The Yoga of Patanjali

Lesson - 7 131times you have undergone this process while seeing an interestingcinema, but what we now do in Yoga is to make the processregular and try to get at mastery of the process through whichwe are attained by God. Then we have reached God. So, inyour meditation (your creative consciousness) if you cease toexist then it is called Attainment or Samadhi.After repeated practice of the above eight steps yourvehicles become perfect, your illumination shines forth throughall the vehicles. Your existence will be like a hall with manypowerful lights in different, harmonious colours. Whathappens when the one flood of light meets another in thehall? There is a new blend, a simultaneous existence. Arepeated practice of the eight steps will cause the simultaneousexistence of the last three steps, contemplation, meditationand attainment. Then it is called “Simultaneous Existence”(Samyama). In fact, the word “Samyama” means masterywhich is masterhood. “When the three states exist it isSamyama” says Patanjali. “Simultaneity of existence inall planes is Yoga” Says Master C. V. V.We have theoretically covered the whole syllabus ofthe ‘eight steps of Yoga’. There are some more things whichPatanjali wants to supplement. We have matter for two moreclasses. We have also two more days to have classes in ourprogram at Geneva.