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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XXIV. Its cause is ignorance.

Its, i. e., of the junction of the seer and the sight. Ignorance
is defined tinder V.

XXV. The break of the junction, through the
dispersion of ignorance, is the (thing) to be warded off;
it is the Kaivalya of the Seer.

The break of the junction cannot be a physical break as is
plain from XXIII. When ignorance is destroyed by right
knowledge, proper discrimination will be the result. This discri-
mination consists in understanding everything in its proper
light; in seeing that the gimas have nothing whatever to
do with the puru'sa, the seer, who is ever free and all bliss. It
is only by the force of this junction that the ever-absolved soul
believes himself bound and miserable, and therefore, the cause
of this junction being dissolved by proper knowledge, the
sonl must necessarily realise himself. The ever-absolved and
blissful nature of the soul is called Kaivalya—Isolation—a
state not limited by any conditions. This is Mohkt, absolution
of the last and highest degree.

XXVI. The means of dissolving is continuous dis-
crimination.

Discrimination is already defined above under the preceding
aphorism ; and it might be added that when true discrimina-
tion is arrived at, the senses all bend inward and see nothing
but the internal soul, the real essence of all. Discrimination
will be of no use if one receives glimpses of it now and then,
but it must become a formed and continuous, living, habit,
without admitting of intermission even for a twinkling of the