How will the Yogis who meditate on Paramatma Go Back To Godhead?
From: bhuvana subramoniam
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does this answer your question? question from the one answer, when the yogis start coming to this level when they start, when they perceive the super soul in the heart dhyan, dharana, samadhi stages at that time during those last three stages of their yoga meditation they not only perceive the super soul but at that time they also start conceiving their identity and their relationship with the super soul so if the yogis have started practicing the yoga with impersonalist preconceptions then when they perceive the super soul they may come up with the notion that actually I am that Vishnu or if they understand that I am not that Vishnu, they think that I have to become that Vishnu, I have to merge into that Vishnu so if they have this conception of merging then if they are not offensive to the form of the lord, then they can go to the brahmajyoti but if they if they in the past have been under devotional influences they have met devotees or if they get in touch with devotees while doing yoga sadhana also in the Jaiva Dharma, which is a classic book written by Bhaktivinod Thakur, he talks about yogis he talks about them also in Prema Pradeep and several of his books yogis who are practicing yoga as a part of their bhakti sadhana so there he mentions that these are primarily bhaktas but they are practicing the process of yoga to gain sense control and to gain fixity of the mind although that is not essential chanting of the holy names is enough but these people, these bhaktas feel that that is a good way to get mastery over their mind and our senses and especially their body so when they have the devotional conceptions of the absolute truth and they adopt the yogic processes as a means to realize the absolute truth, then when they perceive the super soul, they understand that actually I have to be the servant of the super soul. The Bhagavatam talks about this chanting of the holy names that when they are situated in dhyana they perceive Lord Vishnu over there and they understand He is my Gati, He is my destination so if they understand that the absolute truth is personal and I have to become a servant of that absolute truth then they will generally go to the Vaikuntha planets and serve the Supreme Lord in one of the more passive rasas like Shantarasa because their sadhana has been primarily passive meditation on the super soul and that often is reflected in the realization that they get so then they will go to the Vaikuntha planets where they will serve the Lord in Shantarasa this is how if the yogis understand that I am the servant of this perhaps Paramatma is in their heart then they can go back to Godhead and attain the Shantarasa in this Vaikuntha planets of course if the yogis somehow can meet devotees who are practicing higher rasas and if they get inspired by that and they actually practice sadhana which is more compatible with the higher rasas then they may get an even more elevated destination but this elevation is primarily a matter of rasa even if they go in Shantarasa the spiritual world still they have gone beyond the realm of the material world and they have attained liberation and that in and of itself is one level of perfection it is eternal life it is joyful life it is completely free from the miseries of material existence and there is constant joy by beholding the beautiful form of the Lord so that is how they go back to God