Adhyaya 40 — The Yogin’s Impediments (Upasargas), Subtle Concentrations, and the Eight Siddhis
योजनानां सहस्रेभ्यः श्रावणः सोऽभिधीयते । ममन्ताद्वीक्षते चाष्टौ स यदा देवतोपमः ॥
yojanānāṃ sahasrebhyaḥ śrāvaṇaḥ so 'bhidhīyate | mamantād vīkṣate cāṣṭau sa yadā devatopamaḥ ||
যেতিয়া সি সহস্ৰ যোজন দূৰৰ পৰাও শুনিব পাৰে, তেতিয়া তাক ‘শ্ৰাৱণ’ বোলা হয়; আৰু যেতিয়া সি অঙ্গুষ্ঠৰ অগ্ৰভাগৰ পৰা চোৱাৰ দৰে অষ্টদিশ দেখে—তেতিয়া সি দেৱতুল্য হয়।
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Heightened perception can seduce the practitioner into fascination and self-congratulation (‘godlike’), diverting attention from liberation.
Yogic phenomenology; not a pancalakṣaṇa narrative element.
Distance-collapsing perception symbolizes the mind’s subtle expansion. Yet the text frames it as vighna: the expansion is still within prakṛti (guṇas), not the transcendence of the seer.