YOGA BECOMING ONE WITH BRAHMAN

YOGA BECOMING ONE WITH BRAHMAN

Sustained dharana, unbound by time and space becomes DHYANA, contemplation or meditation, which is an 

“uninterrupted flow of the mind towards the object of meditation” [YS 3,2]. 

This leads to the final stage of yoga which is SAMADHI, enstasis, absorption or  Self-realisation, the realisation 

that the self is the Self; the sense of identity of the self is lost, and the yogi has attained a unitive oneness with the 

cosmic consciousness. The jivatman (individual soul) has merged with the paramatman (Universal Over-soul). 

Now the yogi can proclaim ‘Aham Brahmasmi ’ (I am Brahman);

and his guru can confirm to him ‘Tat Tvam Asi ’ (Thou art That).

Through the continuous practice of the last three stages together called samyama, the siddhis or psychic powers 

appear. Some siddhis phenomena mentioned in chapter 3 of the Yoga  Sutra are knowledge of the previous birth, 

invisibility of the body, entering another’s body, levitation, astral travel etc.