Notes: With mental fluctuations restrained, disowned, and decoupled from the self, the underlying field of mental processes becomes distinct and discernable. Established on a detached meta-cognitive plane of clear awareness, the contemplative yogi becomes a witness unto himself, examining and unraveling the composition and dynamics of the incarnated mind. The conditioned mind — once the untamed and unbridled sovereign, operating at will and whim, generating its matrix of misery — is subjugated, deconstructed and remediated by the witness at the summit of awareness with dominion over its creations. As the shackles, shadows, mirages and veils of the self are shattered, dispelled, evaporated and torn, the yogi witnesses the absolute self by means of the purified and luminous self. This is the plane of lasting satisfaction, the culminating ascension of the self.