यथाभिमतध्यानाद्वा ।। ३९
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(पातञ्जल योगसूत्र, समाधिपाद)
In the last post the significance of ego was dealt with.
While referring to that aphorism, a next namely :
ईश्वरप्रणिधानाद्वा ।। २३
Going through the next lines, came upon this :
Like a Rishi in the Sanatana Vedika tradition, Maharshi Patanjali never imposes an idea, He only puts forward a view which may help the aspirant according to his earnestness, sincerity disposition and keen enthusiasm.
Maharshi Patanjali does not explain or surmise if there is or isn't a God or a Supreme Authority that might creativity, maintain and dissolve this manifest existence.
He leaves the notion of God upon the inclination, orientation and assumption he might have got through his upbringing and surrounding.
यथाभिमत means whatever and how-so-ever one thinks of the God, when one contemplates of such a God, one may come upon Him, the God accordingly, and attain samAdhi (enraptured state of mind).
This is a very secular approach in terms of the meaning of the word.
'secular', in contrast and comparison to 'spiritual', means the mundane.
The conflict between the Abrahamic and the Vedika Sanatana Dharma lies in the fact that at a stage in the spiritual evolution of man, one may think of the Lord as a different and superior entity while assuming oneself as only a slave, or an instrument in His hands.
In the state of perfect enrapture however, the aspirant may come to a realization that the Lord (God) is the only Reality.
एकमेवाद्वितीयः
He (the aspirant) can then accommodate his understanding (of whatever he might have realized) in words and express the same in his own language.
Maharshi suggests to the disciple (who follows the discipline of yoga), having attained such a state (samAdhi) one could ultimately surrender to the Lord and therefrom his own separate ego is no more.
In this acceptance of the Lord as the only Truth, the ego is just extinct.
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