Theos-Talk Archives (March 2004 Message tt00093)

It turns out there are several pages on the net which contain thetext 
of THE YOGA SUTRAS. Here is the Sanskrit of sutra 2, chapter 1 
(samadhipada) transliterated into Latin characters:

YS 1.2 yoga»cittavôttinirodhan

Here is the English translation of the Sanskrit words:

yoga» = yoga; citta = of the mind?stuff; vôtti = modifications; 
nirodhan = restraint [S]

The significance of the sutra is: "yoga is the cessation of the 
modifications of the mind."

Some folks will remain unconvinced, but this may assist others.

Since the matter is experiential, it is impossible to understand its 
meaning without entering into the experience. It cannot, in other 
words, he analuzed unless someone has some experiential basis for the 
analysis.