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

than one can think of something' without first knowing it.
It is suggested, for example, that when Samyama is practised
with respect to, say, a mental image the process will tend
from contemplating upon the gross to the subtile. The image
may be thought of in all parts ; then without the decorations ;
then without limbs; then without any special identity; and lastly
as not apart from " self. " The stages here referred to apply
generally to a distinction of the. kind just shown; but as
applied to Samadki they may mean even the stages shown in
aphorisms XXVII. (Section II.) or in XVII. (.Section I.).

VII. The three are more intimate than the others.

The other five accessories of Yoga, described in section II,
are comparatively foreign to the subject of Yoga, proper. For
they are only the pr eliminaries to Yoga which really consists in
the three acts described here. Hence these three are more
intimate than the others, and are brought out for separate de-
scription in a separate section. The first five accessories are
called the external means of Yoga, for they are useful only in
obviating distractions. These three art? called internal inas-
much as they are the Yoga, proper.

VIII. Even it is foreign to the unconscious.

Unconscious or asamprajndta-samadhi is the final end, or
Yoga; and looking to that, this Samyama also is foreign, as
being merely prepa ratory. In samyama there is something to
depend upou an d hence it is foreign to real samadki wherein
there is nothing to depend upon.

IX. Intercepted tra nsformation is the transforma-
tion of the mind into the moment of interception ;—

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