When controlling fluctuations is mastered the seer becomes one with the seen. The seen is known and shines forth through the seer like the suns reflection on a flawless crystal.
Lest it should be misunderstood that the intelligence freed from conditioning and coloring is dull, inactive, unresponsive and void, it should be remembered that, like a pure crystal which reflects without distortion or confusion any object that is placed near it, the steady and ever-alert intelligence, too, receives and reflects the color (nature) of the subject, the predicate, and the object in all situations, instantly, spontaneously and appropriately.
Samadhi Pada 42
Words, purpose, intelligence and imagination merge and transform.
In the case of the understanding reached through logic or reasoning there is confusion on account of the discrepancies that exist between the word (description), meaning (in both connotations as the substance described and as the knowledge of the word-meaning) and imagination or assumption. Hence, it is unclear and uncertain.
Samadhi Pada 43
Memory becomes pure and untainted by nature. Pure form exists without reflection.
But, when the mind-stuff is cleansed of memory, the self or personality which was nothing but the fragmentation, the conditioning or the coloring (the impurity) is wiped out as it were; and the substance or truth alone shines, without distortion, logic or reasoning which is the function of the limited personality .
Samadhi Pada 44
Reflection may or may not be used to comprehend the subtle bodies.
Whatever has been said above also applies to similar distinctions between the other methods already suggested (like the method of inquiry) and spontaneous awareness. Thus, by this they and all the subtleties involved have been explained, leaving only the subtlest experiencer of awareness to be dealt with.
Samadhi Pada 45
The subtle bodies are without form.
When thus the subtle experiencer of the inner awareness is observed without interruption one arrives at that which has no identification or distinguishing mark, but which is at the same time not a void.
Samadhi Pada 46
These previous forms of union are described with seeds.
That indeed is the realization of the homogeneous cosmic essence, though even in it there exists the seed of potential fragmentation, which is the consciousness of the individuality or the observer.
Samadhi Pada 47
A skillful practitioner that has grown aware of the relationship between divinity and the self may meditate without the use of seeds and reflection. They shine without fluctuation.
Proficiency in such observation dispenses with even self-inquiry, on account of the uninterrupted self-awareness being natural: then there is spiritual enlightenment, peace and bliss.
Samadhi Pada 48
The essence of truth causes insight and pure wisdom.
Such enlightenment is saturated with harmony, order and righteousness.
Samadhi Pada 49
This knowledge is not based on memory. It is beyond that which has been attained from external sources.
This enlightenment, this understanding, this realization is quite different from what one has heard about or deduced from teaching obtained from external sources. Whereas in the case of the latter the object of study, investigation and understanding is outside of the consciousness, the realization arrived at in the former is of a special category.
Samadhi Pada 50
A new life of spiritual wisdom manifests ,old impression that may arise and cause conflict are left , new ones are prevented.
This special realization of spontaneous self-awareness completely transmutes the entire being and there is total change. All other habits and tendencies are overcome by habitual self-awareness .
Samadhi Pada 51
With the restraint and continual effort on transformation the seedless states of profound meditation and absolute union occur.
When even that special realization (with the seed of fragmentation still present) is transcended, everything is transcended, and the seeker has, as it were, come one full circle. The seeker is entirely, absorbed in the seeking. The Reality realizes itself (it is) without the need for the individual even in his subtlest state. This indeed is the enlightenment in which there is no seed at all for the manifestation of diversity.
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