The Yoga Sutra is also called the Yoga Sutras, plural. This text, like a kaleidoscope, brings together the yoga traditions of the early modern era. This thought is also supported by the structure of the text - the Yoga Sutras are not composed in a single style, their ideas do not unfold one from the other, but confuse the reader, bringing him back to the same subjects again and again. Thus, in the Sutras we see several definitions of Yoga and several definitions of Samadhi.

That is, not only "sutras" but also "yogis" in the plural in the title of the text, i.e. the Yoga Sutras is a collection of ideas from different yoga traditions. Therefore, the state to which the practitioner goes and the methodology for attaining it differs throughout the course of the text.