“As a state of comparison Patañjali gives an indication of the mental state of the individual who has obtained and realised Viveka Khyāti and the rest of us.
Here we have someone who is about to go into Virāma Pratyaya.

What are these seven types of ‘insights’:

1. Jijñasa – The desire for knowledge. i.e. Samprajñāta Samādhi or worldly knowledge.
2. Jahasa – The desire to remove something i.e. Duḥkha both as a Yoga or Bhogā.
3. Prepsa – The desire for one who wants to obtain/abstain something I.e. Siddhas in this life or something in the next such as Deva.
4. Cikṛṣa – The desire to do or create something new i.e. Both in a Yogic or materialistic sense.

So in these four insights we have:
1. Knowledge
2. Removal
3. Attainment
4. Action

These are applicable in both YOGIC and worldly levels of people.
These are also external phenomena.

The YOGI who is a VIVEKIN is beyond these levels, he has no desire for knowledge, no desire to remove, attain or create anything. Freedom from internal is threefold.

5. Śoka – Depression. The mind becomes so weak. i.e. A state of TAMAS, i.e.’It is my fate and nothing can be done about it.’
6. Bhaya – Fear, anxiety state i.e. Abhiniveśa towards death, possessions, etc…
7. Vikalpa – Imagination i.e. living in a state of fantasy.

The person who has abstained Viveka Khyati, his Citta Vṛtti still functions, but he is beyond these seven states.

For him these is no desire to obtain anything new and the knowledge is there that is nothing better to achieve. Once this is realised the Citta ceases its activities and Virāma Pratyaya takes place.
Vyāsa interprets these in a slightly different way:

1. There is nothing more to be known. That which has to be avoided is known.
2. There is nothing more to be removed.
3. There is nothing more to be attained.
4. There is nothing more to do.
These are the liberation from action.

5. Buddhi has fulfilled it function. There is nothing more to one served by the intellect.
6. The activities of the Guṇa have ceased and will not rise again.
7. Virāma Pratyaya or the best insight relating to final emancipation. In the ultimate liberation, the mental function completely stops; hence insight also ceases.

Thus these insights relating to liberation of the mind are threefold.

When after attaining the aforesaid seven insights, the mind stops functioning, the Puruṣa is regarded as Mukta Kuśala or liberated and proficient. That is the state of liberation while still living.
Viveka Khyāti is explained as one who is beyond the seven ultimate insights.

Commenting on the three internal insights for the Viveki they do not remain even in a latent or dormant state. Thus:-

5. Soka – Not a tinge of depression remains over the loss of desire for the first four states.
6. Bhaya – There its no fear of slipping back at all.
7. Vikalpa – It is not imagination but a realised state that is evolving.