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Yoga Sutra 1:40
Source: Sanskrit transliteration from The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (Sri Swami Satchidananda)
PARAMANU PARAMAMAHATTVANTO'SYA VASIKARAH.
Source: English translation from The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (Sri Swami Satchidananda)
Gradually, one's mastery in concentration extends from the primal atom to the greatest magnitude.
Source: Sanskrit transliteration from Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (B.K.S. Iyengar)
paramanu paramamahattvantah asya vasikarah
Source: English translation from Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (B.K.S. Iyengar)
Mastery of contemplation brings the power to extend from the finest particle to the greatest.
Source: How to Know God: The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali (Swami Prabhavananda, Christopher Isherwood)
The mind of a yogi can concentrate upon any object of any size, from the atomic to the infinitely great.
Source: English translation from The Heart of Yoga (T.K.V. Desikachar)
When one reaches this state, nothing is beyond comprehension. The mind can follow and help understand the simple and the complex, the infinite and the infinitesimal, the perceptible and the imperceptible.
Source: Sanskrit transliteration of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (Swami Jnaneshvara Bharati)
parma-anu parama-mahattva antah asya vashikarah
Source: English translation of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (Swami Jnaneshvara Bharati)
When, through such practices, the mind develops the power of becoming stable on the smallest size object as well as on the largest, then the mind truly comes under control.
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