In Light on Yoga, B.K.S. Iyengar likens the analogy of water taking the shape of its container to the mind being transformed into the shape of the object it is contemplating. This elicits an important truth: that which we dwell on in our minds becomes how and who we are.
Dhyana is absolute concentration upon a point of focus with the intention of knowing the truth about it. Therefore, dhyana is meditation or perfect contemplation.
Just as dharana (complete concentration) is tethered to pratyahara (sense control) in that the aforementioned cannot take place without the latter being acquired, we must realize the correlation between dharna and dhyana (meditation). Dharana must precede dhyana so as to teach the mind to focus and contact the object of concentration. In the stage of dhyana, the meditator becomes one with the object of meditation.
In yoga, meditation is devotion to and worship of the Divine. Keeping in mind that we become our thoughts, we should thus strive to keep our meditations focused on the Supreme, the Light, the Universal Spirit…PURE LOVE.
Namaste.
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