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Samadhi Shataka
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or condition naturally comes to and omniscience, categoricality, enternality ultimate attributes of the jiva arise.
end; the which are
Misunderstanding of the other jivas...
स्वदेहसदृशं दृष्टवा परदेहमचेलं। परात्माधिष्ठितं मूढः परत्वेनाध्यवस्यति ॥ १० ।।
The bahiratma, due to his undeveloped mentality and unevolved intellect misconcieves his body to be his self; and not only this much but his tamasik level makəs him think that the whole organic kingdom that is based on and supported by the self itself, is celestial kingdom and the self itself forms an erroneous views towards then either envious or desirious. As the bahiratma is under an incalculable load of and fully subdued by the profound ignorance and very thick delusion in admitting his body as his self, so he follows the same path while thinking of the other body and self.
: He oftentimes strives hard and hard to gratify his sensual feelings thinking that sensual gratification
