“Thus ever uniting the self, the yogi, freed of taint, easily attains the boundless bliss of contact with Brahman.” Note the word “easily” (sukhena). The early stages are hard — the wind-tossed mind, the falls, the restarts — but once the groove is cut, the state comes with less and less effort, until it is more natural than distraction. What begins as a strain ends as a homecoming.