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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sense of being or individuality is the result of Mahat, and the
Yogin who has command over it is able to send forth as many
minds as he likes from this grand reservoir.

V. One mind is the cause of all the minds in their
various activities.

This aphorism is put in to explain how the identity of one
and the same individual is preserved in all the different bodies
with different minds.

VI. That which is born of contemplation is free
from impressions.

The minds referred to in aphorism IV. may be of five kinds
according to the means resorted to after aphorism I. If the
individual with so many duplicates of itself were to acquire
new impressions, the purpose of creating these minds will be
frustrated, for instead of exhausting all previous impressions
by simultaneous fruition new ones will be accumulated. Hence
it is pointed out that that which is produced by the fifth kind
of means (samadhi) is free from accumulating impressions.

VII. Actions are neither white nor black in the
case of Yogins; they are of three kinds, in the case of
others.

Actions are white, black, mixed, and indifferent. The first
are of gods, the second of wicked beings. The third of men and
the fourth of Yogins. In other words, Yogins acquire no im-
pressions by their acts, for they are perfect in non-attachment
and hence are ever free. This aphorism is only a corollary
of the preceding and explains the meaning with greater
clearness.