Yoga Sutra 1.46 samadhi from a seed
Sūtra I.46 These are samādhi from-a-seed These four samādhi-identifications have external things as their seed, so the samādhi is from-a-seed (sa-bīja). When it is a physical object, the samādhi is sa-vitarka or nir-vitarka; when a subtle object, it is sa-vicāra or nir-vicāra. So the four categories of samādhi have been described. They are from-a-seed because…