हठयोग प्रदीपिका (योगी स्वात्माराम - ज्योत्स्ना टीका सहित सटीक)

HAṬHAYOGAPRADĪPIKĀ 67 is the lord of the Prāṇa and that absorption has Nāda (the inner sound) for its basis. 30. This itself [the quiescence of the mind] may be called liberation; others may say that it is not. [However] when the Prāṇa and mind are in a state of absorption, an indefinable bliss ensues. 31. When inhalation and exhalation are sus- pended, when all grasping of objects [by the senses] has completely ceased, when there is no movement of the body, and no modification of the mind, there is success in absorption (laya) for Yogin-s. 32. When all mental transformations (saṃkalpa) have entirely ceased and when there is no physical movement, an indescribable state of absorption ensues, which is known by the self, but is beyond the reach of words. 33. Where vision is [directed], there [in Brah- man] is absorption. That [Avidyā] in which eternally exist the elements [such as earth] and the senses [hearing, etc.] and that Force (śakti) which is in all living things, both are dissolved in the characteristicless [Brahman]. 34. People say ‘ laya, laya ’, but what is the nature of laya? Laya is the non-recollection of the objects of sense due to the non-recurrence of previously acquired impressions and tendencies (vāsanā-s). 35. The Veda-s, Śāstra-s and Purāṇa-s are like common courtesans [as they are available to all men]. But the Śāmbhavī-mudrā is guarded like a well-born woman.