Yoga Sutra - IV- 24 - TAD ASAMKHYEYA VASANABHIS CITTAM API PARARTHAM SAMHATYA KARITVAT - Though having countless desires, the mind-stuff exists for the sake of another [the Purusha] because it can act only in association with It.Swami Satchidananda translated this sutra without commentary.
"How to Know God - The Yoga Aphorisms of Patanjali" translated and commented on by Swami Prabhavananda and Christopher Isherwood says the following:
Every combination of individuals or forces in this world has to have a purpose for its action or existence; otherwise it would be just a meaningless, functionless collection of objects, brought together haphazardly. And this purpose must be external to itself. A congress or parliament would be just a collection of noisy individuals in a room, if it did not have a purpose of legislating for a community. A house is just a pile of materials, until an owner comes to inhabit and enjoy it. So with the mind-- that yelling parliament of conflicting interests and desires. It is nothing but a madhouse, until it is "called to order." It can only become purposive the external will of the Atman.
See preceding posts.
