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INVOCATION TO PATANJALI


























"Patanjali" (detail) by Suzanne Y. Sigüenza
Copyright 2002, SiriusArts

Yogena cittasya padena vacam
Malam sharirasya cha vaidyakena
Yopa karot am pravaram muninam
Patanjali pranjalir anato smi

Abahu-purusakaram
Shanka-chrakrasi-dharinam
Sahasra-shirasam shvetam
Pranamami Patanjalim
Hari OM

Translation:
I humbly bow to the sage Patanjali
Who taught the science of Yoga to purify the mind;
Grammar to purify speech;
And Medicine for the purification of the body.


Who has assumed the form of a man in his upper body
With a thousand heads of white light
Who holds a conch shell (divine sound);
A wheel (discus of energy representing Time);
And a sword (discrimination).
Again I humbly prostrate before the sage Patanjali.

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