In plain words
For one who has saṃyama, Divinity is near at hand. A man who has gained this saṃyama has the chance to experience any state at all, any Ānanda at all, in an instant. It becomes possible. To one who has experienced such a state of saṃyama comes far sight too. That very thing they have also called ‘divine sight’. Because all the maharṣis of old experienced this principle of dhāraṇā, dhyāna and samādhi on the path of saṃyama, they experienced the principle of Prakṛti as far sight, regarded it as divine sight, and through it carried on many kinds of sādhana for the welfare of the world.
All these limbs of Aṣṭāṅga Yoga are only branches of the one Rāja Yoga! For these eight limbs there are also some kinds of sādhana to practise in our daily life. On the basis of these sādhanas the paths of the ninefold Bhakti have arisen. But since the time has run long today, let us learn about these nine kinds of sādhana in detail another Thursday. For the present, these nine kinds of sādhana:
Listening, singing, remembering Viṣṇu, serving His feet, worship, salutation, servitude, friendship and the offering of the self:
if you know them so, it is enough. Great devotees and great emperors experienced these. Mahārāja Parīkṣit attained fulfilment through the path of listening. He was an emperor indeed. In singing, the great sage Śuka, who had renounced all attachment and held sole sovereignty on the spiritual path, won great fame. Śuka won the name of one whom no other could equal. He was emperor of the spiritual kingdom. A man of virtue, he counselled well and shaped even his father, Vyāsa. Next, remembering Viṣṇu. Prahlāda: he too was an emperor. A great example of this sādhana. Serving the feet: the Mother of the world, Lakṣmī. Then, in worship and the like, Emperor Pṛthu; in salutation, Akrūra; in servitude, Hanumān; in friendship, Arjuna; in self-offering, Emperor Bali: these won fame.