Yoga Sutras of Patanjali - Liberation

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21. If the mind were to be illumined by another mind then there will be

repetition ad infinitum of illumining minds and intermixture of memory.

 

22. (Though) Untransmissible, the metempiric Consciousness getting the likeness

of Buddhi becomes the cause of the consciousness of Buddhi.

 

23.The mind-stuff being affected by the Seer and the seen, is all-comprehensive.

 

24. That (the mind) though variegated by innumerable subconscious impressions,

exists for another, since it acts conjointly.

 

25. For one who has realised the distinctive entity, I-e. Purusha, inquiries

about the nature of his self cease.

 

26. (Then) The mind inclines towards discriminative knowledge and naturally

gravitates towards the state of liberation.

 

27. Through its breaches (i.e. breaks in discriminative knowledge) arise other

fluctuations of the mind due to (residual) latent impressions.

 

28. It has been said that their removal (i.e. of fluctuations) follows the same

process as the removal of afflictions.

 

29. When one becomes disinterested even in omniscience one attains perpetual

discriminative enlightenment from which ensues the concentration known as

Dharmamegha (virtue-pouring cloud).

 

30. From that, afflictions and actions cease.

 

31.Then on account of the infinitude of knowledge, freed from the cover of all

impurities, the knowables appear as few.

 

32. After the emergence of that (virtue-pouring cloud) the Gunas having

fulfilled their purpose, the sequence of their mutation ceases.

 

33. What belongs to the moments and is indicated by the completion of a

particular mutation is sequence.

 

34. The state of the Self-in-Itself or liberation is realised when the Gunas

(having provided for the experience and liberation of Purusha) are without any

purpose to fulfil and disappear into their causal substance. In other words, it

is absolute Consciousness established in Its own Self.