Talk:Transcending Karm through mokṣa:Dhyāna Yog and Karm:Destruction of Sanchita Karm by Dhyāna Yog

By Vishal Agarwal

Through the power of practice of Yoga, all sins are destroyed. Therefore, one should always do virtuous deeds and in practice Yoga diligently. Hārita Smriti 7.3 As a result of meditation, the Yogī excavates the deeply ingrained Samskāra-s of previous lives in his mind and discards them away dispassionately. The process is described in the Yogasūtras of Patanjali and Vyāsa’s commentary thereon and is summarized below-

“Meditation is contemplation done with great mental concentration. When a person meditates, his concentrated thought, like a laser beam, penetrates through the inner layers of his mind and arrives at the bottom where the samskāras are. The concentrated thought, like an underwater probe, starts disturbing the accumulated samskāras. As a result, they gradually get dislodged and rise one by one to the conscious level. They become conscious thoughts again. The meditator should watch the rejuvenated thoughts like a disinterested observer and must not act upon them. The old thoughts, once they have risen to the conscious level, burst like so many air bubbles and disappear. This is how, through the practice of meditation, one can purify one’s mind by gradually getting rid of old impressions or samskāras. If, however, the meditator acts upon these rejuvenated thoughts, he will create new samskāras and his mind will not be cleansed.”