Atmayogaasutra

Author(s): Ram
Publisher: Institute of Bharatalogical Research Sriganganagar Rajasthan

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the Dhyanam constitute one single process. They are not two independent organs The sixth organ of the Yogasutra, hence, is redundant and is included in its seventh organ of the Dhyanam.
The Yogasutra definition of the Dharana and the Dhnayam are matteric and not spirital. The one single point, as mentioned in it, is purely matteric. This is the universal law that what we contemplate, we so get, If we contemplate on any matteric object, we get matteric fruits. The contemplation of the spirit and on the spirit renders spirital fruits. The puranisation of the Yogasutra is too patent here and the Purana is nothing but matter. The dhyanam of the Yogasutra is not the Atma-dhyanam. It is the Anatma-dhyanam, pure and simple.
The right definition of the concept dhyanam is "uniform concentration of the chitta on the Atman.” It has elaborately been explained in the body of the text here. The concentration of the chitta on any word (shabda), including the best and the greatest shabda (word), the Soham, is Anatmadhyan, not the Atmadhyanan as shabda (word) is matter, being the property of the Akasha.
The seventh organ of the atmayoga is the Atma-dhyanam.
The eighth organ of the Yogasutra is the Samadhi. When the nature of the chitta becomes Zero-like (almost of unmanifest existence), and the object of concentration alone exists, it is Samdhi (3.3). For the reasonings given above, it is only an Anatmasamadhi. The Atma-samadhi is the identification of the Chitta with the Atman. The light of the Atman, now, fully shines with its own most pristine beauty and glory.
The eighth or the End organ of the Atmayoga is the Atmasamadhi.
The ultimate End of the Yogasutra is the conquest of the prajna-loka, signifying the "universe of discerming intellect or knowledge”. The Yogasutra calls the integral unity of the three, the Dharana, the Dhyanam and the Samadhi, as Samyama, signifying right yama (3.4). This is just a precipitate fall to the first organ of the Yama. The Yama is always sam, right, never a-sam
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