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Samadhi Shataka
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darkness to light and materiality to spirituality. One faithful and adoring loyal activity weighs thousand times more than barren huge hoard of words; and this is exactly what this verse implies emphasizing that transcending the limits of Bahiratma and to reach the Antaratma is a predictated duty of each and every human being.
Repentance of the Bahiratma condiction
मत्तश्च्यत्वेन्द्रि यद्वारेः पतितो विषयेष्वह । तान प्रपद्याऽहमिती मां, पुरा वेद न तत्त्वतः ॥ १६ ।।
In this verse, who and way repents is explained. When one is fully engrossed in worldly attachments and temptations and thereby totally gets self-hypnotized and ultimately comes under a so much intoxicated state that one cannot retain one's discrimination in equilibrium position and so can not distinguish between what to obey and what to observe as a predictated and prescribed and what to abandone and avert, and it is this indiscrimination compels one to endure the fruits and consequences resulting from one's