Raja-Yoga

YOGA APHORISMS. 139
40. The Yogi
s mind thus meditating, becomes un
obstructed from the atomic to the Infinite.
The mind, by this practice, easily contemplates the
most minute thing, as well as the biggest thing. Thus
the mind waves become fainter.
41. The Yogi whose Vrittis have thus become power
less (controlled) obtains in the receiver, re
ceiving, and received (the self, the mind and
external objects), concentratedness and same
ness, like the crystal (before different coloured
objects.)
What results from this constant meditation? We
must remember how in a previous aphorism Patanjali
went into the various states of meditation, and how the
first will be the gross, and the second the fine objects,
and from them the advance is to still finer objects of
meditation, and how, in all these meditations, which
are only of the first degree, not very high ones, we get
as a result
that we can meditate as easily on the fine
as on the grosser objects. Here the Yogi sees the
three things, the receiver, the received, and the receiv
ing, corresponding to the Soul, the object, and the
mind. There are three objects of meditation given us.
First the gross things, as bodies, or material objects,
second fine things, as the mind, the Chitta, and third
the Purufa qualified, not the Purufa itself, but the
egosim. By practice, the Yogi gets established in all
these meditations. Whenever he meditates he can
keep out all other thought; he becomes identified with