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Upanishads · Sarasvatīrahasya 4.25
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Devanāgarī
समाधिं सर्वदा कुर्याधृदये वाथ वा बहिः । सविकल्पो निर्विकल्पः समाधिर्द्विविधो हृदि
Transliteration (IAST)
samādhiṃ sarvadā kuryādhṛdaye vātha vā bahiḥ | savikalpo nirvikalpaḥ samādhirdvividho hṛdi
Word-by-word
SanskritIASTMeaning
समाधिं सर्वदा कुर्यात्samādhiṃ sarvadā kuryātsamādhi let one perform always
हृदये वा अथ वा बहिःhṛdaye vā atha vā bahiḥin the heart or else outside
स-विकल्पः निर्-विकल्पःsa-vikalpaḥ nir-vikalpaḥwith distinction, without distinction
समाधिः द्वि-विधः हृदिsamādhiḥ dvi-vidhaḥ hṛdisamādhi in the heart is twofold
Translation
Let one perform samādhi always — in the heart or else outside; and in the heart, samādhi is twofold: with distinction and without distinction.
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The examination of samādhi begins, and it occupies six verses; it is worth examining the construction, for it is orderly. First, a division by place: in the heart and outside. Then each of the two is divided into with distinction and without distinction.
Then the first is divided once more into by the seen and by the word. In total, six; and the thirty-first verse will say: "by these six samādhis let him pass his time unceasingly." It is worth noting that the division into "in the heart" and "outside" is a peculiarity of this analysis and is rarely found in yogic books.
Samādhi "outside" means: the same state, but with open eyes, on any object. That is, this teaching does not require withdrawal and sitting; and this, to my mind, is its merit. The Vaiṣṇava side accepts such a division and has her own correspondence; and that the body moves of itself while the one within it is motionless was discussed when reading the Saubhāgyalakṣmī (2.18).
Let us add what she adds to the word samādhi, cited when reading the Jābāla-darśana (1.5). Her definition is this: the mind unceasingly occupied with the Lord; and so for her, samādhi is in essence savikalpa, "with distinction," for it has an object. And her argument, cited when reading the Varāha (4.38), we repeat briefly here: "with seed" means not that the seed of transmigration remains, but that there is something to look at.