A Handbook of Hindu Pantheism. The Panchadasi of Sreemut Vidyaranya Swami

As in the foregoing example of an assemblage of boys the cause of the obstacle which prevetts the voice of a single boy being heard is the.combining of several voices loudly recanting so in the present Instance the came of the obstacle which prevents the mania festibility of the supreme felicity of the Atma is Avila which has neither a beginning nor end and is indescribable. [...] The Alma is a witness of wfliat the mind fails to perceive and such a condition is what is gleant by the term just used ] while that other condition in which the active manifeititility of the Alma continues in the absence of cosciousness in the gross physical body [i. [...] 4Now itre to be explained for the purpose of ascertaiing the noidentity of the cause-body with the Spirit its Anvaya and Vyalrieka in the state of the profound nrclitation (Samadhs); for such a consideration the blissful sheath or the cause-body though it shakes of of ignorance yet the tangibility Of the Spirit as a witness is of the first while thePANCHADASI. [...] Thus to ascerilkin the drift of the real siknification of the transcendental phrase after the method of the Vedanta Is designated ' hearing' about the PARADRABIA. [...] g. the person contemplating is the subject anal the l'axamtaniti the object of contemplation) but the mind melles into the object of contemplation the Supreme Self and the function of the internal organ is unmoved like the unflickering light of a lamp it is called (Itrirvekalpa Samadhi) 'contemplation without recognition of subject and object.' 56.