Patanjali warns against sleep as a hindrance to yoga; he means that when it occurs in the early stages of the practice before one has obtained the power of control, and consequently to banish the thought. The fact that Samadhi is deep sleep is kept secret because people would not be tempted to take up yoga. Then what is the value of it? Why, to sharpen the mind, to enable it to keep away all extraneous thoughts when one gets out to reason in the practice of the next higher stage, i.e., Gnana.
Manduka Upanishad: - Yoga can no more succeed than the ocean can be emptied with a blade of grass.
Yoga is thus simply a sharpening stone for the intellect to enable it to take up Gnana.
People think that the yogis can live without thoughts, but it is impossible to live without thoughts. How can he walk from one spot to another without thought? He does not know the Gnanic or Advaitic truth if he says thoughtlessness is the nature of the Self.
Yoga has its place rather than its value, and its value is for a certain type of mindset. Yoga will give steadiness of mind, education of mind, but never Truth because it ignores the external world.
Brihad Upanishads: -Even yoga cannot give perfect concentration, and the only way to gain it is through philosophical realization. (Page 133 1st para)
Patanjali takes for granted that there is an Iswara--God-- gives it to the students for concentration purposes, and then they naturally find God in their meditations. But it is only their imagined God.
Mystics see what they are looking for or whose existence they presuppose. Therefore, Patanjali Yoga belongs to religion, not truth.
Belief in Yoga is a self-hypnotic condition out of which it is extremely difficult to escape. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar
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