Kaivalya Pada
Sentence 30
tatah klesha karma nivrittih ||30||
ततः क्लेशकर्मनिवृत्तिः ॥३०॥
tataḥ kleśa-karma-nivṛttiḥ ||30||
Then the concept (vritti) of spiritual burden (klesha) and cause and effect (karma) will be completely removed. ||30||
tatah (ततः, tataḥ) = (adv. from tatas (ततस्, tatas)) thereafter
klesha (क्लेश, kleśa) = (iic.) burdens on the spiritual path
karma (कर्म, karma) = (acc. sg. n./nom. sg. n. from karman (कर्मन्, karman)) actions and their consequences
nivrittih (निवृत्तिः, nivṛttiḥ) = (nom. sg. f. from nivritti (निवृत्ति, nivṛtti)) total cessation of a thought wave; bias; preconception
Patanjali (पतञ्जलि, Patañjali) goes on to say that this liberated state of kaivalya (कैवल्य, kaivalya) also frees us from the burdens (klesha (क्लेश, kleśa)) on the spiritual path. A lack of insight (avidya (अविद्या, avidyā)), as well as egotism (asmita (अस्मिता, asmitā)), greed (raga (राग, rāga)), revulsion (dvesha (द्वेष, dveṣa)) and anxiety (abhinivesha (अभिनिवेश, abhiniveśa)) will no longer affect us and govern our actions (karma (कर्म, karma)). A yogi regards our normal state as akin to that of a mouse in a lab experiment cage, where we alternately receive an electric shock or a piece of cheese. kaivalya (कैवल्य, kaivalya) is the state where we are let out of this cage.
Once we have are freed from the cage of our habitual experience, we enter a completely new dimension, where everything we have studied and learned up until now is minute compared to the compelling experience of samadhi (समाधि, samādhi).
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