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## Description of Experienced Yoga - Conclusion
**Verse 53-55 of the Twelfth Chapter of Yoga Shastra:**
**Meaning:** In the face of the fruit of Uन्मनीभाव (state of being free from the mind), honey does not seem sweet, the moon's radiance does not appear cool, nectar remains only in name, and the fruit of nectar becomes fruitless. Therefore, O friend of the mind! Stop striving for efforts that bring pain in the end. Now be happy with me, because the attainment of the unbroken fruit of supreme bliss depends on your happiness. ||52||
The Guru, who teaches about Uन्मनीभाव through self-experience, is praised through the expression of Vyatireka-bhava (contrasting feeling). 1006.
**Meaning:** As long as the state of mind exists, objects like tigers, which cause aversion, and objects like women, which cause attraction, are perceived by the mind as causing pain and pleasure, even when they are far away. But when the mind does not exist, i.e., when Uन्मनीभाव is attained, even if objects that cause aversion or attraction are near, they do not cause pain or pleasure. Pleasure and pain are based on mental tendencies; they are not caused by the attainment of objects or by the enjoyment of objects. Therefore, why would those who know this truth not have a strong desire to worship the Sadguru, who is the cause of Uन्मनीभाव? It is certain that they will. ||53||
Now, for the sake of self-joy, which is the means to overcome the mind, it is said: 1007.
**Meaning:** O foolish one! O Lord of the Self! You are seeking to attain the Supreme Self. Why do you trouble yourself by going to other gods, offering them gifts, making vows, and seeking to obtain desired objects like wealth, fame, prosperity, kingdom, heaven, etc., through their service, worship, devotion, etc., with the desire to get rid of diseases, poverty, and other misfortunes? Alas! Why don't you please your own Self-God, so that the wealth of unreal things may be abandoned, and your vast kingdom of pure knowledge may manifest in the light of supreme brilliance? ||54||
**Explanation:** Here, "O Lord of the Self!" is said because he will be worthy of worship in the future. Until now, he has been trying to please other gods, or those who are called gods, by considering them as the Supreme Lord. In this, he has been deceived by being foolish. Therefore, by removing Rajoguna (passion) and Tamoguna (inertia), i.e., by removing the desire for worldly pleasures in this world or the next, O Lord of eternal happiness! Please your own Self-God. By doing so, you will surely obtain other worldly wealth or prosperity in the form of the removal of misfortunes; but you will also manifest the ownership of the vast kingdom of pure knowledge, which is the form of supreme light (knowledge). The meaning is that by abandoning the effort to please the whole world, please only your own soul, so that the wealth and power of Godhood can be easily obtained. Without it, all efforts are in vain. In such a kingdom, Uन्मनीभाव becomes easy. ||54||
We had previously stated that we had learned this from the ocean of principles, from the tradition of Sadgurus, and from self-experience. Now, we have fulfilled that statement by composing the Yoga Shastra text. Now, we conclude it. 1008.
**Meaning:** This Shastra, which is full of wonder, is a collection of the Upanishads and the teachings of the wise, which has been learned from the Shastra, from the mouth of the Sadguru, and from experience. It has been presented by the Acharya, Shri Hemachandra, at the request of the great King Shri Chaulukya Kumarapala. ||55||