THIRTY-FOURTH Sūtra CLASS Mount Madonna Center May 15th, 1980 Pada III, Sūtras 12 and 13
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**Title:** Class Lecture on Yoga Sutras III.12-13: Transformations of Mind (Pariṇāma)
**Speaker:** Śaṅkara (with commentary by Babaji and readings from Vyasa and Hariharananda Aranya)
**Occasion:** Classroom instruction on Patanjali's Yoga Sutras, Book III, continuing a multi-week series on mental transformation
**Content Summary:** This transcript documents a detailed examination of three types of mental mutations (pariṇāma): ekāgratā pariṇāma (one-pointed transformation), samādhi pariṇāma (concentration transformation), and nirodha pariṇāma (suppression transformation). The discussion explores how successive identical mental contents create the appearance of continuity in concentrated states, the relationship between these transformations and saṃskāras (mental impressions), and how corresponding changes occur in sense organs and elements. Sūtra 13 explains that transformations in the mind produce parallel changes in perception and the physical elements through three types of modifications: dharma pariṇāma (property change), lakshana pariṇāma (temporal character change), and avastha pariṇāma (condition change from new to old).
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