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Yoga Sutra 2:40
Source: Sanskrit transliteration from The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (Sri Swami Satchidananda)
SAUCAT SVANGA JUGUPSA PARAIR ASAMSARGAH.
Source: English translation from The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (Sri Swami Satchidananda)
By purification arises disgust for one's own body and for contact with other bodies.
Source: Sanskrit transliteration from Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (B.K.S. Iyengar)
saucat svangajugupsa paraih asamsargah
Source: English translation from Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (B.K.S. Iyengar)
Cleanliness of body and mind develops disinterest in contact with others for self-gratification.
Source: How to Know God: The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali (Swami Prabhavananda, Christopher Isherwood)
As the result of purity, there arises indifference toward the body and disgust for physical intercourse with others.
Source: English translation from The Heart of Yoga (T.K.V. Desikachar)
When cleanliness is developed it reveals what needs to be constantly maintained and what is eternally clean. What decays is the external. What does not is deep within us.
Source: Sanskrit transliteration of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (Swami Jnaneshvara Bharati)
sauchat sva-anga jugupsa paraih asamsargah
Source: English translation of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (Swami Jnaneshvara Bharati)
Through cleanliness and purity of body and mind (shaucha), one develops an attitude of distancing, or disinterest towards one's own body, and becomes disinclined towards contacting the bodies of others.
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