Shloka 39
Adhyaya 40 — The Yogin’s Impediments (Upasargas), Subtle Concentrations, and the Eight Siddhis
यथाग्निरग्नौ संक्षिप्तः समानत्वमनुव्रजेत् ।
तदाख्यस्तन्मयो भूतो न गृह्येत विशेषतः ॥
yathāgnir agnau saṃkṣiptaḥ samānatvam anuvrajet / tadākhyas tanmayo bhūto na gṛhyeta viśeṣataḥ
火が火の中に投じられると、その（火と）同一性に従うように、同じと呼ばれ同じ性質となり、特別な仕方で別物として把握されない。
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FAQs
When the cause of separateness is removed, individuality cannot be meaningfully asserted. Ethically, it points toward humility: the liberated state is not a ‘higher ego’ but the end of egoic separation.
Philosophical illustration (dṛṣṭānta) outside pancalakṣaṇa.
Fire symbolizes consciousness; merging indicates absorption (laya) of limited consciousness into limitless awareness, where naming and conceptual grasp (‘apprehending a difference’) fail.