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Question 1

BKS Iyengar reciting the Invocation to Patanjali

Yogena cittasya padena vācām
malam śarirasya ca vaidyakena
yopākarottam pravaram muninām
patanjalim prānajaliranato’smi
ābāhu purusākāram
śankha cakrāsi dhārinam
sahasra śirasam śvetam
pranamāmi patanjalim

Answer 1

Meaning:

Let us bow before the noblest of sages Patanjali, who gave yoga for serenity and sanctity of mind, grammar for clarity and purity of speech, and medicine for perfection of health. Let us prostrate before Patanjali, an incarnation of Adisesa, whose upper body has a human form, whose arms hold a conch and a disc, and who is crowned by a thousand-headed cobra.