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Higher than renunciation is indifference to the gunas [themselves]

Dispassion is the controlled consciousness of one who is without craving for sense objects

Practice becomes firmly established when it has been cultivated uninterruptedly

Practice is the effort to be fixed in concentrating the mind

[The vrtti states of mind] are stilled by practice and dispassion

Memory is the retention of [images of] sense objects that have been experienced

Deep sleep is that state of mind which is based on an absence [of any content]

Imagination consists of the usage of words that are devoid of an actual object

Error is false knowledge stemming from the incorrect apprehension [of something]

Right knowledge consists of sense perception, logic, and verbal testimony

[These five vrttis are] right knowledge, error, imagination, sleep, and memory

There are five kinds of charging states of the mind, they are detrimental or nondetrimental

Otherwise, at other times, [the seer] is absorbed in the changing states / Vrtti-sarupyam itaratra

When that is accomplished, the seer abides in its own true nature / Tada drastuh svarupe vasthanam

Yoga is the stilling of the changing states of the mind / Yogas citta-vrtti-nirodhah (in Sanskrit)

Now, the teachings of yoga [is presented] / Atha anusasanam (in Sanskrit)

Yoga Sutras: the foundation of classical Yoga philosophy