Canonical Ref: YS 1.16
Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
तत्परं पुरुषख्यातेर्गुणवैतृष्ण्यम्
English Scholarly Translation
The highest state of dispassion is freedom from desires of the gunas (qualities of nature) achieved through knowledge of the Purusha (Self)
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Classical Exegesis
Higher(paraṁ) than that (tat) is the realized (khyāteḥ) Sages (puruṣa) dispassion (vaitṛṣṇyam) towards attributes (guṇa)
Canonical CTS URN Reference
Pātañjala Yoga Sūtras, YS 1.16. Poorvam Open Research Engine (PORE) Corpus.