Skandapurana 7.18.89_148

7.18.89_148

sthāpitaṃ tanmanastatra punaḥ saṃhāramāvrajet .
acaitanyaṃ diśenmohād vāyurdṛṣṭamatonyathā21 . .44. .
saṃhṛtya ca tato vyāpi bhūyo dhyānagatiṃ caret .
dhyāyato nityamabhyāsānmano vāyu - - - - . .45. .
pravṛttajñānayogasya22 viṣayāsaṃgasaṃkṣaye .
prātibhāni23 hi vighnāni satvādiguṇajāni tu .
vighnabhūtāni yogasya prodbhavanti hi yuñjataḥ . .46..

That mind, once fixed there, should again undergo withdrawal. / Through delusion, the wind might cause senselessness, unless observed otherwise.
And having withdrawn that all-pervading [mind], he should again pursue the course of meditation. / For one who meditates continually through practice, the mind and the wind […].
For one whose yoga of knowledge has commenced, upon the destruction of attachment to sense-objects, / intuitive obstacles born from the qualities (guṇas) such as sattva—
arising as obstacles to yoga—verily spring forth for the practitioner.