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

پرتیہار پانچواں اَنگ ہے؛ اس کے بعد دھارَنا آتی ہے۔ دھیان ساتواں کہا گیا ہے، اور سمادھی آٹھواں یاد کیا گیا ہے۔

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)