Caturthopadeśaḥ (Samādhi) · Verse 57
अनेकधा समाधिश् च विचित्रोऽयं प्रकीर्तितः | एकैव शक्तिः सर्वत्र विभागेनापि कथ्यते
anekadhā samādhiś ca vicitro'yaṃ prakīrtitaḥ | ekaiva śaktiḥ sarvatra vibhāgenāpi kathyate
Samādhi is proclaimed in multiple ways, this one is wonderful.One śakti is everywhere, although it is described with divisions.
Svātmārāma here recognizes the multiplicity of descriptions of samādhi.Anekadhā — in multiple ways — different traditions, different teachers, different texts describe samādhi in different ways.Vicitra — wonderful, diverse — this variety is not confusion but richness.
The second line offers the resolution: ekaiva śaktiḥ sarvatra — a single śakti is everywhere.The divisions (vibhāga) are descriptive, not ontological.The conscious energy that constitutes all experience is one;Classifications are pedagogical conveniences.
This perspective is typically tantric.Śakti — the creative power of consciousness — is the common denominator.Let it be called samādhi, turīya, nirvāṇa, kaivalya or mokṣa;which is divided into savikalpa and nirvikalpa, or the four stages of nāda — all are windows to the same reality.The Bihar School emphasizes that the map is not the territory: no description captures samādhi, but all can point to it.