When, having abandoned everything born of karma, it remains motionless, then it is said to be samādhi;then it becomes released into life.

This verse defines samādhi in terms of freedom from karma.Karmajaṃ sarvam — everything born of karma — includes not only actions but their impressions (saṃskāras), their fruits (phala), and the very tendency to act from the ego.When all this is abandoned (visṛjya), immobility (niścala) arises.

This immobility is not physical paralysis but absolute stability of consciousness.There is no fluctuation, no automatic reaction, no compulsive movement.From this stillness action can arise, but it is no longer driven by accumulated karma.

The result is jīvanmukti — liberation in life.The yogi does not wait for death to free himself;live liberated here and now.The Bihar School emphasizes that jīvanmukti is the goal of haṭha yoga: not to escape the body but to transform embodied experience into an expression of freedom.The jīvanmukta acts in the world without creating new karma, without reinforcing the illusion of separation.