Sbg 6.25 etassa

English Translation of Abhinavgupta's Sanskrit Commentary By Dr. S. Sankaranarayan 6.24-25 Sankalpa - etc. Sanaih etc. By mind alone : i.e., not by withdrawing from activities. Holding steadiness; thinning, step after step, the misery born of desired; let him not think anything like receiving and abandoning objects and so on.

Others have explained [the passage] as 'Let him think only negation (or void). But this (explanation) is not up to our taste. For, that world result in the doctrine of nihilism.

What is to be  achieved  is not a  mere withdrawl  [or one-self]  from the objects.  This is stated  as -