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Samadhi Shataka
in short that the Jiva that is fully evolved and blossomed and reached the highest stage on the ladder can immediately realise through an apparatus of self knowing knowledge is elucidated here in a very subtle and acute manner.
Activities When in ignorance
उत्पन्नपुरुषभ्रान्तेः स्थाणौ यद्वद् विचेष्टितं । तद्वत् मे चेष्टितं पूर्व देहादिष्वात्मविभ्रमात् ।। २१ ॥
The enlightened very regretfully takes to the heart and repents for his past wrong activites. I was, he exclaims, fully swallowed up by the allurement and enticement of body, sense organs family members, friends, shining and deluding objects; and I totally got involved into the well being of the people surrounded around me and I did nothing for my life to be well led on a proper way observing the percepts and prescriptions prescribed by religion and morality and ultimately the most valuable and achieved at the cost of a thousand past-lives' virtues the present life which