Skanda Purana 7.18.89_225

7.18.89_225

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sarvabhāvaparityāgānmokṣamāpnotyasaṃśayam .
pratyāhārarataṃ kṛtvā sarvamindriyagocaram . . 13 . .
tato yuñjati nirdvandvo manassandhānamācaran .
sarvaṃ manasi saṃsthāpya paraṃ tattvaṃ nirūpayet . . 14. .
athaiśvaryagatāṃ siddhiṃ dhyāyannaṣṭavidhāṃ yadā .
paśyate yogasaṃsiddhyā tadā yogī prakīrtyate . . 15 . .
brahmasomādikān11 devān yadā yuktaḥ prapaśyati .
yogibhiḥ kathyate hyeṣā siddhiryogavikārajā .. 16 ..

Through the renunciation of all mental states, he undoubtedly attains liberation. / Having made the mind engaged in withdrawal from all sensory objects, / the one free from dualities then joins [in yoga], practicing the fixation of the mind. / Establishing everything in the mind, he should ascertain the supreme reality. / Then, when through the perfection of yoga he sees while meditating / the eightfold perfection pertaining to sovereignty, he is proclaimed a yogin. / When, united [in yoga], he sees gods such as Brahmā, Soma, and the rest, / this is indeed declared by yogins to be a perfection born of yogic modification.