पातञ्जल योगसूत्र (स्वामी विवेकानन्द भाष्य एवं सूत्र व्याख्या)

Patanjali Yoga Sutras
thought to come into the mind, thus making it an entire
vacuum. When we can really do this, in that moment we shall
attain liberation. When persons without training and
preparation try to make their minds vacant they are likely to
succeed only in covering themselves with Tamas, material of
ignorance, which makes the mind dull and stupid, and leads
them to think that they are making a vacuum of the mind. To
be able to really do that is a manifestation of the greatest
strength, of the highest control. When this state,
Asamprajnata, super-consciousness, is reached, the Samadhi
becomes seedless. What is meant by that? In that sort of
concentration when there is consciousness, where the mind
has succeeded only in quelling the waves in the Chitta and
holding them down, they are still there in the form of
tendencies, and these tendencies (or seeds) will become
waves again, when the time comes. But when you have
destroyed all these tendencies, almost destroyed the mind,
then it has become seedless, there are no more seeds in the
mind out of which to manufacture again and again this plant
of life, this ceaseless round of birth and death. You may ask,
what state would that be, in which we should have no
knowledge? What we call knowledge is a lower state than the
one beyond knowledge. You must always bear in mind that
the extremes look very much the same. The low vibration of
light is darkness, and the very high vibration of light is
darkness also, but one is real darkness, and the other is really
intense light; yet their appearance is the same. So, ignorance
is the lowest state, knowledge is the middle state, and beyond
knowledge is a still higher state. Knowledge itself is a
manufactured something, a combination; it is not reality.
What will be the result of constant practice of this higher
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