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#931fzà=8787: Hq: faìkzvaìsamt vafaa: 1 तस्मादपनीतो वा निर्वाति यथा मनस्तद्वत् ॥२०॥
Meaning In the first stage of pure meditation, the yogi should select one element out of the learned knowledge and meditate on the word depicting that element. He should then transcend from the word to the element itself. In the same manner he should transcend from one combination (yoga) to another. This process of transition should then be reversed.
Going deeper and deeper into such practices enables him to become unidirectionally potent. At this stage he should select one specific state of any single element (creation, existence, destruction) and meditate on it. This is the Ekatva-avichar-shukla Dhyana.
As a mantra-chanter draws all the poison spread throughout the body at one place, a yogi directs his meditation on a single ultimate particle. As a fire is extinguished by reducing the fuel and finally drawing the source of fuel away, the mind becomes composed when flow of the fuel of desire is blocked.
ज्वलति ततश्च ध्यानज्वलने भृशमुज्ज्वले यतीन्द्रस्य । fafamıfa famìarà aq¤ızıą aıfazaifu nzgu
Meaning: Then, with the fire of meditation, burning with increasing intensity, the meditating yogi wipes out the destructive categories of karmas.
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