Yoga Sūtra Chapter Two verse 41

सत्त्वशुद्धिः सौमनस्यैकाग्र्येन्द्रियजयात्मदर्शन योग्यत्वानि च ॥४१॥

sattva-śuddhi-saumanasya-eka-agrya-indriya-jaya-ātma-darśana-yogyatvāni ca ||41||

From purity of clarity,
open-mindedness, one-pointedness, mastery of the senses
and capability for seeing the essence.

sattva - clarity; the quality of transparency or purity; luminous; honesty; the quality of goodness; material or elementary substance, entity, matter; nature, disposition of mind; being, existence, entity, realityśuddha - pure, cleansed, cleared, clean, clear, free fromsaumanasya - open-mindednesseka - one; alone, solitary, single, happening only once, that one onlyagrya - pointedness; intent, closely attentiveindriya - faculty of sense; sense; organ of sense; organs of motor action and sensory perceptionjaya - mastery; conquest, victory, triumph, winningātman - essence; the highest personal principle of life; the individual soul, selfdarśana - view, doctrine, philosophical system; seeing, observing, looking, noticing, observation, perception; exhibiting, teaching; inspection, examinationyogyatva - capabilityca - and
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Commentaries and Reflections

Commentary by S Ramaswami:

“All these things happen by Sattva Śuddhi.
One leads to other and without one-pointedness of mind it is not possible to know the soul beyond the senses.
Thus the previous Sūtra leads onto the aspect of the mind.
i.e. through food consumed.
If you practice cleanliness the mind becomes more and more Sattvic.”