Essentials of Samadhishataka

Author(s): B M Chamke
Publisher: S B Chamke Barshi

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ESSENTIALS OF SAMADHI SHATAKA
PRAYER ...
येनात्मा बुध्यतात्मैव परत्वेनैव चापरं । अक्षयानंतबोधाय तस्मै सिद्धात्मने नमः ॥ १ ॥
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In the first line of this first verse of the Samadhi Shata Ka the way to reach the highest stage on the ladder of evolution of the self encircled by the infinite worldly temptations and loaded down to a maximum bent, is illuminated and shed light on, and the ultimate nature of the self is elucidated to its full breadth and length in the second one.
In this world of experience, the jiva has been suppressed and eclipsed by the passions, the six self denying enemies, the Kashayas, which caused it to dissolve in and identify with the material body and to be affected by the ups and downs of physiological processes admitting even the decay and fertility as its own. This very illusory nature of the jiva is the cause of the mortal life.