Patanjali's yoga sutras

तत्र निरतिशयं सर्वज्ञबीजम्

Devotion to Samyama (Dhāraṇā (concentration), Dhyāna (meditation) & Samādhi (union)) plants the seed of Sarvajña, “omniscience” which in Indian Philosophy means possessing truth beyond the scope of knowledge about the empirical world. In other words, knowing reality.

tatra = in that [consciousness untouched by the attitudes and actions that impact our lives and our sense of who we are in ways that veil the inherent nature of the soul]

Nirati (निरति) – Strong attachment, fondness, devotion

Samyama (from Sanskrit संयम saṃ-yama—holding together, tying up, binding). Combined simultaneous practice of Dhāraṇā (concentration), Dhyāna (meditation) & Samādhi (union). A tool to receive deeper knowledge of qualities of the object. It is a term summarizing the “catch-all” process of psychological absorption in the object of meditation.

Samyama, as Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras states, engenders prajñā. Adi Yoga or Mahasandhi discusses the ‘mūla prajñā’ of “listening/studying, investigation/contemplation, realization/meditation” which are a transposition of the triune of Samyama. These are activated subconsciously in non-structured form (thus producing fragmented spontaneous Samyama-like effects) by any thinking activity or contemplative absorption (particularly the Catuskoti and Koan) and deep levels of trance. Any kind of intuitive thinking at its various stages of expression is strongly related to Samyama-like phenomena as well.

Samyama is practiced consistently by Yogin of certain schools (Raja Yoga, Adi Yoga e.g.). Described in Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, it comprises the three upper limbs of Raja Yoga. Following Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras, a yogin who is victorious in samyama vanquishes all ‘cognitive obscurations’ (Sanskrit: klesha). The Sutras describe various ‘powers’ or ‘perfections’ (Sanskrit: siddhi) a yogin may attain through the conduit of Samyama.

Source: Ashtanga Yoga: Yoga Sutrani Patanjali

saṃyama = deep contemplation; meditation

Sarvajña (सर्वज्ञ) refers to the “concept of omniscience” [which] in Indian Philosophy means that being (human/God) possesses truth such as dharma, heaven (svarga), liberation (moksa) etc. beyond the scope of knowledge about empirical world. In other words, the term Omniscience is indicated a person/god knows reality (tattvajñatā). 

bījam = seed