हठयोग प्रदीपिका (योगी स्वात्माराम - ज्योत्स्ना टीका सहित सटीक)

72 HAṬHAYOGAPRADĪPIKĀ
then becomes endowed with a superior body, great
strength and valour. Thus the Khecarī [has been
described].
54. Centering the mind in the Śakti (Kuṇḍalinī),
and holding the Śakti in the centre of the mind, observe
the mind with the mind and make the supreme state
the object of meditation.
The meaning seems to be this: By taking the Prāṇa and the
mind to the Brahmarandhra and contemplating Kuṇḍalinī Śakti,
the mind and the Kuṇḍalinī are united in one.
55. Place the self (Ātman) in the midst of the
ākāśa and the ākāśa in the midst of the self; and on
reducing everything to the nature of ākāśa, think of
nothing else.
Here ākāśa means Brahman into which one must make the
self dissolve, through meditation of the form ‘Brahman is I’ and
‘I am Brahman’. Then even such meditation, where there is
cognizance of subject and object, has to end.
56. Void within, void without, void like a pot
in space (ākāśa). Full within, full without, full like
the pot in the ocean. [Such is the state of the Yogin
in meditation.]
Void within and without, because the consciousness has
become insensible of itself and of what is without; and full, because
is has become Brahman itself, within and without.
57. There should be no thought of the external,
nor any thought within. Excluding all thought [sub-
jective and objective] he should think of nothing.