगः
tapaḥ svādhyāya Īśvarapraṇidhānāni kriyāyogaḥ
"Austerity, study of the psyche, profound religious meditation on the Supreme Lord is the dynamic kriya yoga practice."
समाधिभावनार्थः क्लेशतनूकरणार्थश्च
samādhi bhāvanārthaḥ kleśa tanūkaraṇārthaś ca
"It is for the purpose of producing continuous effortless linkage of the attention to a higher concentration force and for causing the reduction of the mental and emotional afflictions."
अविद्यास्मितारागद्वेषाभिनिवेशाः क्लेशाः
avidyā asmitā rāga dveṣa abhiniveśaḥ pañca kleśāḥ
"The mental and emotional afflictions are spiritual ignorance, misplaced identity, emotional attachment, impulsive-emotional disaffection and the strong focus on mundane existence, which is due to an instinctive fear of death."
अविद्या क्षेत्रमुत्तरेषां प्रसुप्ततनुविच्छिन्नोदाराणाम्
avidyā kṣetram uttareṣāṁ prasupta tanu vicchina udārāṇām
"Spiritual ignorance is the existential environment for the other afflictions, in their dormant, reduced, periodic or expanded stages."
अनित्याशुचिदुःखानात्मसु नित्यशुचिसुखात्मख्यातिरविद्या
anitya aśuci duḥka anātmasu nitya śuci sukha ātma khyātiḥ avidyā
"Spiritual ignorance is exhibited when what is temporary, impure, distressful and mundane, is identified as being eternal, pure, joyful and spiritual respectively."
दृग्दर्शनशक्त्योरेकात्मतेवास्मिता
dṛg darśanaśaktyoḥ ekātmatā iva asmitā
"Mistaken identity occurs when the supernatural vision and what is seen through it seems to be identical."
सुखानुशयी रागः
sukha anuśayī rāgaḥ
"Craving results from a devoted attachment to happiness."
दुःखानुशयी द्वेषः
duḥkha anuśayi dveṣaḥ
"Impulsive emotional disaffection results from a devoted attachment to distress."
स्वरसवाही विदुषोऽपि तथारूढोऽभिनिवेशः
svarasavāhī viduṣaḥ ’pi tatha rūḍho ‘bhiniveśaḥ
"As it is, the strong focus on mundane existence, which is due to the instinctive fear of death, and which is sustained by its own potencies, which operates for self preservation, is developed even in the wise man."
ते प्रतिप्रसवहेयाः सूक्ष्माः
te pratiprasavaheyāḥ sūkṣmāḥ
"These subtle motivations are to be abandoned by reverting their expressions backwards."
ध्यानहेयास्तद्वृत्तयः
dhyānaheyāḥ tadvṛttayaḥ
"Their vibrational modes are to be abandoned or ceased by the effortless linkage of the attention to a higher concentration force or person."
क्लेशमूलः कर्माशयो दृष्टादृष्टजन्मवेदनीयः
kleśamūlaḥ karmāśayaḥ dṛṣṭa adṛṣṭa janma vedanīyaḥ
"The psychological storage of the impressions left by performance of cultural activities which is itself the cause of the mental and emotional distress, is experienced in realized and non-realized births."
सति मूले तद्विपाको जात्यायुर्भोगाः
sati mūle tadvipākaḥ jāti āyuḥ bhogāḥ
"In the case aforementioned, there exists the resulting effects which manifest as a particular species of life with certain duration of body and type of experiences gained in that form."
ते ह्लादपरितापफलाः पुण्यापुण्यहेतुत्वात्
te hlāda paritāpa phalāḥ puṇya apuṇya hetutvāt
"They produce happiness and distress as results, on the basis of merit and demerits."
परिणामतापसंस्कारदुःखैर्गुणवृत्तिविरोधाच्च दुःखमेव सर्वं विवेकिनः
pariṇāma tāpa saṁskāra duḥkaiḥ guṇavṛtti virodhāt ca duḥkham eva sarvaṁ vivekinaḥ
"The discriminating person knows that all conditions are distressful because of circumstantial changes, strenuous endeavor, impulsive motivations, clashing aspects and the vibrational modes of the mento-emotional energy."
