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 ||
جب وہ ہزاروں یوجن دور سے بھی سن لے تو اسے ‘شراوَن’ کہا جاتا ہے؛ اور جب وہ آٹھوں سمتوں کو گویا انگوٹھے کی نوک سے دیکھے، تب وہ دیوتا کے مانند ہو جاتا ہے۔
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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.