Translations:Raja yoga/17/en
The sixth stage of raja yoga is concentration on one object, and the seventh stage is meditation or contemplation: merging with the object. The yogi should first choose an object or form to contemplate, such as the image of a deity or his guru. Or he can fix the mind upon the inner light. Patanjali tells us that we can fix our minds upon “any divine form or symbol that appeals to [us] as good.”[1] The yogi can move from contemplating this form to contemplating formlessness.
- ↑ Patanjali, Yoga Sutra 1:39, in Prabhavananda and Isherwood, How to Know God, p. 76.