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Yoga Sutras 1.20

Patanjali, explained by Swami Vivekananda

श्रद्धा-वीर्य-स्मृति-समाधि-प्रज्ञा-पूर्वक इतरेषाम् ॥

śraddhā-vīrya-smṛti-samādhi-prajñā-pūrvaka itareṣām

To others (this Samadhi) comes through faith, energy, memory, concentration, and discrimination of the real.

In plain words: For others, true samadhi comes through faith, energy, memory, concentration, and seeing what is real. The teacher says these people do not want power or high positions; they reach freedom.

Yoga Sutras 1.20
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Swami Vivekananda explains

These are they who do not want the position of gods or even that of rulers of cycles. They attain to liberation.