Ancient Indian Education (Brahmanical and Buddhist) c16.195

c16.195

(11) As consciousness progresses into subtler ways, meanings appear merely as qualifying a subject, without words, without objects (asmītimātra-prabodhasvarūpam). This is called *savīja-samādhi*, the stage of contemplation that carries a sense of *reference*. For, all meanings lead to objects other than the self. A reference, then, conveys a sense of things other than pure consciousness, of the object-world (dhyeyarūpeṇa pṛithak jñāyamānaṁ-vastu) [*Bhāsvatī*, i, 44].