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SAMADHI 187This (Asamprajnata Samadhi) gives the state of Videhasand Prakriti-layas who are merged in nature.NOTESVidehas and Prakriti-layas are inferiorYogis who have notfinished the complete ascent in the Yogic ladder. They have notreached the final goal of Yoga. They have stopped at somestage. Videhas and Prakriti-layas are distinct from each other.Videhas do not feel the physical body, but they feel thatthey have a very subtle body. The minds of Prakriti-layas havenot yet fulfilled the object of their existence; they have still workbefore them. Prakriti-layas having their minds merged in thePrakriti, with its work still undone, enjoy a state of somethinglike absolute freedom, as long as they do not come back by virtueof the work yet to be done.Pratyaya means cause. The artificial, abstract meditationor Asamprajnata Samadhi is that in which the meditation isbrought about in this very world by methods or means prescribedin the scriptures such as Sraddha, power, memoryPrajna, meditation, etc. This is Upaya-pratyaya.ln the natural, Bhava-pratyaya, Asamprajnata Samadhi,discernment, non-attachment come by themselves without anypractice in this birth on account of the practices in the previousbirth. By mere willing, the Yogi enters into Asamprajnata Samadhi.You willfind in Gita i description of Yoga Bhrashtas: "Havingattained to the worlds of the pure doing, and having dweltthere for immemorial years, he who fel! from Yoga is reborn in apure and blessed house. Or he may even be born in a family ofwise Yogis; but such a birth as that is most difficult to obtain inthis world. There he recovereth the characteristics belonging tohis former body, and with these he again laboureth for perfection."Bhava-pratyaya or natural Samadhi is only possible in thecase of Videhas and Prakriti-lay.as. Ordinary persons shouldadopt the means and acquire discernment, non-attachment,etc. The mind, having all its functions duly performed, becomescompletely absorbed into its root cause along with the