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Samadhi Shataka
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itself from the momentary Sansar owing to the acquisition of the absolure knowledge, which is at the most, the fruit of its past Karma and to some extent and the least an outcome of its staunch and regorous penance and strenuous attempts to achieve this end.
Why is the world distressed ?
देहेष्वात्मघिया जाता: पुत्रभार्याविकल्पन: । सम्पत्तिमात्मस्ताभिर्मन्यते हा हतं जगत् ॥१४।।
The Jiva being under the false impression that the body itself is soul thinks that he is my son, she is my wife and that they are my glory, my grandure, my might perpetually protecting me. This mineness is nothing but his confused and bewildered intellect that entangles him with the Sansar - Web. But this delusory Sansar never brings any fruit; and the confused Jiva fully sinks into this momentary deceiving and barren Sansar and ultimately all his labours, tensions, worries bring for him the harvest which bears no fruits, yet he cannot relieve himself from the
