PYS 4.6: Meditation-Born Citta

Yogaśāstra 4.6: Without Karmic Residue

Among the created cittas, only the one born of dhyāna is without karmāśaya, because it acts free of passion, delusion, and the pursuit of merit.

Dr. Ronald Steiner

Laura von Ostrowski 18.02.2020

Patañjali Yoga Sūtra 4.6

तत्र ध्यानजमनाशयम् ||6||

tatra dhyāna-jam anāśayam ||6|| Analysis ▾ Analysis ▴

tatra	tatra adverb	among these
dhyāna tatpuruṣa-compound lokative	dhyāna substantive neuter	meditation
jam nominative singular neuter	ja adjective	born
anāśayam nominative singular neuter	anāśaya adjective	without karmic deposit

Among these [created Cittas] (tatra), the [Citta] born from meditation (dhyāna-jam | nom sg n) is without karmic deposit (anāśayam | nom sg n).

Dr. Ronald Steiner - 2026 - historically literal

Meditation (dhyāna) can open a fresh way of perceiving that does not immediately follow old traces (anāśaya). From this spaciousness, you can respond anew.

Dr. Ronald Steiner - 2026 - modern transfer

Of the five kinds of created citta, only the one arising from dhyāna is anāśaya. Because the yogin’s kleśas have dwindled, it has no āśaya produced by activity governed by rāga and the like and no connection with merit or demerit; the other kinds possess a karmāśaya.

Yoga Śāstra Vyāsa-Bhāṣya

Among these (minds produced by birth etc. that which spring from meditations is without substratum.

James R. Ballantyne - 1852

Thereof the contemplation-born is without impressions or residua.

Ganganatha Jha - 1907

Yogaśāstra 4.6: Without Karmic Residue

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