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All translations and transliterations for
Yoga Sutra 1:20
Source: Sanskrit transliteration from The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (Sri Swami Satchidananda)
SRADDHA VIRYA SMRTI SAMADHI PRAJNAPURVAKA ITARESAM.
Source: English translation from The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (Sri Swami Satchidananda)
To the others, this asamprajnata samadhi could come through faith, strength, memory, contemplation or by discernment.
Source: Sanskrit transliteration from Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (B.K.S. Iyengar)
sraddha virya smrti samadhiprajna purvakah itaresam
Source: English translation from Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (B.K.S. Iyengar)
Practice must be pursued with trust, confidence, vigour, keen memory and power of absorption to break this spiritual complacency.
Source: How to Know God: The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali (Swami Prabhavananda, Christopher Isherwood)
The concentration of the true spiritual aspirant is attained through faith, energy, recollectedness, absorption and illumination.
Source: English translation from The Heart of Yoga (T.K.V. Desikachar)
Through faith, which will give sufficient energy to achieve success against all odds, direction will be maintained. The realization of the goal of Yoga is a matter of time.
Source: Sanskrit transliteration of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (Swami Jnaneshvara Bharati)
shraddha virya smriti samadhi prajna purvakah itaresham)
Source: English translation of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (Swami Jnaneshvara Bharati)
Others follow a five-fold systematic path of 1) faithful certainty in the path, 2) directing energy towards the practices, 3) repeated memory of the path and the process of stilling the mind, 4) training in deep concentration, and 5) the pursuit of real knowledge, by which the higher samadhi (asamprajnata samadhi) is attained.
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