एवं हि सति असौ योगी -आसनस्थः सुखं ह्रदे निमज्जति ॥ १६ ॥आस्यते नित्यमैकात्म्येन स्थीयते अस्मिन् इति आसनं परं शाक्तं बलम् यस्तत्र तिष्ठति परिहृतपरापरध्यानधारणादिसर्वक्रियाप्रयासो नित्यमन्तर्मुखतया तदेव परामृशति यः स सुखमनायासतया ह्रदे विश्वप्रवाहप्रसरहेतौ स्वच्छोच्छलत्तादियोगिनि परामृतसमुद्रे निमज्जति देहादिसंकोचसंस्कारब्रोडनेन तन्मयीभवति ।यदुक्तं श्रीमृत्युजिद्भट्टारके एवनोर्ध्वे ध्यानं प्रयुञ्जीत नाधस्तान्न च मध्यतः ।नाग्रतः पृष्ठतः किञ्चिन्न पार्श्वे नोभयोरपि ॥नान्तः शरीरसंस्थं तु न बाह्ये भावयेत्क्वचित् ।नाकाशे बन्धयेल्लक्ष्यं नाधो दृष्टिं निवेशयेत् ॥न चक्षुर्मीलनं किञ्चिन्न किंचिद्दृष्टिविबन्धनम् ।अवलम्बं निरालम्बं सालम्बं नैव भावयेत् ॥नेन्द्रियाणि न भूतानि शब्दस्पर्शरसादयः ।एवं त्यक्त्वा समाधिस्थः केवलं तन्मयीभवेत् ॥सावस्था परमा प्रोक्ता शिवस्य परमात्मनः ।निराभासं पदं तत्तु तत्प्राप्य विनिवर्तते ॥इति ॥ १६ ॥
In plain words
Seated, he sinks with ease into the lake. For when this is so, this yogin: The seat (āsana) is that in which one sits (āsyate), that is, always abides, in oneness: the supreme strength of Śakti. The one who stands there, who has given up the toil of every practice, meditation, dhāraṇā and the rest, higher and lower, and who, turned within, always reflects on that alone: he, with ease, without strain, sinks into the lake, the ocean of supreme nectar, the cause of the flowing forth of the stream of the universe, joined with clarity, upsurge and the rest. That is, by drowning the latent impressions of contraction to the body and the rest, he becomes one with it. As the Mṛtyujit Bhaṭṭāraka itself says: "Let him not practise meditation above, nor below, nor in the middle, nor anything in front or behind, nor at the side, nor at both sides. Let him not contemplate anything set within the body, nor anywhere outside; let him not fix a target in space, nor set his gaze downwards. No closing of the eyes at all, no binding of the gaze at all; let him not contemplate a support, the supportless, or what has a support. Not the senses, not the elements, not sound, touch, taste and the rest: leaving all this, abiding in samādhi, let him become one with that alone. That state is called the supreme state of Śiva, the supreme Self; it is the state beyond appearing, and having reached it, one comes to rest."