Sky Gazing : Patanjali's Yoga sutras

Sutra 9: The flight of fancy needs words and no object


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शब्दज्ञानानुपाती वस्तुशून्योविकल्पः ॥९॥

śabda-jñāna-anupātī vastu-śūnyaḥ vikalpaḥ ||9||

“Imagination is followed in sequence by verbal expression and knowledge, and is devoid of objective substratum.”

The purpose of this sutra is to understand that imagination needs three things: words, knowledge of it, and no object. Also why Vikalpa is not classified under unreal knowledge, and how it is useful to us

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