- You act so fanatically that your good intention has the opposite effect (bhrānti-darśana).
- You lack the intensity needed for your efforts to produce a result (alabdhabhūmikatva).
- Your efforts have already produced results, but you cannot sustain them (anavasthitatva).
The Bhāṣya defines nine distractions of citta as impurities opposed to yoga:
- Vyādhi: imbalance of bodily constituents, fluids, or organs.
- Styāna: incapacity of citta to act.
- Saṃśaya: cognition touching both alternatives—“it is so” and “it is not so.”
- Pramāda: failure to cultivate the means to samādhi.
- Ālasya: inactivity caused by heaviness of body and citta.
- Avirati: citta's greed in contact with sense objects.
- Bhrānti-darśana: erroneous cognition.
- Alabdhabhūmikatva: failure to attain a level of samādhi.
- Anavasthitatva: failure of citta to remain established on a level already attained.
Sickness, langour, doubt, carelessness, laziness, addiction to objects (of sense), erroneous perception, failure to attain any stage (of abstraction) and instability (In the state when attained), these distractions of the mind are obstacles (in the way of the ascetic).
Disease, Languor, Doubt, Carelessness, Sloth, Worldly-mindedness, Mistaken Notions, Missing the Point, and Instability;—these causing the distraction of the internal organ are the obstacles.
Krankheit, Apathie, Zweifel, Unbesonnenheit, Trägheit, Nichtentsagung, irrige Ansichten, Ermangelung der Yogastufen (2,27) und Unbeständigkeit sind die Zerstreuungen des Cittam (Geistes) und sie bilden die Hindernisse.
Sickness and languor and doubt and heedlessness and worldliness and erroneous perception and failure to attain any stage [of concentration] and instability in the state [when attained] these distractions of the mind-stuff are the obstacles.
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