The Yoga Sutras of Patañjali: A New Edition, Translation, and Commentary

Puruṣa has never been bound; all notions of identity whether bound or liberated are taking place in the prākṛtic mind.

Buddhi, intelligence, is the aspect of citta that produces, among other things, the functions of thought connected to judgment, discrimination, knowledge, ascertainment, and

the chest and body should be kept still so that the process of breath control is undertaken by the abdominal muscles. At

When, according to Vyāsa, one consciously cultivates a state of mind that is the opposite of the kleśas, they become weak, tanu, the second state noted by Patañjali.

Patañjali defines ignorance in exactly the same terms as used by the Buddha, with one essential and dramatic reversal. Instead of ignorance being defined as the notion that takes the self, which is joyful, pure, and eternal, to be the nonself, which is painful, impure, and temporary, as Patañjali has done here, Buddhist teachings consider ignorance

saṁskāras, of pleasure can remain latent in the mind, and thus even when memory is not consciously activated, these latent saṁskāras cause the mind and senses to be unconsciously drawn toward objects that have produced pleasure in the past.

Just as there are an unlimited variety of colors stemming from the mixture of the three primary colors, different hues being simply expressions of the specific proportionality of red, yellow, and blue, so the unlimited psychological dispositions of living creatures (and of physical forms) stem from the mixture of the guṇas, specific states of mind

Discrimination, dispassion, and the impetus to seek a practice in order to realize Truth are inherent in the mind when its sāttvic potential is not overwhelmed by rajas and tamas, which are the influences provoking the flow of the mind toward sensuality.

the common denominator of all the epic definitions of Yoga is disciplined activity, earnest striving—by active (not rationalistic or intellectual) means” rather than the more popular translation and cognate “union”

Yoga philosophy is Patañjali’s philosophy as understood and articulated by Vyāsa.