WATCH THE VIDEO BELOW, BUT FIRST... here are seven ways to explain this sūtra from seven different, respected, and renowned authorities known for their work with Patañjali’s Yoga Sūtras.
T.K.V. Desikachar: The five activities are comprehension, misapprehension, imagination, deep sleep, and memory.
B.K.S. Iyengar: They are caused by correct knowledge, illusion, delusion, sleep, and memory.
Sri Swami Satchidananda: They are right knowledge, misconception, verbal delusion, sleep and memory.
Chip Hartranft: They are right perception, misperception, conceptualization, deep sleep, and remembering.
Gregor Maehle: The five fluctuations of mind or mind waves are correct perception, wrong perception, conceptualization, deep sleep, and memory.
Swāmi Hariharānanda Āranya: Pramana, viparyaya, vikalpa, sleep and recollection.
I.K. Taimni: (They are) right knowledge, wrong knowledge, fancy, sleep, and memory.
B.K.S. Iyengar: They are caused by correct knowledge, illusion, delusion, sleep, and memory.
Sri Swami Satchidananda: They are right knowledge, misconception, verbal delusion, sleep and memory.
Chip Hartranft: They are right perception, misperception, conceptualization, deep sleep, and remembering.
Gregor Maehle: The five fluctuations of mind or mind waves are correct perception, wrong perception, conceptualization, deep sleep, and memory.
Swāmi Hariharānanda Āranya: Pramana, viparyaya, vikalpa, sleep and recollection.
I.K. Taimni: (They are) right knowledge, wrong knowledge, fancy, sleep, and memory.
HERE'S A SHORT VIDEO FOR...
- how to chant this sūtra,
- how to notate with marks (svaras) denoting a high, middle, or low note when chanting, and
- a word-for-word break down of this sūtra.
