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Yoga Sutras Chapter 4
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Final Liberation: Chapter 4 of the Yoga Sutras is entitled Kaivalya Pada, which means the chapter on final liberation. Chapter 4 explains how the mind is constructed and veils the inner light of the Self. It describes how the yogi deals with the natural breaches in enlightenment, and how the primal building blocks of the mind resolve back into their cause, allowing final liberation. |
The 34 sutras of Chapter 4 have been divided into 12 sections:
- Means of attaining experience (4.1-4.3)
- Emergence and mastery of mind (4.4-4.6)
- Actions and karma (4.7-4.8)
- Subconscious impressions (4.9-4.12)
- Objects and the three gunas (4.13-4.14)
- Mind perceiving objects (4.15-4.17)
- Illumination of the mind (4.18-4.21)
- Buddhi and liberation (4.22-4.26)
- Breaches in enlightenment (4.27-4.28)
- Perpetual enlightenment (4.29-4.30)
- Knowables become few (4.31)
- Gunas after liberation (4.32-4.34)
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