Yog Sutra Book IV - Kaivalya Pada

Yoga Sutra - Book Four- Kaivalya Pada- Portion on Absoluteness.

Before Swami Satchidananda goes on to comment on the Fourth Book (section) of The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, he tells us that this book is called Kaivalya Pada. "The root of kaivalyam is kevala, which means without qualities or conditions, that which is Cosmic. The one who has the quality of kevala is called kaivalyam. It's an experience of absoluteness, unlimitedness."

From the Wikipedia, under the word Kaivalya is as follows:

"Kaivalya, which is the ultimate goal of yoga, means solitariness or detachment.

The 34 Yoga Sutras of Patanjali of the fourth chapter deals with impressions left by our endless cycles of birth and the rationale behind the necessity of erasing such impressions. It portrays the yogi, who has attained kaivalya, as an entity who has gained independence from all bondages and achieved the absolute true consciousness or ritambhara prajna described in the Samadhi Pada."

Again as mentioned in the beginning of the third book (Vibhuti Pada), Swami Satchidananda tells us he has translated on all the sutras, but has chosen not comment on all of them. The ones he has commented on are the ones he feels most useful for the understanding of Yoga aspirants. For more information on the sutras he did not comment on, a selected reading section includes books that has comments. So in that case "How to Know God - The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali" translated and commented on by Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood is also referred to.

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