ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes some instructions published separately from the Sanskrit and Bengali scriptural commentaries of Kapil Math. Instructions in meditation were printed in the Appendixes in the Bengali commentary on the Patanjalayogasastra and its edition in English. Hariharananda Aranya considered yoga to be mainly about knowledge, meditation, and samadhi. The Samkhyayoga practices described in Aranya's books are mostly informed by, and conform to, the Samkhyayoga worldview, and they describe a progress in spiritual attainment. One basic assumption of the Samkhyayoga tradition of Kapil Math is that only very few people will find Samkhyayoga attractive and that Samkhyayoga in reality is a practice meant only for those very few individuals. Dharmamegha Aranya shared the view that Samkhya was understood by and of interest to only very few people, and only a small number of those few would choose it as a way to attain moksa.
