Markandeya Purana — Adhyaya 40, Shloka 41
Adhyaya 40 — The Yogin’s Impediments (Upasargas), Subtle Concentrations, and the Eight Siddhis
यथा जलं जलेनैक्यं निक्षिप्तमुपगच्छति ।
तथात्मा साम्यमभ्येति योगिनः परमात्मनि ॥
yathā jalaṃ jalenaikyaṃ nikṣiptam upagacchati / tathātmā sāmyam abhyeti yoginaḥ paramātmani
जैसे जल में डाला गया जल एकत्व को प्राप्त होता है, वैसे ही योगी का आत्मा परमात्मा के साथ साम्य (तादात्म्य) को प्राप्त होता है।
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FAQs
The final aim of yoga is identity/sameness with the Supreme Self, not merely altered states. Ethically, it implies equanimity: when one sees sameness with the Whole, partiality and hostility subside.
Philosophical mokṣa-teaching; not a pancalakṣaṇa unit.
Water merging into water conveys non-dual continuity without boundary: individuality is like a temporary delimitation; realization is the dissolution of conceptual borders into undivided awareness.