Shloka 9

Adhyaya 8: Yogasthanas, Ashtanga Yoga, Pranayama-Siddhi, and Shiva-Dhyana leading to Samadhi

Devanagari script

प्रत्याहारं पञ्चमो वै धारणा च ततः परा ध्यानं सप्तममित्युक्तं समाधिस्त्वष्टमः स्मृतः

Transliteration

pratyāhāraṃ pañcamo vai dhāraṇā ca tataḥ parā dhyānaṃ saptamamityuktaṃ samādhistvaṣṭamaḥ smṛtaḥ

Translation

प्रत्याहार पाँचवाँ अंग है; उसके बाद धारणा आती है। ध्यान सातवाँ कहा गया है, और समाधि आठवाँ स्मरण किया गया है।

Word by Word

• प्रत्याहारम्: withdrawal (of the senses)

• पञ्चमः: the fifth (limb)

• वै: indeed

• धारणा: concentration/steadfast fixing (of awareness)

• च: and

• ततः परा: after that/thereupon

• ध्यानम्: meditation

• सप्तमम्: the seventh

• इति: thus

• उक्तम्: said/declared

• समाधिः: absorptive contemplation, enstasy

• तु: and/indeed

• अष्टमः: the eighth

• स्मृतः: remembered/traditionally held

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the yoga teaching within the Linga Purana discourse)