Book Title: Essentials of Samadhishataka
Author(s): B M Chamke
Publisher: S B Chamke Barshi

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________________ 100 Essentials of On the contrary, the philosopher utilizes the full potentiality of his mind not to any physical activities but to soul itself. He abandons every clash and crisis in his mind, and being fully undetermined devotes the total efficacy of mind to soul alone, and this sprouts in attaining him the status and stage of the Paramatma. The Compass of the ignorant's belief, जगत् देहात्मदृष्टीनां विश्वासं रम्यमेव च । स्वात्मन्येवात्मदृष्टीनां क्व विश्वासः क्व वा रतिः ॥४९।। The ignorant person who has a great attraction, affection and allurement of the body and pleasures frowing therefrom is fully engrossed in worldly life and has a wrong impression upon his mind that pleasures and pleasure giving things are permanent; and on the contrary, the man of knowledge who is fully sunk into the soul never gets allured and attracted by the worldly life and never finds any amusement, entertainment and believablity in it.

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