Shloka 27
Adhyaya 40 — The Yogin’s Impediments (Upasargas), Subtle Concentrations, and the Eight Siddhis
सप्तैताः धारणाः योगी समतीत्य यदिच्छति ।
तस्मिंस्तस्मिंल्लयं सूक्ष्मे भूते याति नरेश्वर ॥
saptaitā dhāraṇā yogī samatītya yad icchati /
tasmiṃs tasmiṃl layaṃ sūkṣme bhūte yāti nareśvara
اے نرادھپ! جب یوگی اپنی مرضی سے ان سات دھارناؤں سے ماورا ہو جاتا ہے تو وہ ہر متعلقہ لطیف عنصر میں لَے (انحلال) میں داخل ہو جاتا ہے۔
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FAQs
Mastery in yoga is described as voluntary transcendence of meditative stages—freedom rather than compulsion. The yogin is not trapped by experiences produced in practice.
Primarily yogic praxis instruction; it does not directly map to the five hallmark topics.
Laya into ‘subtle bhūtas’ suggests a reverse-cosmology meditation: the practitioner dissolves the constructed world back into its finer constituents, mirroring involution (pralaya) at the microcosmic level.