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## Description of Experienced Yoga
**Yoga Shastra, Twelfth Light, Verses 15-25**
**Meaning:**
**15.** The Guru is the teacher of the first knowledge of the Truth in the previous birth, and in the next birth, the Guru is the one who reveals the knowledge of the Truth. Therefore, one should always serve and attend to the Guru Maharaj.
**16.** Just as the sun illuminates an object situated in dense darkness, so too, the Guru illuminates the soul, lost in the darkness of ignorance, with the light of knowledge in this world (by giving the true teachings).
**17.** Therefore, having abandoned the afflictions like Pranayama, etc., the Yogi, having received the teachings of the Guru, should be devoted to the practice of the Self.
**18.** The Yogi should diligently abandon the restlessness of speech, mind, and body, and should always keep the Self steady and calm like a vessel filled with nectar.
**19.** The Yogi, who is devoted to indifference, should not think about anything at all, so that the mind does not become agitated by thoughts and desires and does not attain stability.
**20.** As long as there is even a little effort, as long as there is any thought or imagination, there will be no attainment of absorption (Tन्मयता); what to speak of the attainment of the Truth?
**21.** Even the Guru cannot directly say, "This is that Supreme Truth." For the Yogi who is absorbed in indifference, that Supreme Truth shines forth by itself.
**22-25.** When the body becomes absorbed in the Supreme Truth due to indifference, a state of ecstasy (उन्मनीभाव) manifests. This is explained in four verses:
**22.** Sitting comfortably in a secluded, extremely pure, and beautiful place, with all the limbs relaxed from the tip of the toes to the top of the head,
**23.** Even while seeing a beautiful form, hearing a sweet and pleasing voice, smelling fragrant substances, and enjoying delicious flavors,
**24.** Even while touching soft objects and restraining the activities of the mind, the Yogi, who is absorbed in calculated indifference, is always free from the delusion of objects.
**25.** The Yogi, who is free from thoughts and actions both inside and outside, attains absorption in the Supreme Truth and experiences a great state of ecstasy.