Yoga Sutra - IV- 21 - CITTANTARA DRSYE BUDDHIBUDDHER ATIPRASANGAH SMRTISAMKARAS CA - If perception of one mind by another mind be postulated, we would have to assume an endless number of them and the result would be confusion of memory. 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 for YS IV -21:
If a philosopher - in order to avoid admitting the existence of the Atman - were to suggest that the mind is really two minds, a knower and an object of knowledge, then he would find himself in difficulty. For if mind A is known by mind B, then one must postulate a mind C as the knower of B, a mind D as the knower of C, and so forth. There would be an infinite regress, as in a room walled with mirrors. Furthermore, since each of theses minds would have an individual memory, the function of remembering would be reduced to a state of confusion.
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