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When the spiritual aspirant has achieved the highest degree of
concentration upon a single object, he is ready to attempt the supreme feat. That
is concentration upon consciousness itself.
This is the state of perfect yoga, in which one passes beyond
Prakriti, beyond all object knowledge, into union with the Atman. This state of perfect Yoga can only be attained
when the thought waves have been stilled and the mind has been cleared of all
its Samskaras, both evil and good. When
Patanjali has ceased to believe that he is Patanjali and knows that he is
none other than Atman. Yoga philosophy
teaches us that it is the Samskaras that drive us from birth to birth. Our desire to return and plunge once more
into sense-experience is far deeper than we realize. Before the state of perfect Yoga, Samskaras
have to be rooted out and destroyed. When
the Samskaras have been destroyed, there will no longer be any urge towards
rebirth. He who achieves Yoga is said
to be “Liberated”. When his present
life ends he will be United with Paramatman for ever.
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