Raja-Yoga

I4O
RAJA YOGA.
that on which he meditates;
when he meditates he is
like a piece of crystal; before flowers the crystal
becomes almost identified with the flowers. If the
flower is red, the crystal looks red, or if the flower is
blue, the crystal looks blue.
42. Sound, meaning, and resulting knowledge, being
mixed up, is (called Samadhi) with reasoning.
Sound here means vibration; meaning, the nerve cur
rents which conduct it; and knowledge, reaction. All
the various meditations we have had so far, Patanjali
calls Savitarka (meditations with reasoning). Later
on he will give us higher and higher Dhydnas. In
these that are called "with
reasoning," we keep the
dualty of subject and object, which results from the
mixture of word, meaning, and knowledge. There
is first the external vibration, the word ; this, carried
inward by the sense currents, is the meaning. After
that there comes a reactionary wave in the Chitta, which
is knowledge, but the mixture of these three make up
what we call knowledge. In all the meditations up to
this we get this mixture as object of meditation. The
next Samadhi is
higher.
43. The Samadhi called without reasoning (comes)
when the memory is purified, or devoid of
qualities, expressing only the meaning (of the
meditated object).
It is by practice of meditation of these three that we
come to the state where these three do not mix. We
can get rid of them. We will first try to understand