Sarvadarshanasangraha 15.43

15.43

If it is objected: ‘In that case, in the eight-limbed yoga the status of being the final limb was stated by Patañjali to be *samādhi*: “Restraint, observance, posture, breath-control, withdrawal of the senses, concentration, meditation, and *samādhi* are the eight limbs of yoga.” And the whole containing limbs cannot itself assume the status of a limb, because the relationship of beneficiary and benefactor requires entirely distinct bases, as in the case of the New and Full Moon sacrifices and the fore-offerings. Therefore, *samādhi* cannot properly be the meaning of the word *yoga*’ — that is not proper. For, wishing to express a mere etymological derivation, it is valid to designate the whole, yoga, by the word *samādhi* which expresses the final limb defined as ‘that alone, shining forth as the object alone, as if empty of its own nature, is *samādhi*’, out of a desire to express their non-difference. Nor does a word function everywhere solely on the strength of etymological derivation. Were it so, on the basis of the etymology ‘a cow (*go*) is that which walks (*gacchati*)’, a stationary [animal] would not be a cow, and a walking Devadatta would be a cow.