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Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Aphorisms on yogic psychology and practice. Later readers, including Vivekananda and academic translators, disagree in places. We keep the aphorism, a public-domain translation, and separate interpretation.
Classical Yoga
Yoga Sutras
Selected sutras with public-domain English. Later commentary is labelled separately from the aphorism.
Chapter 1 · Samadhi Pada
On concentration
Yoga Sutras 1.2
“Yoga is the restraint of the modifications of the mind-stuff.”
Yoga Sutras 1.33
“The mind becomes clear by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the suffering, joy in the virtuous, and equanimity toward those who lack virtue. (After Woods, 1914, in contemporary English.)”
Chapter 2 · Sadhana Pada
On practice