SAMADHI( transcendental realisation)

This is the last and the most important step of the ashtang yog.This is a transcendent state in which ther is consciousness only of the object of meditation -pramatma-and not of the mind itself.

The advait system believes that in the samadhi ,the sadhak mergse in the divine light of paramatma However Swaminarayan darshan believes that the pure atma realises Paramatma's sakar form and he, the Akshar-rup atma maintain his seperate identity. And he only attains such samadhi ,not by his personal sadhana ,but by the grace of the Aksharbrahma, the ideal disciple and divine adobe of parabrahma.

Ultimately in the samadhi , a sadhak experiences realisation of God , either through Ashtang Yog or intense and unalloyed bhakti for the Bhagwan,alsoknownas the premlakshana bhakti.
For the example the Gopis. Their premlakshana bhakti was soprofound ,that they harboured no other worldly desire . They only yearned toattain shri Krishna , who was divine and gunatit. By their love for him, they too became devoid ofmaya and attained Bhagwan's Akshardham.