mahAvAkyaratnAvaliH- Translation No.40.

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*Translation of mahAvAkyas- No.40- Sentences relating to samAdhi.*

 

 

 

153. jIvAtmaparamAtmaikyAvasthA tripuTirahitA paramAnandarUpA

shuddhacaitanyAtmikA samAdhiH—

 

samAdhi is the state of identity of the individual self and the supreme

self, which is free from the triad (of knower, knowing and known), which is

of the nature of supreme bliss, and in which there is only pure

consciousness.

 

154. dhyAtRidhyAne vihAya nivAtasthitadIpavad dhyeyaikagocaram cittam

samAdhiH—samAdhi is the mind being fixed on the object of meditation alone,

without meditator and meditation, like a lamp in a windless place.

 

155. yadA pan~cAvatishThante j~nAnAni manasA saha, buddhiSca na viceshTate

tamAhuH paramAm gatim—kaThopanishad, 2.3.10.

 

When the five senses of knowledge come to rest together with the mind, and

the intellect, too, does not function, that state is called the highest.

 

156. salile saindhavam yadvat sAmyam bhajati yogataH, tathA Atmamanoraikyam

samAdhirabhidhIyate—

 

Just as salt becomes one with water (in which it dissolves), similarly the

Self and the mind becoming one is called samAdhi.

 

The same idea has been expressed in the following:--

 

In mANdUkya kArika, III. 35 it is said:--

 

For that mind loses itself in sleep, but does not lose itself when under

control. That very mind becomes the fearless brahman, possessed of the light

of consciousness all around.

 

In his bhAshya on mANDUkya kArika, III. 46 Sri Sankara says:--

 

When the mind becomes motionless, like a lamp in a windless place, it does

not appear in the form of any object imagined outside; when the mind assumes

such characteristics, then it becomes brahman; or in other words, the mind

then becomes identified with brahman.

 

157. brahmAkAramanovRittipravAho ahamkRitim vinA,

 

sampraj~nAtasamAdhiH syAd dhyAnAbhyAsaprakarshataH—

 

When the mental state is a continuous flow of the form of brahman, without

ego, it is sampraj~nAtasamAdhi, attained by the perfection of the practice

of dhyAna.

 

158. praSAntavRittikam cittam paramAnandadIpakam,

 

asampraj~nAtanAmAyam samAdhiryoginAm priyaH.

 

When the mental state is absolutely calm, and reflects supreme bliss, it is

called asampraj~nAtasamAdhi, which is very dear to yogis.

 

159. svAnubhUtirasAveSAd dRiSyasabdau upekshituH,

 

nirvikalpasamAdhiH syAt nivAtasthitadIpavat—

 

The person who is indifferent to all sights and sounds because of being

absorbed in the bliss of the experience of the Self is in nirvikalpasamAdhi

which is likened to a flame in a windless place.

 

S.N.Sastri