TEMPORAL AND ETERNAL SAMADHI
Q: I maintain that the physical body of a person immersed in samadhi as a result of unbroken contemplation of the Self, need not become motionless. It may be active or inactive. Others assert that physical movement definitely prevents nirvikalpa samadhi,or unbroken contemplation. What is your opinion?
M: Both of you are right — you are referring to sahaja nirvikalpa and the other to kevala nirvikalpa. In the case of kevala the mind lies immersed in the light of the Self. The subject discriminates one from the other, and then there is activity.
Movement of the body, of the sight, of the vital force, of the mind, and the perception of objects and activity are obstructions for him.
But in sahaja, the mind has resolved into the Self and has been lost. So the differences and obstructions that I mentioned before do not exist here. The activities of such a being are like the feeding of a sleepy child — perceptible to the onlooker but not to the subject.
The driver sleeping in his moving (bullock) cart is not aware of the motion of the cart because his mind has sunk in darkness. Similarly the sahaja jnani remains unaware of his bodily activities because his mind is dead, having been resolved in the ecstasy of chit ananda (Self).
(Dead mind means mano nasa. What ‘dies’ is the ability to identify with thoughts and body. All identity has been absorbed into the Self.)
- Conscious Immortality
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