笨小笨English Translations of Yoga Sutra Verses歌词由Dr. Siddharth Ashvin Shah演唱，出自专辑《Learning the Yoga Sutra of Patanjali: 25 Key Verses In Sanskrit & English for Western Students》，下面是《English Translations of Yoga Sutra Verses》完整版歌词！
English Translations of Yoga Sutra Verses歌词完整版
Chapter 1 Verse 1
atha yoga anushaasanam
• Now the instruction of yoga.
• Let us now study and practice yoga.
Chapter 1 Verse 2
yogah citta vritti nirodhah
• Yoga is the restraint of the mind’s modifications.
• Yoga controls the mind’s fluctuating activity.
Chapter 1 Verse 12
abhyaasa vairaagyaabhyaam tat nirodhah
• These are restrained by practice and non-attachment.
• The mind’s fluctuations (vritti) are regulated by practice and
Chapter 1 Verse 27
tasya vaacakah pranavah
• AUM indicates the Ultimate Reality.
• That sound which expresses God is AUM.
Chapter 1 Verse 33
maitri karunaa mudita upekshaanaam sukha duhka punya apunya vishayaanaam bhaavanatah citta prasaadanam
• Cultivate loving-kindness, compassion, goodwill and equanimity with regard to happiness, misery, virtue and wickedness in order to calm the mind.
• Consciousness is undisturbed if one maintains attitudes of friendliness towards the happy, compassion towards the suffering, goodwill towards the praiseworthy and acceptance towards the blameworthy.
Chapter 1 Verse 34
pracchardana vidhaaranaabhyaam vaa praanasya
• Or, calm the mind by exhaling and holding the breath.
• Another way of calming the mind is regulating praana.
Chapter 1 Verse 35
vishayavati vaa pravrittih utpannaa manasah sthiti nibandhanee
• Or, calm the mind by perceiving subtle activity of the senses.
• Concentrate on subtle sense perceptions that arise in the mind
Chapter 1 Verse 36
vishokaa vaa jyotishmatee
• Or, calm the mind by perceiving a light-filled state free of pain. • Concentrate on blissful supreme light to cause calmness.
Chapter 1 Verse 37
veeta raaga vishayam vaa cittam
• Or, calm the mind by freeing the mind from attachment to sense objects.
• A calm mind is free from desiring the objects of the senses.
Chapter 1 Verse 38
svapna nidraa gyaana alambanam vaa
• Or, calm the mind by attending to the knowledge gained during dream-states or sleep.
• Studying the experience of dreaming and sleeping will tranquilize the mind.
Chapter 1 Verse 39
yathaa abhimata dhyaanaat vaa
• Or, calm the mind by meditating as you choose.
• Meditating on an object/concept according to one’s desire can
Chapter 2 Verse 3
avidya asmitaa raaga dvesha abhiniveshaah panca kleshaah
• Ignorance, I-ness, attachment, aversions, aversion to death are the five spiritual problems.
• Five obstacles to our spiritual progress are ignorance, egoism, attachment, hatred and clinging to [this
Chapter 2 Verse 12
kleshamulah karmaashayah drishta adrishta janma vedaneeyah
• Spiritual problems (kleshaa) form the root of the karma-womb, which is experienced in this seen birth and other unseen births.
• Over many births, the afflictions gather to make a person’s karma, which is then experienced in life.
Chapter 2 Verse 28
yogaanga anusThaanaat ashuddhi kshaye gyaana diptih aa vivekakhyaateh
• By practicing the yoga limbs, impurities are destroyed and knowledge is given light -- leading to discriminative knowledge.
• Discerning awareness arises through the elimination of impurities and the light of knowledge, which themselves occur through the sustained performance of integrative practices.
Chapter 2 Verse 29
yama niyama aasana praanaayaama pratyaahaara dhaaranaa dhyaana samaadhayah ashTaavangaani
• The eight limbs are codes of conduct, observances, posture, breath control, withdrawal of the senses, concentration, meditation and absorption.
• Yoga is composed of eight integrative practices: yama, niyama, asana, praanaayaama, pratyaahaara, dhaaranaa, dhyaana and samaadhi.
Chapter 2 Verse 30
ahimsa satya asteya brahmacharya aparigrahaa yamaah
• The codes of conduct are non-violence, truthfulness, non- stealing, continence and non-possessiveness.
• In one’s interactions with others, do not harm, do not lie, do not steal, act in line with supreme reality, and do not hoard objects.
Chapter 2 Verse 32
shauca santoshah tapah svaadhyaaya ishvarapranidhaanaani niyamaah
• The observances with regard to oneself are cleanliness, contentment, purifying austerity, self-study, and devotion to that which is Supreme.
• One should keep clean, satisfied, austere, oriented to scriptures and focused on God.
Chapter 2 Verse 46
sthira sukham aasanam
• The seat one takes should be steady and comfortable.
• Postures should make one feel grounded and at ease.
Chapter 2 Verse 47
prayatna shaithilya ananta samaapattibhyaam
• Reduce effortfulness by focusing attention on that which is without end.
• Calm your posture’s striving by meditating on the infinite.
Chapter 2 Verse 49
tasmin sati shvaasa prashvaasayoh gati vicchedah praanaayaamah
• Having achieved that (successful aasanam), slow the movements of inhalation and exhalation to regulate the life-force.
• After taking a steady and comfortable posture, master the breath through regulating the machinations of exhalation and inhalation.
Chapter 2 Verse 54
sva vishaya asamprayoge cittasya svaroopa anukaara iva indriyaanaam pratyaahaarah
• Withdrawal of the senses (as in pratyaahaarah) involves disengaging the senses from their objects – thus allowing the senses to emulate the very consciousness from which they emerged.
• When the senses disengage from the external world, those senses can be used to understand the nature of the mind.
Chapter 3 Verse 1
desha bandhah cittasya dhaaranaa
• Concentration involves holding the mind in one place or on one object.
• Focusing further inward means one-pointed consciousness.
Chapter 3 Verse 2
tatra pratyaya ekataanataa dhyaanam
• Meditation is the continuation of that one-pointed consciousness (dhaaranaa).
• If cognition remains continuous in one direction, then this is meditation.
Chapter 3 Verse 3
tad eva artha maatra nirbhaasam svarupa shunyam iva samaadhih
• When the object of concentration in and of itself shines forth, even devoid of form, that state is the deepest absorption (samaadhi).
• When one-pointed consciousness shines alone, without disturbance from any form, that is samaadhi.
Chapter 4 Verse 25
vishesha darshina aatma bhaava bhaavanaa nivrittih
• Understanding the distinction between the seer and true self will end the [false
• One who observes the true self as distinct from the ego is able to put an end to the mind’s fluctuating activity.
