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    svarūpa

    Devanāgarī: स्वरूप Translation: own character; own form or shape; own condition, peculiarity, character, nature Related concepts:sva, rūpa

    Appears in

    Yoga Sūtra:

    Chapter 1: 3 , 43
    Chapter 2: 23 , 54
    Chapter 3: 3 , 44 , 47
    Chapter 4: 12


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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

    “What is the nature of the Dṛśya or what can be perceived?
    It has three qualities; it reveals, it acts, it has substance.
    It has many components, the objects known and the means to know them.
    They serve two roles.
    When in strong association with the perceiver they produce pleasure or pain –
    when this association is absent they let the perceiver visualise its own nature.
    Experience of pleasure or pain is by the perceiver.
    Freedom from them is also its fundamental situation.
    This freedom is no different from Mukti.”
    – T Krishnamacharya on Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 18

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