Yoga means union. The term union connotes an activity as well as the culmination of it. Here the activity is the activity of Joining.

Action happens and is bound by a moment of time, which is the present. Time proceeds through moments. Every moment is a present moment.

Action could happen only in the present as present alone exists. There is nothing 'before' and nothing 'after' and there could be no attribute for nothingness.

The significance of action is that it always happens in silence. Silence rather restfulness is the pivot of action.

Action comes out of silence, exists on silence and withdraws into the silence. Silence and activity are the two modes of existence. The former is Absolute and the later Relative.

Action exists on silence and the silence is understood in terms of action!

The significance is that, silence doesn't need the support of action for its existence as it is self born, where as action has its base in silence.

Action manifests in silence but is unable to touch it; ceasing of action leads to attribute less silence.

The silence never comes; never goes; it always remains as the witness, the witness of action!

Dissolution of all movements or activities and abiding in ones own silence rather stillness, the self, which is the SEER, is what is meant by Yoga.

And now here the discourse or the code or the treatise of Yoga:
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Yoga Sutra 2.

YOGASCITAVRUTI NIRODHA
Yoga is the stoppage of the fluctuation of the consciousness.



Yoga is the ceasing of modifications of consciousness. Consciousness is Absolute Reality and the modifications or vibrations that occur in the consciousness express as manifestation, which are the Relative Reality taking different names and forms according to the content of the consciousness.

When the consciousness is abiding in itself beyond manifestations, it is Absolute where as when it appears as fluctuating, due to ignorance, is Maya created by its content, the mind.

Yoga thus is the stopping of the fluctuations or modifications of consciousness rather suspension of the mind that leads to unravelling of ones own essence, the self.
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Yoga Sutra 3.

TADA DRUSTU SWARUPE AVASTANAM
In the state of Yoga the Seer abides in itself.



Consciousness is the witness, the Seer. When there is suspension of modifications there is only consciousness without content which is the Silent, impartial, witness the Seer. As it is the only reality without a second, it exists in itself and there is Absolute stillness, the Silence!

At other times THE CONSCIOUSNESS appears to the mind as assuming the form of its contents and appears as modifications in association with the mind and its objects.
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Yoga Sutra 4.

VRITI SARUPYAMITARETRA
At other times identifies with the fluctuations.



At other times the seer appears to assume the form of the modification of the mind. It in turn appears to fluctuate with the fluctuating consciousness, the mind.