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

rendered powerless for good or ill, there arises full knowledge
which is free from the obscuration caused by rajas and tamas,
and cleared of all impurities arising from the said distractions.
This knowledge is infinite. As compared to this infinity,
that which ordinary men regard as the knowable appears but
an insignificantly small thing. It is easy to know it at any
time ; though it is not possible that the desire to know a com-
paratively worthless thing should ever arise.

XXXII. Then the succession of the transforma-
tions of the gunas come to an end, they having ful-
filled their end,

When such knowledge arises and supreme non-attachment
is at its height, there arises in the Yogin. entire cessation of
the effects of the three gunas. The gunas work for the purum.
The purwa having known himself, the gunas cease to act,
they having ful-filled their end. The whole universe is but a
succession of transformation upon transformation of the gunas.
These transformations take an inverse course and are merged
each into their higher source till all is reduced to matter with
the three qualities (trigunatmakapradkana.) No fresh trans-
formations take place ; and hence the succession of trans-
formations comes to an end, in the case of the puru'sa who has
understood kaivalya.

XXXIII. Succession is that which is known by
moments, and is cognised at the last modification.

The preceding aphorism deals with successions of trans-
formations. It is proposed to explain what is succession.

Succession implies order in time and as such its form can be
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