I expound this supreme meditation, by which realization is immediate

Vasiṣṭha is not presenting just another meditation technique among many. This is parā, supreme, because it does not seek to produce a state but to recognize what has never been absent. Ordinary dhyāna —contemplating an object, visualizing a deity, following the breath— presupposes a duality between the meditator and what is meditated upon. The dhyāna expounded here operates from the basis that such duality is illusory. Hence siddhir anantikā: realization is not a postponed future, but what emerges when it is seen that there never was anyone to realize nor anything to be realized. The Haṭha Pradīpikā (IV.48) notes that yoga is detachment from the practices themselves: when the seeker abandons even the seeking, what is sought is revealed as their own nature. This meditation requires no particular posture or set time. It is the attention which, when it rests upon any content, immediately recognizes that the content and the mind that contains it are a single substance: consciousness itself, without a second.

Vasiṣṭha is not presenting just another meditation technique among many. This is parā, supreme, because it does not seek to produce a state but to recognize what has never been absent. Ordinary dhyāna—contemplating an object, visualizing a deity, following the breath—presupposes a duality between the meditator and what is meditated upon. The dhyāna expounded here operates from the ground that such duality is illusory. Hence siddhir anantikā: realization is not a postponed future event, but what emerges when it is seen that there never was anyone to realize nor anything to be realized. The Haṭha Pradīpikā (IV.48) notes that yoga is detachment from the practices themselves: when the seeker abandons even the seeking, what is sought is revealed as their own nature.

This meditation requires no particular posture or set time. It is the attention which, when it rests upon any content, immediately recognizes that the content and the mind containing it are a single substance: consciousness itself, without a second.