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Yoga Sutra 2:19
Source: Sanskrit transliteration from The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (Sri Swami Satchidananda)
VISESAVISESA LINGAMATRALINGANI GUNA PARVANI.
Source: English translation from The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (Sri Swami Satchidananda)
The stages of the gunas are specific, non-specific, defined and undefinable.
Source: Sanskrit transliteration from Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (B.K.S. Iyengar)
visesa avisesa lingamatra alingani gunaparvani
Source: English translation from Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (B.K.S. Iyengar)
The gunas generate their characteristic divisions and energies in the seer. Their stages are distinguishable and non-distinguishable, differentiable and non-differentiable.
Source: How to Know God: The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali (Swami Prabhavananda, Christopher Isherwood)
The gunas pass through four states -- gross, subtle, primal and unevolved.
Source: English translation from The Heart of Yoga (T.K.V. Desikachar)
All that is perceived is related by the common sharing of the three qualities.
Source: Sanskrit transliteration of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (Swami Jnaneshvara Bharati)
vishesha avishesha linga-matra alingani guna parvani
Source: English translation of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (Swami Jnaneshvara Bharati)
There are four states of the elements (gunas), and these are: 1) diversified, specialized, or particularized (vishesha), 2) undiversified, unspecialized, or unparticularized (avishesha), 3) indicator-only, undifferentiated phenomenal, or marked only (linga-matra), and 4) without indicator, noumenal, or without mark (alingani).
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