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## Description of Experienced Yoga
**Yoga Shastra, Twelfth Light, Verses 43-52**
**42.** Scattered, burnt to ashes, flown away, melted, and the body is not one's own (Asatkalapa).
**43.** Freed from the serpents of intoxicated senses, the yogi, immersed in the new nectar-pond of unmanliness, experiences the unparalleled and excellent taste of the nectar of truth.
**44.** When unmanliness is attained, even without the practice sequence of exhalation, inhalation, retention, and postures, the wind naturally disappears by itself with sincere effort.
**45.** The wind that cannot be held even with long and repeated efforts, is immediately stabilized by the yogi when unmanliness is attained.
**46.** When there is stability in the practice of this unmanliness, and when the pure (free from the web of karma) undivided knowledge of truth arises, the yogi appears like a liberated person, with the complete eradication of breath.
**47.** In the waking state, the yogi, established in his own nature (Atma-swaroop), remains steady like a sleeping person in the state of absorption (laya). Being devoid of breath in the state of absorption, he is not at all inferior to the liberated soul; rather, he is like a Siddha.
**48.** People dwelling on this earth always experience the states of waking and dreaming, but the knower of truth, immersed in absorption, neither wakes nor sleeps.
**49.** In the dream state, there is certainly emptiness, and in the waking state, the yogi perceives the objects of the senses. But after attaining the truth, he transcends both these states and remains established in the blissful state of absorption (laya).
**50.** Actions are for sorrow, that is, the cause of sorrow is the actions performed by oneself, and being actionless is for happiness. If you know this truth, why don't you strive to attain actionlessness for the easy path of liberation?
**51.** Whether there is liberation or not, the supreme bliss is experienced here directly through meditation. When this supreme bliss is attained, all the pleasures of the world appear as insignificant as grass.
**52.** Honey is not sweet, nor are these pleasures, but the frost-like nectar is truly sweet. The name of nectar is given to this, but its fruit is false nectar. Therefore, give up this striving and be happy, friend! This fruit of the mind, without any defect, is yours when you attain grace.