भवप्रत्ययो विदेहप्रकृतिलयानाम् ॥ १९ ॥
पदविभाग: (separating individual words): भव-प्रत्ययः, विदेह-प्रकृति-लयानाम्
अन्वय: (Rearranging in logical prose sequence): विदेहप्रकृतिलयानाम् (यः समाधिः सः) भवप्रत्ययः (भवति)।
प्रतिपदार्थ: (word-by-word meaning): भव-प्रत्ययः = caused by phenomenal existence / rooted in the cycle of birth and becoming, विदेह = of the bodiless ones (beings who have transcended the physical body), प्रकृति-लयानाम् = and of those whose minds are dissolved into Nature (Prakriti)
तात्पर्यम्: (final translation): For the bodiless beings (Videhas) and those dissolved into Nature (Prakriti-layas), their state of absorption is caused merely by phenomenal existence (Bhava-pratyaya), meaning their latent seeds of ignorance will eventually cause them to be reborn.
Further context on the 19th Sutra from Patanjali’s Yogasutras
देह means body and विदेह state of living as if without a body. प्रकृति-लयानाम् are the yogis who have dissolved their consciousness into prakriti (the fundamental elements of nature) but have not yet fully realized purusha (transcendent consciousness).
So can the witness consciousness exist in a state separate or outside of its physical body after death? This verse says one can exist as a luminous wave of consciousness without physical mass. But even after attaining such a higher state of consciousness, if the yogi still carries latent seeds of ignorance, then that individual will remanifest due to भव-प्रत्ययः or the cycle of becoming (not to be confused with being reborn). Cycle of becoming meaning all the forces of nature occurring in a human soul again and again until it is liberated.
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