Essentials of Samadhishataka

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

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Samadhi Shataka
71
on accomplishing stage one first abandon whatevere is malignant baffling, deceiving etc. which are the Bahiratma stage. These sequential and successive stages carrying one from mundane to spiritual stage are very skilfully expounded in this verse.
The way keeping the soul unmoved
सोऽहमित्यात्तसंस्कारस्तस्मिन् भावनया पुनः । तत्रैव दृढ-संस्कारात् लभते ह्यात्मनि स्थिति ॥२८॥
It is the | who am the all pervading omniscient, omnipotent. eternal soul who is perceived and apprehended through experience alone; and no sense perception is able to inculcate into us the actual experience of the luminosity of the soul. The cognizance that my body and sense organs are not my soul, and whatever is spiritual dashing from inside to break off the outer crust dwelling somewhere inside non-physically is my soul. In this way one who very intensly meditates upon this impressions and goas on adoring it continuously for a considerable