Sanskrit source passage

The seer

Yoga Sūtras · 1.3

Translation in progress. Both English versions are original Fire Yoga editorial drafts. “Readable” may add interpretive wording; neither has completed specialist review.

Original · Sanskrit

तदा द्रष्टुः स्वरूपेऽवस्थानम् ॥
tadā draṣṭuḥ svarūpe ’vasthānam

Readable translation

Then the seer rests in its own nature.

Translation: Fire Yoga editorial · Draft

Reading notes & interpretation

The word “then” connects this statement with the preceding sūtra. It should not be read as an assertion that every school describes the self in the same way.

Source & attribution

Reading source: Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali ↗

Original Sanskrit; see 1.1–1.3, 2.29 and 4.34. Our English renderings are provisional editorial translations.

Original-language excerpt from a traditional work. English translations are newly drafted for this educational site. This page does not reproduce a full modern edition.

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