हिन्दी
Lord Visņu, the nourisher of all creatures appeared in the form of the Yogaraja Lord Dattatreya. Lord Dattatreya has gained expertise to tackle the realm of yoga.
His disciple, the best hermit is popularly known as Sänkyti. He became an extreme devotee of his teacher.
He asked one day to his teacher most humbly and in a solitary place and in a solitude - "O Lord! kindly explain with detail of Astanga yoga so that I can make myself free from all the worldly ties.
The yogi Lord Dattatreya said to his disciple - "O Sänkyti! I will tell you the philosophy of Astänga yoga. Please listen to it. The eight parts of yoga are Yama, Niyama, Asana,
Pranayama, Pratyahara, Dharana, Concentration and Meditation respectively.
The kinds of Yama has been described as (1) non-violence, (ii) truth, (iii) utilitarian, (iv) celibacy, (v) generosity, (vi) forgiveness, (vii) the simplicity (viii) patience (ix) control on diet and the (x) purity in and out.
O the rich in penance! An action committing murder or causing any pain to anybody either by application of mind, speech or body separately or severely not permitted in Vedas is actually called the violence. Nothing distinct and separate to it is the violence.
O Saint! The devotee should develop a spirit that the element of soul is omnipresent, and it can't be destroyed through application of any arm or weapon. Entertainment of the soul is even impossible either through application of hands or other sensory organs. Hence, the justified wisdom is only stated the best non-violence by the scholars who have duly examined the words of Vedas.
O Sankati! It is the truth referred to expressively or impliedly which is seen, heard, smelled and understood by the means of the sensory organs including the eyes, ears, etc. No other complexion is worn by the truth incoherent to it.
Everything is the supreme soul in the form of perfect knowledge and the truth and there is nothing else and otherwise than this supreme soul. The firm determination so made has been stated by the scholars of Vedas as the best truth.
Developing a reluctance for the objects like ornaments and the gems, the gold or the pearls etc. not his own, imposing a stern check on the mind not to entice or enchant for other things either smaller or bigger is called the spirit of renunciation (Asteya). The scholars has stated it as Asteya.
O hermit! The person who can keep all worldly dealings distinct and separate from the soul and seldom thinking their any bearing with the soul, is called Asteya by the learned persons.
It is celibacy to abandon the couplation with women by application of mind, speech and body, jointly or separately and enjoying intercourse with his only wife and that too confined to the prescribed period prior and after the menstruation.
In other words, the mind expelling the enemies like sensuality and disgust and leading it to the concentration on the element of supreme soul in garb of everlasting perfect knowledge is the best celibacy.
It is kindness duly confirmed by the scholars of Vedas inspiring by which the man thinks and behaves with all living-organisms by application of his mind, speech and the body, the same way as he would have behaved with himself and a surplus spirit to serve the humanity to the extent capacity allows.
To keep the spirit of equity in mind among the son, friends, wife, enemy and his self-soul is called the simplicity.
O great hermit! It is forgiveness that enables the man not being feel insulted or injured even after pains to mind, speech and body are inflicted by the enemies.
This entire world attains to emancipation only when the knowledge of Vedas is acquired. There are no other reasons or the factors leading towards it. Such a resolution made so firmly has been called as patience by the Vedic scholars. In other words, it is a state when the man thinks "I am the soul and nothing distinct than it." The wisdom undeviated in all circumstances is called the best patience.
To entertain the food embedding the stuffs enhancing the peace of mind and purity and that too in the balanced preparation, viz, to eat in the ratio of two part food and one third part water and thus leaving blank the one-fourth part for the circulation of wind is the suitable food duly confirmed for the best yogi. The food so balanced is called Mitähära.
O great hermit! The action by which the body is cleaned, and the dirt is removed by water and the clay, is called the exterior cleaning (Sauca) while the meditation made on the bonafide and benevolent spirit by means of mind is called the cleaning of mind. Apart from it, the learned persons called cleaning the best knowledge that assumes as "I am the sacrosanct soul".
This body is most impure in and out and the soul holding body is most pure and free from the dirt particles. Thus, to whom should we made the purest when the innermost knowledge of the soul and the body is acquired.
O the great resolute hermit! The person who neglects the purity of knowledge and only cleans his body is not better than a stupid who collects the lump of clay instead of the gold.
The yogi who is satiated and whose desires are duly met to the contentment at the state when he acquires the nectar-like knowledge, nothing as the undoing or impossible is left for him in this world. It still remains anything that it is clear that he is not learnt to the element.
No liability and the duty, is lying for the great souls known to the soul, is left throughout the three worlds.
O the king of Saint! You should know as the everlasting Brahma to your soul when it is equipped with the means of non-violence etc.
