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All translations and transliterations for
Yoga Sutra 3:2
Source: Sanskrit transliteration from The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (Sri Swami Satchidananda)
TATRA PRATYAYAIKATANATA DHYANAM.
Source: English translation from The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (Sri Swami Satchidananda)
Dhyana is the continuous flow of cognition toward that object.
Source: Sanskrit transliteration from Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (B.K.S. Iyengar)
tatra pratyaya ekatanata dhyanam
Source: English translation from Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (B.K.S. Iyengar)
A steady, continuous flow of attention directed towards the same point or region is meditation (dhyana).
Source: How to Know God: The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali (Swami Prabhavananda, Christopher Isherwood)
Meditation (dhyana) is an unbroken flow of thought toward the object of concentration.
Source: English translation from The Heart of Yoga (T.K.V. Desikachar)
Then the mental activities form an uninterrupted flow only in relation to this object.
Source: Sanskrit transliteration of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (Swami Jnaneshvara Bharati)
tatra pratyaya ekatanata dhyanam
Source: English translation of the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (Swami Jnaneshvara Bharati)
The repeated continuation, or uninterrupted stream of that one point of focus is called absorption in meditation (dhyana), and is the seventh of the eight steps.
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