Ch 1. Sutra 1.11

अनुभूतविषयासंप्रमोषः स्म्रति: ||1.11||

That modification of the mind  where past experiences have not been lost  is known as Memory.

Images of experience past,

Yet vanquished not by the great destroyer,

Triggered by the senses five,

Arise from Memory,

The present experience is cognized !

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Sutras 1.09 & 1.10

शब्दज्ञानानुपाति वस्तुशुन्यो विकल्पः ||1.09||

Knowledge based only on words and devoid of substance is termed Imagination.

अभावाप्रत्यायलंबनाव्र्तिनिद्रा ||1.10||

The modification of the mind which contains no experience is called Dreamless Sleep.

Described by the tongue ,

Seen Vaguely in a  dream,

Forms,  imagined and unreal, emerging,

From the Eye of the Mind.

The physical sheath is laid to rest,

The Harbinger of Dreams is loath to enter,

Where Awareness has shut its eyes,

Such is the State of Dreamless Sleep.

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(Ch. 1. Sutra 7 & 8)

प्रत्यक्षानुमानागमाः प्रमाणानि ||1.07||

True Knowledge consists of Sensory perception, inference, and knowledge from the scriptures.

विप्रययो मिथ्यज्ञान्मतद्रुपप्रतिष्टं ||1.08||

False knowledge is based on understanding not corresponding to reality.

Perceived  by the mortal senses five,

Else with roots in knowledge past,

Gospel from  the Ancients,

Seen with  the detachment of a Sage’s Eye,

These be the forms of Knowledge True.

These very same, through darkened vision,

Understanding clouded by the passions five ,

Herein the seeds of false Knowledge lie.

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Ch1. Sutras 5-6.

व्र्त्तयः .पञ्चतव्य्यः क्लिष्टाक्लिष्टाः ||1.05||

These modifications are of five classes, some painful, other not painful.

प्रमनाविप्रययविकल्पनिद्रस्म्र्तयः  ||1.06||

They are True knowledge, false knowledge, imagination, dreamless sleep and memory.

 The Mind takes the form of  Waves,

 Waves of thought that give it Life,

Some leave their marks, Others  pass without strife,

Nourished by the fire of  five different wombs ,

One is   Knowledge  true

and  the Other Knowledge false,

A third springs from the eye of the Mind,

A fourth awakens from the depths of Sleep,

The Fifth  from the stirrings of Memory.

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Ch.1 Sutras 1- 4

अथ योगनुशषणं ||1.01||

Now Begins the Study of Yoga

योगश्चित्तव्र्त्तिनिरोधः ||1.02||

Yoga is the cessations of  modifications of the mind.

तदा द्रष्टु:स्वरुपेअवस्थानं | |1.03||

Then, the witness regains his own form.

व्र्तिसरुप्यमितिरत्र  | |1.04||

At other times he is identified with the Modifications.

Now begins the Study of   Yoga:-

Yoga, indeed, is the Silence of the Mind,

In this Silence,

The Witness regains his own true nature,

Else, he appears in  the  form  of the Mind

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