"This truth bearing knowledge and wisdom is distinct from and beyond the knowledge gleaned from books, testimony, or influence."

Our experience must thus inform and instruct our world views and belief; i.e., in order for our daily consciousness to not get in the way and extract us from a living yoga in the context of All Our Relations -- such must correspond to our experience. Liberation does not occur the other way around; i.e., where ordinary people attempt to dictate their experience according to the domination of specific belief systems, bias, prejudice, thought patterns, samskaras, kleshas, preconceptions, and karma all of which simply produce more suffering (duhkha).

Yogic knowledge is not external to the yogi, nor is it found in books, grammar, or through conceptual processes; rather it is through yogic practice that elicits inner wisdom. . This sutra makes Patanjali's stance on yoga being revealed by yoga, crystal clear. It is primordial innate wisdom/awareness, the very essence-mind or buddhanature. It is not created, nor can it be destroyed; hence it is the vajra-mind of the vajrakaya -- immovable and unshakeable.

This enlightenment, this understanding, this realization is quite different from what one has heard about or deduced from teaching obtained from external sources. Whereas in the case of the latter the object of study, investigation and understanding is outside of the consciousness, the realization arrived at in the former is of a special category.

Swami Venkatesananda

Thus being able to tune into the inherent implicate inner wisdom and let it guide us stimulates a mutually synergistic acceleration once this mechanism is recognized (inner wisdom is brought forth and is increasingly respected, acknowledged, and accessed) -- where the now educated and vitalized mind in turn allows one hence greater breadth of experience. Then greater breadth of experience then in turn synergistically stimulates a broader consciousness and so on like that until boundless universal Mind is disclosed. Intelligently educated and informed awareness through experience in turn allows an even more greater expansion of experience, then further the education of the conscious mind even more is achieved, and so forth, until eventually synergistic synchrony coincides -- Yoga is accomplished -- All is Known and Self is Experienced in Satchitananda. See also the commentary in Sutra I.9 on on vikalpa, sutra I.42 (on words), sutra 43 on holding on, sutra I.7 (on pramana or belief systems), sutra I.17 on vitarka, sutra I.15, sutra 16, and also sutra III.17.