Invocation

Atandari invocation

Yogena cittasya padena vacam

Malam sarirasya ca vaidyakena

Yo pakarottam pravaram muninam

Patanjalim pranjaliranato smi

Abahu-purusakaram

Sankha-cakrasi-dharinam

Sahasra-sirsasam svetam

Pranamami Patanjalim

(Translation from Sanskrit to English)

I am a deep bow with hands folded to Patanjali,

The most excellent of sages, who removed

Impurity of consciousness through yoga

Impurity of speech through word (grammar) and

Impurity of the body through medicine (Ayurveda).

In the form of a man up to the shoulders,

Holding the conch (divine sound), discus (wheel of time)

And sword (discrimination),

Thousand-headed, white,

I bow respectfully to Patanjali.