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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proceeds to describe the immediately uext, viz.. praty&haro
or abstraction.

LIV. Abstraction is, as it were, the imitating by
the senses, the thinking principle, by withdrawing
themselves from their objects.

Abstraction consists in the senses becoming- entirely assimi-
lated to or controlled by the mind. They must he drawn
away from their objects and tixed upon the mind, and assimilat-
ed to it, so that by preventing- the transformations of the think-
ing principle, the senses also will follow it and be immediately
controlled. Not only this but they will be ever ready to eon-
tribute collectively towards iht absorbing- meditation of any
given thing- at any moment, and even always.

LV. Then follows the greatest mastery over the
senses.

• The kind of mastery described is hinted at under aphorism
LLY. The advantages resulting from this power to a Yoain
are too plain to require description.