Citta

Yoga is the cessation of the fluctuations of the mind.

At other times, the seer identifies with the modifications of the mind.

There are five kinds of mental modifications, which are either afflicted or non-afflicted.

They are right knowledge, wrong knowledge, conceptualization, sleep, and memory.

The sources of right knowledge are direct perception, inference, and authoritative testimony.

Wrong knowledge is false understanding, not based on the true nature of the object.

Conceptualization arises from words without corresponding reality.

Sleep is the mental modification based on the cognition of absence.

Memory is the retention of experienced objects.

Egoism is the identification of the power of the seer with the power of seeing.

The stages of the guṇas are the particularized, the unparticularized, the mark-only, and the unmarked.

Nirodha pariṇāma is the transformation of the mind in which moments of cessation predominate, as outgoing saṁskāras are overcome and those of nirodha arise.

Its flow becomes tranquil through repeated practice and habit.

Samādhi pariṇāma is the transformation where the mind's all-pointedness subsides and one-pointedness arises.

Then again, when the subsided and arisen modifications are similar, it is the one-pointed transformation of the mind (ekāgratā pariṇāma).

Nor is an object dependent on a single mind; if it were, what would happen when it is not cognized by that mind?

An object is known or unknown to the mind according to whether the mind is colored by it or not.

The modifications of the mind are always known to its lord, the Puruṣa, because of its unchangeability.