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Yoga Sutra 1:23
Source: Sanskrit transliteration from The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (Sri Swami Satchidananda)
ISVARAPRANIDHANAD VA.
Source: English translation from The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (Sri Swami Satchidananda)
Or [samadhi is attained] by devotion with total dedication to God [Isvara].
Source: Sanskrit transliteration from Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (B.K.S. Iyengar)
Isvara pranidhanat va
Source: English translation from Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (B.K.S. Iyengar)
Or, the citta may be restrained by profound meditation upon God and total surrender to Him.
Source: How to Know God: The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali (Swami Prabhavananda, Christopher Isherwood)
Concentration may also be attained through devotion to Ishwara.
Source: English translation from The Heart of Yoga (T.K.V. Desikachar)
Offering regular prayers to God with a feeling of submission to his power, surely enables the state of Yoga to be achieved.
Source: Sanskrit transliteration of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (Swami Jnaneshvara Bharati)
ishvara pranidhana va
Source: English translation of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (Swami Jnaneshvara Bharati)
From a special process of devotion and letting go into the creative source from which we emerged (ishvara pranidhana), the coming of samadhi is imminent.
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