Verse 481

बुद्धिर्विनष्टा गलिता प्रवृत्तिः
ब्रह्मात्मनोरेकतयाधिगत्या ।
इदं न जानेऽप्यनिदं न जाने
किं वा कियद्वा सुखमस्त्यपारम् ॥ ४८१ ॥

buddhirvinaṣṭā galitā pravṛttiḥ
brahmātmanorekatayādhigatyā |
idaṃ na jāne'pyanidaṃ na jāne
kiṃ vā kiyadvā sukhamastyapāram || 481 ||

481. My mind has vanished, and all its activities have melted, by realising the identity of the Self and Brahman; I do not know either this or not-this; nor what or how much the boundless Bliss (of Samadhi) is!

Notes:

[This or not-this— all relative ideas, that is.

What or how much &c.—The Bliss experienced in Samadhi is inexpressible and immeasurable.

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5rwiiftíiōr% r^riiiT^r55^rcH»rr rei?wi

482. The majesty of the ocean of Supreme Brahman, replete with the current of the nectar-like Bliss of the Self, is verily impossible to express in speech, nor can it be conceived by the mind,—in an infinitesimal fraction of which my mind melted like a hailstone getting merged in the ocean, and is now satisfied by that Essence of Bliss.

[Infinitesimal fraction: Lit. a particle of whose part's part. The Avyaktam or Unmanifest is a part of Brahman (through Upadhi or superimposed limitations); the Sutrátman or the Cosmic Mind is, again, part of that; while the Virát or the Being who considers himself as the Cosmic

Body, is a fraction of this last. The-bliss of this Virát even is enough to melt the finite mind. Compare Sri Ramakrishna’s story of a ship that came near a magnetic rock and had all its bolts drawn out, so that it was reduced to its pristine-condition.

Hailstone &c.: The hailstones that accompany a shower of rain on the ocean quickly melt and-become one with it.

Now— after return to the normal plane of consciousness. ]