Understand yourself.

yoga-sutra · Yoga Sūtra 3.2

तत्र प्रत्ययैकतानता ध्यानम्॥

tatra pratyayaika-tānatā dhyānam

“There, the unbroken continuity of attention is meditation.”

Meditation is defined by continuity, not by content or by effort.

Patañjali, Yoga Sūtra 3.2 (traditional Sanskrit text). English rendering by Frenly Divine — a working translation, not an authoritative one.

yoga-sutra · Yoga Sūtra 3.3

तदेवार्थमात्रनिर्भासं स्वरूपशून्यमिव समाधिः॥

tad evārtha-mātra-nirbhāsaṁ svarūpa-śūnyam iva samādhiḥ

“When only the object shines forth and the sense of oneself is as if absent, that is absorption.”

The text is careful: "as if" absent. It describes an appearance, not a metaphysical claim.

Patañjali, Yoga Sūtra 3.3 (traditional Sanskrit text). English rendering by Frenly Divine — a working translation, not an authoritative one.

gita · Bhagavad Gītā 6.19

यथा दीपो निवातस्थो नेङ्गते सोपमा स्मृता। योगिनो यतचित्तस्य युञ्जतो योगमात्मनः॥

yathā dīpo nivāta-stho neṅgate sopamā smṛtā | yogino yata-cittasya yuñjato yogam ātmanaḥ

“As a lamp in a windless place does not flicker — that is the image given for one of gathered mind, practising the yoga of the self.”

The Gītā's picture of a settled mind, offered as a simile rather than a claim.

Bhagavad Gītā 6.19 (traditional Sanskrit text). English rendering by Frenly Divine — a working translation, not an authoritative one.

gita · Bhagavad Gītā 4.38

न हि ज्ञानेन सदृशं पवित्रमिह विद्यते। तत्स्वयं योगसंसिद्धः कालेनात्मनि विन्दति॥

na hi jñānena sadṛśaṁ pavitram iha vidyate | tat svayaṁ yoga-saṁsiddhaḥ kālenātmani vindati

“Nothing here purifies like knowledge. One matured in yoga finds it, in time, within themselves.”

Knowledge here is not information; it is described as something found, and as taking time.

Bhagavad Gītā 4.38 (traditional Sanskrit text). English rendering by Frenly Divine — a working translation, not an authoritative one.