Yoga culminates in samadhi or ‘self realization,’ having begun with seven processes of yama – control of the senses; niyama – strict following of the rules and regulations; asana – practice of the different sitting postures; pranayama – control of the breath; pratyahara – withdrawing the senses from sense objects; dharana – concentration of the mind, and dhyana – sometimes called meditation. But if meditation is not just contemplation, but non-stop consciousness of Krishna, it’s certainly samadhi, the goal of yoga. Or as Srila Prabhupada puts it in his translation of the last verse of Chapter Six of the Gita, “And of all yogis, the one with great faith who always abides in Me, thinks of Me within himself, and renders transcendental loving service to Me – he is the most intimately united with Me in yoga and is the highest of all. That is My (Lord Krishna’s) opinion.”