Canonical Ref: YS 4.10
Sanskrit (Devanāgarī)
तासामनादित्वं चाशिषो नित्यत्वात्
English Scholarly Translation
These latent impressions have no beginning and are eternal because the desire for self-preservation is eternal
व्याख्या / Traditional Commentary & Notes
Classical Exegesis
Seeing that the desire for self-welfare (āśiṣaḥ) is eternal (nityatvāt), those latent tendencies (Vāsanā-s) (tāsām) from which it emerges are also (ca) beginningless (anāditvam)
Canonical CTS URN Reference
Pātañjala Yoga Sūtras, YS 4.10. Poorvam Open Research Engine (PORE) Corpus.