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

consciousness that is always present in all acts of sensing so
to speak; the other two are already explained. By mastering
these five things in respect to. each andevery organ of sense there
arises complete mastery over them, the further result whereof
is described in the following.

XLVIII. Thence fleetness (as of) mind, the being
unobstructed by instruments, and complete mastery-
over the i^radhdna.

The powers acquired from complete control over the organs
of sense are described in this aphorism. The first consits in such
fleetness of the body as is possible only to the mind; the second
in the uninterrupted exercise of thesenses without the co-ordinate
help of the body ; and the third in such mastery over the pra-
dkana—the root of all—as will enable the Yogin to command
or create anything at will. The siddkis or powers described from
aph. XLIV. toXLVIIL, are called madkupratikd, as sweet as
honey, for each of them is as sweet as all of them, like any part
or the whole of a comb of honey. Or the word madku may
be taken to imply the rtambharaprajna, intuitive cognition ; and
that wherein is realised the cause of this intuitive cognition
may be called madkupratika.

XLIX. In him who is fixed upon the distinctive
relation of sattva and purusa, (arise) mastery over all
things and the knowledge of all.

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"When the yogin frees himself from all other things and
rests in pure sattva and the purusa reflected in it, he acquires
the powers named in the aphorism. This siddhi is called
Vnoka, or ' void of all sorrows,' inasmuch as the Yogin is
henceforward free from all distractions and all obstructions.