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Samadhi Shataka
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Man of self - knowledge and his
disinterestednessful activisticity.
आत्मज्ञानात् परं कार्य न बुद्धौ धारयेत् चिरं । कुर्यावर्थवशात् किं चित् वाचकायाभ्यामतत्परः ॥५०॥
The ignorant finds pleasures, amusements in the world, so his mind is infatuated by worldly enticements and wonders and runs riot in the world. But to check the mind up from it's move and wandering the philosopher hindres the mind from running riot and restrains it and forcibly takes it to the vision of the soul and keeps it there unmovedly. He has no any interest, no satisfaction in external things. He is disinterested and pessimistic of the external world; if the surroundings compel him to speak or to work with sense organs he does it in a limited, balanced way and never misuses them, and his most of the time, most of the energy he pours into such activities as help him in seeing the global and fulfledged vision of the soul.
The Philosopher has been
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