samyama
संयम samyamaThe combined practice of concentration, meditation and absorption (dharana, dhyana, samadhi) upon a single object.
Where this term appears
- Meditation and the Eight Limbs Yoga
The last three limbs, taken together on a single object, are called samyama (3.4).
- Yoga as a Darshana Philosophy
… that Patanjali gives them a collective name: "the three together are samyama " (3.4), the inner discipline, and it is samyama, focused on this object or that, that the third chapter will make the engine of the…
- Dharana, Dhyana and Samadhi: The Inner Three Yoga
Samyama, and the trap of powers Patanjali gives the three together a single name.