Raja Yoga Selection Number 57, for Sunday, May 6, 2012

[from Chapter I: "Samadhi Pada- On Contemplations"]
I.45. SOOKSHMA-VISHAYATVAM CHAALINGA-PARYAVASAANAM
'The state of "samadhi" concerned with subtle objects extends as far as
the unmanifested state. '

Commentary:
This is the way of saying that the degree of subtlety in objects of
meditation is limitless--it extends as far as the unmanifest state
itself. Yet, there remain objects separate from the meditator, and hence
there is still duality.

I.46. TAA EVA SABEEJAH SAMAADHIH
'These all constitute meditation with "seed"'.

Commentary:
All forms of 'samadhi' that are arrived through meditation on an
external object remain 'saabija', "with seed" meditation. No matter what
the degree of subtlety, the meditator is still within the realm of
'Prakriti', where there is subject-object relationship.

* More Patanjali Yoga Sutra verses with
commentary by Swami Vishnu-devananda
available at:
http://www.sivananda.org/publications/quotes/rajayoga_quote.html