Yoga Sutra 3.08 Yoga without the five-fold means of restraints
Sūtra III.8 Even that is an indirect means as regards unseeded (yoga) Even that triple method, though the direct means (to cognitive samādhi), is only an indirect method as regards the unseeded yoga. Why so? Because that comes about also without it. Yoga can be effected even without going through the five-fold means of restraints,…