Dvivedi, Manilal Nabhubhai [Comm.]: The Yoga-sūtra of Patanjali: (translation, with introduction, appendix, and notes based upon several authentic commentaries) (Bombay, 1890)

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XXI. (It is) nearest to those whose feeling is most
ardent.

It is difficult to render the word Sa/mvega into English. It
is not only feeling, but a resolute influence over the mind
which makes the whole soul one sentiment, and leads to
immediate action. Commentators render it by the word
VairSgya which is the most approximate approach to its true
sense. Those who feel ardently, i. e., those whose Vairagya
is sufficiently keen, attain at once to the state of Asampraj-
nata-Samadhi.

XXII. A further distinction arises on account of
mild, moderate, and excessive.

Mild, moderate, and excessive refer to the means mentioned
under XVIII and XX. The means to attain the end must be
mild, moderate, or excessive, but the Tivrasamvega, ardent
feeling of non-attachment, should pervade them all. This
Samvega also may be threefold, as mild, moderate, or excessive.
Hence there would naturally be nine classes of Yogins ; for
each of the Yogins with mild, moderate, or excessive means
will again be of mild, moderate, or excessive feeling. The
result, unconscious concentration, will be proportionate to the
degree of means and feeling.

XXIII. Or by devotion to Ismra.

The attainment of Parasamadhi, or unconscious concentra-
tion, is shown to be possible by another method. This is
suggested by the particle ' or.' Ismra, is a word derived
from the root is to rule and means the supreme ruler. The
nature of this Ismra will be explained in the next aphorism.