Dvivedi, Manilal Nabhubhai [Comm.]: The Yoga-sūtra of Patanjali: (translation, with introduction, appendix, and notes based upon several authentic commentaries) (Bombay, 1890)

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who have stopped only at that stage in progress are inferior

Yogins, and their Samadhi is only an inferior exercise ever

dependent on the existence of the world. They are not

cognisant of the nltimate reality, and are, therefore, immersed

in the phenomenal world in which they are born and re-born,

in one form or another, never mind even if after long intervals.

It is said in the V&yupurano,, " meditators on the Indriyas

remain (in heaven) for 10 Manvantaras ; on the Bhutas for a

hundred ; on Aliankara for a thousand ; on Buddhi for ten

thousand ; on Avyakta for a lakh ; but the limit of time in the

case of those who meditate on the Parapuvu'sa cannot be

defined." Their ken is bounded by the material world, and

this Samadhi is, therefore, not the last and best end ; though

it is useful as a means. Seekers after occult powers ought to

lay these wise words of the sage Patanjali close to their heart.

Proper Samadhi does not care for the state of the one or the

other.

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XX. In others (it) is preceded by faith, energy,
memory, deserimination.

It, that is, Samadhi. Samadhi in the case of true Yogins is
preceded, not by the state of mere Videha or Prakrtilaya, but
by Faith, &c. Faith is the firm and pleasant conviction of the
mind as regards the efficacy of Yoga. True faith always leads to
energetic action, which again, by the potency of its vividness,
calls to mind all previous knowledge of the subject. This is
energy^ which leads to proper discrimination of right and
wrong. Those who apply themselves to Yoga with faith, &c,
reach the highest Samadhi through Samprajndta which leads
to Paravairagya aud then to Asamprajnata.