Shloka 43

Adhyaya 8: Yogasthanas, Ashtanga Yoga, Pranayama-Siddhi, and Shiva-Dhyana leading to Samadhi

Devanagari script

तस्याः स्वास्थ्येन ध्यानं च समाधिश् च विचारतः तत्रैकचित्तता ध्यानं प्रत्ययान्तरवर्जितम्

Transliteration

tasyāḥ svāsthyena dhyānaṃ ca samādhiś ca vicārataḥ tatraikacittatā dhyānaṃ pratyayāntaravarjitam

Translation

ਉਸ ਅਭਿਆਸ ਦੀ ਠਹਿਰਾਵਟ ਨਾਲ ਧਿਆਨ ਅਤੇ ਸਮਾਧੀ ਦਾ ਵਿਚਾਰ ਹੁੰਦਾ ਹੈ। ਉੱਥੇ ਹੋਰ ਪ੍ਰਤਿਆਵਾਂ ਤੋਂ ਰਹਿਤ, ਇੱਕ ਤੱਤ—ਪਤੀ ਸ਼ਿਵ—ਉੱਤੇ ਇਕ-ਚਿੱਤਤਾ ਹੀ ‘ਧਿਆਨ’ ਹੈ।

Word by Word

• तस्याः: of that (practice/discipline)

• स्वास्थ्येन: by steadiness, by being established in one’s own state

• ध्यानम्: meditation

• च: and

• समाधिः: samādhi, absorptive concentration

• च: and

• विचारतः: by reflection, by discernment

• तत्र: there, in that state/practice

• एकचित्तता: one-pointedness of mind

• ध्यानम्: meditation

• प्रत्यय-अन्तर-वर्जितम्: devoid of other cognitions/mental contents, free from intervening ideas

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating Shaiva yoga-lakshana within the Linga Purana discourse)