These sutras (lessons) present the identity of Isvara (God) and man's identity in relation to God. They define purusa (soul) as omniscient, omnipresent and omnipotent.
Isvara pranidhanat va
The citta (consciousness) may be restrained by profound meditation upon God and total surrender to him.
To contemplate on God, to surrender one's self to Him, is to bring everything face to face with God. Pranidhana is the surrender of one's ego, all good and virtuous actions, pains and pleasures, joys and sorrows, elations and miseries to the Universal Soul. Through surrender the aspirants' ego is effaced and the grace of the Lord pours down upon him like rain.
Isvara is the Supreme Soul, the Lord of all. He is untouched by klesas (afflictions), unaffected by the fruits of actions, abiding undisturbed in His own Being. He is eternally free and always sovereign.
Humans experience pain before reaching emancipation, while God is detached from pain, pleasure, sorrow and joy, dejection and elation. God is ever free while man has to wash away his subliminal impressions before realizing freedom.
There is a difference between purusa (individual soul) and purusa visesa (Universal Soul). As God is distinct from the individual soul, he is called Isvara.
Tatra niratisayam sarvajnabijam
God is the unexcelled seed of all knowledge, where as the yogi attains infinite knowledge but not the seed of that knowledge. In God rests all creation. He is eternal and one.
Sa esah puresam api guruh kalena anavacchedat.
God is the first, foremost and absolute guru (teacher) unconditioned by time.
