Samyama - Threefold Dicipline in Meditation

Listening

It is easy to criticise or belittle the "leelas" (plays) or infinite potencies of God. But it is very difficult to comprehend the truth about the Divine. The Omnipresent Divine is present both in Truth and untruth. He is present both in righteousness (Dharma) and unrighteousness (Adharma). He is present in good and evil. With regard to such an all-pervading Divine, how can anyone determine what is good and what is bad?
Baba

I can tell only from my own experience, my own truth.
Focus is for me self and self-realization, observing to know the difference between self and non-self until the self was there as inner light. That is experience of the difference and never changing truth.

Thinking it over

Absorbing

Focus is the first part of the threefold discipline. The second is meditation, flow, going on and on. If the focus was will-power and self-confidence, the second part is realizing on the feeling level it has no end, it is going on and on, no disturbance. And the third part of it is merging, Samadhi, it means even intellect and is the result of the two others.


The focus is on body level until we get aware of the inner light body, the difference between the observer and the body.
The second is aware on the mind level as 'going on and on always', no disturbance on the mind level.
The third is merging - there are no thoughts but there is seeing, it is inner oneness, no difference between us, we are the same.
And in that inner state of undisturbed existence-consciousness-bliss awareness we practice the sutra and realize its universal meaning and place in the house of self-realization.
It is a beautiful book, not just a concept. It is full of colours and inner meaning, it is not empty and in the mind, it is fullness and every sutra has an insight, a significance, it is a power in the light-body.