Gorakhnath and the Kanphata Yogis c17.115

c17.115

Dhāraṇā, fixed attention,⁶ is the establishment of the mind in steadfastness, using some object or position, such as the navel, the nose, the tip of the tongue, the space between the eyebrows, Īśvara, or extended space. This ‘one-point meditation,’ made possible through the moral and physical restraints, is a step in the completion of all these. Dhāraṇā is directed to the fixing of the attention on one out of many objects in the mind. When the discipline is perfected the Yogī can, at will, keep the mind from wandering away from its object.