________________
BRAHMANISM
or where is supreme absorption 208–for me who abide in my own glorious greatness?
“No more of this talk about the three ends of life; 210 no inore of this talk about yoga; no more of this talk about all-pervading wisdom--for me who am roposing in the Self!" 211
"Where are the five elements; where is the body; 212 where are the sense-faculties; 213 and where is the mind? Where is the supreme, transcendent Void; where is the state beyond expectation-destitute both of hope and of wish; *14_where indeed, when my true being is unstained, antinged, by any pigment? 215
Where is the unsolding and scattering 21" where is the concentrating of my consciousness to one-pointedness; 217 where is the awakening to transcendental rcality or where the state of being an unenlightened fool; where is exultation, where dejection-for me who am forever inactive?
209 Samadhi: the final step and experience of yoga: rgoity and all that is contained in it being dissolved into the infinite punity of the Self, as the light of a night-candle becomes merged in the bright, triumphant, daylight. after dawn.
210 Tri-varga, "the Triad of Worldly Provinces": 1. artha: the pursuit of material possessions, wealth, success in policy, and power; 2. kāma: the pursuit of personal happiness through the gratification of the senses; and 3. dharma: the fulfillment of the religious and social obligations ordained by the revealed, traditional system of law and order. Cf. supra, pp. 87-177.
211 Aştavakra Samhitā 19. 7-8. 212 Which consists of the five elements.
213 Indriyani: composed of the subtlc matter of the five elements and apprehending their manifestations in the outer world.
214 Nair-asya: the state transcending the pairs of opposites that assail the soul; the state to be devoutly sought.
215 Nir-añjane: untainted by any paint, any touch of impurity to bedim its intrinsic, self-cffulgent clarity.
216 Vikse pa: the diffusion of consciousness over the range of the five fields of the sense experiences, or along with the flow of the internal mental processes.
217 Ekågryam: the concentrated state of the yogi, firmly focused and abiding in the one inner object of meditation.
454
