Yoga Sutras
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sattva-puruṣayoḥ śuddhi-sāmye kaivalyam

Equality of purity, in clarity and animating principle, is abstraction


sattva - clarity

puruṣa - animating principle, self, consciousness, spirit; a person, man, a human being; people

śuddha - pure, cleansed, cleared, clean, clear, free from

sāmya - equal

kaivalya - independence, freedom, solitude, separateness, abstraction, not connected with anything else; uncompounded, unmingled