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.