Shloka 20
मनुरुवाच — इन्द्रिय-मनः-ज्ञान-क्रमः
Manu on the hierarchy of senses, mind, and knowledge
ध्यानक्रियापरो युक्तो ध्यानवान् ध्याननिश्चय: । ध्याने समाधिमुत्पाद्य तदपि त्यजति क्रमात्
dhyānakriyāparo yukto dhyānavān dhyānaniścayaḥ | dhyāne samādhimutpādya tad api tyajati kramāt ||
ビーシュマは言った。修習に律せられ、瞑想の実践に身を捧げる者—瞑想に堅く住し、決意揺るがぬ者—は、瞑想によってサマーディ（samādhi）を生じさせる。さらに、段階を追って、その瞑想という営みさえも捨て去ってゆく。この教えは内なる上昇を示す。実践は直接の覚知へと結実し、目的が果たされれば、手段すら手放されるのである。
भीष्म उवाच
Educational Q&A
Meditation is a disciplined means that culminates in samādhi and direct insight; once that culmination is reached, even the act of meditating is gradually relinquished—signifying non-attachment to methods and resting in realized awareness.
In the Śānti Parva’s instruction on dharma and liberation, Bhīṣma continues advising on yogic practice: he describes the practitioner’s progression from sustained meditation to samādhi, and then to a stage where the practitioner no longer clings even to the practice itself.