3.43 - John Henry Thompson - Invent Your Future
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बहिरकल्पिता वृत्तिः महाविदेहा ततः प्रकाशावरणक्षयः ॥४३॥
bahir-akalpitā vṛttiḥ mahā-videhā tataḥ prakāśa-āvaraṇa-kṣayaḥ ||43||
[SS] 3.44 By samyama on thought waves unidentified by and external to the body [maha-videha, or the great bodilessness], the veil over the light of the Self is destroyed. [p196]
[EB] 3.43 The state of mind [projected] outside [of the body], which is not an imagined state, is called the great out-of-body [experience]. By this, the covering of the light [of buddhi] is destroyed. [p377]
(बहिः, bahiḥ) = external
(अकल्पिता, akalpitā) = unimaginable
(वृत्ति, vṛtti) = wave; thought wave
(मह, maha) = large; maximum
(विदेहा, videhā) = disembodiment
(ततः, tataḥ) = thence
(प्रकाश, prakāśa) = light; here: the true self
(आवरण, āvaraṇa) = covering; veil
(क्षयः, kṣayaḥ) = remove; destroy; reduce