Ashtavakra Gita: ~ The fool tries to control the mind with the mind - what folly! The wise one delights in the Self alone. There is no mind to master.+

Controlling senses are religious and yogic body-based theory is nothing to with path of the Advatic wisdom, which is based on the Soul.

Ashtavakra Gita: ~ The fool tries to control the mind with the mind - what folly! The wise one delights in the Self alone. There is no mind to master. 

Yogis say they control the Mind. They think the mind is an organ within the body. Thus, yoga is limited to form, time and space, whereas the truth is beyond form, time, and space. It is high time for them to realize the mind is not within the body, but their body and the world are within the mind.

Without knowing what is the mind it is impossible to realize the truth, which is beyond form, time, and space.

The ‘I’ is present only when the mind is present. The mind is present in the form of the universe. The universe appears as the waking or the dream (duality) and disappears as deep sleep (nonduality). The one that becomes dual and nondual is consciousness. 

Thus, all three states are nothing but consciousness. Consciousness alone is real and all the three states are merely an illusion. When the conviction about consciousness becomes firm, then it leads to Advaitic awareness in the midst of the duality.

Thus, it is necessary to have a perfect understanding of ‘what is ‘what’ to realize the truth, which is beyond the form, time, and space. 

Remember:~

It possible is to concentrate it quietly on one subject, keeping all other subjects away ~ but the subject, the thoughts, must be there. It is not the absence of the duality which gives you knowledge of the Soul, the innermost Self: for this absence prevails during deep sleep or Yogic Samadhi. There is no difference between the two, only sleep comes of its own accord whereas Samadhi is self-induced.

The true knowledge cannot come from Yogic Samadhi but only through learning what the whole world really is.

Yoga should be used as a preliminary to such a study. Then only can you understand that the external world is unreal, a phenomenon? But this truth about yoga has been lost, and people in the past misunderstood and miss interpreted the scriptures, turning philosophy into religion and yogic blankness into Brahman. The secret knowledge has disappeared.

Remember:~

Everything you see must become consciousness. It is a most difficult practice because every minute you are being drawn away from consciousness. When you take a walk you think only of the walk and surrounding instead of consciousness because you fail to recognize the world in which you exist is created out of consciousness.

Thus it is very much necessary to understand, assimilate that whatever you have seen, known, believed, and experienced in this world is nothing but consciousness because the world in which you exist is created out of consciousness. Thus, consciousness alone is real and eternal all else is merely an illusion. : ~Santthosh Kumaar