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engaging in material activities. This process of turning the senses from material attachment to the loving transcendental service of the Lord is called  pratyāhāra , and the very process is called  prāṇāyāma , ultimately ending in  samādhi , or absorption in pleasing the Supreme Lord Hari by all means.
TEXT 55
विज्ञानात्मनि संयोज्य क्षेत्रज्ञे प्रविलाप्य तम् । ब्रह्मण्यात्मानमाधारे घटम्बरमिवाम्बरे ॥५५॥
vijñānātmani saṁyojya kṣetrajñe pravilāpya tam brahmaṇy ātmānam ādhāre ghaṭāmbaram ivāmbare
vijñāna —purified identity;  ātmani —of intelligence;  saṁyojya —perfectly fixing up;  kṣetrajñe —in the matter of the living being;  pravilāpya —merging;  tam —him;  brahmaṇi —in the Supreme;  ātmānam —pure living being;  ādhāre —in the reservoir;  ghaṭāmbaram —sky within the block;  iva —like;  ambare —in the supreme sky.
TRANSLATION
Dhṛtarāṣṭra will have to amalgamate his pure identity with intelligence and then merge into the Supreme Being with knowledge of his qualitative oneness, as a living entity, with the Supreme Brahman. Being freed from the blocked sky, he will have to rise to the spiritual sky.
PURPORT
The living being, by his desiring to lord it over the material world and declining to cooperate with the Supreme Lord, contacts the sum total of the material world, namely the  mahat-tattva , and from the  mahat-tattva  his false identity, with the material world, intelligence, mind, and the senses, is developed. This covers his pure spiritual identity. By the yogic process, when his pure identity is realized, which is known as self-realization, then one has to revert to the original position by amalgamating the five gross elements and the subtle elements, mind and intelligence into the  mahat-tattva  again. Thus getting freed from the clutches of the  mahat-tattva , he has to merge in the existence of the Supersoul. In other words, he has to realize that qualitatively he is non-different from the Supersoul, and thus he transcends the material sky by his pure identical intelligence and thus becomes engaged in the transcendental loving service of the Lord. This is the highest perfectional development of spiritual identity, which was attained by Dhṛtarāṣṭra by the grace of Vidura and the Lord. The