Avadhuta Gita

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Chapter 2, Verse 15:

 

Swami Chetanananda

Because Brahman is subtle, invisible, and without qualities, whatever

methods have been prescribed by the yogis to realize It should be

followed, one after another.

 

Swami Ashokananda

One should successively take recourse to the objects of concentration,

as mentioned by the yogis, in accordance with their subtlety,

invisibility and attributelessness.

 

Ashokananda note: In order to attain to the Absolute (or disolution in

the Absolute, as is said in the next verse), one has to reach the state

of infinite and undifferentiated Consciousness by eliminating all mental

differentiations or movements. The method of this elimination is to

make consciousness dwell on one object continuously by obstructing its

restless tendency to dwell on multifarious objects. But the object of

concentration has to be chosen carefully. The beginner chooses a gross

object. When he has dwelt no it continuously for some time, his

consciousness becomes subtle and steady. He then chooses a subtle

object to concentrate on. Gradually he reaches a high state of

concentration, but some differentiations in his consciousness will

remain -- there is the consciousness of himself as the concentrator, of

the object on which he is concentrating, and of the process of

concentration. Next even these differentiations vanish, for the object

of concentration dissolves, and there remains only the pure,

undifferentiated Consciousness, the Absolute.