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The great epic, the army, having been arranged, slowly follows. The wind, blocked by the banners of the Maruts, makes a sound. ||26|| The musicians play beautifully, the Apsaras dance in groups. The Kinnaris sing auspicious songs. ||26|| The Bhagavan, having emerged from a holy hermitage, stands on a stone platform, as vast as his own mind. ||262|| The Lord of the Gods, filled with joy, worships him, who, with the vow of Nirvana, has united himself with the Self, and whose rise is wondrous. ||263|| Whatever remains in this process, like the shaving of the head and other rituals, was already described at the time of the departure of the Vrishabha. ||264||
Thus ends the departure. (This is the Parinishkranti, the action that leads to Nirvana. Beyond this, for the seeker of liberation, comes the Yoga-sammaha. ||265|| When he, having abandoned external and internal attachments, practices non-attachment, and performs the arduous and supreme Tapas-yoga, the Jina-kalpa, ||266|| then, having ascended the Kshapaka-shreni, and reached the appropriate stage, the dense forest of karmic actions, burnt by the fire of pure meditation, is destroyed. ||267|| From the complete destruction of external and internal impurities, the supreme light, called Kevala, shines forth, illuminating the worlds and the non-worlds. ||268|| This is the supreme greatness attained by the one whose actions are perfected. This other action is called Yoga-sammaha. ||269|| The union of knowledge and meditation is called Yoga, and the extraordinary power that arises from that Yoga is called Yoga-sammaha. ||300||
Thus ends the Yoga-sammaha. Then, when Kevala arises, the Bhagavan, worshipped by the celestial beings, manifests external glory, characterized by the power of granting boons and other qualities. ||301||