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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 pratyahara, and the very process is called pranayama, ultimately
ending in samadhi, or absorption in pleasing the Supreme Lord Hari by all
means. TEXT 55
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TATA TATRA 144
vijnanatmani samyojya
ksetrajiie pravilapya tam
brahmapy atmanam adhare
ghatambaram ivambare

vyiiana—purified identity; atmani—of intelligence; sarnyojya—perfectly
fixing up; ksetrajne—in the matter of the living being; pravilapya— merging;
tam—him; brahmani—in the Supreme; atmanam—pure living being; adhare
—in the reservoir; ghatambaram—sky within the block; iva—like; ambare—
in the supreme sky.

TRANSLATION
Dhrtarastra 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-realiza-
tion, 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 Dhrtarastra by the grace of Vidura and the Lord. The
