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Yoga-sūtra with Vyāsa's bhāṣya · 1.21
tīvrasaṃvegānām āsannaḥ
Translation. For those whose ardor is intense, attainment of samādhi—and its fruit—is near at hand.
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Word by word
| surface | lemma | grammar |
|---|
| tīvrasaṃvegānām | tīvra-saṃvega | pass |
| āsannaḥ | āsanna | pass |
How the commentary settled it
Where the verse alone is ambiguous, the reading follows Vyāsa's commentary; the deciding lines are quoted below each decision.
Treat tīvra-saṃvega as an externally possessive bahuvrīhi referring to practitioners, rather than merely as the internal phrase “intense ardor.”→ Bahuvrīhi. The masculine genitive plural ending refers to persons possessing intense saṃvega. Internally, tīvra qualifies saṃvega; compare “intense” in [MW s.v. tīvra, 449,2].
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Render saṃvega as spiritual “ardor,” not as mere emotional agitation.→ “Ardor” suits the yogic context and combines naturally with tīvra; MW includes both “intensity” and “desire of emancipation” [MW s.v. saṃvega, 1115,1].
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Construe the genitive plural as identifying those for whom the stated nearness obtains.→ The compound denotes the practitioners, and its genitive expresses relation to the predicate: “for those whose ardor is intense.”
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Supply “attainment of samādhi” as the masculine subject of āsannaḥ and include the fruit of samādhi within the commentary’s explanation of what comes about.→ The commentary explicitly supplies samādhilābhaḥ, matching the masculine singular āsannaḥ, and adds samādhiphalam. Thus attainment is near at hand, together with its fruit.
ys [1]samādhilābhaḥ samādhiphalaṃ ca bhavatīti.
That is, attainment of samādhi and the fruit of samādhi come about.
Vyāsa's commentary on this unit
1samādhilābhaḥ samādhiphalaṃ ca bhavatīti.
21.21
3mṛdumadhyādhimātratvāt tato 'pi viśeṣaḥ