Text 10.198 [Samādhi]

46. Samādhi

समाधिः सुकरं कार्यं कारणान्तर-योगतः ॥ १०.१२५ab ॥

samādhiḥ sukaraṃ kāryaṃ kāraṇāntara-yogataḥ || 10.125ab ||

samādhiḥ—the ornament called samādhi; su-karam—is easily done; kāryam—the effect (or that which is to be done); kāraṇa-antara—with another cause; yogataḥ—because of a connection.

When the intended result becomes easily accomplished by the occurrence of something else, that is samādhi (facilitation).

ārabdhaṃ kāryaṃ yadi sādhanāntara-yogād akliṣṭaṃ samādhīyate tadā samādhiḥ.

If the effect that had begun to take place is brought about (samādhīyate)^[1] effortlessly because of the occurrence of another thing, which turns out as a helpful cause, that is samādhi.

Commentary:

The occurrence of the other thing happens by chance,^[2] and the person who is trying to achieve the result does not in any way occasion the occurrence of that other thing.^[3]

P.V. Kāṇe comments:

“The name samādhi given to the figure is significant. Samādhi is equivalent to samyag ādhiḥ (ādhānaṃ karaṇaṃ) ‘accomplishing a thing well.’”^[4]

Footnotes and references:

[1]:

Viśvanātha Kavirāja explains samādhīyate as sampadyate: kāraṇāntaraṃ kartur anuṣṭhitād anyat samādhīyate samyag ādhīyate sampadyata ity arthaḥ (Kāvya-prakāśa-darpaṇa).

[2]:

samādhiḥ sukare kārye daivād vastv-antarāgamāt (Sāhitya-darpaṇa 10.85); iṣṭād iti, eka-kāraṇa-janya-kāryasyākasmika-kāraṇāntara-samavadhānāhitaṃ saukaryaṃ samādhir ity arthaḥ (Uddyota).

[3]:

kāraṇāntara-sāhāyyāt kāryaṃ yat su-karaṃ bhavet |
kartur vinā prayatnena sa samādhir itīryate ||(Alaṅkāra-kaustubha 8.252)

[4]:

Kane, P.V. (1995), The Sāhitya-darpaṇa, p. 291.