Yoga Sutras
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tadā viveka-nimnaṃ kaivalya-prāgbhāraṃ cittam

तदा विवेकनिम्नं कैवल्यप्राग्भारं चित्तम्

Then, inclined towards discrimination, the psyche has a propensity for abstraction


tadā - then

viveka - discrimination, discernment; the faculty of distinguishing and classifying things according to their real properties; the power of separating the invisible Spirit from the visible world (or spirit from matter); truth from untruth

nimna - inclined towards

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

prāgbhāra - propensity

citta - psyche (the totality of the human mind, conscious and unconscious); mind; heart