Essentials of Samadhishataka

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

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Samadhi Shataka
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upon selfish moods and utility connected with bodily needs, but those who are prepared to undergo a severe training and penance who are willing for the perfect knowledge, the kevale Dnyan alone can understand its essence and can walk by its luminious path to the right end.
Three distinctions of self
afgera: qafa fare¤r gåàfeg 1 उपेयात् तत्र परमं मध्योपायात् बहिस्त्यजेत् ॥ ४ ॥
Here in this verse Acharya has expounded
to a
considerable length and with a subtle insight the layers or parts of the self explaining with an extensive cruciality what part is admissible what to be abstained from and what are the means and religious and moral percepts and prescriptions to these ends.
According to Pujyapada, the eternal supreme soul, karana paramatma, assumes these three forms or parts and it remains at the root these three parts as a seed
of all
cause. One
who