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Practice becomes firmly established when it has been cultivated uninterruptedly

What is yoga? Part 6: Asana - Lightness in the body

Practice is the effort to be fixed in concentrating the mind

What is yoga? Part 5: Niyama - Life Principles

What is yoga? Part 4: Yama - Code of Ethics for Yoga

[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