Shloka 57
Adhyaya 39 — Yoga Discipline: Posture, Breath Control, Sense Withdrawal, and Signs of Attainment
यथैवाम्रफलं ध्यायेत् तृष्णार्तो रसनेंद्रिये ।
यस्मिन् यस्मिन् रुजा देहे तस्मिंस्तदुपकारिणी ॥
yathaivāmraphalaṃ dhyāyet tṛṣṇārto rasanendriye /
yasmin yasmin rujā dehe tasmiṃs tad-upakāriṇīm //
Just as a man afflicted by thirst contemplates a mango-fruit through the faculty of taste, so too—wherever there is pain in the body—one should hold in meditation that specific aid which is beneficial to that very spot.
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FAQs
Attention (citta) can be deliberately directed: as craving fixes the mind on an object, a yogin can fix the mind on a corrective principle suited to the afflicted bodily locus, cultivating mastery over reactive sensation.
This is not pancalakṣaṇa material (sarga/pratisarga/vaṃśa/manvantara/vaṃśānucarita); it belongs to upaśikṣā—practical yogic instruction embedded in the Purāṇic narrative.
The verse hints at a correspondence principle: specific mental forms (saṅkalpa/dhāraṇā) are matched to specific bodily disturbances, implying a subtle-body mapping where cognition can modulate prāṇic flow.