The Process of Yoga: 5.8. - Swami Krishnananda.
================================================================================ Sunday 22, June 2025, 05:30. Yoga and Meditation The Process of Yoga: Chapter 5: The Stages of Practice - 8. Swami Krishnananda. ================================================================================ The third method is the entire sublimation by direct meditation, which is abhyasa. This is the real yoga. The sublimation of all emotions and mental activities of every kind is the direct practice of yoga. While the first stage is the control of emotions, the second stage is an attempt at the cessation of every mental activity, even the direct impersonal perception of things. You will not even be conscious of the existence of objects, let alone be attached or averse to them. Abhyasa is the outcome of vairagya. Abhyasa is real yoga, which is meditation on reality. To put an end to all mental vrittis, you have to concentrate on one reality. This one reality may be any one of your chosen concepts....