INTERLINEAR TRANSLATION OF SAMADHI PADA

 

Sutra I Atha yoganushasanam

Atha: now

Yoga: to connect or join together. Union.

Anushasanam: teachings or instructions. The self instructing and multidimensional buddhaverse. Self-instruction, guidance, exposition, teachings, clarification, explication, or revelation. From shasana which means external law, rules, external discipline that is imposed upon us. Anu means extremely subtle, innate, implicate, or inner. Hence, anushasana is the implicate *self-discipline*, which is innate and universal. Its natural referent is natural law as the natural order of all phenomena -- the true nature of natue.-- Sanatana Dharma. 

Atha: Now. Used at the beginning of a very profound or precious/sacred and timeless treatise dear to the heart. Atha connotes a profound beginning or timeless intimacy such as a sacred presence. Atha can be postulated as a NOW awareness -- the presence of a primordial intelligence beyond the ordinary imposed limitations of a fragmented or flat plane linear sense of place or sequential ordering of time -- A multi and trans-dimensional universal and timeless now presence.

Commentary: The above is the literal translation. NOW (ATHA), however, has a large connotation in the context of yoga. So a deeper reading would be:

From the portal of the Primordial/Eternal Now (atha) -- freed from the confined structure of linear time and space -- from the non-ending implicate, self-originating, beginningless, and ineffable primordial stillness -- the eternal timeless living truth -- the Universal Intelligent Source from which all traditions and written laws are mere poor compensatory substitutes-- from that profound presence, HERE, emanates the authentic intrinsic instruction of the transcendental universal non-dual method that restores integrity, called yoga.

Yoga is thus both simultaneously the fruit as realizing the underlying all pervasive *reality* of the whole and the path - the *process* of joining together and making whole and complete our own scared intimacy with this vibrant reality in All Our Relations unfettered by temporal limitations and corruptive thought. Hence yoga is both a path and a result, as it joins with its own completion. Yoga practice unites the path with its fruit (culmination). It remains accessible in the timeless now, hence the primordial teacher, is teaching yoga now. At the same time, undifferentiated primordial awareness is joined with differentiated relative awareness as eternal sacred`presence, here and now.

The sphere of Yoga is all encompassing and timeless. Yoga is itself the Great Assembly (sangha, teacher, and teaching), eternally ever-present in its entirety, but generally to the non-yogi it is ignored. Yoga, as an activity, remediates conditioned unawareness back into natural original wisdom. Yoga practice transforms an illusory and atomized condition into recognizing our real condition or true nature, using our previously dormant innate conscious power. Yoga is the living intelligent matrix of consciousness, which  interconnects all beings and things as they truly are, here and now.  It is the complete space of recognizing the eternal moment Now. Every moment is sacred within this unbroken sacred context of primordial consciousness. Every bird, tree, star, mountain, and element is honored in its rightful place as it is. Yoga reveals natural law as-it-is unmodified by biased consciousness of time or place. Thus authentic yoga is always available and self revealing through an open and uncontrived communion of pure and selfless subjectivity -- in pure Beingness by being profoundly present and letting in natural sacred presence Now free from attachment.

In Pure Integrity in All Our Relations, yoga is all-ways available here and now (in the sacred present), and as such, it is at once, the arrival, the abiding, and the unborn universal presence, which when experienced is recognized instantaneously as our true spiritual home. The yogi learns to recognize when he/she has arrived home.