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Satī Quits Her Body
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tataḥ —there;  sva-bhartuḥ —of her husband;  caraṇa-ambuja-āsavam —on the nectar of the lotus feet;  jagat-guroḥ —of the supreme spiritual teacher of the universe;  cintayatī —meditating;  na —not;  ca —and;  aparam —not other (than her husband);  dadarśa —saw;  dehaḥ —her body;  hata-kalmaṣaḥ —taints of sin being destroyed;  satī —Satī;  sadyaḥ —soon;  prajajvāla —burned;  samādhija-agninā —by fire produced by meditation.
TRANSLATION
Satī concentrated all her meditation on the holy lotus feet of her husband, Lord Śiva, who is the supreme spiritual master of all the world, and thus she became completely cleansed of all taints of sin and quit her body in a blazing fire by meditation on the fiery elements.
PURPORT
Satī at once thought of the lotus feet of her husband, Lord Śiva, who is one of the three great personalities of Godhead in charge of the management of the material world, and simply by meditating on his lotus feet she derived such great pleasure that she forgot everything in relationship with her body. This pleasure was certainly material because she gave up her body for another body that was also material, but by this example we can appreciate the devotee's pleasure in concentrating his mind and attention on the lotus feet of the Supreme Lord, Viṣṇu or Kṛṣṇa. There is such transcendental bliss in simply meditating on the lotus feet of the Lord that one can forget everything but the Lord's transcendental form. This is the perfection of yogic  samādhi  or ecstasy. In this verse it is stated that by such meditation she became free from all contamination. What was that contamination? The contamination was her concept of the body derived from Dakṣa, but she forgot that bodily relationship in trance. The purport is that when one becomes free from all bodily relationships within this material world and simply places himself in the position of an eternal servant of the Supreme Lord, it is to be understood that all the contamination of his material attachment has been burnt by the blazing fires of transcendental ecstasy. It is not necessary for one to manifest a blazing fire externally, for if one forgets all his bodily relationships within this material world and becomes situated in his spiritual identity, it is said that one has been freed from all material contamination by the blazing fire of yogic  samādhi  or ecstasy. That is the topmost perfection of  yoga . If one keeps his bodily relationships within this material world and poses himself as a great  yogī , he is not a bona fide  yogī . In  Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam , Second Canto, it is stated,  yat-kīrtanaṁ yat-smaraṇaṁ  ( Bhāg.  2.4.15).