Patañjali Yoga Sūtra 1.51
तस्यापि निरोधे सर्वनिरोधान्निर्बीजः समाधिः ||51||
When also (api) this [impression born of insight] (tasya | gen sg m) is suppressed (nirodhe | loc sg), because all is suppressed (sarva-nirodhāt | abl sg), [there arises] Samādhi without seed (nirbījaḥ samādhiḥ | nom sg).
At the end, release the method, the intention, and even a beautiful experience. Rest for a moment without trying to produce any particular state.
The saṃskāra born from nirodha suppresses not only samādhi-prajñā but also the saṃskāras produced by that prajñā. Its existence is inferred from the experienced temporal continuity of stable nirodha. When citta, together with the saṃskāras produced by emergence, nirodha, and samādhi that lead toward kaivalya, returns into its own Prakṛti, these saṃskāras no longer sustain its activity. With citta's task ended, Puruṣa abides alone in its own form and is therefore called pure, isolated, and liberated. This is nirbīja-samādhi.
On the removal of this also, since there is removal of all (the mental modifications), the meditation is ‘without a seed’.
On the suppression of this also,all being suppressed, (there is) meditation without a seed.
Wenn auch dieser [saṃprajñāta, sabīja samādhi] unterdrückt wird, so erfolgt, indem alles unterdrückt worden ist, der keimlose (nirbīja) samādhi.
When this [subliminal-impression] also is restricted, since all is restricted, [the yogin gains] seedless concentration.
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