Patanjali’s Definition of Yoga

 Now instruction in yoga.

 Yoga is the restraint of fluctuations of the mind.

 Then there is abiding in the seer's own fundamental nature.

 Ignorance is the origin of the others, whether dormant, attenuated, interrupted, or fully active.

 At other times it takes the form of the fluctuations.

 Valid cognition, error, conceptualization, sleep, and memory.

 Valid cognitions are perception, inference, and valid testimony.

 Error is false knowledge, without foundation.

 Conceptualization is the result of words and ideas empty of object.

 The sleep fluctuation is based on the intention of nonbecoming.

 Memory is the recollection of an experienced condition.

 Through practice and dispassion arises restraint.

 Effort in remaining there is practice.

 But that is firmlt situated when carefully attended to for a long time without interuption.

 Dispassion is the knowledge of mastery in one who thirsts not for conditions seen or heard.

 That highest (dispassion) - thirstlessness for the gunas - [proceeds] from the discernment of purusa.

 Samprajnata [arises] from association with discursive thought, reflection, bliss, and I-am-ness.

 The other (state) has samskara only and is proceded by practice and the intention of cessation.

 Of the one who are absorbed in prakriti and discarnate, [there is] an intention of becoming.

 Of the others it is proceded by faith, energy, mindfulness, samadhi, and wisdom.

 The strongly intense ones are near.

 Hence the distinctions of mild, moderate, and ardent.

 Or from dedication to Isvara.

 Isvara is a distinct purusa untouched by afflictions, actions, fruitions, or their residue.

 There the seed of omnisccience is unsurpassed.

 Due to its being unlimited by time, it is the teacher of the prior ones.

 Its expression is pranava (OM).