Again he explains the preeminence of yoga: 'in external contacts...' —the pleasure that one who is free from desire enjoys in the self is the same imperishable bliss that the brahmayukta ātma—united with Brahman through meditation and such practices—enjoys. In other words, the object-related state (brahma-viṣaya) becomes Brahma-yoga only for one whose meditation is joined to Brahman; then the soul's bliss is imperishable. Otherwise not.