Adhyaya 40 — The Yogin’s Impediments (Upasargas), Subtle Concentrations, and the Eight Siddhis
यत्रकामावसायित्वं गुणानेतांस्तथैश्वरान् ।
प्राप्नोत्यक्ष्टौ नरव्याघ्र परं निर्वाणसूचकान् ॥
yatrakāmāvasāyitvaṃ guṇān etāṃs tatheśvarān /
prāpnoty aṣṭau naravyāghra paraṃ nirvāṇasūcakān
O tigre sa mga tao, natatamo ng isa ang walong kapangyarihan at katangiang panginoon—hanggang sa kakayahang itakda ang kinalabasan ayon sa nais—ngunit mga palatandaan lamang ang mga ito na tumuturo sa sukdulang nirvāṇa.
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Extraordinary powers can accompany progress but do not equal liberation. The practitioner should treat them as ‘signposts’ and continue toward nirvāṇa without pride or dependence.
Didactic soteriology; not a direct Pancalakṣaṇa element.
Calling siddhis ‘nirvāṇa-sūcaka’ reframes them as diagnostic markers of deep concentration and elemental mastery. Esoterically, it warns against mistaking control over phenomena for transcendence of the phenomenological field.