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Yoga Sutras 1.36

Patanjali, explained by Swami Vivekananda

विशोका वा ज्योतिष्मती ॥

viśokā vā jyotiṣmatī

Or (by the meditation on) the Effulgent Light, which is beyond all sorrow.

In plain words: The mind can also be calmed by meditating on a shining inner light that is beyond all sorrow. The teacher says to picture a lotus in the heart with a bright light inside it.

Yoga Sutras 1.36
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Swami Vivekananda explains

This is another sort of concentration. Think of the lotus of the heart, with petals downwards, and running through it, the Sushumna; take in the breath, and while throwing the breath out imagine that the lotus is turned with the petals upwards, and inside that lotus is an effulgent light. Meditate on that.