न च पाषाणतातुल्या रूढिं याताः समाधयः । भवन्त्यग्रपदं शान्तं चिद्रूपमजमक्षयम् ॥ ४० ॥
na ca pāṣāṇatātulyā rūḍhiṁ yātāḥ samādhayaḥ | bhavantyagrapadaṁ śāntaṁ cidrūpamajamakṣayam || 40 ||
Translation
And trances like being a stone, even when they have become settled, do not become the highest state, peaceful, of the form of awareness, unborn and undying.
Word by word
- na
- not
- ca
- and
- pāṣāṇatā
- being a stone
- tulyā
- like
- rūḍhiṁ
- settled
- yātāḥ
- having become
- samādhayaḥ
- trances
- bhavanti
- become
- agra
- the highest
- padaṁ
- state
- śāntaṁ
- peaceful
- cidrūpam
- of the form of awareness
- ajam
- unborn
- akṣayam
- undying
Meaning
The commentary meets the reply that a trance ripened to the point of resting in the supreme will be steady: even settled, a stone-like, unconscious trance is not the peaceful, conscious, unborn, undying state, and is not the freedom in which the whole of saṁsāra is at rest. The highest state is called "of the form of awareness" (cidrūpa); a trance like a stone lacks exactly that.