meditation 68

If your body

is pricked

by

a sharp needle

or by some similar object –

fix your mind

on the feeling

of the prick.

The path

is clear.

Note:

This is Verse 93.

Swami Lakshmanjoo, in his Manual for Self Realization (John Hughes, ed.), offers enthralling commentary on this verse.

For this particular verse, Jaideva Singh's comment, in his Yoga of Delight, Wonder, and Astonishment, is neither as detailed nor as nuanced as Swamiji's in MSR.

Swamiji's co-translator, Pandit Dina Nath Muju, was a learned householder well-versed in English.