Disclaimer: This translation does not guarantee complete accuracy, please confirm with the original page text.
## Yoga Shastra, Twelfth Light, Verses 36-42
**The Description of Experienced Yoga**
**Verse 36:**
When the cause-and-effect relationship of the mind is destroyed on all sides, meaning when it becomes calm like fire covered in ash, and all its activities like worry, memory, etc., are destroyed like the flow of water, then the soul, like a lamp placed in a windless place, reveals its true nature free from the impurities of karma.
**Verse 37:**
**The Identification of True Knowledge**
When true knowledge manifests, the body becomes soft even without sweating or massage, and it becomes oily without any oil application. This is a sign of the manifestation of true knowledge.
**Verse 38:**
**The Second Sign**
When the mental affliction is destroyed by the arising of a mind-free state, the body of the true knower becomes relaxed like an umbrella that has lost its stiffness.
**Verse 39:**
The only medicine to remove the affliction of the inner being, which constantly causes suffering, is the mind-free state.
**Verse 40:**
**The Fruit of the Mind-Free State**
Ignorance is like a banana plant, the fickle senses are its leaves, and the mind is its root. Just as the banana plant is destroyed when its fruit appears, because it will not bear fruit again, so too, when the fruit of the mind-free state appears, ignorance is completely destroyed, and no further karma is accumulated.
**Verse 41:**
**The Mind-Free State is the Key to Conquering the Mind**
The mind is extremely fickle, subtle, and fast, making it very difficult to control. Therefore, without giving the mind rest, one should pierce it with the arrow of the mind-free state, without any negligence.
**Verse 42:**
**The Fruit of the Mind-Free State for Yogis**
When the mind-free state arises, the yogi experiences his body as if it were dissolved, like mercury, like a lump of butter, like a piece of cloth, or like water. He then recognizes the false nature of his thoughts.