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Samadhitantram
उपास्यात्मानमेवात्मा जायते परमोऽथवा । मथित्वाऽऽत्मानमात्मैव जायतेऽग्निर्यथा तरुः ॥ ९८ ॥
अन्वयार्थ - ( अथवा ) अथवा ( आत्मा ) यह आत्मा ( आत्मानम् ) अपने चित्स्वरूप को ही (उपास्य ) चिदानन्दमय - रूप से आराधन करके ( परमः ) परमात्मा (जायते) हो जाता है ( यथा ) जैसे (तरुः ) बाँस का वृक्ष (आत्मानम् ) अपने को ( आत्मैव ) अपने से ही ( मथित्वा ) रगड़कर (अग्निः ) अग्निरूप ( जायते ) हो जाता है।
Alternatively, through adoration of the supreme status of own soul - self identity, characterized by pure consciousness - the soul attains the status of the Supreme Being (paramātmā). The analogy is of the bamboo tree, which on rubbing against self, turns itself into fire.
EXPLANATORY NOTE
The soul alone is the real cause of liberation
Factors-of-action (kāraka) are of six kinds: 1) the doer (kartā), 2) the activity (karma), 3) the instrument (karana), 4) the bestowal (saripradāna), 5) the dislodgement (apādāna), and the substratum (adhikarana). Each of these is of two kinds: empirical sixfold factors-of-action (vyavahāra sathāraka) and transcendental sixfold factors-of-action (niścaya satkāraka). When the accomplishment of work is through external instrumental causes (nimitta kāraṇa) it is the empirical sixfold factors-of-action (vyavahāra ṣatkāraka) and when the accomplishment of work is for the self, in the self, through the self as the material cause (upādāna kāraṇa), it is the transcendental sixfold factors-of-action (niścaya sathāraka). The
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