śūnya

Devanāgarī: शून्य Translation: empty

Appears in

Yoga Sūtra:

Chapter 1: 9 , 43
Chapter 3: 3
Chapter 4: 34

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Commentaries around

“In Sūtra 1.10 Patañjali defines Nidrā as a
Citta Vṛtti or, a specific type of cognition, one
where Tamas is the object, to the point where
the mind’s link with external stimuli is cut off.
How do we discern between states such as
Pratyāhāra as a disengagement, or Samādhi,
where one is as if empty of one’s own character,
and what is seen as the experience of Tamo Nidrā?”
– Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter One verse 10

“If you remove the past from the present what is left?”
– Paul Harvey on Yoga Sūtra Chapter One verse 43

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