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The yogi teaches that the mind itself has a higher state of existence, beyond reason, a superconscious state, and when the mind gets to that higher state, their knowledge, beyond reasoning comes to a man. Metaphysical and transcendental knowledge comes to that man. This state of going beyond reason, transcending ordinary human nature, may sometimes come by chance to a man who does not understand its science; he, as it were, stumbles upon it, he generally interprets it as coming from outside. So this explains why an inspiration or transcendental knowledge, may be the same in different countries, but in one country it will seem to come through an anger, and in another through a Deva, and in a third through God. What does it mean? It means that the mind brought the knowledge by its own nature, and that the finding of the knowledge was interpreted according to the belief and education of the person through whom it came.

65 The real fact is that these various men, as it were, stumbled upon this superconcious state (Vivekananda, pp.87-88). When you har a man say, "I am inspired, " and then talk irrationally, reject it. Why? Because three states instinct, reason and superconsciousness or the unconscious, conscious and superconscious states belong to one and the same mind. There are not three minds in one man, but one state of it develops into the others. Instinct develops into reason and reason into the transcendental consciousness; therefore, not one of the states contradicts reason, but fulfils it. Just as you find the great prophets saying, "I come not to destroy but to fulfil," so inspiration always comes to fulfil reason, and is in harmony with it. All the different steps in yoga are intended to bring us scientifically to the superconscious states or Samadhi (Vivekananda, p.90). Dharana, Dhyana and Samadhi combined together is known as Samyama (Yoga Sutra: III:4) control on Samyama gives Prajna (Yoga Sutra III:5).