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Samadhi Shataka
109
The places of sleeping and waking
of the ignorant Jiva.
विरंसुषुप्तास्तमसि मूढात्मानः कुयोनिषु । अन त्मीयात्मभूतेषु ममाहमिति जाग्रति ।। ५६ ॥
In this verse, where the ignorant sleeps and where it wakes is mentioned in this begi. nningless world the Jiva being in Nigoda and the like living origin, lie in a profound and deep sleep. His thinking is at zero level and is darkened by the pitch and thick darkness; his intellectual powers are so weak that they possess the bottom rank on the evolution metre which do not help him know who are his parents, wife son etc. and keep him stagnated and confined in deep sleep for an extremely prolonged time.
At the mercy of the fate the ignorant Jiva reaches the higher stage, the man stage etc. where, too, he is not relieved and his rational powers are engorssed by and tempted of the related persons, worldly things, and he misconceives the body to be the scif, the coming in and going
