vāsanā
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karmic latency · latent traces
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Cittaviśuddhiprakaraṇa
Latent karmic and cognitive traces (vāsanā) which, though depicted as smearing or clouding the mind, do not ultimately stain the accomplished yogin.
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Just as a lotus, though born of mud, is not stained by the faults of the mud, so the yogin is not stained by the faults of the latent traces (vāsanā (latent karmic/cognitive traces)) of conceptual construction.
San Hyan Tattvajnana
The karmic residue/imprint that adheres to the ātmā, of which the sattva-portion is the last to be exhausted before final liberation.
If the *vāsanā* of past karma was evil, that person will suddenly wish to do evil.
But the *vāsanā* of *rajas* and *tamas* has already been burned by him at the time of the *yogapada*.
Vrhaspatitattva
Karmic latency, the lingering trace of past karma clinging to the soul, illustrated by the pot-and-asafoetida analogy.
*Vāsanā* (karmic latency) is the karma performed by a person in this world, the fruit of which is experienced in the next world and in future births.