PATANJALI IS THE GREATEST scientist of the inner. His approach is that of a scientific mind: he is not a poet. And in that way he is very rare, because those who enter into the inner world are almost always poets, those who enter into the outer world are always almost scientists.
Patanjali is a rare flower. He has a scientific mind, but his journey is inner. That's why he became the first and the last word: he is the alpha and the omega. For five thousand years nobody could improve upon him. It seems he cannot be improved upon. He will remain the last word -- because the very combination is impossible. To have a scientific attitude and to enter into the inner is almost an impossible possibility. He talks to the intellect, but his aim, his target, is the heart. This you have to remember.
We will be moving on a dangerous terrain. If you forget that he is a poet also, you will be misguided.

Patanjali says when the unconscious is there and mind has been dropped conscioulsy, it is a  samadhi  with seeds - sabeej - when the unconscious is there and mind has been dropped consciously, it is a samadhi with seeds - sabeej. When those seeds are also burned, then you attain the perfect - the nirbeej samadhi: samadhi without seeds.
But  many are misguided - they think this sabeej samadhi is the last because it is so pure and you feel so blissful and so happy that you think that now there is nothing more to be achieved . If you ask Patanjali, he will say the satori of the Zen is just the first samadhi. It is not the final, the ultimate.

Being beyond the limits of time...

The Path of YOGA Commentaries of the  Yoga Sutras of Patanjali

'Yoga is the cessation of the mind.' This is the definition of Yoga, the best... Some say Yoga is the meeting of the mind with the divine... Yoga means meeting, joining together. Some say that Yoga means dropping the ego: ego is the barrier; the moment you drop the ego you are joined to the divine. You are already joined, only because of the ego it appeared you were disjoined.

Mind can be either the source of bondage or the source of freedom. Mind becomes the gate for this world, the entry; it can also become the exit. Mind leads you to the hell; mind can lead you also to the heaven. So it depends how the mind is used. Right use of mind becomes meditation, wrong use of the mind becomes madness
Mind is there with everyone. The possibility of darkness and light both are implied in it. Mind itself is neither the enemy nor the friend. You can make it a friend you can make it an enemy. It depends on you -- on you who is hidden behind the mind. If you can make the mind your instrument, your slave, the mind becomes the passage through which you can reach the ultimate If you become the slave and the mind is allowed to be the master, then this mind which has become master will lead you to ultimate anguish and darkness.
All the techniques, all the methods, all the paths of yoga, are really concerned deeply only with one problem: how to use the mind. Rightly used, mind comes to a point where it becomes no-mind. Wrongly used, mind comes to a point where it is just a chaos, many voices antagonistic to each other -- contradictory, confusing, insane.

Would you please explain... mind!

Golden Oldies: Yoga: The Alpha and the Omega, vol. 8 & 9

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