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Sutra number 45
त॒तो॒ऽणि॒मादिप्रादुर्भावः का॒यस॒म्पत्त॒द्ध॒र्मानभि॑घात॒श्च ॥ ३.४५॥
Tato ’ṇimādi-prādurbhāvaḥ kāya-sampat tad-dharmānabhighātaś ca ॥ 3.45 ॥
The sutra is very wonderful sutra and most important expressions come in this particular sutra number 45, the sutra says tato, tataḥ means then, then means after the bhūta-jaya, the previous sutra, after gaining the bhūta-jaya, what happens? Aṇimādi prādurbhāvaḥ, aṇimādi. Aṇimā, garimā, laghimā, mahimā, prāpti, prākāmya, īśitva, vaśitva, Aṇimādi, the eight siddhis, well known popularly as aṣṭa-siddhis. Prādurbhāvaḥ, udbhavaḥ, prādurbhāvaḥ - They come up, they rise, they express, they come into the fore, they appear, prādurbhāvaḥ. Kāya is the body. Sampat, excellency, perfection, sampat, perfect, excellent. Tad-dharma, its tendency is the nature. Anabhighātaḥ, ghātaḥ, abhighātaḥ, anabhighātaḥ - Not affected, not attacked. Ca, end, ca is the end. Aṇimādi prādurbhāvaḥ, kāya-sampat, tad-dharmānabhighātaś ca, that means then after bhūta-jaya, eight siddhis will come, they appear, they express. Then kāya-sampatti will come. Then unaffected by anything, anabhighātaḥ it is. That is very important, beautiful sutra it is. The expression of the presence, birth of the aṣṭa-siddhis. How aṣṭa-siddhis will come, when they will come? They will come, they will express after the bhūta-jaya. And these aṣṭa-siddhis are quite well known. Aṇimā is ability to become very small, mahimā ability to become very big, laghimā and light, garimā ability to become heavy, prāpti can grasp anything even from far away, prākāmya and anything as soon as one desires it, īśitva, power to control, vaśitva, power to subjugate anything surrounding him, make anything submissive. This is the aṣṭa-siddhis: aṇimā, mahimā, garimā, laghimā, prāpti, prākāmya, īśitva and vaśitva. These qualities will come. And again we should remember these are the powers which doesn't come from outside. It is not that somebody gives it, please take it, it is not that. One develops it, one gains it. Developing and gaining means it is already within. It is a transformation, it is an expression. We should never forget that the huge banyan tree, huge peepal tree are packed up in a smallest peepal seed or a banyan seed and it is like this. And after this aṣṭa-siddhis, there are two more things which will come. What is that? Kāya-sampat Perfect, excellent body. This is the second benefit, second result. Then the third result is he will not be affected or attacked by tad-dharma, natural tendencies, natural. He will not be affected.
So bhūta-jaya gives rise to three results, three benefits - One is the aṣṭa-siddhis, second is the kāya-sampatti and the third is tad-dharmānabhighāta. And this is very important sutra.
Next sutra is a continuation or following up of this particular 45th sutra, so let us see the next one, the 46th sutra of the Vibhūti-pāda.
रू॒पला॒वण्यबलव॒ज्रसं॒ह॒न॒न॒त्वानि का॑यस॒म्पत् ॥ ३.४६॥
Rūpa-lāvaṇya-bala-vajra-saṃhananatvāni kāya-sampat
In the 45th sutra Patañjali says that kāya-sampatti will come, and what is the kāya-sampatti? The excellent perfect body, means what? The qualities of an excellent perfect body, body perfection, exquisite body. And that perfect, exquisite, excellent body, the qualities are given in this particular sutra. They are kāya-sampatti. One is what? Rūpa. Rūpa is beautiful shape, beauty it is, handsomeness, beautifulness. That is called as rūpa. Commonly we say sundaratā, saundaryam. Then lāvaṇyatā. Lāvaṇyatā is a fine complexion. So beauty and a fine complexion, gracefulness. Strength, bala. Strong, strength. See the combination there. It is lāvaṇya and also bala, strong. Then saṃhanana, vajra-saṃhananatva as hard as a diamond. Saṃhanana is firmness, sturdy, hard as a diamond, vajra-saṃhanana. This saṃhanana is a very important word. Hana is to kill, destroy. Saṃhanana is completely destroy. Saṃhanana is a capacity to completely destroy. Means it is so hard, so strong, so powerful, so sturdy, it can destroy like a vajra anything. So these are the qualities which will come or which are attributes of the kāya-sampatti. A perfect, exquisite, excellent body means these are the qualities which will be having: a nice beautiful body, rūpa, gracefulness, graceful form. Then lāvaṇyatā is there, beautiful, nice. And then lāvaṇyam, we cannot describe what is lāvaṇyatā, the word itself is so beautiful. Then bala, then vajra-saṃhananatva - the capacity as hard as diamond, all these are the physical bodily attributes, qualities. And as we have seen in this, there is a beauty and there is a lāvaṇyatā. At the same time there is a hardness and sturdiness and that is how it will go. Means as hard as a diamond, as soft as a flower. That is how it is said. The ancient meaning of the vajra is that it can destroy anything. That is how the saṃhanana word comes that way the compound word vajra-saṃhananatva means as hard as that it can broken anything by the vajra. And that is how the body gets these qualities. So practitioner of yoga as one is advancing or developing or having a very good practice in yoga, these qualities has to express. There should be a gracefulness, a smiling face, body should be beautiful, it should look nice, very strong and sturdy. It is not that yoga practitioner should look very thin, dirty, as if lost something in the world, very weak and always in the face there is a hunger to eat something, a weak body, anārogya, diseased body, and always mind is so much of cañcala. And people will feel if somebody will see a person who is doing yoga and if he looks so dirty, uninspiring, even physically, then how a person can inspire others to practice yoga? Especially the yoga instructors, yoga teachers, yoga masters must be graceful. Lāvaṇyatā should be there and beauty should be there: rūpa, lāvaṇya, bala and vajra-saṃhanana, kāya-sampat. Though these can be attributed to the mind or internal, but they are attributes of the body, kāya-sampat it is. It is a wealth of the body, attributes of the body, kāya-sampat. Sampatti is a wealth, the body is rich with these qualities, the wealth of the body. And this is a very important sutra. That’s why practitioners of yoga and yoga sādhakas or yogis should have physically these qualities. Yoga doesn't mean to have a body which will be uninspiring to others.
Let us see the further sutras.
Om śāntiḥ śāntiḥ śāntiḥ.
ॐ शान्तिः शान्तिः शान्तिः||
To Be Continued.. ---------------------------------------
These are transcription of session delivered by Vice-President of Vivekananda Rock Memorial & Vivekananda Kendra, Sri M. Hanumantha Rao Ji.
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सिद्धयसिद्धयोर्निर्विकार: कर्ता सात्त्विक उच्यते ॥१८.२६॥
Freed from attachment, non-egoistic, endowed with courage and enthusiasm and unperturbed by success or failure, the worker is known as a pure (Sattvika) one. Four outstanding and essential qualities of a worker. - Bhagwad Gita : XVIII-26
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