Sage Sankara says: - Yoga is not the means of liberation.+

All philosophical, yogic, and cosmological teachings, but at the end, it finally says, "All is imaginative and based on the false self (ego) within the false experience (waking)."

Sage Sankara says: - Yoga is not the means of liberation. (P-132-133 of his commentary on Brihadaranyakopanishad)

One need not doubt that mystics saw God or Goddesses in their vision. That they saw visions may he an undeniable fact. But the question is “Was what they saw the Truth? They no doubt had such a vision, but they never stopped to inquire if their visions were true.

One has to take all the facts and then find out which is the truth through deeper self-search.

The seeker of truth has to collect as much evidence as possible, even contradictory, and then proceed to examine all of it and analyze how far it is true.

What happens when thoughts are stilled? It is not the Self that is found. Rubbish. It is only the mind.

Patanjali has not reached Gnana and therefore does not know the highest truth. His yoga is good to give peace and concentration, but only in order to start reasoning, i.e., thinking again to find the truth.

Thoughts arise to the person within the waking or dream state. The thinker is the form. Without the form, the thinking is an impossibility.

Thus, thinker and thoughts are part of the known. The witness of the knower and the known, including the world, is the Soul. : ~ Santthosh Kumaar