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tated upon,' the mental activity in question is of the nature of meditation, it requires as its necessary condition concentration of mind. For by meditation is understood thought directed upon one object and not disturbed by the ideas of other things.
9. And with reference to immobility.
And it is with reference to their immobility that the earth and other inanimate things-the air, the sky, the waters, the mountains-may be spoken of as thinking, 'the earth thinks (dhyayati) as it were,' and so on. Movelessness hence is characteristic of the intensely meditating person also, and such movelessness is to be realised in the sitting posture only.
10. And Smriti texts say the same.
Smriti texts also declare that he only who sits can meditate, 'Having placed his steady seat upon a pure spot, there seated upon that seat, concentrating his mind he should practise Yoga' (Bha. Gî. VI, 11–12).
11. Where concentration of mind (is possible), there; on account of there being no difference.
As the texts do not say anything as to special places and times, the only requisite of such places and times is that they should favour concentration of mind. This agrees with the declaration 'Let a man apply himself to meditation in a level and clean place, &c., favourable to the mind' (Svet. Up. II, 10).-Here terminates the adhikarana of the sitting one.'
12. Up to death; for there also it is seen.
The question now arises whether the meditation described which is the means of final Release is to be accomplished within one day, or to be continued day after day, until death.-The view that it is accomplished within one day, as this will satisfy the scriptural injunction, is disposed of by the Sûtra. Meditation is to be continued until death. For Scripture declares that meditation has to take place 'there,' i. e. in the whole period from the first effort after meditation up to death, 'Acting thus as 3 A
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