Atmayogaasutra

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

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or prati-sam, anti-right or perverse. This is either an interpolation or a puranic revision. It, next, holds that the conquest of the Samyam results in prajna-loka (3.5). The prajna-loka is much, very much inferior to the Atmaloka. The presently available Yogasutra, hence, is not the Atmayogasutra. It is only a specie of the Anatmayogasutra.
The status of the Atma-samadhi of the Atmayoga wins the Atmayogin the status of the jivan-mukti (liberation-in-life). The annihilation of his matteric subtle-body has finally annihilated the very seed of the processes of births, rebirths and re-re-births. He shall not take his next birth. His matteric gross body is incapable of attracting the matoms from the unmanifest fundamental field. His Atman is, now, pristine purest in the absence of his matteric subtle body and is totally incapable to attract the aforesaid matoms. It no more needs the inflow of the spatoms too, as there are no attached matoms to be conquered. The matter has, now become a total foreigner to the jivanmukta. On the fall of the gross body. He is Siddha.
He=Siddha
He=
I=Siddha
And this is the purpose of the Atmayoga, conceded by the Yogasutra too, though it misses the final attainment of the purpose. The purpose of the discipline of the Yoga (Yoganushashanam) is to win samadhi, by annihilating the miseries (kleshas, born of matter attached with spirit) through the annihilation of functional and formational motions of the chitta (1.1,1.2, 2.2).
The purpose of the Atmayoga is to finally disjoin the matter, attached with the spirit since beginningless, from the spirit for winning him the spirital onlyness (Atma-kaivalyam)
This purpose shall be won only through the right following of the Ashtangika Atmayoga (eight-organed spiri-meditation):
1. Atma-Manavatva
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