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The Perfection of Yoga
actually kills him. Similarly, the more we increase material enjoyment, the more we become entangled in this world and the more difficult it becomes to get free from the material entrapment. All of the systems of  yoga  are meant to disentangle the conditioned soul from this entrapment, to transfer him from the false enjoyment of material things to the actual enjoyment of Kṛṣṇa consciousness. Śrī Kṛṣṇa says:
yatroparamate cittam niruddham yoga-sevayā yatra caivātmanātmānam paśyann ātmani tuṣyati    
 
  sukham ātyantikam yat tad buddhi-grāhyam atīndriyam vetti yatra na caivāyam sthitaś calati tattvataḥ   
 
  yam labdhvā cāparam lābham manyate nādhikam tataḥ yasmin sthito na duḥkhena guruṇāpi vicālyate   
 
  tam vidyād duḥkha-samyoga viyogam yoga-samjñitam sa niścayena yoktavyo yogo 'nirviṇṇa-cetasā
“The stage of perfection is called trance, or  samādhi , when one’s mind is completely restrained from material mental activities by practice of  yoga . This is characterized by one’s ability to see the self by the pure mind and to relish and rejoice in the self. In