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Samadhi Shataka
145
To reach and realize the Karanparamatma, who is unfamiliar and unknown to us we first start from the known, the Arinant, the Bhagwan etc.
Though the wick is entirely difierent from the tame it gets drowned into it and becomes itself a flame. So by adoring what is known, the Arihant, we should try to be unknown, ihe Paramatma.
The fruition of the adoration
of the Supreme
उपास्यात्मानमेवात्या जायते परमोऽधवा । मथित्वाऽऽत्मानमात् मेव जायतेऽ ग्निर्यथा तरुः १.९८ ।
the
There is a great difierence between last verse and this one.
In the last verse it is advised that to be a Paramatma one should adore the supreme.
the Arihant, the Siddha etc, but in this verse - we are directed that one should adore the
Paramatma himself to become Paramatma. For this Acharyy has advised us that our soui
