In terms of the power of knowing meditative absorptions, liberations, concentrations, states of equilibrium, and the thoroughly afflicted and fully purified states, it says:
To know for each and every yogin everywhere
What is their practice of absorptions, freedoms and
Shamatha, and which equilibrium among
The nine – that nothing blocks this knowledge is their strength. (11.37)
Within the unlimited number of worlds there are innumerably many different types of yogins practicing among other things, the following: the four meditative absorptions (dhyāna) and the eight liberations (vimokṣa); calm-abiding meditation (śamatha), which is a concentration (samādhi) defined as a mind with a one-pointed virtuous focus; the nine progressive states of equilibrium (samāpatti), which are the four absorptions, the four formless states and the cessation of perception and feeling; the causes of the thoroughly afflicted state, which are ignorance, incorrect understanding and so forth; the causes of the fully purified state, which are words agreeable to others and keeping a correct understanding for oneself. Hence, to have an unhindered understanding of the innumerably many different absorptions and so forth of different types of yogins, is considered the power of knowing meditative absorptions, liberations, concentrations, states of equilibrium, and the thoroughly afflicted and fully purified states.