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SUMMARY:Hidden in Plain Sight: Sankara's Dhyana Marga
DESCRIPTION:Sankara is often misread as if he had little place for meditation\, because the Upanishads do not use the word samadhi. This talk argues that the claim misses a contemplative path hidden in plain sight across his own writings. \nThe argument moves through the prasthana-traya to show that the reality of meditation is present even where the exact term is absent. In the Brihadaranyaka\, the seeker is described as samahita — the same root\, the state itself. In the Brahma Sutras\, Badarayana uses samadhi directly\, and Sankara’s gloss goes further: samadhividhanat — samadhi is enjoined by shruti. In the Katha Bhashya\, he defines adhyatma-yoga as samadhana on the Self and describes yoga as disjunction from all contact with evil — twice calling it an avastha\, a state in which the Self abides in its own nature\, free from superimposition. Gaudapada names samadhi outright and details the mastery of the mind. \nSamadhi may not be a formally required condition for liberation. But it is the highest form of the mind’s abidance in liberating knowledge — and Sankara’s own words suggest we have not fully absorbed the significance he gives it. The talk asks what this means for practice today\, especially for those who assume Vedanta is purely intellectual and not meditative.
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