Skanda Purana 7.18.89_227

7.18.89_227

yogino dhyānasaṃsiddhiṃ sāṃkhyāstattvaviniścayam .
avibhinnāvubhāvetau dhyānatattvārthaniścayau15 . . 18 . .
sarvabandhaparibhraṣṭaḥ saṅgadoṣavivarjitaḥ .
rāgamohādisaṃtyakto mukta ityabhidhīyate . . 19 . .
śabdādīn viṣayān yukto na dhyāyanvetti vai yadā .
asakṛd yogasaṃsiddhyā tadā paśyati tatparam . .8.178.2 0 . .
mṛtyujanmabhayodvignaḥ saṅgadoṣavivarjitaḥ .
araṇye maunamādhāya dhyāyedoṅkāramakṣaram .. 21 . .
vedādau yaḥ svaraḥ prokto vedānte ca pratiṣṭhitaḥ
tasya prakṛtilīnasya16 yaḥ paraḥ sa mahān smṛtaḥ ..2 2 ..

For yogins [there is] the perfection of meditation, for followers of Sāṃkhya the ascertainment of the principles;
these two, the meditation and the ascertainment of the true meaning of the principles, are not distinct. // 18
Fallen away from all bondage, free from the fault of attachment,
completely rid of passion, delusion, and the like, he is called liberated. // 19
When, engaged [in yoga], he does not meditate upon nor perceive sense objects such as sound,
then, through the repeated perfection of yoga, he sees that Supreme. // 20
Agitated by the fear of death and rebirth, free from the fault of attachment,
adopting silence in the forest, he should meditate on the imperishable syllable Oṃ. // 21
The vowel that is proclaimed at the beginning of the Veda and established in the Vedānta,
which is beyond that [sound] dissolved in nature—that is taught as the Great. // 22