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Samadhi Shataka
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नष्टे वस्त्रे यथात्मानं न नष्टं मन्यते तथा । नष्टे स्वदेहेऽप्यात्मानं न नष्टं मन्यते बुधः ॥ ६५ ।। रक्ते वस्त्रे यथाऽत्मानं न रक्तं मन्यते तथा । रक्ते स्वदेहेऽप्यात्मानं न रक्तं मन्यते बुधः ॥ ६६ ।।
The man of knowledge who is the perfect and realised is never allured of and deceived by the body as it is soul; hence his view of the body is that it is like a coverage, clothes worn upon.
When the clothes are torn off or worn out or of red colour, we do not think that our body is in congruency with or similar to these types of clothes, so we are never depressed of these alterations, and so we throw off and give ul retirement to the old clothes and choose some new ones.
Like manner, the seer does not think that his soul is decaying when his body is on the death-bed; never is depressed and dispaired at the departure of this material body; and with an eye sight directed towards the eternal abode with passive and gayful mood takes farewell of
