The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali


"Subtle objects can be traced back to their origin in undifferentiated nature



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The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali 1
"Subtle objects can be traced back to their origin in undifferentiated nature."

Compare that with Sutra I.19



"Bhava-pratyayo videha-prakrti-layanam

By melting into (layanam) the true nature of nature (prakrti) a special spiritual transcognitive [asamprajnata samadhi] samadhi or full feeling awareness (bhava-pratyayo) permeates and replaces the content of the mind, allowing the practitioner to directly merge into a non-dual transpersonal experience and relationship which entirely transcends the idea of a separate corporeality (videha) having identified with the larger body of creation and its stainless formless sourceless nature (the true nature of nature, purusa). This allows conscious awareness to be informed directly from the source of the created universe taken as a whole, free from vrtti."

Perhaps this may be due to the samkhya philosopher, Vyasa's, confusion with the word, nirvicara, which he often confuses with an object of cognition, but seems to be object free while insisting that prakrti and purusa ne'er the twain shall meet. Hence he needed to create a mechanism to connect prakrti with alinga.

Only in the nirvicara phase (devoid of even the most subtle objectification processes), then can one speak of truly tasting transcognitive samadhi albeit temporarily. As the subtle thoughts become cleared away substantially, leading toward nirvicara samadhi, only here experiencing the absence of even the most subtle thought can one begin to speak of true samadhi. Alinga is the most subtle objectification state, but it is not yet devoid of subtlety -- of form. Rather the formless unconditioned nature of nature beyond the boundaries of man's systems of classification in nirvicara (absence of even any trace of subtle object) goes beyond alinga, which remains undesignated, attributeless, empty (sunya) of form. It is not calling for a name or description so it is capable of whispering god's name for those whose ears have become so attuned -- aum. This then approximates emptiness (sunyam), which is described in Patanjali's definition of Samadhi in Sutra III.3 as


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