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Upanishads · Saubhāgyalakṣmī 2.16
॥
Devanāgarī
यत्समत्वं तयोरत्र जीवात्मपरमात्मनोः । समस्तनष्टसङ्कल्पः समाधिरभिधीयते
Transliteration (IAST)
yatsamatvaṃ tayoratra jīvātmaparamātmanoḥ | samastanaṣṭasaṅkalpaḥ samādhirabhidhīyate
Word-by-word
SanskritIASTMeaning
यत् समत्वं तयोः अत्रyat samatvaṃ tayoḥ atrathat equality here of these two
जीव-आत्म-परम-आत्मनोःjīva-ātma-parama-ātmanoḥof the individual self and the Supreme Self
समस्त-नष्ट-सङ्कल्पःsamasta-naṣṭa-saṅkalpaḥwith all resolves destroyed
समाधिः अभिधीयतेsamādhiḥ abhidhīyateis called samādhi
Translation
"That equality here of these two — of the individual self and the Supreme Self — [that state] in which all resolves are destroyed, is called samādhi."
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Here is a verse where it says "of these two," and it is worth voicing this, for the word settles much. Tayoḥ, "of these two," stands in the dual number; and named are jīvātmā and paramātmā. That is, samādhi is defined as the equality of two, not as the disappearance of one into the other.
The word samatva means "equality, evenness," not "identity"; for identity there is another word — aikya, and it stands two verses above (2.14). That is, the book, in two neighboring verses, uses two different words: there "union," here "equality." The Vaiṣṇava side points to such places and draws from them its usual distinction, cited when reading many books.
Aikya is merging; samatva is agreement: two who have one will. And the second, by its reckoning, is the precise description of the highest state: not "I have become Him," but "I have no will other than His." Let us add the word samasta-naṣṭa-saṅkalpa, "with all resolves destroyed."
Saṅkalpa means "resolve, intention"; and the destruction of resolves is, by its reading, precisely this: a person is left with no plans of his own, not that he has ceased to think. And the Gītā's verse on the same: nimitta-mātraṃ bhava savyasācin, "be but an instrument" (11.33).