हेयं दुःखमनागतम्
heyaṁ duḥkham anāgatam
"Distress which is not manifested is to be avoided."
द्रष्टृदृश्ययोः संयोगो हेयहेतुः
draṣṭṛdṛśyayoḥ saṁyogo heyahetuḥ
"The cause which is to be avoided is the indiscriminate association of the observer and what is perceived."
प्रकाशक्रियास्थितिशीलं भूतेन्द्रियात्मकं भोगापवर्गार्थं दृश्यम्
prakāśa kriyā sthiti śīlaṁ bhūtendriyātmakaṁ bhogāpavargārthaṁ dṛśyam
"What is perceived is of the nature of the mundane elements and the sense organs and is formed in clear perception, action or stability. Its purpose is to give experience or to allow liberation."
विशेषाविशेषलिङ्गमात्रालिङ्गानि गुणपर्वाणि
viśeṣa aviśeṣa liṅgamātra aliṅgāni guṇaparvāṇi
"The phases of the influences of material nature are those which are specific, regular, indicated or not indicated."
द्रष्टा दृशिमात्रः शुद्धोऽपि प्रत्ययानुपश्यः
draṣṭā dṛśimātraḥ śuddhaḥ api pratyayānupaśyaḥ
"The perceiver is the pure extent of his consciousness but his conviction is patterned by what is perceived."
तदर्थ एव दृश्यस्यात्मा
tadarthaḥ eva dṛśyasya ātma
"The individual spirit who is involved in what is seen, exists here for that purpose only."
कृतार्थं प्रति नष्टमप्यनष्टं तदन्यसाधारणत्वात्
kṛtārthaṁ prati naṣṭam api anaṣṭaṁ tadanya sādhāraṇatvāt
"It is not effective for one to whom its purpose is fulfilled but it has a common effect on the others."
स्वस्वामिशक्त्योः स्वरूपोपलब्धिहेतुः संयोगः
sva svāmiśaktyoḥ svarūpa upalabdhi hetuḥ saṁyogaḥ
"There is a reason for the conjunction of the individual self and his psychological energies. It is for obtaining the experience of his own form."
तस्य हेतुरविद्या
tasya hetuḥ avidyā
"The cause of the conjunction is spiritual ignorance"
तदभावात् संयोगाभावो हानं तद्दृशेः कैवल्यम्
tad abhāvāt saṁyogā abhāvaḥ hānaṁ taddṛśeḥ kaivalyam
"The elimination of the conjunction which results from the elimination of that spiritual ignorance is the withdrawal that is the total separation of the perceiver from the mundane psychology"
विवेकख्यातिरविप्लवा हानोपायः
vivekakhyātiḥ aviplavā hānopāyaḥ
"The method for avoiding that spiritual ignorance is the establishment of continuous discriminative insight."
तस्य सप्तधा प्रान्तभूमिः प्रज्ञा
tasya saptadhā prāntabhūmiḥ prajñā
"Concerning the development of his discriminative insight, there are seven stages."
योगाङ्गानुष्ठानादशुद्धिक्षये ज्ञानदीप्तिरा विवेकख्यातेः
yogā ṅgānuṣṭhānāt aśuddhikṣaye jñānadīptiḥ āvivekakhyāteḥ
"From the consistent practice of the parts of the yoga process, on the elimination of the impurity, the radiant organ of perception becomes manifest, until there is steady discriminative insight."
यमनियमासनप्राणायामप्रत्याहारधारणाध्यानसमाधयोऽष्टावङ्गानि
yama niyama āsana prāṇāyāma pratyāhāra dhāraṇā dhyāna samādhayaḥ aṣṭau aṅgāni
"Moral restrains, recommended behaviors, body posture, breath enrichment, sensual energy withdrawal, linking of the attention to higher concentration forces or persons, effortless linkage of the attention to higher concentration forces or persons, continuous effortless linkage of the attention to higher concentration forces or persons, are the eight parts of the yoga system."
अहिंसासत्यास्तेयब्रह्मचर्यापरिग्रहा यमाः
ahiṁsā satya asteya brahmacarya aparigrahāḥ yamāḥ
"Non-violence, realism, non-stealing, sexual non-expressiveness which results in the perception of spirituality (brahman) and non-possessiveness, are the moral restraints."